The better sex education videosecond big event in the ESL women's circuit begins in Valencia with $100,000 on the line.
ESL Impact Valencia kicks off today, with eight teams competing across three days of LAN play for the lion’s share of a $100,000 prize pool.
The tournament begins with a GSL group stage, where the opening and winners’ matches are best-of-one and the elimination and decider matches are best-of-three. Four teams will then qualify for a single elimination best-of-three bracket, with the grand final taking place on Sunday 3 July at 18:00 .
This is the second big ESL Impact event, the first taking place at IEM Dallas which saw Nigma Galaxy take first place, FURIA fe come in second with BIG EQUIPA and CLG Red rounding out the top four. Joining those four favourites are Mindfreak who also competed in Dallas, as well as three new teams in the form of NAVI Javelins, MIBR fe and GODSENT fe.
The players to watch for Impact Valencia will be Ana "?ANa?" Dumbrav? and Ksenia "?vilga?" Kluenkova from Nigma Galaxy, who posted 1.36 and 1.24 ratings over 8 maps in Dallas, and Olga "?Olga?" Rodrigues of FURIA fe, who racked up a 1.29 rating over 10 maps.
Read more ESL Challenger and Impact Valencia Fantasy games now live It is hard to see past Nigma Galaxy when it comes to predicting a winner in Valencia, with the team’s only close call in Dallas coming against FURIA fe in a tight 19-17 win in the group stage. They later comfortably defeated FURIA fe in the final however, narrowly losing Mirage 14-16 only to run over their Brazilian counterparts on Vertigo and Overpass, 16-5 and 16-7.
The talent for the event is as follows:
Sam "?Tech Girl?" Wright - Host
Hege "?Hedje?" Botnen - Analyst
Stephanie "?missharvey?" Harvey - Analyst
Anders "?Anders?" Blume - Commentator
Sudhen "?Bleh?" Wahengbam - Commentator
Lucy "LucyLuce"Eastwood - Commentator
Veronique "Vearless"Zonneveld - Commentator
Anastasija "?Heccu?" Tolma?eva - Sideline Reporter
The groups for the event are:
Group A
Nigma GalaxyMindfreak
NAVI Javelins
BIG EQUIPA Group B
FURIA feMIBR feGODSENT fe
CLG Red The schedule for the first day of play can be found below:
Friday, July 1
10:30
12:10
13:50
15:30
17:10 Group A Winners' Match (Bo1)
18:50 Group B Winner's Match (Bo1)
20:30 Group A Elimination Match (Bo3)
Sam 'Tech Girl' Wright 
Age: - Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 Anastasija 'Heccu' Tolma?eva 
Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 
FURIA fe #174 Olga 'Olga' RodriguesGabriela 'GaBi' MaldonadoIzabella 'izaa' GalleKarina 'kaahSENSEI' TakahashiMariana 'mari' Preste 
Ksenia 'vilga' Kluenkova 
Age: 30 Team: Nigma Galaxy Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 249 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67 
BIG EQUIPA #179 
Aida 'Aidy' GarciaMarta 'D7' AsensioAna 'Zana' QueirozJennifer 'JennyR' Irina Brea RodriguezAida 'Aida' Sim?o Sudhen 'Bleh' Wahengbam 
Age: 35 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Anders 'Anders' Blume 
Age: 36 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.53 Maps played: 1 KPR: 0.19 DPR: 0.58 Olga 'Olga' Rodrigues 
Age: 28 Team: FURIA fe Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 50 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.65 Hege 'Hedje' Botnen 
Age: 35 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 76 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.72 
GODSENT fe Aurora 'aurora' LyngdalMarita 'Minnie' Siljan S?rensenThea 'pullox' Evensen
Mayline-Joy 'ASTRA' ChampliaudAnna 'Ann4' Laurinovi?a 
MIBR fe #222 
Julieta 'khizha' GrilliaMariana 'LyttleZ' SabiaLuana 'Arkynha' ArchanjoJosiane 'josi' IzidorioBeatriz 'hera' Silva 
Ana 'ANa' Dumbrav? 
Age: 23 Team: Nigma Galaxy Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 103 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.63 Stephanie 'missharvey' Harvey 
Age: 36 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 133 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.67 Nigma Galaxy #141 Ksenia 'vilga' KluenkovaAna 'ANa' Dumbrav?Victoria 'tory' KazievaAlexandra 'twenty3' Timonina
Katarína 'Kat' Va?ková 
NAVI Javelins #208 Karolina 'Liina' KasprzykWiktoria 'vicu' JanickaHania 'Hanka' PudlisDanuta 'Danuu' GrajkowskaAngelika 'Angelka' Koz?owska 
Mindfreak #212 Vivienne 'BiBiAhn' QuachLaura 'Viscose' TaylorEmily 'Emiinent' ReaAnn 'mish' Fuentes
Emily 'Emi' Lauw 
CLG Red #175 Diane 'di^' TranMounira 'GooseBreeder' DobieEmma 'Emy' ChoeJuliana 'Juli' TosicKelsie 'uhKelsie' Click