ELEAGUE Major first round match

The match-ups for ELEAGUE Major's first round of the Swiss system have been drawn on ELEAGUE's stream.

ELEAGUE's Major will be the first Major to utilize the Swiss format, which was previously used at the last two Main Qualifiers and ESL One New York.

In that format, each round will see teams with the same win-loss record facing each other after a random draw, apart from the first round where the matches have been pre-determined.

Virtus.pro will lock horns with OpTic in the first round

Teams who reach three victories will advance to the quarter-finals, while teams with three losses will exit the tournament.

The sixteen teams were spread into four seeding pools according to their placing at the previous Major and the Main Qualifier, which partially determined the first-round match-ups (first pool versus the fourth, second versus third).

Gambit	vs. North
fnatic	vs. G2
SK	vs. HellRaisers
Virtus.pro	vs. OpTic
Natus Vincere	vs. MOUZ
Liquid	vs. Envy
Astralis	vs. GODSENT
FlipSid3	vs. FaZe

The entire first round will be played on day one of the ELEAGUE Major, which is set to take place in the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, from January 22-29.

Natus Vincere #8 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsDenis 'seized' KostinEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev HellRaisers #18 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukMartin 'STYKO' StykPatrik 'Zero' ŽúdelBence 'DeadFox' Böröcz Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzMarkus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Liquid #14 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinJacob 'Pimp' WinnecheNick 'nitr0' CannellaJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski MOUZ #12 Chris 'chrisJ' de JongNikola 'NiKo' KovačChristian 'loWel' Garcia AntoranTimo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' Howell G2 #10 Richard 'shox' PapillonCédric 'RpK' GuipouyEdouard 'SmithZz' DubourdeauxAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro Envy #11 Christophe 'SIXER' XiaKenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireVincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Gambit #16 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovAbay 'HObbit' Khassenov FlipSid3 #23 Yegor 'markeloff' MarkelovAndrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyGeorgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' RahkonenDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov FaZe #7 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenAleksi 'allu' JalliFabien 'kioShiMa' FieyPhilip 'aizy' AistrupHåvard 'rain' Nygaard North #6 Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelRené 'cajunb' BorgMathias 'MSL' LauridsenEmil 'Magisk' ReifKristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke GODSENT #15 Markus 'pronax' WallstenRobin 'flusha' RönnquistAndreas 'znajder' LindbergJesper 'JW' WecksellJonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson OpTic #3 William 'RUSH' WierzbaOscar 'mixwell' CañellasPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzKeith 'NAF' MarkovicTarik 'tarik' Celik SK #2 Ricardo 'fox' PachecoGabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Virtus.pro #5 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasFilip 'NEO' KubskiJarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskiJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'byali' Bieliński fnatic #17 Olof 'olofmeister' KajbjerDennis 'dennis' EdmanSimon 'twist' EliassonFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonJoakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun