Premier Division

Challenger Division

Amateur Division

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IGN will be hosting a new division-based team league called the IGN Pro Team League (IPTL) that will replace the IGN Team Arena Challenge (IGN TAC). This change is an attempt by IGN to make their team league format more straightforward and more likely to develop team storylines.The new format will have three divisions: Amateur, Challenger (8 teams), and Premier (8 teams).The teams that will be playing in this division will be the top teams from around the world. These top teams will be seeded in from the top 8 of Team Arena Challenge 3 and into the new IPTL. They will compete for the largest prize pool out of the three divisions. The top six teams of the Premier Division will enter round robin, single-elimination style playoffs, the bottom teams in each group will be playing up-and-down matches against the top 2 teams from the Challenger Division.The 8 teams who are seeded into the Challenger Division are certainly good but they need to prove themselves to get into the Premier Division with the top 8 teams in the world. The first season of IPTL will have place 9th-16th from Team Arena Challenge 3 seeded into this Challenger Division. These 8 teams will play a single-elimination bracket, with the top 2 teams receiving a cash prize and moving on to face the 2 weakest teams from Premier in up and down matches. Teams eliminated in the first round of this bracket will fall out of Challenger Division and must re-qualify through the Amateur Division.The Amateur Divison will feature the remaining teams. The 4 teams dropping down from the Challenger Division will be seeded into a massive open bracket that will contain all other interested teams, every team will be able to sign up as it will be a complete open bracket compared to Team Arena Challenge. The top 4 teams will enter the Challenger Division in the next season.The new IPTL format will begin after Team Arena Challenge 3 concludes in early July.This new format certainly is great news with team tournaments getting more and more exposure. Hopefully we will see some great new teams make a name for themselves and tons of tense matches.