ESL has unveiled the group pairings for the four Minor tournaments taking place throughout January.

Four regional Minor tournaments, precursors to the IEM Katowice 2019 Major, will be taking place over the course of January. Hosted in Katowice, Poland the Europe and CIS Minors will take place on January 16-20, while the Americas and Asia Minors will run from January 22-26.

The top two teams from each of the regional tournaments will advance straight to the New Challengers stage of the IEM Katowice 2019 Major, where they will face off against the Returning Challengers from the FACEIT Major 2018 for a spot in the group stage of the event.

Teams will fight for the chance to play in front of the Spodek Arena crowd

The third-placed sides of all four Minors will progress to a separate stage, called the Minors' play-in, which will determine the final two teams at the Major.

Below you can find the first-round matchups for all the Minors:

CIS Minor - January 16-20

Group A

Gambit vs. Syman

Nemiga vs. Spirit

Group B

AVANGAR vs. pro100

Runtime vs. Winstrike

Europe Minor - January 16-20

Group A

mousesports vs. Valiance

Vitality vs. OpTic

Group B

North vs. Windigo

ex-Space Soldiers vs. ENCE

Americas Minor - January 22-26

Group A

NRG vs. Imperial

Bravado vs. INTZ

Group B

Envy vs. TeamOne

FURIA vs. eUnited

Asia Minor - January 22-26

Group A

Renegades vs. Aequus

CyberZen vs. Grayhound

Group B

ViCi vs. GOSU

Beyond vs. MVP PK