ASUS ROG Grand Finals set to start

ASUS ROG Community Challenge Grand Finals will kick off today in Stockholm, Sweden.

The DreamHack Monster Studios will play host to the eight-team event which is set to kick off today at 18:00 . The contest will run from January 5-8 and feature well-known players such as Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill and Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag.

Single-elimination, best-of-three format will be adopted for the event and the competition will start with the quarter-finals which will be played on Thursday and Friday. Saturday will host the semi-finals while the grand final will be played on Sunday.

Maikelele & his team will play their first match tomorrow 

Six team captains have picked their players from other ASUS ROG Community Challenge events that took place throughout the last year while two captains chose their players from online play.

Some of the contestants are Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and his Australian mates, adreN's North American squad, and the Swedish team of Maikelele. Below is the teams, the initial matchups, and the full schedule of the event:

Thursday, January 5th
18:00	ROG zonixx	vs. ROG IzakOOO	BO3
22:00	ROG fl0m	vs. ROG Skyyart	BO3
Friday, January 6th
18:00	ROG Maikelele	vs. ROG adreN	BO3
22:30	ROG Luke	vs. ROG SPUNJ	BO3
Saturday, January 7th
18:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
22:00	Semi-final #2		BO3
Sunday, January 8th
18:00	Grand final		BO3

The following crew will be bringing you the action live from Stockholm, Sweden on Twitch:

Pala "⁠Pala⁠" Gilroy Sen - Host
Lauren "Pansy"Scott - Co-host

Jorien "Sheever"van der Heijden - Reporter

Auguste "Semmler"Massonnat - Commentator 
Anders Blume - Commentator

You can visit our event page to follow the matches live and view the rosters of each team.

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

Time is adjusted to your selected timezone ROG SPUNJ ROG adreN ROG zonixx ROG Maikelele Chad 'SPUNJ' Burchill Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.87 Maps played: 147 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.73 Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Age: 25 Team: qwerty Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 487 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.63 ROG Luke Eric 'adreN' Hoag Age: 26 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 386 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.64 ROG Skyyart ROG fl0m Pala 'Pala' Gilroy Sen Age: 26 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 2 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.58 ROG IzakOOO