NA Challengers Elite Stage 4: Teams, format and stream

The final stage of the NA Challengers Elite season is upon us. The last split will put the best of the best against each other in the biggest region-locked tournament left this season. NA Challengers Elite Stage 4 will have 12 of the best teams in North America competing for a chance at the top spot.

NA Challengers Elite Stage 4 is going to be filled with unknowns. There are many new rosters and teams returning to the Elite that haven't been featured so far this season. NA has been incredibly competitive recently and that has shown in the qualifiers.

CDL-level talents didn't make it through the qualifier. WarDy, Majormaniak, 2ReaL, and PaulEhx are among the names to miss out on.

Challengers Elite tournaments consist of 12 teams. The top eight teams from the previous stage are joined by four teams that qualify from a 16-team bracket qualifier.

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The quality of the teams in Elite Stage 4 is incredible. Cruze and the rest of the NrK Anarky team have finally made it back to the Elite despite having online struggles at times this season. Alongside ROKKR x ESG, they have been the most consistent LAN team this season.

Speaking of, the ROKKR x ESG team are straight back into the Elite after a shock relegation in Stage 3. They made it a bit difficult for themselves but managed to squeak through in the lower bracket of the Elite.

There's also a return to the Elite for JuJu and his team. JuJu's teams are always super regimented and fundamentally sound. That has paid off for them this time around, nabbing themselves a spot in NA Challengers Elite Stage 4.

Elsewhere, there is a new look to Breach Academy. Mexican dynamo Snoopy has joined the roster there in place of Kremp, who gained a spot in the main team. Snoopy's former team split up after finishing 2nd in Elite Stage 3.

Millennium 7 will be looking to go back-to-back in the Elite with Prolute looking for his third Challengers Elite chip of the season.

The format for Challengers Elite Stage 4 is the same as all of the previous Elite Stages. It is split into two part, a Round Robin and a bracket.

Two groups of six will play each other once over the course of three pool play matchdays. The bottom two teams in each group are eliminated.

The top four then move onto the bracket stage of the tournament, with all eight teams starting the upper side of a double-elimination bracket.

There are six matchdays total in EU Challengers Elite Stage 4. They are spread across three weeks, always happening on Wednesday and Thursday. The first three are reserved for pool play, with the final three holding the playoff bracket.

The 12 teams in NA Elite Stage 4 are split into two groups of six. These are based on the overall seeding leaderboard. This seeding is based on pro-points which are awarded for placements throughout the year. Seeds 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12 make up Group A. Seeds 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 construct Group B.

There is $50,000 of prizing on offer for Elite Stage 4. It is the biggest region-specific tournament in amateur Call of Duty. The winning team will take home the biggest share of that prize. Here's the full breakdown of how the prizing is awarded:

Challengers Elite will be broadcast exclusively on Twitch as it has been all season. There will be two separate streams for each day of action. The main stream will be on the Call of Duty Bravo Twitch channel with a second stream on partner broadcaster WeAreClutch's own channel.

Streams for each day of action begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT and run through until 11:30 pm EDT. NA Challengers Elite Stage 4 will run for three weeks, with all of the action happening on Wednesday and Thursday.

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