The Oceanic closed qualifier for ESL Pro League Season 7 kicks off today with eight participating teams from the region.

The online closed stage will run from April 4-10, featuring a BO3 double-elimination format to determine the region's three representatives at the Asia-Pacific Finals (April 20-22) held at the ESL studios in Sydney, Australia.

From there, the top two teams from the Asia-Pacific Finals will then advance to the global finals in Dallas, which is scheduled to take place on May 14-20.

liazz and co. are among the few favourites to qualify for EPL APAC

The big names of the ANZ side will be present including ESEA MDL Season 27 Australian champions ORDER, and CAS 2018 finalists Grayhound.

 The team list is as follows:

Chiefs	Corvidae
Dark Sided	Grayhound
ORDER	Tainted Minds
Legacy OCE	Lucky7

Here are the opening match-ups:

ORDER	vs.	Lucky7
Corvidae	vs.	Chiefs
Grayhound	vs.	Dark Sided
Legacy OCE	vs.	Tainted Minds