Stage 1 of the $84,000 event kicks off next week, on Monday 4th October. 16 teams will face off for a place in the main competition later in the year.

The teams featured are Nemiga, EC Kyiv, Aab, Unique, Nexus, ONYX, 777, Lyngby Vikings, Eternal Fire, Galaxy Racer, GamerLegion, Tricked,, KOVA, 1WIN, hReds & Illuminar. Between them offers a good range of both teams, and skill levels based on past performances, with Eternal Fire of course being the new home of 'woxic', formerly of mousesports and then the 'Colossus' project of Cloud9. Joining woxic are the equally giant names of XANTARES & ISSA. Other teams worthy of watching are Lyngby Vikings who have recently taken down teams including Copenhagen Flames, Endpoint & Astralis Talent, with Nemiga also having taken down the up & coming CIS team of Spirit recently too. 

However, the regionals are only part of the path to the main event. Where 20 teams will go forward to fight for a LAN Sweet LAN 2022 place, with just 8 of those teams coming from these regionals. 12 additional teams will receive invites, although based upon past events, 4 of them will receive invites to the Quarter Finals directly, The other 16 teams need to play a round robin of group play, where they all will fight once with every other team. At the end of group play, 8, or half of them, proceed to the playoffs, with play proceeding as normal until there is just a single team left.

LAN Sweet LAN is scheduled to take place in April 2022, having being moved from February originally. The event is currently planned to take place in Serbia in, as the title suggests, a LAN environment with $250,000 on the line. 16 teams will make it to those finals of the series, with FunPlus Phoenix, HAVU Gaming, mousesports, forZe, OG, Complexity & Virtus.pro already locked in as competitors from previous wins in the events forming part of this large tournament covering a multitude of events. After the 3 Fall series are complete, later in the year will be 3 more series, aptly named Pinnacle Winter Series, before that main LAN Sweet LAN event.