The Brazilian squad will travel to Australia at the beginning of September.

ESL has announced the penultimate team invited to ESL Challenger Melbourne, inviting Imperial to participate in the $100,000 competition taking place from September 2-4 based on their ESL World Ranking.

The squad around Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo will be among the highest-ranked teams in attendance, at the time of the announcement being the second-highest only after OG, with Entropiq, ORDER, EG White, Wings Up, and VERTEX also set to attend after securing their spot in various qualifiers.

Imperial look to recover from a poor end of the season

With the off-season currently underway, rumors are swirling around the 'Last Dance' roster, linking them with the departure of their oldest member, Lincoln "⁠fnx⁠" Lau, following a string of early exits from events such as IEM Cologne and IEM Dallas.

Reports say their primary target is MIBR's Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes and that his teammate, Jhonatan "⁠JOTA⁠" Willian, as well as Rodrigo "⁠biguzera⁠" Bittencourt and Lucas "⁠Lucaozy⁠" Neves have also been considered. Should changes come to fruition, ESL Challenger Melbourne will be the team's debut with a new player.

Only one team is left to be revealed, coming from the ESL World Ranking as well:

ORDER
Wings Up
VERTEX
EG White Entropiq
OG
Imperial
ESL World Ranking Wings Up #71 Yi 'gas' DingLiu 'lan' QiXueBing 'B1NGO' DaiZhengjie 'Martin' ZhuoJunhao 'ChildKing' Peng Jhonatan 'JOTA' Willian Age: 24 Team: MIBR Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 430 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.64 Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes Age: 24 Team: MIBR Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 915 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.65 MIBR #26 Marcelo 'chelo' CespedesRaphael 'exit' LacerdaMatheus 'Tuurtle' AnhaiaJhonatan 'JOTA' WillianBreno 'brnz4n' Poletto Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo Age: 31 Team: Imperial Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1581 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.60 VERTEX #72 Liam 'malta' SchembriToby 'BRACE' BarnesMatthew 'Valiance' HartrickDeclan 'Vexite' PortelliJordan 'pz' White EG White #56 Jonathan 'djay' DallalJonathan 'Jonji' CareyBen 'ben1337' SmithJosh 'PwnAlone' PigueWesley 'viz' Harris Lincoln 'fnx' Lau Age: 32 Team: Imperial Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 687 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.66 ORDER #48 Simon 'Sico' WilliamsJay 'Liazz' TregillgasAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJoshua 'INS' PotterJordan 'Hatz' Bajic OG #16 Nemanja 'nexa' IsakovićAdam 'NEOFRAG' ZouharShahar 'flameZ' ShushanAbdul 'degster' GasanovMaciej 'F1KU' Miklas Imperial #23 Lincoln 'fnx' LauGabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassVinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo Entropiq #34 Nikolay 'mir' BityukovAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy Lucas 'Lucaozy' Neves Age: 20 Team: Sharks Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 399 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.65 Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt Age: 25 Team: paiN Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 622 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.63