Starting next month, the third season of IPL's Team Arena Challenge will return with more teams to fight for the five-figure prize pool. Sixteen teams have confirmed their participation thus far and more will come from semi-open qualifiers.

The fight for IPL TAC 3 will begin on April 14th when the first of the total of four semi-open qualifiers will be held (the rest will be on 21.04, 28.04 and 05.05). Teams with minimum of five players may apply for a spot in the qualifiers by sending the necessary information to IPL. A day after the qualifier process is completed, the main tournament shall start.

IPL already announced the majority of the teams that have received direct invitations to the main tournament, including nine Korean and seven foreign ones:

MVP
NSHoSeo
Old Generations
Incredible Miracle
Team SCV Life
SlayerS
Prime
StarTale FXOpen
Complexity
Mousesports
Team Vile
Team Liquid
Quantic Gaming
Evil Geniuses
Team Empire
Fnatic have been invited but have not yet confirmed

Prizes will be distributed as follows:

1st place: $9,000
2nd place: $4,000
3rd place: $3,000
4th place: $2,000
5th/6th place: $1,000

Stay tuned to GG.net as we'll keep you updated on how IPL TAC 3 develops.

Source: TeamLiquid