Red Bull have unveiled the groups for the third edition of Home Ground. The only international LAN of the OFF//SEASON will include three partnered Americas teams: KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #4 keznit Angelo Mori Klaus Nicolas Ferrari Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro heat Olavo Marcelo , 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #11 bang Sean Bezerra Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Boostio Kelden Pupello Asuna Peter Mazuryk , and Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #8 Xeppaa Erick Bach vanity Anthony Malaspina OXY Francis Hoang .

The first round of invites revealed only the three invited EMEA teams — partnered organizations Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #11 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Enzo Enzo Mestari Mistic James Orfila Keiko Georgio Sanassy and Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #20 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Kicks Kimmie Laasner runneR Emil Trajkovski ceNder Jokūbas Labutis Sayf Saif Jibraeel , and former VRL DACH champions FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #27 Matrixx Iljas Amagow SEIDER Mathias Seider al0rante Felix Brandl YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes DisisJohn John Gabrido — as well as FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #5 MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qRaxs Doğukan Balaban , who won the Turkish qualifier. BIG BIG Inactive were supposed to participate as winners of the EMEA qualifier but, after dropping their team, Red Bull invited Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #32 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjy David Fish paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski stand-in Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius to fill the gap.

The second round of invites revealed the three Americas teams that will be flying in to Manchester. 100 Thieves and Cloud9 will debut Matthew "Cryocells" Panganiban and Jaccob "yay" Whiteaker, respectively, while KRÜ's overhauled roster will be on display in the Victoria Warehouse.

Red Bull has drafted the eight teams into two groups, which are:

Group A

Group B

These two groups will play out the first stage on December 9, in a standard Bo3 format. The best team from each group will move into the semifinals, while the last team will be eliminated. The remaining two teams from each group will then be placed in the quarterfinals — played on Dec. 10 — where Home Ground will pivot to its trademark Home and Away format.

Playoff matches will be Bo5 and each team will pick a Home map. If either team wins both Home maps they are awarded the match win but, if not, the series proceeds as a regular Bo5. The final day of the event, Dec. 11, will see the semifinals and grand final played out.

Cosmetic content drops will be available throughout the tournament, according to an earlier press release. The distribution of the $100,000 USD prize pool has yet to be announced.

Red Bull Home Ground 3 will be the "final act" of the 2022 season and the last international tournament of the year prior to the VCT Kickoff Tournament in February.