The Electronic Sports League recently announced the first major of the year will take place March 12-15, 2015 alongside the Intel® ESL Expo in Katowice, Poland. The road to Katowice however is not an easy one, as there is a plethora of qualifiers to get through to be able to have a shot at the $250,000 at the end of the road. For the first time ever, the qualifiers will have a two step process (online and later offline) ensuring that the best and fairest eight teams advance to the main tournament!

Online Portion (January 26th - February 3rd)

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Monday, Jan 26 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

European qualifier #1
Wednesday, Jan 28 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Polish pre-qualifier #1
Thursday, Jan 29 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

CIS qualifier
Saturday, Jan 31 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Polish pre-qualifier #2
Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Polish qualifier final
Tuesday, Feb 03 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

European qualifier #2
Wednesday, Feb 04 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

North American qualifier

Offline Portion (February 14th-15th)

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TBA

Qualified for Katowice offline qualifier

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Copenhagen Wolves

mousesports

Piter

INSHOCK

TeaM WinneR

FlipSid3 Tactics

Counter Logic Gaming

Invited to Katowice offline qualifier

TeamLiquid

ex-Epsilon

Titan

Dobry & Gaming

dignitas

Cloud9

Vox Eminor

Invited to ESL One Katowice 2015

NiP

Virtus.pro

Natus Vincere

EnVyUs

PENTA

Team SoloMid

fnatic

HellRaisers

TBD

European qualifier #1

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Copenhagen Wolves and

mousesports advance to offline qualifier

Polish pre-qualifier #1

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INSHOCK,

Brooklyn Superhero,

MISZCZOWIE GRY,

TBA advance to Polish qualifier final

CIS qualifier

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Piter advance to offline qualifier

Polish pre-qualifier #2

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Black Ravens Major,

WeMakeNoise,

ePLAY,

ONLINERSS advance to Polish qualifier final

Polish qualifier final

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INSHOCK advance to offline qualifier

European qualifier #2

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TeaM WinneR and

FlipSid3 Tactics advance to offline qualifier (either

LGB eSports or

3DMAX will join)

North American qualifier

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TBD

mki

Poland882 Posts

January 29 2015 15:21 GMT

Very dirty form for now, but this has to go up! Images will be added in as we go

mki

Poland882 Posts

January 29 2015 15:39 GMT

Today's matches:

Exgaming vs.

Moscow Five @ Thursday, Jan 29 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

and

ACES vs.

EYESports @ Thursday, Jan 29 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

mki

Poland882 Posts

February 02 2015 13:39 GMT

The Polish qualifier final starts today - the top 8 teams are left from two previous qualifiers.

Today's matches:

INSHOCK vs.

WeMakeNoise @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

ePLAY vs.

TBA @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Black Ravens Major vs.

MISZCZOWIE GRY @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

ONLINERSS vs.

Brooklyn Superhero @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

AND

both semi-finals shortly after!

Streams:

http://www.twitch.tv/esltvpl_cs

mki

Poland882 Posts

February 02 2015 23:35 GMT

The NA qualifier is next! Only 26 teams so should be done by today!

The tournament starts at 8 PM EST! Our boys from Team Liquid are participating!

Souma

2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts

February 02 2015 23:37 GMT

I believe daps' flight got cancelled. I wonder if he can still play.

mki

Poland882 Posts

February 03 2015 00:47 GMT

Matches are actually tomorrow same time - so in 24 hours precisely!

icystorage

Jollibee19350 Posts

February 03 2015 01:29 GMT

rofl i got excited there

mki

Poland882 Posts

February 03 2015 10:34 GMT

Today's matches:

Polish qualifier final (winner advances to offline qualifier in Katowice)

INSHOCK vs.

TBD @ Tuesday, Feb 03 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

European qualifier #2 (top 3 teams advance to offline qualifier in Katowice)

Matches start @ Tuesday, Feb 03 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Notable participants:

3DMAX

dAT Team

AGENT

CPH Wolves

LGB eSports

K1ck

Infused

North American qualifier (winner advances to offline qualifier in Katowice)

Matches start @ Wednesday, Feb 04 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Notable participants:

Team Liquid

eLevate

Mythic

Area51

TORQUED

Streams:

Look to the right on the events side bar - will be updated.

Nagisama

Canada4481 Posts

February 03 2015 11:30 GMT

#10

interesting, no c9 for NA qualifiers?

mki

Poland882 Posts

February 03 2015 12:16 GMT

#11

On February 03 2015 20:30 Nagisama wrote:
interesting, no c9 for NA qualifiers?

No, it's a quite notable absence. Maybe they already know that they're invited straight to the offline qualifiers in Katowice as there are still a few unannounced spots.

Nagisama

Canada4481 Posts

February 03 2015 13:20 GMT

#12

Also no CLG, unless they're getting invited too. Poor TL, gotta go through the terror qualifiers.

GTR

51507 Posts

February 03 2015 13:31 GMT

#13

What's with Cobble and Overpass still being used instead of the new maps like Season and (the remade) Train?

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

February 03 2015 14:24 GMT

#14

On February 03 2015 22:31 GTR wrote:
What's with Cobble and Overpass still being used instead of the new maps like Season and (the remade) Train?

long story short: because Valve says so.

ahswtini

Northern Ireland22208 Posts

February 03 2015 14:27 GMT

#15

I think Valve have the final say in what maps to use because they sponsor it? At least that's the explanation I hear the most for why cobble is ever played

edit: thats what I get for not refreshing the page

Crownlol

United States3726 Posts

February 03 2015 17:16 GMT

#16

Hype! Can't wait to watch here in 46minutes, I got all my Superbowl leftover for snackin'.

Crownlol

United States3726 Posts

February 03 2015 17:18 GMT

#17

On February 03 2015 23:24 amazingxkcd wrote:

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long story short: because Valve says so.

Duuuuumb.

Why not at least have the awesome new Train replace the universally-hated Cobble?

"If you get used to it, you'll like it" is a super theory from Valve.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

February 03 2015 17:35 GMT

#18

On February 04 2015 02:18 Crownlol wrote:

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Duuuuumb.

Why not at least have the awesome new Train replace the universally-hated Cobble?

"If you get used to it, you'll like it" is a super theory from Valve.

because if that happened, then all the other problems with CS:GO would also get fixed and then half life 3 would be released so that's a nono