The Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) makes its debut in Montreal, Canada as sixteen male and eight female teams fly in to compete in a true Global Offensive. The Société des Arts Technologiques will host the tournament from the 11th - 12h July, with a total of $75,000 up for grabs in the men's tournament and $15,000 for the women.
Teams
All sixteen teams were initially divided into four skill groups (Top, High, Medium and Challenger) based on their recent tournament results and and ESWC national qualifiers.
Each group was then randomly composed with teams from each of the seed groups. If a group contains two teams of the same nationality then another team was drawn.
Group A: Flipsid3 Tactics, Cloud9, Keyd Stars, Boreal Esports
Group B: Ninjas in Pyjamas, Team Liquid, LDLC.com White, QeeYou
Group C: Natus Vincere, Titan, Luminosity Gaming, SK Gaming
Group D: Team EnVyUs, Counter Logic Gaming, Renegades, Bravado Gaming
Casters
Anders Blume Auguste "Semmler" Massonat Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett
Format
The Group Stage will be a Best of One round robin format, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the playoff bracket. All bracket games will be Best of Three single elimination playoffs.
I watched a Japanese team go against a Chinese team for some sort of qualifer (Cologne?) recently... Hardly impressive, but I'm still hoping for Qeeyou to make it out of groups and any sort of decent showing.
Group C group of death? Titan doesn't look strong lately but Na'Vi does. SK looked pretty good at Gfinity, and LG isn't shabby either. Is Devilwalk not playing for LG?
On July 10 2015 05:20 Souma wrote: Na`vi will be without seized and flamie due to Visa issues. I believe they're playing with starix and ceh9.
Nope Flamie and Seized will play, they got their Visas now. Problem is they will be jetlagged as fuck and they arrive 2 1/2 hours before their first game. And that's only the case if they have no delay
EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/tKS3B1z.png)
Flipsid3 Tactics, 
Cloud9, 
Keyd Stars, 
Boreal Esports![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/rou3Rqn.png)
Ninjas in Pyjamas, 
LDLC.com White, 
QeeYou![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/wYtt6UI.png)
SK Gaming![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/FleYWgq.png)
Renegades, 
Bravado Gaming![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ZmcZuGE.png)
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