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I. WCA FORMAT & PRIZE POOL
World Cyber Arena 2016 includes such disciplines as CS:GO, DotA 2, Hearthstone, WarCraft III and of course StarCraft 2. Russian organization UCC will host European qualifiers for WCA 2016 Global Finals and I'll be your EU qualifier org for StarCraft 2.
WCA 2016 Global Finals features roughly $200,000 prize pool for StarCraft 2 as well as ~$15,000 for EU qualifier. Qualifier's prizes:
1st place: 50,000 RMB + Global Finals spot
2nd place: 30,000 RMB + Global Finals spot
3rd place: 20,000 RMB
Considering the taxes (~7%) and current USD/RMB currency, we have the following:
1st place: 7,500 USD
2nd place: 4,500 USD
3rd place: 3,000 USD
II. WCA EU QUALIFIER DETAILS
WCA EU Qualifier consists of Open Qualifier and Main Event. We're inviting all citizens of European countries to take part in Open Qualifiers on August 9th and August 16th at 17:00 CEST.
Open Qualifier #1 Bracket - https://binarybeast.com/xSC21608021 (COMPLETED)
Winners of the Qualifier #1:
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Elazer
Lambo
DIMAGA 
SockeOpen Qualifier #2 Bracket - https://binarybeast.com/xSC21608090[
Winners of the Qualifier #2:
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Harstem
HateMe 
Kas souLFour winners of each Open Qualifier advance to the Main Event.
Main Event features usual 16 players - 4 groups GSL format - Single Elimination playoff format and will most probably be held on August 25th - 27th. 8 players of Main Event come from the Open Qualifiers and 8 are invited directly to Group Stage.
III. WCA EU QUALIFIER MAIN EVENT INVITES
We're inviting three zergs, three protosses and two terrans with the highest EU ladder placements from the recent TOP 16 GM ladder list:
SortOf (confirmed) Nerchio (confirmed) Bly (confirmed) ShoWTimE (confirmed)
PtitDrogo (confirmed)
Strange (confirmed) uThermaL (confirmed) 
Beastyqt (confirmed)IV. WCA EU QUALIFIER MAIN EVENT GROUPS
Group A - Thursday, Aug 25 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00):
SortOf Socke uThermaL HarstemGroup B - Thursday, Aug 25 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00):
ShoWTimE Lambo Bly souLGroup C - Friday, Aug 26 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00):
Nerchio DIMAGA PtitDrogo KasGroup D - Friday, Aug 26 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00):
Beastyqt Elazer Strange HateMeGSL format, all series bo3, starting matches 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, player upper in the list starts vetoing.
Two winners of each group advance to Playoff (A1 vs B2, C1 vs D2, A2 vs B1, C2 vs D1)
Playoff - Saturday, Aug 27 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00):
V. WCA EU QUALIFIER COVERAGE
UCC will provide Russian-language studio coverage for the main event.
BaseTradeTV will cover WCA EU in English.
TakeTV will cover WCA EU in German.
EmScTV will cover WCA EU in Polish.
