Sign up for EMS Katowice qualifiers

9-1-2014 01:24

The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has announced that it is now possible to sign up for for the EMS One Katowice qualifiers

Last month, it was announced that the ESL would be hosting a major CS:GO tournament under the wings of the IEM event in Katowice with $250,000 in cash prizes thanks to a collaboration with Valve.

The tournament, which will take place from March 14-16th, will feature 16 contestants, the top eight finishers from DreamHack Winter plus two invited sides and six teams who will have secured their place through the online qualifiers.

During the next five weeks, there will be regional and national qualifiers being held across Europe. After this, there will also be two European online qualifiers, open to teams from all over the continent, including the ones who were eliminated in the national and regional tournaments.

The 16 teams from all these qualifiers will then battle it out in the online finals, in which they will contest the six spots at EMS One Katowice.

Below you can find the dates for the qualifiers:

10th Jan - 9th Feb	French qualifier	1 slot to online finals
10th Jan - 16th Feb	CIS qualifier	2 slots to online finals
10th Jan - 16th Feb	Polish qualifier	2 slots to online finals
10th Jan - 9th Feb	Nordic qualifier	1 slot to online finals
17th Jan - 16th Feb	UK qualifier	1 slot to online finals
17th Jan - 16th Feb	German qualifier	1 slot to online finals
18-20th Feb	European cup #1	4 slots to online finals
22-23rd Feb	European cup #2	4 slots to online finals
25-27th Feb	Online finals	6 slots to EMS One Katowice

To sign up for these qualifiers, head over to the EMS One's website.

how?

2014-01-09 01:27

4 replies

To sign up for these qualifiers, head over to the EMS One's website. -.-' Just click the link that hltv posted in last sentence.

2014-01-09 02:20

3 replies

WHAT??? so easy? i was searching for that whole life!

2014-01-09 11:02

2 replies

rofl

2014-01-09 12:50

2014-01-09 14:34

good luck! I hope to see AGAiN, n!faculty, Na'Vi, SK, iBP, mousesports, Reason and Vox Eminor to the big tourney! :)

2014-01-09 01:28

9 replies

How would Vox even qualify? xD

2014-01-09 02:13

8 replies

I'm pretty sure anyone can participate in the european quals as long as they are playing from europe, but what do I know :)

2014-01-09 02:18

5 replies

See #19 right below your comment. And to answer your question, I believe the answer is no. We are talking about nationality, not residence.

2014-01-09 02:23

I thought residence was the case for sure. This sucks then.

2014-01-09 03:06

1 reply

it is residence, and in general, ESL is always residence based

2014-01-10 12:38

he live in EU 1 month before DH but now i think they go home

2014-01-09 05:08

through asian qualifier maybe ? those dates only refer to the EU scene, there are still 2 slots left: 1 for a USA team and 1 for a asian team. Although vox aren't asian, I guess they could open a exception for them, since I believe they pretty much can take care of the job, as seen on MSI Beat It. So if they are accepted, it's actually a lot easier for vox eminor to qualify to the final event (not online finals) than what EU teams have to go through xD

2014-01-09 02:22

I would really like to see K1CK attend more LAN's this year!

2014-01-09 05:07

my team will destroy everyone

2014-01-09 01:29

you meant you will be destroyed by everyone ?

2014-01-09 01:50

It is the reason why u r not invited.

2014-01-09 21:02

y 2 polish quals? o_O

2014-01-09 01:30

Polish event? Carmac chief of CS @ ESL?

2014-01-09 01:32

I agree

2014-01-09 01:34

because fuck you that's why :D #6 pretty much sums it up, but chill. It's not direct slots for the event. It's online qualifiers so odds are that you might not see a polish team at all. As a portuguese, I would like to see K1CK make it, but if I had to bet on it, and taking into account that every team will attend qualifiers (would be stupid not to imo), the spots will go to Vox Eminor (if they are accepted for the asian qualifier, if not, then Tyloo probably), IBP, NaVi, Again, SK, Reason, n! and probably mouz, K1CK, Wizards, CM or some other nordic teams (won't talk about MyM because I haven't followed many of their games so I don't know their current level) will take the last slot. Gamepub had a interesting run on SLTV finals, let's see if they will remain the same.

2014-01-09 02:43

where is the asian qualifier? I don't see one/

2014-01-09 17:13

it's not on these dates. But I can't remember if they are going to invite or to host qualifiers. Either way, I am pretty sure 2 spots are secure for a USA team and a Asian team. I guess they will invite.

2014-01-09 17:49

ez money for me (x:

2014-01-09 01:49

Only one slot for nordic countrys and two for cis? Seems legit. Nordic teams > shity cis teams. Sorry for bait.

2014-01-09 01:55

didn't we go over this already on some past threads ? There are already 8 teams qualified for the final stage of the event (the 8 DHW quarter finalist, from these, 1/2 are nordic teams [3 swedish and 1 danish] and 2 french teams, 1 from cis and 1 from the USA. Every team (doesn't matter the country, just needs to be from the EU) can sign and play in the european cups. There is no team that is qualified directly through the national qualifiers. As far as I know, these might just be to determine seeds in the brackets (8 teams qualified through the nationals will clash with the 8 teams that come from the european cups probably). There will be 16 teams attending the LAN Finals, so 1/4 are already nordic teams, and probably will end up with 2 or more getting their spot there too so I don't really see the problem. If they are that good the european cup will be a piece of cake for them. Or would you like it to be 16 nordic teams playing at katowice ? Just accept there are more than enough nordic teams, although I don't agree with the CIS getting 2 slots, they will only guarantee 2 CIS teams at the online finals. Nothing more. Understood ? Yeh Yeh I took the bait, but someone had to do it. At least I did it in a polite way.

2014-01-09 02:16

lol Nordic should have 4 spots

2014-01-09 02:11

and why's that ?

because nordic semi pro scene in cs has always been sick

2014-01-09 02:36

yup but they can still play on the european cups, so they can play it all the way up. If I have to bet, 4 of these8 european teams that will reach the online finals are from nordic countries.

2014-01-09 02:38

you mean sweden & denmark finland is very decent and norway is few levels under them

2014-01-09 11:03

why don't just skip the nordic qualifier

2014-01-09 02:15

agreed. They will probably end up getting 4 or more slots from the european cup to the online finals so they should give it to someone else lol

For certainty.

AGAiN to fail qualifying for the event.

ofc ,2 slots and they fail in Poland . lol

2014-01-09 07:20

2 slots but to online finalgs, not to katowice straightly..

2014-01-09 07:49

why no benelux qualifiers:(

2014-01-09 09:04

Slim Shady

2014-01-09 09:47

sweeet and gl to the uk teams!

2014-01-09 09:56

Why, just fucking why is there a uk qualifier. All uk teams suck.

2014-01-09 10:07

mad?????????????????? :D

2014-01-09 21:42

No, look I'm sorry for trashing you and your scene, but you dont deserve a qualifier. You have no topteams. A mixteam of random Danish people can beat fm!toxic no problem. I would rather had put 2 slots more to the Nordic qualifier and removed the brittish and one of the polish ones, simply because the best teams (aside from Titan) is from Scandinavia.

2014-01-09 22:21

why no America tis sukz

2014-01-09 10:55

pls someone explain to me why the fuck portugal doesnt have a qualifier ? Not even iberian qualifier ? God!

2014-01-09 10:57

DESCUSTINg NOOBS!

2014-01-09 20:44

Because you dont deserve one. k1ck is not even top20

ez money 4 jOELZ

2014-01-09 11:01

yea why not finnish qualifier, now jOELZ will destroy european qualifier ;/

2014-01-09 11:04

(._.)

2014-01-09 11:05

I already imagine the mass of cheaters attending in qualifications

2014-01-09 11:34

Eac ofc

2014-01-09 12:29

ESL Wire ofc.

2014-01-09 22:22

Excellent.

2014-01-09 12:06

let's go GAMEPUB!!!!

2014-01-09 13:03

Can u link me CIS qual? Cant find it...

2014-01-09 13:16

esl.eu/cis/csgo/emsone/qualifier_cup_1/s..

2014-01-09 13:18

CIS QUAL WTF? There should be Lithuania Estonia and Latvia either... DAfaQ?

2014-01-09 13:19

You're kiddin, right ? Baltic teams sucks even more in CSGO than they were in 1.6 (except for that Estonian team Maym Gaming or whatever they are called)

2014-01-09 13:25