ESEC format unveiled

5-8-2014 05:02

The organisers of the European Championship (ESEC) have unveiled all the details about the format for the 2014 edition.

A total of 44 European nations will be taking part in the second edition of the tournament, which will officially kick off in a week's time with the qualifying stage.

The 16 lowest ranking nations will have to play in the first qualifying round, with the eight winners moving on to the second qualifying round, where they will be joined by 16 other sides (12 seeded and four unseeded).

Below are 32 nations that will have to have to take part in the ESEC qualifying process:

First qualifying round
Greece	Montenegro
Luxembourg	Israel
Moldova	Armenia
Faroe Islands	Malta
Cyprus	Macedonia
Iceland	Slovenia
Belarus	Lithuania
Croatia	Romania

Second qualifying round
Seeded	Unseeded
Finland	Austria
United Kingdom	Ireland
Ukraine	Latvia
Spain	Bulgaria
Portugal	+8 winners from First Round
Hungary
Estonia
Norway
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Italy
Slovakia

The winners of this second qualifying round will be rewarded with a place in the main competition, where they will join the 12 highest-ranked teams in the ranking. Below are the nations that have secured direct entry into ESEC 2014's group stage:

Denmark	France
Sweden	Kazakhstan
Netherlands	Belgium
Russia	Germany
Poland	Turkey
Serbia	Bosnia and Herzegovina

The draw for the first qualifying round will take place on Tuesday, with the matches due to be scheduled for the period that goes from August 12-19. Here is the preliminary schedule for the tournament:

Qualification Round 1	Aug 12th – Aug 19th
Qualification Round 2	Aug 20th – Aug 30th
Group stage Round 1	Sep 1st – Sep 7th
Group stage Round 2	Sep 8th – Sep 14th
Group stage Round 3	Sep 15th – Sep 21st
Group stage Round 4	Sep 22nd – Sep 28th
Group stage Round 5	Sep 29th – Oct 5th
Round of 16	Oct 7th – Oct 15th
Quarter-finals	Oct 16th – Oct 22nd
Semi-finals	TBD
Final	TBD

All qualification matches will be played in a best-of-three mode, while the group stage will be played in a best-of-one format. Four teams will advance from each group into single-elimination best-of-three playoffs, starting with the Round of 16.

n1, great format oops, first time 1st comment in my entire life Q_Q thank god

2014-08-05 05:05

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2014-08-05 05:18

u mean here in this org? not in real life though !! :D

2014-08-05 05:19

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hltv.org is love, hltv.org is lyfe too, so that's why i said LIFE :D

2014-08-05 05:24

World Cup 2014! GO DEUTSCHLAND

2014-08-05 05:20

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yeah i guess Germany will win 7-1 against Brazil in the finals Kappa

2014-08-05 05:25

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There will be no Brazil in the finals...

2014-08-05 09:13

in the groups*

2014-08-05 09:47

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semi finals*

2014-08-05 13:54

Nvm, I have no idea what I replied to

2014-08-05 13:56

best format

2014-08-05 05:03

very nice

Ukraine and Norway (or Finland) should be directly invited to the group stage.

2014-08-05 05:07

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I'm guessing the 'ranking' is based on last year's performance, where Norway and Ukraine dissapointed.

2014-08-05 05:12

Why? They didnt do anything on last ESEC.

2014-08-05 05:15

I just thought about performances from teams and players of these countries. So, didn't know that invitations based ESEC results.

Again no Asia

2014-08-05 05:13

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It's a European championship so..

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Israel is not technically apart of europe though. We had the same debate last year :D

2014-08-05 09:32

It is considered as Europe in every spots, why not electronic spots? ^^

2014-08-05 10:03

Because they were kicked from asia and europe was forced to accept them.

2014-08-05 10:22

Not really we got kicked because there is 2 many kinds of asians and arabs . so in sport we played on Oceania but we got kick from there also. btw greece and turkey is not on europe though

2014-08-05 17:37

Greece not in europe ? i guess you know your geography very well :)

2014-08-05 21:05

Part of turkey is in europe...

2014-08-06 11:58

The organisers of the European Championship (ESEC) have unveiled all the details about the format for the 2014 edition

2014-08-05 05:16

european tournament

2014-08-05 05:21

ok guys thank you... i did not know. :D

2014-08-05 07:26

how many groups with how many teams in one group ?

2014-08-05 05:22

4 groups, with 6 teams in it.

2014-08-05 23:53

i'd love to see teams from every country playing csgo, cs deserves a bigger scene...

How the fuck is Kazakhstan ranked higher than Norway,Finland,Ukraine and Slovakia? or even Portugal or spain? Wtf.

2014-08-05 05:26

they finished 3rd i think last year

2014-08-05 05:28

fox + dzt too stronk kid

2014-08-05 05:37

Its Adrenstan bro

2014-08-05 09:14

2014-08-05 10:02

Slovakia team had really bad luck, so we didn't make it through the group stage. And there was one match against team Hungary, where Hungary had whole lineup from one team, but admin instead of punished them, changed that rule in the middle of tournament. Results: Slovakia 15:15 Turkey Slovakia 15:15 Hungary Slovakia 15:15 Belgium Slovakia 14:16 Denmark (winner of ESEC 2013) Slovakia 16:12 Latvia

2014-08-05 12:09

this year the team will other glhf hungary & slovakia

2014-08-05 13:13

Wow

2014-08-05 05:40

no one will give a shit about this

2014-08-05 06:37

wtf Belgium got into the main competition? jezus christ thats nice

2014-08-05 06:41

Valve adds money, coverage and good LAN finals to this event !

2014-08-05 07:07

direct entry to group stage to netherlands,turkey,serbia o_O

2014-08-05 07:16

Kazakhstan with only AdreN

2014-08-05 07:49

I'm pretty sure it is based on the results of last years edition.

2014-08-05 08:47

Lol bro, Serbia played quarter finals last year vs Kazahstan.

2014-08-05 09:15

Faroe Islands? Really?

Faroe Islands > World

2014-08-05 09:11

rip croatia

2014-08-05 07:52

Luxembourg, netherlands same flag ? :S

2014-08-05 09:10

Flags are small, maybethere is difference. Just look flag of Faroe Islands, they look 100% like England flag but whey you zoom, you will see difference :D

2014-08-05 09:17

so there is some different just we cannot see because it small ? :) like the slovanian-slovakian flags ? p.s: GOGO HUNGARY

2014-08-05 09:46

Well difference betwen Luxemburg and Netherlands are in blue color, luxemburg have brighter, and if you zoom a lot, you will see that there is difference :D Slovanian - Slovakian flags have dfferent coat of arms.

2014-08-05 09:52

ok i got it, thank you :)

2014-08-05 09:54

have fun !:D

2014-08-05 09:36

GO LITHUANIA

2014-08-05 09:51

A way to see every lineup from every team?

2014-08-05 09:55

e-frag.net/euchamp/participant-list-2014..

2014-08-05 10:04

gg joelz ez

2014-08-05 10:33

2014-08-05 14:04

Latvia ez group ez lyfe Kappa

Faroe Islands will win 100%

2014-08-05 10:49

ez for poland go All in ! :D

2014-08-05 11:28

Kazakhstan ranked above UK... ouch

2014-08-05 11:30

gl jOELZ.

2014-08-05 11:34

UK fucking ez Rattlesnk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> btw. kazakhstan and their ping XD

2014-08-05 11:50

ChrisJ to lead the netherlands to the finallssssss

2014-08-05 12:12

Great! But I wonder if other unknown counter in CS got a decent player?

2014-08-05 12:20

Guys from Faroe Islands are really kind and great players :) Hope we will play with them again :)

2014-08-05 12:42

same to you bro <3

2014-08-06 00:19

I can fully agree with all of my heart on this one. I used to be in a team with a person named "Kata" from Faroe Islands and he was a talented player, never had a single bit of trouble with him and he was always kind-hearted and very polite. His Faroese friends were also the same. Wish I still knew him because he was never able to attend LAN (iSeries) due to financial issues.

2014-08-07 03:17

gabesson ez

2014-08-05 13:11

Go Slovenia <3

2014-08-05 13:20

easy4Belarus in First and Second qualifying round

2014-08-05 13:51

gl joelz and allu <3

2014-08-05 14:05

Bosnia ftw

2014-08-05 14:09

mappool?

2014-08-05 14:25

gl Israel

2014-08-05 14:40

No offense but i can't find Israel in list of European Countries.:D

2014-08-05 15:59

Geographically, israel is part of Asia. However it is a member in many different European organizations. Not just in sports :)

2014-08-05 16:27

*European union - NO *Schengen Area - NO *European Free Trade Association - only partnership not membership *NATO - NO *Geographically - NO *European Economic Area - sorry but still NO *Erasmus - NO

2014-08-05 19:24

Since when was nato EU?

2014-08-05 19:49

israel <3 spooky <3

2014-08-05 16:29

no usa? fail tournament

2014-08-05 16:33

we do own europe after all, wtf

"The organisers of the European Championship (ESEC) have unveiled..."

2014-08-05 19:10

Israel to win

2014-08-05 16:50

Luxembourg - Israel?

2014-08-05 16:59

Easy for Greece Kappa

2014-08-05 17:00

Goodluck for israel i know only 2 players they are global elites from israel i wonder if they can find five

2014-08-05 17:23

I'm actually not that excited about this, which sucks.

2014-08-05 17:29

if Portugal at least play with their best team can reach last 12 this year without any hard problems in my opinion

2014-08-05 18:52

S detstva za Rossiu!

2014-08-05 19:43

DONT WORRY GUYS. FAROE ISLAND WE GOT THIS <3 weeyeye. have a great tournament!

2014-08-05 20:33

no chances for latvia anyway

I feel like the rankings are just considering 1 player for some countries which are: - Nederlands -> chrisJ - Bosnia &H -> pita - Serbia -> Legija - Kazakhstan -> AdreN - Belgium -> Scream / Ex6tenz lol these rankings say sh!t :D

2014-08-05 23:59