World Championships 2015 European Qualifier

European TWC qualifier announced

9-8-2015 08:34

E-frag has revealed all the details about the European qualifying process for the World Championships.

Forty-five national teams from across Europe will be taking part in the European qualifiers for the World Championships, which will determine which eight countries will be represented at the global finals, in Belgrade, from October 8-11.

The participating nations have been seeded according to their results in the two editions of the E-Sports European Championships (ESEC), which were also hosted by E-frag.

ESEC 2014 winners France will skip the preliminary qualifying rounds

The 18 lowest ranked nations have been placed in the first preliminary qualifying round, which will run from Monday to Friday. All matches will be played in a best-of-three format.

Azerbaijan	vs.	Moldova
Georgia	vs.	Austria
Albania	vs.	Iceland
Luxembourg	vs.	Spain
Montenegro	vs.	Romania
Croatia	vs.	Cyprus
Lithuania	vs.	Israel
Slovenia	vs.	Malta
Greece	vs.	Ireland

The nine winners will then move on to qualifying round 2, in which they will be joined by 15 other nations, three of which are unseeded.

Seeded
Germany	Norway	Turkey
Ukraine	Hungary	United Kingdom
Italy	Belarus	Macedonia
Latvia	Czech Republic	Portugal
Unseeded
Switzerland	Bulgaria	Estonia

Finally, the 12 winners will join the highest-ranked nations in the European best-of-one group stage, which will feature four groups of six teams. The top four teams from each group will move on to the Round of 16 to determine the eight participants at the World Championship finals.

Below are the 12 teams who will go straight into the group stage:

France	Denmark	Poland
Sweden	Kazakhstan	Finland
Netherlands	Russia	Serbia
Slovakia	Belgium	Bosnia and Herzegovina

2015-08-09 14:34

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Israel Europe Kappa

2015-08-09 14:55

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Greece Europe Kappa

2015-08-09 18:29

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They can't attend the lan because they don't have enough drachma's to pay for the flight, ad they are so corrupt the coach would take the 'travel support' money for himself. Kappa

2015-08-09 22:03

Israel is on the jungle (middle east), but we accept them anyway cuz Arabs boycott them(and holocaust) my friend

2015-08-10 03:40

+1 we're a developed country compared to the countries around us.

2015-08-12 08:12

gl guys

SCHEDULE FOR THIS QUALIFIER i.imgur.com/nsz4rgg.jpg

2015-08-09 18:14

knew it

Ez 4 france

GL Australia.. oh wait

ez 4 sweden

gl georgia

Finland ez, oh wait

2015-08-09 14:35

hope ukraine win

rip armenia :'(

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Unfortunately there is not 5 players in Armenia...

2015-08-09 15:20

last time half of team was russian :(

2015-08-10 00:08

EZ Aerbaïdjan

2015-08-09 14:36

ez SVK

2ez4swede

Winland ez

NL BOYYS

2015-08-09 14:38

ez slovakia i thinkered

ez iceland

bosnia, serbia, slovakia highest ranked nations? i arent think that

I think they could be seeded from the last euro championships?

2015-08-09 16:20

yeah I remember Bosnia atleast winning ukraine when there was zeus, edward etc.

2015-08-09 16:48

Yeah Lithuania should be definitely the highest ranked nation...

2015-08-09 16:50

Serbia won agains Poland, Finland etc

2015-08-09 18:52

canada wins

2015-08-09 14:40

That Germany, Ukraine and Norway are not directly in the groups is a joke lol, but i guess they base the seedings on previous ESEC results which no one gave a shit about. Edit: just saw that Spain is in the prelimnary qual, lmao

2015-08-09 14:44

Lol, Germany and Ukraine sure, Norway not so much. What have we proven? Elimination at majors? And that was a while back, the current state is pretty shit.

2015-08-11 06:03

And what the hell have serbia, kazakzthan, finland, netherlands, bosnia, slovakia proven? Lmao

2015-08-11 13:04

gogo lithua!

fake flagger confirmed

2015-08-09 15:29

lul

2015-08-09 15:41

ez for belarus

2015-08-09 14:41

Bad format in my option

.ready

2015-08-09 14:42

Great, again Czech lineup will be built from low baits for oskar. So he can look like he is carrying. :DDD

ez for Sweds :V If only gtr and olof will be playing together :v

2015-08-09 14:43

Why Bulgaria is unseeded but Latvia, Macedonia and UK is?

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And why Bosnia and Netherlands are in the groups :D

2015-08-09 14:49

Both Bosnia and Netherlands have a few decent players compared to those in the lower qualifier. But I agree that Bulgaria shouldn't be unseeded.

2015-08-09 15:07

Actually BiH has great line up last time with Niko, pita, Bendji, Dumas and co. Also chrisJ can easily carry NL in those matches. Still doesnt know any latvian player and why this tournament should be based on previous results.

Please don't mention that criminal Pita as a "player". Should be in jail.

2015-08-09 16:47

Nah, f0rest took the blame for that to help his old friend. Dw, f0rest out of jail for cologne :)

2015-08-09 22:06

true that.

They are probably seeding from previous ESEC results, which sucks.

2015-08-09 15:34

Imagine if Olof and GTR will be playing for Swedes in this tourney.. Just Imagination

2015-08-09 14:45

Moldova Austria Iceland Spain Romania Croatia Lithuania Slovenia Greece Sorry for the spoiler

2015-08-09 14:50

lol we did exactly the same prediction. gg we won

2015-08-09 15:52

prediction for first stage: Azerbaijan > Moldova Georgia < Austria Albania < Iceland Luxembourg < Spain Montenegro < Romania Croatia > Cyprus Lithuania > Israel Slovenia > Malta Greece < Ireland 100% winrate, trust me.

BULGARIA > USA

2015-08-09 15:22

2015-08-09 16:59

georgia ftw

2015-08-09 15:25

idk bout israel, maybe we'll surprise this tiem ;P

2015-08-12 08:13

swiss ez.

2015-08-09 14:52

medpack*

2015-08-09 18:42

I thought the flag was the belt, wallet and watch company sponsoring the event, kek

2015-08-09 22:08

cmon Italy!

bosnia kasaksthan finalnd serbia netherland ranked over norway. OK then

2015-08-09 14:58

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lmaoo

2015-08-09 15:16

It's because of previous ESEC results, but tbh it's retdarded since no one really cared about that.

2015-08-09 15:33

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Well they didn't really have any other way to rank the countries but it won't really matter because Norway should be able to get through pretty easily.

2015-08-09 16:06

well they could just look at which countrys have the good teams eg germany penta/mouz/etc spain overgaming/ex6tence/epsilon and norway lgb/lc

This is fine, lower bracket it all bo3 so good teams should progress

2015-08-09 16:27

yeah norway germany and spain will come through but its still shit

2015-08-09 16:32

But all teams haven't played against each other it's much more complicated than that plus the lineups they are going to play with in the tournament are probably all mix teams.

2015-08-09 17:10

yes thats why i counted multiple teams from the countries since you can have a maximum of 3 players from 1 team eg germany for example denis,spiidi,nex from mouz and krystal and tabsen from penta

2015-08-09 19:13

"no one really cared about that" Well then u dont deserve the spot :)

2015-08-09 17:21

No teams really cared that much about it. Also, it really depends on what nations faced eachother.. For example, Norway went out in round of 16 vs. Sweden (Actually pretty close to upsetting them) in ESEC 2014. Same did Serbia, Bosnia and KZ. So why are those teams directly in the groupstage?

2015-08-09 20:25

Can't edit comment lol? But yeah i see now that there was a tournament in 2013 aswell where Norway did shit so. Still think they shouldn't have made seedings based on past results, especially since this is completely different, having a massive prizepool and being WORLD championships.

2015-08-09 20:43

They had good results in previous ESEC Championships ofc they are seeded now, whats wrong with your brain? U know how draw in football Champions League works?

2015-08-09 18:57

Yes but this is the WORLD championships, and a tournament on a whole different level, since it has a prizepool of 100k. Most teams just put some random players that were available and played pug since the prizepool was so low. Also, who cares about these shady 2013 events ONLINE. I mean, France used KQLY in 2013 and 2014 for example. Who knows how many people cheated.

2015-08-09 20:46

glhf

2015-08-09 15:05

what about African qualifier its announced as well

2015-08-09 15:06

I don't know why the hell MIRAA decided to skip that.

2015-08-09 15:09

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can you send him a msg i can't ?

2015-08-09 15:12

Already did that yesterday and he didn't respond , not sure if he has even seen the message

2015-08-09 15:17

It seems that HLTV is waiting for the starting 5 from each Team, thats it.. should be up later

2015-08-09 15:27

what about the African TWC qualifier?

ez bulgaria <3

2015-08-09 15:23

Go team maniac

2015-08-09 15:28

ez France, but i belive in Bosnia

Hope finland use joelz

2015-08-09 15:30

gl CIS

2015-08-09 15:31

No news about the African qual? :D e-frag.net/news/TWC/336/african-quali-se..

2015-08-09 15:32

who cares about waka waka qualis

The ruski above you ^

2015-08-09 15:35

yes my friend ))

2015-08-09 16:49

vk.com )

lets go Albania<3

rip norway

2015-08-09 15:45

Moldova Austria Iceland Spain Romania Croatia Lithuania Slovenia Greece :)

2015-08-09 15:51

Sekmes Lietuva ir Turkija <3

2015-08-09 16:00

AUSTRIA????????

2015-08-09 16:02

2015-08-09 17:26

No Pakistan India no fun

2015-08-09 16:07

Croatia ezpz, gl boys <3

Israel europe? wtf? Palestine also?

2015-08-09 16:10

Palestine got the real thing in Gaza,we should join them my friend

2015-08-10 03:41

There's no such thing as Palestine. And for all ignorants who claim "free palestine" open your history books, the jews(we) and the brits offered them more than 50% of the territory of israel. And they declined the offer and started a war.. with the help of all the countries surrounding us, and they lost. which means, there's no palestine which needs to be freed, they had their chance to get a larger country than the jew country and they declined and lost.

2015-08-12 08:18

Spain, Romania < Turkey, Hungary, Latvia, Belarus ??? No hate, but I know more about Spanish and Romanian teams. What did I miss guys ?

2015-08-09 16:08

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well germany and norway arent even in the groupstage :D

You forgot Ukraine m9

2015-08-09 16:52

yeah sorry

2015-08-09 19:14

yes, but at least it seeded :)

Idk Hungary Latvia or Belarus but Turkey yes

2015-08-09 16:22

WTF is Moldova doin on this list? We dont have any players or teams lol

2015-08-09 16:35

Dates?

2015-08-09 16:19

Happy, KennyS, Apex, Shox and NBK in the French team.

Ukraine tier 2. Wow. Obviously there must be some mistake lol

2015-08-09 16:26

Why is Turkey seeded but Spain isn't?

2015-08-09 16:33

cause vactares > spain

2015-08-09 17:57

Turkey is coming

2015-08-09 16:37

Lithuania ez KAPPA

2015-08-09 16:40

If israel start T. They'll rekt everyone ez

2015-08-09 16:51

We actually have a team?

2015-08-09 16:55

Net1 Gaming

2015-08-09 17:28

hahahah

2015-08-10 16:33

ez for moldova hltv.org/?pageid=28&eventid=792&demoid=1.. who's playing for UK btw ?

2015-08-09 17:02

twc.e-frag.net/team/unitedkingdom

2015-08-09 20:53

GG Ez Ireland No Kappa

2015-08-09 18:05

2015-08-09 18:45

Lol no :/

Israel eZ

2015-08-09 17:03

2ez for Israel, no kappa

2015-08-09 17:05

go Cyprus!

2015-08-09 17:12

Idk what's the system but Ukraine, Germany and Norway should get a direct slot for sure.

2015-08-09 17:13

Ez Bosnia ez niko

2015-08-09 17:15

goodluckz to all of teams. btw we'll try our best now :D

2015-08-09 17:18

ez for XANTARES

2015-08-09 17:29

ez for Finland

2015-08-09 17:31

easy for cyprus

2015-08-09 17:35

israel from europe geography winz

Well even Australia was in the latest eurovision...

2015-08-09 18:39

no my friend, Arabs don't let Jews participate in their leagues, so we let some Jews spend their shekels on our soil my friend

2015-08-10 03:43

Hope that the dutchies can win something, intrested in the lineup

2015-08-09 17:43

Let's go Netherlands, ChrisJ and squad good luck!

2015-08-09 17:44

gl Turkey

2015-08-09 17:45

If weber plays his cards right UK have a decent chance to make it out the groups. Lets go Brandon and co.

2015-08-09 17:51

Thats the biggest trophy ive seen in cs go besides majors O_O

2015-08-09 17:52

Mon Ireland

2015-08-09 18:07

Haven't read the rules but I assume that you can only play with 3 players from 1 team per game. In theory Ex envy can play together then? Best Swe lineup for me would be Olof, JW, pronax, GT, f0rest

2015-08-09 18:15

-olof +flusha would be great

2015-08-09 18:27

forest and gtr wont play

2015-08-09 20:51

yeap ex envy could play together but tbh i dont think shox and smithzz want to play with happy anymore

2015-08-10 10:41

Yasasin Azerbaycan!!!! Azerbaijan to the next stage ;)

2015-08-09 18:41

I would have never thought Portugal was above Spain in the rankings, considering past results from their teams and players...

Good luck Serbia but fucking remove bot kassad -.-

2015-08-09 18:59

will there be a stream?

2015-08-09 20:05

Macedonia > Spain hltv confirmed? ;_;

2015-08-09 22:18

yes my friend

2015-08-09 22:27

mon the LADS

2015-08-10 01:11

wtf are those seeds? Why norway, ukraine and germany are seeded when bosia, serbia or slovakia are already qualified? Oo

2015-08-10 13:26

all in lithuania

2015-08-10 14:13

israel will wreck every country , they have won alot of tournaments in the past two years and for all the dumbasses in the war israel gave the pepole of gaza 3 days to cross the boreder to israel to have shelter before they bombed

2015-08-10 14:30