TWC teams and format announced

3-10-2016 23:51

With The World Championships 2016 set to start this week, EFRAG announced the final rosters for the eight national teams that will compete in the tournament, as well as the format of the competition.

The tournament will take place from October 6-9, with the first two days reserved for an eight-team round-robin group stage that will take place at the EFRAG studios.

Every team will play a best-of-one match against the other seven teams to decide the seeding for the playoffs.

The Heroic trio of Gla1ve, valde and Snappi will provide a strong backbone to the Danes

All eight teams will advance to the single-elimination bracket that starts with the quarter-final and will take place at the Kombank Arena in Belgrade.

The playoffs will be played as best-of-three, except the grand final which will be best-of-five.

The schedule for the event is as follows:

October 5th - Media Day
October 6th - Group Stage Day 1 (EFRAG Studios)
October 7th - Group Stage Day 2 (EFRAG Studios)
October 8th - Quarter-finals (Kombank Arena)
October 9th - Semi-finals and grand final (Kombank Arena)

Alongside the schedule, the five-man rosters for the eight national teams have been revealed.

The following players will be traveling to Belgrade this week:

Argentina:	Canada:

Jonathan "⁠JonY BoY⁠" Muñoz	Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele
Matias "⁠tutehen⁠" Canale	Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen
Nahuel "⁠Straka⁠" Vazquez	Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken
Nabil "⁠nbl⁠" Aleua	David "⁠DAVEY⁠" Stafford
Tomás "⁠tomi⁠" Guardia	Bradley "⁠ANDROID⁠" Fodor

Denmark: Denmark:	France:

Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller	Simon "⁠Fuks⁠" Florysiak
Nicolai "⁠glace⁠" Jensen	Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey
Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer	Valentin "⁠mistou⁠" Balbastro
Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså	Matthéo "⁠nonick⁠" Canei
Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander	Alexandre "⁠xms⁠" Forté

Singapore:	Sweden:

Benjamin "⁠moxie⁠" Kou	Jerry "⁠xelos⁠" Råberg
Muhammad "⁠dejavux⁠" Faiz Bin Ismam	Simon "⁠atter⁠" Atterstam
Benedict "⁠Benkai⁠" Tan	Fredrik "⁠slap⁠" Junbrant
Kumaresan "⁠Tommy⁠" Ramani	Marcus "⁠Delpan⁠" Larsson
Nevin "⁠splashske⁠" Aw	Adam "⁠maektig⁠" Widell

Tunisia:	Turkey:

Alaeddine "⁠Potei⁠" Chaari	Çağatay "⁠DESPE⁠" Sedef
Mohamed "⁠torr⁠" Hamdani	Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş
Ben-Amor "⁠krumpze⁠" Karim	Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın
Hatem "⁠Sheva⁠" Guermassi	Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli
Adel "⁠Remind⁠" Guermassi	Ahmet "⁠paz⁠" Karahoca

The $100,000 prize pool will be distributed in the following way:

1. - $50,000
2. - $20,000
3-4. - $10,000
5-8. - $2,500

Tickets for the playoff stage of the tournaments are free and available via TWC's website. For those who won't be traveling to Belgrade, the matches will be streamed via EFRAGTV and EFRAGTV2.

Professeur writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

2016-10-03 23:52

14 replies

These EU rosters a very impressive Kappa

2016-10-03 23:53

5 replies

yes they are

2016-10-03 23:54

lol ez for tunisia

2016-10-03 23:56

1 reply

denmark EZ

2016-10-05 16:42

especially swedish lineup (Delpan and 4superstar-nonamers, omg if i remember flusha and co. didnt want to change date of match with Poland cause VP players cant played due to Dreamhack event its pathetic, hope all rekt 'em) ez final for Denmark and Turkey other results will be huuuge surprises

2016-10-04 00:12

I could realistically see canada/turkey come second or third but Denmark probably has this event locked

2016-10-04 00:55

WHERES KHAZAGSTAN?????????????

2016-10-04 11:15

7 replies

they got disqualified cause dosia is from russia

2016-10-04 14:39

that was the joke. get a sense of humor dumb na fan

2016-10-04 21:00

Exatctly, just as C9NaCsAhRt wrote. It turned out, that Dosia played for them during the qualifiers (I'm not sure how many games). With this, they broke the rules, because he is Russian, so the team of Kazaghstan got disqualified from TWC. Turkey will fill their spot.

2016-10-04 17:28

4 replies

Thank You

2016-10-04 21:45

Kazakhstan***

2016-10-05 15:49

2 replies

Good point, my mistake. Thank you :)

2016-10-05 18:41

Btw I think Dosia only.played the game against France

2016-10-05 18:43

GO CANADA <3

nice

hio

canada cs

This is going to be great.

wow

ez denmark

ez denmark win

Dernmark 2 win

i think turkey will win this so shitty teams for others

Ez 4 Singapore

Denmark with the best lineup on paper

Go TUNISIA, gl for my bois<3 also nice seeing delpan competing once again.

2016-10-03 23:59

ez for Fra-, excuse me. Denmark!

RiP Sweden. Nah, GL boys <3

turkey is winning this xD

RIP Impression =/

WTF France and sweden didn't even try and put together a good roster

2016-10-04 00:10

but they will perform well anyway :D

2016-10-04 13:55

LOL Canada actually has a good chance to win

Or Turkey.

2016-10-03 23:57

Yup Denmark should be favorites but I think canada and turkey will be good contenders

2016-10-03 23:58

3 replies

True!, Denmark with Gla1ve and Valve is strong.

Yea, Valve Kappa Valde you mean :v

2016-10-04 00:19

Damn!

2016-10-04 00:37

so ez for denmark

Is this really the squad Sweden is using out of all those talent

ez turkey

nope

2016-10-04 00:14

Such a disappointing event, easy win for Denmark

why is sweden lineup this so weak? where is tier 1 players?

Guess they didn't want to go

2016-10-04 01:13

i dont understand why because there is a easy 50k not that bad. maybe their schedule.

2016-10-04 01:14

played with insane lineups in the qualifier, but shitty in the actual tournament wtf?

funny as fuck

2016-10-04 03:18

It is more time to go to a LAN than play an online match

2016-10-04 18:25

players playing for sweden in the qualifier: dennis, GeT_RiGhT, JW, flusha, znajder, twist, Lekr0, Xizt, disco doplan, olofmeister and draken players playing for sweden in the lan: xelos, atter, slap, delpan and maektig ????????????

faceit gods xaxaxa

Godsent and Epsilon playing WESG same dates, Fnatic and NiP focus on Epicenter (October 17th)

They could at least get MODDII seeing how Heroic players are there

2016-10-04 06:34

They got boosted

2016-10-04 00:01

Denmark vs Turkey final, Denmark takes it

Xantares will win this for turkey

on paper Denmark or Turkey, mb Canada but i think not best lineup for lan-_-

2016-10-04 00:00

Actually Turkey has the best team possible and I think its their tour

ez for xantaras

2016-10-04 00:02

holy fuck, NA is finally going to win a tournament, no one's going to talk shit to semphis at this lan, semphis also bringing the hottest dudes with him

2016-10-04 00:07

the canada lineup is shit besides Twistzz and DAVEY like why would you get 2 IGL on your team... still favourites behind Danes

2016-10-04 03:36

Turkey gonna win this

2016-10-04 00:09

Such a weak tournry welp

WHERE IS THE FUCKING GUISHORRO ARGENTINA? HE IS THE BEST ARG PLAYER

ez for strakalele

Delpan HYYYYPE!

2016-10-04 00:16

Sweden, sick lineup x)

2016-10-04 00:17

even turkey have a chance among those shitty lineups lolz it would be a denmark-turkey final or france-denmark france-turkey :D

2016-10-04 00:22

Argentina will win

not suprise turkey won :3

2016-10-04 00:23

so ez for jony boy

2016-10-04 00:25

lol sweden tier 5 players, france tier 8 players wtfXD

2016-10-04 00:26

KioShiMa Tier 3

2016-10-04 03:41

TWC for me is shitest tournament jesus christ just wasted 100k this is just joke from competive scene i sure you can make with 100k small lan with 4x tier1 teams BO5 format something like gfinity instead sick matches like Tunisa vs Argentia with 10x players on serwer what nobody hear before even this ESWC what is pure tier4 lan loks 10x better compare to TWC

2016-10-04 00:34

the point of the tournament is not to bring top tier1 godlike cs players ... it is to show a large scale of different play style and skillz from "unknown" countries . You already have 365 other tournaments which brings the best of the best ...

EZ 4 DENMARK

2016-10-04 00:35

T3 world championship

EZ 4 Canada TWC is a T4 tourney

2016-10-04 00:39

ez Argentina/Denmark

2016-10-04 00:40

2016-10-04 00:53

2016-10-04 00:56

ez Turkey

2016-10-04 00:42

hahahahhahaha Sweden rip

anyways, argentina probably lose against sweden Kappa

dat lineups xd

Not sure if i should even watch it live

Sweden's lineup broke my heart D':

2016-10-04 00:57

Mal

2016-10-04 01:03

2016-10-04 01:17

they are streaming on azubu or some shit which is lagging af

Twitch

2016-10-04 01:08

I said it wrong, i meant to watch that lan from the arena. First time decided to do that and they bring some z teams.

2016-10-04 01:23

Go and cheer for Argentina. You will see that we can do more than just Patito Feo and those kind of Telenovelas.

2016-10-05 19:21

Ez denmark

2016-10-04 01:04

ez win Turkey xantares=vactares xD

2016-10-04 01:06

EZ FOR DELPAN

2016-10-04 01:09

Canada Denmark and France are Top3 this tourney forsure

Let's go Turkey!

2016-10-04 01:22

Sweden : SpawN, Heaton, Walle, Carn, RobbaN :)

2016-10-04 01:26

france cried about kazakhstan beating them and then waste the spot. ROFL

2016-10-04 01:34

2016-10-04 14:20

WESG-lite dead tournament and efrag sucks

2016-10-04 01:51

well turkey seems like a strong contender, just like denmark and canada. Good luck to all and lets see how delpan performs :D

2016-10-04 01:57

wow the TWC last year was a 1000000x better than this shit lmao

2016-10-04 02:07

EZ4XANTA

2016-10-04 02:09

LMAOOO was gonna comment on how shit the Canada lineup is based on what it could of been (Twistzz, Stan, NAF, DAVEY, Shroud) then i realized they are probably one of the favourites

2016-10-04 03:33

Turkey with their A team lookin good.

2016-10-04 03:35

CryingBoY

That France line-up is garbage compared to last year

2016-10-04 03:45

Wesg EU lan finals at the same time from October 6-9.Envy astralis godsent attending that... So can't send better squads like last year.

2016-10-04 04:54

True

2016-10-04 23:35

ez for Turkey

2016-10-04 03:50

So they finally swap out alecks

2016-10-04 03:59

Who dat?

2016-10-04 10:57

Den-can finals

2016-10-04 04:40

Turkey Denmark France favourites

2016-10-04 04:53

The quality of these teams is infinitely worse than last TWC. Very disappointed.

2016-10-04 06:13

2016-10-04 06:19

coz WESG EU finals,else poland full squad would have attended (turkey playing instead of poland)

2016-10-05 08:57

The France squad as well rly disappointing

2016-10-05 09:05

Because Envy godsent astralis VP kinguin all going to WESG EU lan final which is 75000$ event and WESG world lan final is 1.5 million event :P So denmark,sweden,poland,france all have weak squad.

2016-10-05 09:06

Turkey can win this tbh

2016-10-04 06:25

Denmark looks the strongest. I cheer for my bros anyway

2016-10-04 06:47

The World THROWships 2016 the questions is ! WHO WILL THROW MORE ?

2016-10-04 06:53

Denmark in the finals

2016-10-04 07:01

Denmark wins seriously lineups are so bad....

2016-10-04 08:21

Such a disappointment after last year's lineups

2016-10-04 08:25

Wow we actually can win this lol Denmark def favs glave snappi valde glacr also nice and famous stand in cadian ofc best standin in eu Also excited about Delpan

2016-10-04 08:44

Basically Denmark vs Canada final.

2016-10-04 08:49

Turkey/Denmark or Canada final

2016-10-04 09:24

Turkey could very well win this

2016-10-04 10:14

Rooting for SG! On a side note,delpan is back o.o

2016-10-04 10:56

He will most likely be star of the event to fans :v

2016-10-04 14:15

WESG EU&CIS finals the same time, that's why France and Sweden lineups are weaker than expected.

2016-10-04 11:45

Our guys have a chance, gl boys

2016-10-04 11:50

This can only work if we have same system as football. If we had season system, and 1-2 months of end season - pre next season, this event could fit in, like thats case for football. Otherwise, i doubt that best players will ever attend this, even if they increase prizepool for next events

2016-10-04 12:11

lmao dat swedish line up ez for our subtop line up, ki0 "the problem" and the creme de la creme of new french talents no needs of envy or g2 losers to get a third title in a row

2016-10-04 12:25

No shox no win

2016-10-05 09:07

Is it impossible to place the tournament so that the best players can join ? What is the fun to watch counties face eachother with some of the worst possible lineups?

2016-10-04 12:56