Hellcase Cup Series with $40,000

Held in cooperation with UCC and Hellcase.com, the tournament series will run from April to July and will give away four spots in the European WCA qualifier on top of the prize pool.

One Hellcase Cup will be held each month, with $10,000 up for grabs and a lengthy qualifying process behind it. It will all start with three open preliminary qualifiers, hosted on FACEIT and featuring a best-of-one bracket.

Epsilon, with draken on the roster, won last year's WCA European qualifier 

The winners of these pre-qualifiers will move on to a closed qualifier, while the runners-up will face each other in a round-robin stage, called "Wildcard matches", to determine the one side advancing to the next round.

In the closed qualifier, the four teams coming from the previous round will square off with four invited sides in a single-elimination bracket. The two finalists will secure spots in the Main Stage, in which they will be joined by six invited teams in a best-of-three, round-robin stage with two groups.

The top two teams from both groups will qualify for one last round, called "Final Stage", consisting of a single-elimination, best-of-three bracket. Below you can find the prize distribution for the Final Stage of each Hellcase Cup:

1. $6,000 + WCA Europe Qualifier spot
2. $2,500
3. $1,000
4. $500 

Registration in the Hellcase Cup Series pre-qualifiers is open to teams from all over Europe. To sign up for this month's pre-qualifiers, teams simply need to go here. The tournament organisers have put together video guides in English and Russian to help teams through the process.