ICS groups drawn

Groups for Inuria Championship Summer have been drawn today and the tournament's prize purse has increased due to expanding to 40 teams.

After confirming payments from 40 teams, Inuria Championship Summer organizers have drawn them into eight groups.

The tournament follows BECSL II which was won by eSrael, and the Danes eventually did sign up for this season as well, same as their countrymen and last season's runners-up Anexis. Those two were joined by duttdutt, KerchNET, x6tence, DELTA, HEADSHOTBG and dotpiXels as high seeds, while the rest of the teams were divided into another three seeding pools.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
eSrael	DELTA	x6tence	HEADSHOTBG
Free Agents	BEASTS	IYH	place2play.ru
pod	nEophyte	snT	DN-Gaming
praNkEd	DEFUSE	cybershoot	KlazioNz Gaming
MK.inuria	MOROCCO	Karont3	NPME
Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
Anexis	KerchNET	dotpiXels	duttdutt
TMVG	ColdGame	USSR	eestralis
unnamed	Goblins	SpiN	PARASHUT
Gaming-club.ru	foreign	eSrael	Team A-Game
CHIKARA	iGamerz	Xapso	fugitive

With the fresh influx of teams since our last update, the prize pool has increased by another 400€ and the distribution now looks like this:

1. 1,100€
2. 500€
3. 300€

The group stage will start next week, with teams expected to schedule their first two encounters for July 2-8. They will play against each other once in a best-of-one format, and the best two teams will eventually advance to playoffs which will be played in single elimination best-of-three format.

HLTV.org will provide full coverage of all matches, including statistics, so check back every now and then if you want to keep track of this tournament.