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The Electronic Sports World Cup has updated their website which now shows the number of teams that will qualify from each country for the 2006 Event in Paris, France. The United States will once again be sending two representatives this year. Last year, compLexity and Team 3D qualified with coL eventually winning the tournament by defeating SK.dk. Canada will once again be holding a qualifier after being absent since 2003. Other nations that will be holding qualifiers are Sweden (2), Germany (2), Denmark (1), Finland (1), Brazil (1) and many more. Norway is notably absent from this list. As always, GotFrag will be on site to provide full coverage of the event, which will be taking place between June 28th and July 2nd.

The ESWC 2006 Prize Breakdown for the Men's tournament is as follows:

1. $52,000
2. $36,000
3. $24,000
4. $16,000
5. $8,000
6. $8,000
7. $8,000
8. $8,000

Counter-Strike 1.6 Male
America	Europe	Middle East & Africa	Asia & Oceania
Brazil (1) Canada (1) Caribbean (1) U.S.A (2)	Austria (1) Bosnia (1) Belgium (1) Belarus (1) Switzerland (1) Serbia Montenegro (1) Cyprus (1) Germany (2) Denmark (1) Estonia (1) Spain (1) Finland (1) France (2) Greece (1) Italy (1) Macedonia (1) Netherlands (1) Portugal (1) Russia (1) Sweden (2) United Kingdom (1)	U.A.E (1) Algeria (1) Egypt (1) Kuwait (1) Lebanon (1) Saudi Arabia (1) Tunisia (1) South Africa (1)	China (1) Indonesia (1) India (1) South Korea (1) Mongolia (1) Malaysia (1) Pakistan (1) Singapore (1)

The ESWC 2006 Prize Breakdown for the Womens tournament is as follows:

1. $13,000
2. $9,000
3. $6,000
4. $4,000
5. $2,000
6. $2,000
7. $2,000
8. $2,000

Counter-Strike 1.6 Female
America	Europe	Middle East & Africa	Asia & Oceania
Brazil (1) Canada (1) U.S.A (1)	Belgium (1) Switzerland (1) Serbia Montenegro (1) Germany (1) Spain (1) France (1) Portugal (1) Sweden (1)	Egypt (1) Saudi Arabia (1)	China (1) Indonesia (1) Mongolia (1) Singapore (1)

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Source: Electronic Sports World Cup
Related: First Look at ESWC 2006

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GO TUNISIA

HI2U

Go Macedonia!!! Hope complexity and 3D go again.

#zeilSQUAD

I want TMNations ESWC info! Cool that Canada has a spot this year.

This comment was edited at 02/14/2006 7:44 PM

"The directions say 'Cook and Chill'. And that's what I do, I cook, and then I chill!"

No Oman... :(

#louisiana for games

rofl at all these 3rd world countries but no australia.

Finally a Canadian qualifier!!.....but no Romanian quali =/

This comment was edited at 02/14/2006 7:52 PM

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doest col get a autoberth

go USA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osru4ojkSw8

Good to see it's a little more balanced this year. I remember when Sweden had like 4 reps.

Oh and go Middle East! That should be interesting....

imagine kmode.. yeh. now divide that by 4, and you get chosen"

i think China should have more than 1 spot w/ their strong showing from last year.

i agree, stupid third world countries are getting a team when there is maybe one or two teams who will even compete for the spot while australia has none.

coL / 3D / EG for NA most likely. Things can/probably will change by then but should be good. If CPL can hold out, their event will > ESWC anyway. $300K :O~

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Mongolia has this.

It's sort of saying, don't be chucking stuff about if you're surrounded by glass and what have you.

Sweden event quali will be a tough one.

#check-six www.check6gaming.com

#9 i think that was correct however, as this is a clan tourny. sweden has/had more teams worth inviting than any other country in the world

i dont lan.

yeah, where is the japanese qualifier?

Uhoh, here comes Pacman

#12 you judge event quality only with cashprize ?

yes #7, at least team9 (adrenaline) did

#17 nope look at this

France 2
Denmark 1
Norway 0

lol ?

SK, NiP, fnatic, Speed-Link, Begrip and check-six for only 2 places ...

double pool + single elimination + bo1 + unknown team from random countries = poor competition

That's an other reason why cpl > eswc

lol, Canada won't have a qualifier :P

oh canada

yea

sad to see Norway isn't on that list

should give sweden at least 3 spots

This comment was edited at 02/14/2006 8:37 PM

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scandinavia should have more spots :(

ich suche Freunden :(

Could be a good tourney even if there will be many "fill out" teams

> cpl

Joined Jan 1935, never quit

Brazil ftw

wtf..no japan :(

saMa

no catchgamer :( ?

urbad

Carribean? WTF LoL Wheres AusTraliA

#TopguN on irc.enterthegame.com

geeze they need more asian spots

cool one

#mihk Gamesurge // [b]*DEAD* wNv bigun' <3 RapOt * intel : is there 5-dollars-girl?[/b]

no norway? 2 french? 1 chinese?

#.eP :: extreme Perfection :: cal-main ::

Kind of sad that there is no Australia. F-zer0 would make a good showing and could beat half the teams from the countries in that list.

This comment was edited at 02/14/2006 10:13 PM

eg ftw!

What up

Hopefully that's not a final list, would be a shame of aus missed out completely

hahaha, france has 2 spots, but china only has 1 and norway doesn't have any
how retarded

Okay seriously???

This is the 4th year of eswc and every single year people complain about the qualifier spots.

Get this through your heads; ESWC offers every country the opportunity to have a/many qualifier spots. It is up to the individual organizers of every nation to come up with as much cash as they can to send as many teams as they can. For example there has been no Canadian qualifier for the last two years because no one in Canada has stepped up to organize a qualifier event... not because ESWC has some bias against Canadians.

Australians do not complain to ESWC complain to pantheons or whatever the big e-sports organizer in Australia is. The same thing goes for the Norweigans and every other country member that feels slighted.

Note: It is also up to the individual countries on how many teams they are sending based upon how much money they come up with to send teams.

if anything will drive you crazy prematurely its the gigabyte commercial

that is a lot of qualies

one eight seven

I guess it costs a lot of cash sending aussie teams to France.

so ghey that they have all them random pos countries n no australia... : '(

This comment was edited at 02/15/2006 12:44 AM

#REVELRY #SQL-GAMING

wheres ICELAND ??

France (2) =( I know its the host country and all but I would rather see 2 from Finland or Denmark

#37 ftw ^^

and #35 said it, it's not frozen, spots can be granted at the last minute (for example sk.dk last year)

:D no spot for Norway ? gl china!

no japan :[ wt eff

yeah.

Wow, Catch must be really angry now.

all countries can buy the slots, not is the problem of eswc

taken from esreality

" People should be aware of two important facts:

First, for the organization of preliminaries in each country, the ESWC organizing committee partners with a national organizer who organizes what is "possible" and "best" in his country. The ESWC oc limits the slots to 2 / individual game and 1 / team game but it entirely depends on the national organizer whether to organize or not qualifications for a game, and to define how many slots they will provide.

If you believe that a represented country should deserve a slot or one more slot, we encourage you to contact the national partner to manifest the community's interest.

Secondly, we do care about the strength of countries in a game. Because some countries are strong in a discipline, we already allow them to have a second team game slot. We are also willing to arrange slots in countries that don't necessary have a preliminary but would still deserve to be there. Those slots will probably be announced later since there may still be updates on the preliminaries.

In conclusion, if you see some countries more represented than others, it has nothing to do with the will of ESWC to privilege one or another country. It has simply to do with the possibility and the ease to organize qualifications in these countries which mostly depends on the country's situation itself. "

Olivier Paradis,
ESWC Competition Manager

This comment was edited at 02/15/2006 6:22 AM

the chief of our league mentioned the fact that he wouldn't have the money needed to assure an ESWC qualifier in Romania, but look at the other countries beside us Macedonia, Bosnia and so on. Shame to Silviu head of Professional Gaming League in Romania

the one and only

this should be brought to the attention of the large public as there are a lot of money involved in this league. The taxes to participate every PGL season are high, the sponsors exist, the servers are assured, well then where do all the money go?

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