Paris will play host once again to one of the biggest tournament of the year. A total of forty-three teams from across the globe will be in attendance after winning various qualifiers.

Last year's champion, Made in Brazil, is looking for its second title in a row and recover the number one status. Current number one in the world, PGSPokerStrategy.cc will try to secure another international title following a period away from the main stages.

The runner-up of the last tournament, fnatic, has been very strong lately with great perfomances in the NGL ONE event and is pointed out as one of the main favourites for this event. The Finnish side 69N-28E comes from a great campaign in the WSVG event and is also regarded as a team to sit in one of the ESWC prizeable places.

Following the move of 3D and compLexity, two teams that finished among the top eight teams last year, to Counter-Strike: Source, Team Turmoil is the only American name in action in this year's event. The squad performed well in the WSVG event and may be a team to look out for.

All the action is scheduled to begin at 10:00am CET (4:00am EST) with Groups A through D in action. The remaining Groups will begin one day later, and are scheduled for 4:00pm CET (10:00am EST).

GotFrag will be your home of full coverage of the ESWC this weekend so make sure you stay locked to us. Also, do not forget to set your Personal Timezone to find out exactly when the matches will be played in your area so you do not miss any of the action.

GotFrag TV will be streaming the event live in cooperation with GIGA, watch the stream at tv.GotFrag.com. Octoshape technology to stream video in order to keep video quality at the highest possible level, and so that everyone can tune in. You can download the plugin HERE.

The only other requirements in order for Octoshape to work is that you will need to have ActiveX enabled and Java installed. Please make sure you have the Java runtime on your computer. For those without it, you can download it HERE.

UPDATE:: Fnatic defeated emuLate in the tie-breaker game and therefore will finish first in the group.

IRC Scorebots

To be determined

HLTV IPs

hltv.gotfrag.com:3101 to hltv.gotfrag.com:3110

Map List (Not necessarily in this order)

▪ Cbble
▪ Dust2
▪ Inferno
▪ Nuke
▪ Train

Page One:

Group A: TR-Victory, mousesports, Dignitas, Not, plan-B, fu.sk
Group B: Begrip.ru, Begrip.se, A-gaming, LAN-Sports - Exotic.br, DigitalMind, k23

Page Two:

Group C: fnatic, emuLate, The Doctors, Havock, A+E, Name
Group D: PGSPokerStrategy.cc, x6tence, Virtus.Pro, LAN-Sports - Exotic.pt, Vatos Locos
Group E: eSTRO, Turmoil, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Green Troop, cubesports

Page Three:

Group F: NoA, wNv.cn, ID Gaming, defusekids, endless inspiration
Group G: Made in Brazil, MYM, GoodGame, XCN Sans Peurs, H2k.Thermaltake
Group H: ALTERNATE aTTaX, 69N-28E, Global Gaming, Immunity, onFire

Group A



Group B



Groups C through E information can be viewed on the next page and Groups F through H on the last page.