With the application process underway, GotFrag will be coordinating with other community sites, leading experts and the communities themselves to select a players and teams to attend. Obviously, since the invitees will not be decided by actual qualification, the goal of this process is to find the best among those available to attend.

The actual process will work in a three stage process. First, GotFrag will be speaking with respected Community members in each game to collect a “short list” of possible candidates from the applicants. GotFrag will then speak to these selected applicants to ensure that they are actually able to attend and pay for their own plane ticket.

At this point, GotFrag will submit a vote to the community, leading experts and to players on the list. Both WCReplays.com for WC3 and ESReality for Q4 have already agreed to conduct polls on their websites for the applicants and we will be speaking with others moving forward. The Counter-Strike 1.6 polls will be conducted at GotFrag.com.

The leading experts include representatives from WCReplays.com, ESReality.com, Radio iTG, GotFrag.com, and several other leading media organizations in e-sports. In addition, several players who are unable to attend ESWC 2006 will contribute their votes.

The community will vote on the “short list” of players, accounting for 1/3 of the total, overall vote. The other 1/3 will come from the respected experts in the community and the final 1/3 coming from the players on the “short list”. The short list players will be asked to give their top selections not including themselves. This gives equal weight to input from everyone involved.

When the process is finished GotFrag will submit the findings to ESWC for their evaluation and selection of the invites. The entire process will be private and for final review by Game-Services, the producers of ESWC 2006. Please note that the final decision is Game-Services.

All parties involved in this process feel that this is the best solution for an unfortunate situation and we encourage everyone to participate in selecting this year’s ESWC 2006 attendees.

Please stay tuned to this announcement for where to cast your vote and other updates.