For the teams and players that want to qualify to ESWC via a gaming center, Gamers Paradise in Stockholm will be the place to be this year. Qualifiers will be held in Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3.
Sign up opens on Sunday May 21 and the application should be sent to info@eswc.se.

─ The CS teams and WC3 players must send an application presenting their line up and provide a list with team/player merits.
─ Teams with high international success will be prioritized for the qualifier and after that teams will be awarded slots according to a first come, first served policy.
─ ESWC will, after that the 8 slots have been filled up, create a waiting list. This will be used in case a team cancels its participation and it will also give a better chance to get into the “last minute drop-in�? qualifier at DreamHack June 17. The application must contain e-mail and contact information mobile number to the team Captain.

Location: Gamers Paradise,Målargatan 2
Qualifying date: June 10
Start time: 09:00 group stage
Teams register: Group A 08:00
Group B 11:00
Last day to sign up: June 7

Two teams/players will qualify from Gamers Paradise to the ESWC Sweden final at DreamHack June 17-20.

The global ESWC Finals are being held in Paris at the Palais Omnisports from June 28 to July 2. Over 1, 5 million gamers from over 50 countries will try to make it to Paris. Bur only 800 will succeed. Apart from Fame and Glory there is a total of 3.500.000 SEK at stake and the ESWC is without a doubt one of the yearly highlights in the world of e-sports. Bredbandsbolaget is the main partner for ESWC Sweden 2006. An online qualifier is also available and operated together with Bredbandsbolaget


About Gamers Paradise

Gamers Paradise’s business idea is to develop and to market centralized gaming solutions, which are to be implemented into gaming centers, as well as betting technology to be used while playing various online games. Gamers Paradise runs gaming centers by licensing- and franchising the technology and the concept to anyone interested in establishing gaming operations.

The GP technology contains a complete infrastructure, a technical system solution as well as business tools which all make it easy to rapidly implement and initiate a large number of gaming centers. With the central operated gaming platform comes patches to games, maintenance, monitoring, technical support as well as the possibility for direct marketing towards end users. Everything to optimize the gaming experience and to create technical and economical synergies for gaming centers. Gamers Paradise strongly believes in professional e-sport and contributes to the development of one of the world’s best CS- teams as well as well developed gaming companies, NiP. For more information visit http://www.gamersparadise.se and http://www.nip-gaming.com

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Source: ES World Cup 2006