With the final event of the ESWC just ahead, the organisation has just announced the seeds for the competition. There will be four pools, top, high, medium and challengers pools, out of which the competitiors will be randomly drawn.

Each group will consist of one player/team per top, high and medium pools and three to five participants from the challengers pool, depending on the tournament. During the first draw, if a player is drawn and his nationality is already represented, that player is put aside and will be replaced by another participant.

Participants are seeded into the draw pools according to a rating of each country’s strength and the results of each national final. Below you will find the official pools for the ESWC 2006.

Counter-Strike Male

Top-seed Pool: (alphabetic order)
ALTERNATE aTTaX
compLexity
Lunatic Hai
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Spirit of Amiga
Team 3D
wNv.Gaming
Virtus.Pro

High-seed Pool:
Astralis
Evil Geniuses
Fnatic
Four Kings
JaS.Webone
Made in Brazil
mTw
x6tence

Medium-seed Pool:
Aftermath
Atlanteam
Digital Mind
DRW
F-zero
JaX Money Crew
Team Pentagram
True Legends Stars

Counter-Strike Female

Top-seed Pool:
Beat of the Best
Girls Got Game
Ladies
x6tence

High-seed Pool:
Aurora-Gaming
Burntpink
Hacker.Victory
Seules

Warcraft III

Top-seed Pool:
DIDI8
FoV
Grubby
Lucifer
Sky
SuhO
Titan
ToD

High-seed Pool:
Bjarke
Creolophus
Fury
HoT
Insomnia
Pato
Shortround
Wolf

Medium-seed Pool:
Ciara
Fire_de
NightWolf
Nilknarf
Pons Serrano
Stingray
Zerter
Zeus

Quake 4

Top-seed Pool:
Chaoticz
Cooller
Forever
Ooze
Socrates
Toxic
Winz
2GD

High-seed Pool:
Apo5tol
Clamp-ok
Cypher
D1ablo
Impulse
Matr0x
Noble
Vicious

Pro Evolution Soccer

Top-seed Pool:
Abiga
Arabian Joker
Bouboum
Jinxy
POPO
Song
Spank
TBD (first Italy)

High-seed Pool:
EFFY
Huang
L.O.G
Medo
Myto
Tabajara
Wallace
Zharmurai

The draw will take place on June 29th during the opening ceremony in the Palais Omnisports of Paris-Bercy.