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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)
Germany

ALTERNATE aTTaX
United States

compLexity
South Korea

Lunatic Hai
Sweden

Ninjas in Pyjamas
Denmark

Spirit of Amiga
United States

Team 3D

wNv.Gaming
Russia

Virtus.Pro

High-seed Pool:
Finland

Astralis

Evil Geniuses
Sweden

Fnatic

Four Kings
France

JaS.Webone
Brazil

Made in Brazil
Germany

mTw

x6tence

Medium-seed Pool:
Norway

Aftermath

Atlanteam

Digital Mind
Austria

DRW

F-zero

JaX Money Crew
Poland

Team Pentagram
Bulgaria

True Legends Stars

Counter-Strike Female

Top-seed Pool:
France

Beat of the Best
United States

Girls Got Game
Brazil

Ladies

x6tence

High-seed Pool:
Denmark

Aurora-Gaming
United States

Burntpink

Hacker.Victory
Sweden

Seules

Warcraft III

Top-seed Pool:
Bulgaria

DIDI8

FoV

Grubby

Lucifer

Sky

SuhO

Titan

ToD

High-seed Pool:
Denmark

Bjarke

Creolophus
Sweden

Fury

HoT

Insomnia

Pato

Shortround
France

Wolf

Medium-seed Pool:
Denmark

Ciara

Fire_de

NightWolf

Nilknarf

Pons Serrano
Malaysia

Stingray

Zerter

Zeus

Quake 4

Top-seed Pool:
United States

Chaoticz

Cooller

Forever

Ooze

Socrates

Toxic

Winz

2GD

High-seed Pool:
Russia

Apo5tol

Clamp-ok

Cypher

D1ablo

Impulse

Matr0x

Noble

Vicious

Pro Evolution Soccer

Top-seed Pool:
Brazil

Abiga

Arabian Joker
Costa Rica

Bouboum

Jinxy

POPO

Song

Spank

TBD (first Italy)

High-seed Pool:
Malaysia

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.

User Comments

go 3d !!

aTTax in the top seed pool and fnatic in the high seed pool? That's dumb

oh and go 3d !!

lol mibr and Fnatic in High-seed Pool? Its wrong
Top-seed with SoA and aTTaX? lol
its funny

Why there are no teams from japan?

Go EG & Burntpink

coL.ca / FD.ca / dinc

SoA and attax in the high seed pool and mibr and fnatic in the top seed pool!

wierd seeds :s

=^.^=

whatever "top-seed team" has fnatic in their group is going to cry

/wrists

SoA and attax in top seed pool because they won their qualifiers, dont forget Fnatic lost to NiP and has the 2nd swedish spot. The pools seem pretty accurate to me.

oh and go 3D !!

This comment was edited at 06/24/2006 2:34 PM

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#10, yup, people fail to read instructions. The reason fnatic is in the high seed pool is because there already is a Swedish team (NIP) in the top seed pool.

Spirit of Amiga over Fnatic :O, wouldn't have saw that coming. But then again it's only seeds and all th teams in here have an equal chance.

OMG it's meesta shin! #next-time

I know this won't get a good reception but I can't honestly understand how USA has 2 spots in the top seed pool (when no other countries do) and Norway doesn't have any. :o

I'm with #7 switch SoA and fnatic. NOW!

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Go Burntpink<3

"Get in the fast lane Grandma, the bingo game's ready to roll!"

and not only that but Norway don't have a spot in the high-seed pool either! ahaha

LMAO @ JMC in the medium seed pool. I definetly think Aftermath is playing a little better then Medium seed aswell.

This comment was edited at 06/24/2006 2:44 PM

funny seeing mtw in the high seed pool and teams like aftermath and jax money crew in the medium seed pool. also didnt expected to see soa in the top seed pool

I would not want Aftermath, DRW or Pentagram in my group. It looks like this year is truly going to be a battle for the top two in in each group, at least in half of the groups.

GO EG!

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat!

Time for EG to bring home the bacon.

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spirit of amiga top seed ? joke

It seems like a lot of you don't understand that they didn't seed the teams induvidually, they seeded the countries then allocated the spots from the national results. They didn't put XXX over YYY they put county X's 1st spot over country Y's 2nd spot etc.

damnnn...

This comment was edited at 06/24/2006 2:49 PM

n1 coL!

aTTaX did great at dreamhack ...

#srs

#13 Because Complexity doesn't count as a country selection, they won last year's ESWC and have an automatic bid. That's why you see JMC and 3D also attending...2 US teams + winner of last year's tournament.

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so this doesnt mean that all the top seed teams have 2 play eachother 1st round does it? cuz that would suck having a lot of the best teams out after the first round.....

packs of vicious stray dogs control most of our major cities

nice seeds, cant wait for this tournament!

[b]GotFrag Moderation Team[/b]

lol fnatic are going to be loving this ez pool for them

#25 oh true, thanks... still doesn't negate norways sh1tty seed :(

#26 LOL

I'd rather play a 'high seed' than a 'top seed' hasad :P, doesn't make it easier :P

go wNv

OMG JUST READ..
and attax shouldn't receive a top seed..

A lot of great teams/players as always, we'll have a good tournament this year. I'm travelling to Bercy saturday to watch all these exciting matches, I can't wait for that :)

Go 3D!

This comment was edited at 06/24/2006 4:12 PM

you can't un-read it

#20 team EG will bring :D sorrow :) to you cuz they will not gonna win :)
for seeds :)i think they are really reasnoble :D so GO ESWC

mtw shouldn't be in high-seed pool.

fnatic is gonna be in a pool with wNv and JMC and wont make it past group stage

attax should receive top seed because, as europium said, they seed countries and not teams - therefor with mouz placing 3th\4th in ESWC 2005 it makes sense, same with Denmark because SK.dk finished 2nd last year and 1st in 2004.

Managing Director Team Excello - Defining Excellence http://www.teamexcello.com

As always, some unseeded teams will beat some high or medium seeds.

attax ftw

#SOTF

rape.

: ^ D

gl gx3 and bp!

I like them. Go 3D

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

Hi, I'm not sure I understood how you set the draws and seedinds, tell me if i got it stright.

Best teams are seeded into 3 pools top, high and medium,
are they seeded there in a draw ? (did a draw set they will be in a certain pool ? is the top pool considerd better than medium ?

After they are seeded, each house will contain 1 team from each pool and 3 to 5 teams from the challengers pool ? (pool of teams who are not seeded ? )

will the houses combinations will be radndomly ? and if so by what means is the random action throwen ?

#45, top seeds are considered better than medium seeds. These are not decided by a draw. Challengers are unseeded. Groups will be decided by draw.

Is it just me, or does this girl team "Beat off the Best" sound really funny?

CS:
fnatic/Astralis/mibr >>> aTTaX
Aftermath/Pentagram/JMC >>> JaS.Webone

WC3:
Insomnia/Wolfy >> Titan

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#47 Not any funnier than "Burnt Pink". :O

NiP will win ESWC... wNv Second... MAYBE coL Third...

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