The season will start on August 23rd leaving the players less than a month to prepare and qualify for the tournament. The qualification itself will be held in several days in different tournaments that will include Open Cups, Invitationals and Last Chance tournaments.
| ESL Pro Series #17 Qualifier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 27.07 - Invite Cup | Top 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29.07 till 06.08 - Six Open Cups | Top 2 of each | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 09.08 - Last Chance Cup | Top 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The Invite Cup is definitely the highlight so far and some impressive gamers will battle each other fiercely as the top three of them will ensure their place in the finals. ESL have invited quite the plethora of names and surely the competition will be no less than spectacular.
| ESL Pro Series Invite Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Dario 'TheLittleOne' Wünsch | Daniel 'miou' Holthuis | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Dennis 'HasuObs' Schneider | Marius 'HoRRoR' Overhageböck | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Sebastian 'Mardow' Dutsch | Silvano 'NarutO' Bovo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Giacomo 'Socke' Thüs | Daniel 'XlorD' Spenst | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jonathan 'DarK.FoRcE' Belke | Johannes 'hanf' Morlo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sascha 'GoOdy' Lupp | Patrick 'iNfeRnaL' Möller | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander 'iNSoLeNCE' Hein | Andreas 'And3ad' Bajor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Christoph 'Mondragon' Semke | Heinrich 'S.o.K.o.L' Rennert | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The Invite Cup will be held on July 27th at 19:00 CET and will be broadcasted LIVE on ESL TV so be sure to take a rest from all the playing and take a good look at the tournament.
Links
ESL.eu - Source
