The last and third Qualification Cup was supposed to take place last saturday, but only three teams registered and thanks to the retirement of one of the previously qualified teams, they are all qualified: Mouse Control, National Racing Club and racers. We highly doubt that the italian team is going to participate in the EMS, and we are not so confident that all the teams qualified by these Qualification Cups will pay for the Premium Account.
Anyway, we can't say yet and we hope it will not be the case.

To sum up, here are the teams officially qualified for the EMS IX (one retired but we don't know which one):

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The second Qualification Cup took place last saturday, completely anonymously because of the ESWC. Only 4 teams this time... And congratulations to dacSP and [GL] which earned their place for the EMS.

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The first Qualification Cup took place today, only 6 teams signed-up: nGt, T9, String, dacSP, Infused  and mCon (only the last four were really trained).

Finally, Infused won the Winner Final 7/0 4/7 7/4 against String, and String won the Loser Final against dacSP 7/1 2/7 7/2.

We now have our first two qualified teams for the EMS: Infused and String, a Chilean team we have never heard of. Let's see if they are going to pay for the Premium Account.

We hope that the qualification of String will increase the general attention around these Cups, every team has its chance!

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New season of the EMS means new teams. That's why three EMS Qualification Cups are organized by the ESL Staff, with two qualifier spots in each Cup!

Date

• Qualification Cup #1: Sunday, 16th October, 16.00 CEST: Sign up here!
• Qualification Cup #2: Sunday, 23rd October, 16.00 CEST: Sign-up here!
  
• Qualification Cup #3: Sunday, 30th October, 16.00 CET: Sign-up here! // Beware: In the night from Saturday 29th to Sunday 30th, the summer time ends!!

Cups info

• Phase 1 - Reservation (Green)

• Phase 2 - Confirmation (Yellow)

• Phase 3 - Signup (Red)

• 16 Slots Double Elimination (can be extended)
• 4on4 Mode
• Up to 7 points in Team Mode
• Bo1
  
• 1/2 Final and Final in Bo3
  

• Click here to download the 3 maps that will be driven in ALL the Qualification Cups

Teams

• Min 4 players / Max 10 players during the Qualification Cup
• ESL Premium is required for every Player at the beginning of the groupstage
• The team has to exist of exactly 10 players (+ 2 exchange possibilities during the season / before the playoffs) during the EMS

Conditions

• Open to every team
• If you qualify and retire (because you don't want to pay the Premium Account for every player for instance), you will not be able to play Competition Amateur Premiership anymore (rule for teams AND players in the team)
• Players aren't able to change the team when they have qualified with one team in the EMS

Next to the qualification Cups, 10 teams got the right to sign up for the EMS directly, without qualifications! Due to their great results at the last EMS/CAP, the following teams got that right: