posted by Roegnvaldr,


The Electronic Sports World Cup draws closer and with it, the Online Qualifiers held by joinDOTA. As a reminder to those who were aware as well as a call sign for those who weren't, as of now it is possible to register for the upcoming ESWC Online Qualifiers, both for East and West. Furthermore, it is important to note that, unlike the original tournament, the organisation behind ESWC has allowed teams from the USA to attend the qualifiers.
Follow this link for the East Online ESWC Qualifiers.

Follow this link for the West Online ESWC Qualifiers.

**ATTENTION**
Some rules have been changed. Please go through the rules once more.



Rules and Regulations

Teams from the following countries will not be allowed to participate, as there are already qualifiers for these respective countries.
[patchnotes]FranceChinaAlgeriaKosovo[/patchnotes]Teams that are not from countries listed above can register and participate in the online qualifiers.

You are allowed to have members with different nationalities in one team, but it is a requirement that teams either have a minimum of three members from the same country or are part of a club that is located in a certain country. To understand more, please the official rules here.

The East qualifier will be using Singapore as the default server, and is open to teams from Middle and Southern Asia as well as Oceania, except for China.

The West qualifier will use the Europe as the default server, and is open to teams that are not from Middle and Southern Asia and the countries listed above.

Qualifier Schedule

The Sign-up for both qualifiers will start here on joinDOTA on Monday morning, October 1st and run until to Thursday, October 4th 23:59 CEST.

The qualifiers will take place from October 5th to 7th, 2012.

East Qualifier start: Friday October 5th, 12:00 CEST
West Qualifier start: Friday October 5th, 18:00 CEST

Tournament Information

* 512 Teams max per Qualifier
* Best of 1 Single Elimination
* Round of Top 8 in Best of 3
* Grand Final in Best of 5
* 1 Slot for ESWC from East Qualifier
* 1 Slot for ESWC from West Qualifier

Note that winners of the two qualifiers will only win an invitation to compete in the ESWC Grand Finals in Paris. Travel and accomodation must be taken care of by the winning teams themselves.


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Slot 2 fr ESWC France
Slot 3 us POTM Bottom
Slot 4 cn Qualifying China
Slot 5 dz Qualifying Algeria
Slot 6 Qualifying Kosovo
Slot 7 Qualifying JoinDOTA.com
Slot 8 Qualifying JoinDOTA.com

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