How to qualify?

To qualify for the IEM Global Challenge event in Kiev you will have to proceed trough the national qualifier, towards the international qualifier.

National Qualifiers
This week we'll be running the national qualifiers for both Belgium and The Netherlands. Each country will get their own two national qualifier cups. The top two of both cups will qualify for the final cup on thursday. This means the top four of each country will compete with eachother to secure themselves a spot in Stage #1 of the International Qualifiers.

International Qualifiers

The international qualification will have three stages. Each country, depending on their past results, gets slots for some or all of these rounds, which will be played in bo3 double elimination, except for CS's stage 3.

Counter-Strike 1.6
• Stage #1 Cup on November 13th - Top 16 advance to Stage #2
• Stage #2 Cup on November 20th - Top 16 advance to Stage #3
• Stage #3 Cup on December 18th - Top 5 qualify for Kiev

Participate!

Take your chances now and sign up for the qualifier cups to participate in the national qualifiers:

The Netherlands

Qualifier Cup #1: Monday 31/10/2011 19:00 Signup now!
Qualifier Cup #2: Wednesday 02/11/2011 19:00 Signup now!
Qualifier Finals: Thursday 03/11/2011 19:00

The Netherlands

Qualifier Cup #1: Monday 31/10/2011 19:00 Signup now!
Qualifier Cup #2: Wednesday 02/11/2011 19:00 Signup now!
Qualifier Finals: Thursday 03/11/2011 19:00

The Rules

Be aware that it is mandatory to make use of ESL Wire each match. This also means you'll have to make sure that you do not have too many configs on your computer, as this will give an error. Also make sure you do not use forbidden commands such as net_graph 3 and such.

Mappick will be done trough veto. The loser of the knife round will have to eliminate one of the maps first, followed by the winner, then again the loser etc until only one map is left. This is the map that shall be played. The official mappool for Season 6 of the IEM will consist out of:

• de_nuke
• de_dust2
• de_train
• de_tuscan
• de_inferno
• de_forge
• de_mirage

Best of luck!