What is awaiting you?

The Country Championships are a 12 slot tournament, devided into a Groupstage and the Playoffs. There will be two groups containing 6 teams. The first of each group and the winner of Group A#2 vs Group B#3 (and vice versa) will get into the Playoffs (of course double elimination).
The Clanwarsystem will be 11122.

In order to guarantee an exciting tournament, we already talked to potential teamcaptains in the background (imagine how embarrassing it would be for us if no nation would have signed up!):

Germany	(Warboss: LinaiL)
Scandinavia	(Warboss: Taznaman)
USA	(Warboss: Compeador)
Russia	(Warboss: BARBOSS)
UK	(Warboss: Hirmetrium)
Portugal	(Warboss: Design)
Spain	(Warboss: Hollow)
Poland	(Warboss: Ihtul)

These eight nations, as being the favorite and most stable teams, are invited directly to the tournament. This means they do not have to qualify.

Okay, maybe some of you have noticed it yet: there are four slots left. The last four nations will be chosen through a Qualifier (just a simple cup). The best four teams will complete the tournament. At this point, the following nations have already signed up for the Qualifier:

Benelux	(Warboss: brammel)
China	(Warboss: mercykil1er)
Barbados	(Warboss: Xabuxa)
Alps	(Warboss: Imbaer)
South Korea	(Warboss: Stellvia)

Now you are angry, because your nation does not participate? You would like to change this and want to scale the crest of glory as well? Sure, no problem. Just open a support ticket (here) with the topic "CCS yournation" writing a bit about you (how old, what makes you a good captain) and of course, who will be part of your team and represent your country. Deadline is the first of September.

Last, but not least: When will the tournament start?

Here's the timeline we're heading for:

06.09.09 - Qualifier
13.09.-19.10.09 - Groupstage (there will be another news, explaining everything)
25.10.-24.11.09 - Playoffs (same here, extra news between Groupstage and Playoffs)

Apart from glory, honour and popularity of a whole country there will be free premium accounts waiting for the survivors (and of course fun and prestige, isn't that most important?):

2nd Place 2 Months

1st Place 3 Months

3rd Place 1 Month

DoW2live

Be aware of the fact that your game might be livecasted by DoW2Live. A new live streaming site launched by our MLA bogger. Feel free to visit it (www.dow2live.com).

How To Register on the ESL

A guide on how to register with the ESL has kindly already been written

!! Check it out here!!

Questions? Your first contact persons are:

Marc 'cerb' Bergenthal
Niklas 'LinaiL' Frerichs
Bartosz 'Sendil' Rychlewski

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