The following teams are qualified into the different stages due to their result in the last EMS season or their national qualifiers :

Main Round mousesports Team ALTERNATE Imaginary Gaming redLine MoD-eSport. Feritas mousesports Anexis eSports e.V.
Qualification Round 3 gAmEoVeR_00 mTw Mistral eSport CS:S Evokate.EMS NextStage eSport Speedgaming.EMS mTw Majestic mixteam mysterious energy-WAVE e.V. Mouse Control CSS mYinsanity.eu#CS:S	Qualification Round 2 n!faculty Team GAMED.DE SUPER Team CRYSTAL-SERV.EMS echoFX Lucidez CodeRed Gaming EMS COWABUNGA Mighty By Kind They Kick Ass iN7-eSports sUpErsEriOUs
Qualification Round 1
EYES ON U - CS:S EMS MGLess OBEY.CSGO Rasta.Xd EMS VELAT.GG Team Netcraft FRAGMASTERS SAPPHIRE.EMS nEophyte.FSP A.C. Born Elite Humans whatsup.EMS aU.css BEASTS	Team maaischguet Make Som3 Noise! Vengaboys.EMS MyrmidonI Orion eSports EMS Faith Five Warriors INCENTIVE.EMS NOM-Gaming CSS Team SKillGates Team IMEX no.name

Qualification Round 1

nEophyte.FSP vs Faith
Team IMEX vs Five Warriors
Team Netcraft vs BEASTS
INCENTIVE.EMS vs no.name
MGLess vs Make Som3 Noise!
aU.css vs Vengaboys.EMS
Rasta.Xd EMS vs whatsup.EMS
EYES ON U - CS:S EMS vs A.C. Born Elite Humans
Team maaischguet vs VELAT.GG
Orion eSports EMS vs NOM-Gaming CSS
FRAGMASTERS SAPPHIRE.EMS vs MyrmidonI
OBEY.CSGO vs Team SKillGates

Qualification Round 1

Teams Requirements

All ESL Major Series teams must comply to the following:
- Have a suitable team name
- Have a suitable team logo
- Have a dedicated team account that is not active in any other ESL leagues, ladders or cups unless EMS past seasons or qualifiers.
- Have no inactive/honorary members listed

Players Requirements

All ESL Major Series players must comply to the following:
- Have their full name entered and made public
- Have a suitable photo uploaded
- Have their country set and made public
- Have their nationality set and made public
- Have their birth date entered and made public
- Have their necessary gameaccounts entered

Also no participant can play for more than one organization at the same time in any ESL Major Series, Intel Extreme Masters, ESL Pro Series, or ESL Amateur Series. Every participant in the EMS must be at least 16 years of age, unless a higher age is required as specifically stated in the rules for that game.


Teams in Qualification Round 1 play a match against 1 other team in their round. The winners go through to Qualification Round 2 to play against a team from that round. The winners go through to Qualification Round 3 to play against a team from that round. Finally the winners are qualified for the ESL Major Series Groupstage.

A Qualification match is best of 3 map, first to 16 rounds. In the event of a tie, overtime will be MR5 with 10k startmoney for the first round of each half. The use of ESL Wire is compulsory!


Map choice:
To decide which maps are played in a ESL Major Series BO3 match, a veto system is used. Both teams alternatively remove or choose one map from the pool:
- the left team begins to eliminate the first map
- the right team eliminates second map
- the right team picks his map
- the left team picks his map
- the match starts with the last one
- the second map will be the one chosen by the looser
- the last one will be played then if necessary.

Qualifying Round 1: NOW - 1st April
Qualifying Round 2: 2nd April - 8th April
Qualifying Round 3: 9th April - 15th April
Groupstage: 23th April - 27th May
Playoffs: 3rd June - 1st July

Prize Money

Prize money distribution ESL Major Series X

4.600 €

Counter-Strike: Source    1st 2.300 €    2nd 1.350 €    3rd 950 €

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