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Games-Services and E-SPORTS SERVICES announced today the kick-off of the Electronic Sports World Cup US Qualifiers, which will be played online from April 7th to June 5th, 2008. The winners of the qualifying tournaments will represent the USA at the 6th edition of the ESWC Grand Final 2008 taking place in the Official Host City of San Jose, California from August 25th to 27th.

The Grand Final will gather 800 champions from over 50 countries with the support of NVIDIA, the Main and Worldwide Partner.
Tournament spots are limited and registration begins March 24th for all game disciplines. Matches will be played starting April 7th. More than 1,200 top-level video game players will battle during two months on secured servers for a chance to win a spot on Team USA.

The following official ESWC game disciplines will be represented:

* Counter-Strike 1.6 © Valve Software
128 teams in / 2 slots for ESWC

* Counter-Strike 1.6 Women © Valve Software
16 teams in / 2 slots for ESWC

* Defense of the Ancient (DoTA) © Blizzard
64 teams in / 2 slots for ESWC

* Warcraft III TFT © Blizzard
32 players in / 2 slots for ESWC

* Trackmania Nations © Nadeo
128 players in / 2 slots for ESWC

* Quake III Arena © ID Software
32 players in / 2 slots for ESWC

Qualifying teams and players will receive a travel allowance to participate at the ESWC Grand Final from August 24-27. The City of San Jose, an Official Partner of the global operations, will provide four days of accommodations for the US and International champions at the best downtown hotels.

For registration information and rules, please visit http://www.eswc-usa.com
Registrations Opening: March 24th
Registrations Closing: April 4th
First Games: April 7th
National Final Four: June 2nd – June 5th

For more info about Electronic Sports World Cup, please visit http://www.eswc.com
For more info about the City of San Jose, please visit http://www.sanjose.org

luckers!
I wish they did the same in South Africa...

Any news on the brackets yet? Only 1 day left...

Information are available here: http://www.eswc-usa.com/document/15.html

TrackMania Nations
32 Player Single Elimination Groups -> Top 8 Racer Double Elimination

You can send an email to joe@esportservices.com for more information regarding US qualification.

glad to see everythings working smoothly this year

sry for bump, but will registration for eswc usa 2009 open march 24th as well?

or is there even any plans for eswc usa 2009 atm? (i check the site but its never updated)

yes ofc i read that it said in the coming weeks though and its been almost 2 months so I was just wondering if there were any updates

Wish they gave info on the Netherlands I can't imagine having none this year

it need always some time for having information about eswc

Yeah, when will we know if the Netherlands even participate xD. Would be lame if the best Trackmania country wouldn't play .

The Dutch qualifiers are unknown but i can tell you this; 17.06.2008 details were posted about the finalists going to the finals link:http://www.wsquared.nl/index.php?page=nieuws

I'll send them a mail about it.

So any news?

They just don't answer :S