Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 4 November 2009 to 17:30 CST, 4 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The first Qualifier cup for the European Championship will start tonight at 14:00 CDT. The sign-ups will be open until 13:30 CDT, then it will be time for the check-ins! So far more than 120 142 players are already signed up, but only 64 128 players will remain after the check-ins. Then the first 2 rounds will be played as bo1, and all the other rounds as bo3!

The top4 players from the cup will be qualified and will join the following invited players for the European Championship:
Austria Richard "noctis" Gansterer
Belarus Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky
Germany Marcel "k1llsen" Paul
Germany Benjamin "calipt" Jakob
Germany Felix "smoke" Pafel
France Kévin "strenx" Baeza
France Pierre-Emeric "l1nkje" Portier
Italy Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
Netherlands Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad
Poland Maciej "Av3k" Krzykowski
Russia Anton "Cooller" Singov
Sweden Magnus "fox" Olsson
Sweden Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira
Sweden Pelle "fazz" Söderman
Sweden Michael "madix" Hindersson
United Kingdom Aaron-Anton John "VIZARI" Jones

Update: ESL TV will cover the matches starting at 16:00 CDT with 2GD and Joe (Alt. Host)!
Update 2: The 1st cup is now over and the next one will be played on Monday 9th (Sign-up!). Here are the rankings and the 4 qualified players:
1st. Poland Bogdan "bodzo" Mazur
2nd. United Kingdom daniel "zsx" sanders
3rd. Iceland Friđbjörn "xrebz" Davidsen
4th. France Charles "FooX" Moriceau
Update 3: The VOD of the show is now available!

Links: Sign-up, Sign-ups list, Brackets
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