European TWC qualifier announced

E-frag has revealed all the details about the European qualifying process for the World Championships.

Forty-five national teams from across Europe will be taking part in the European qualifiers for the World Championships, which will determine which eight countries will be represented at the global finals, in Belgrade, from October 8-11.

The participating nations have been seeded according to their results in the two editions of the E-Sports European Championships (ESEC), which were also hosted by E-frag.

ESEC 2014 winners France will skip the preliminary qualifying rounds 

The 18 lowest ranked nations have been placed in the first preliminary qualifying round, which will run from Monday to Friday. All matches will be played in a best-of-three format.

Azerbaijan	vs.	Moldova
Georgia	vs.	Austria
Albania	vs.	Iceland
Luxembourg	vs.	Spain
Montenegro	vs.	Romania
Croatia	vs.	Cyprus
Lithuania	vs.	Israel
Slovenia	vs.	Malta
Greece	vs.	Ireland

The nine winners will then move on to qualifying round 2, in which they will be joined by 15 other nations, three of which are unseeded.

Seeded
Germany	Norway	Turkey
Ukraine	Hungary	United Kingdom
Italy	Belarus	Macedonia
Latvia	Czech Republic	Portugal
Unseeded
Switzerland	Bulgaria	Estonia

Finally, the 12 winners will join the highest-ranked nations in the European best-of-one group stage, which will feature four groups of six teams. The top four teams from each group will move on to the Round of 16 to determine the eight participants at the World Championship finals.

Below are the 12 teams who will go straight into the group stage:

France	Denmark	Poland
Sweden	Kazakhstan	Finland
Netherlands	Russia	Serbia
Slovakia	Belgium	Bosnia and Herzegovina