Key Facts Basic Information Prize Money Play Mode ENC Grand Final Hall of Fame Information News Forum Support Coverage & Press Get Premium! Counter-Strike Finals 2008 Relegation Main Round - Results Main Round - Rankings Qualification Round 3 Qualification Round 2 Qualification Round 1 Rules Nations Ranking ESL Aequitas FIFA 08 Finals 2008 Relegation Main Round - Results Main Round - Rankings Qualification Round 3 Qualification Round 2 Qualification Round 1 Rules Nations Ranking Warcraft 3 Finals 2008 Relegation Main Round - Results Main Round - Rankings Qualification Round 3 Qualification Round 2 Qualification Round 1 Rules Nations Ranking CS: Source Finals 2008 Relegation Main Round - Results Main Round - Rankings Qualification Round 3 Qualification Round 2 Qualification Round 1 Rules Nations Ranking ESL Aequitas Your Menu Login Register Register Team ESL Countries Europe Alpen Austria Belarus Belgium Benelux Bulgaria Croatia Czech Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Moldova Netherlands Norway Portugal Poland Romania Russia Scandinavia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom Misc Search Players Gameaccount IDs Teams News ESL league structure Broadcast Rights Partners Media Advertising in the ESL Legal Information Contact		Europe  / European Nations Championship Play Mode 2008 In each hosted game 12 participants will play for honor and the prize money. There are two ways to qualify for the European Nations Championship, depending on your country of origin and by it's performance within the last seasons. All participants for Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3, Counter-Strike:Source and FIFA 08 will be divided into 4 sections. First section means the 6 countries who performed best in the last three seasons of European Nations Championship. They will be directly qualified for the Main Round and do not have to play the qualifier. All the other participants will have to play it. Just like in Intel® Extreme Masters there will be different stages of qualifying. In every stage 12 teams will fight for Top 6 to enter the next round. So after 3 stages we have found the last countries who can showed the best performance. In the end, 6 participants succeed from the qualifier, joining the other 6 for the final lineup of 12 participants in the European Nations Championship main round. The will be divided into 2 groups with 6 teams and 3 per group have a chance to qualify for the final event. The best team of both groups is directly qualified. Both 2nd placed teams will face the 3rd of the other group in a final elimination for the 2 left spots. So at Games Convention the best 4 teams of European Nations Championship will play a double elimination tree to find out who's the European Nations Champion 2008.

Electronic Sports League rendertime: 1.88s (not_cached) host: eslpxe15