99Damage: All information in one news 06.04.2016, 19:00

Qualifier and Participants

Botka Boyz

exBOTables

BOTIDA DE COCO

GreyFace Maki

International Bot Commitee

Bouchon

BOTCEPS

Sandibe BOT Safari Lodge

Knochen & no1se

dabo0

PRAWUs

SLTV

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striimIT

5eplay

ERRZyx

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The best and most glorious tournament in all of the known universe is back - the annual BOT World Championship 2016 will take place on Saturday, the 9th of April, at 17 CET (5 PM CET). The usual 1st of April spot had to be moved due to utterly unimporatnt reasons, but the resulting delay was put to good use in determining the playoff-contenders. All relevant information follows down below.Last years finalists U-BOT and 99DMG-Juniorbots had already secured their spot in the grid. Joining them from the EU/CIS-qualifies are BOT Troy's ÜberholverBOT , as well as the russian newcomer. The latter already narrowly escaped disqualification after their blood alcohol levels were found to exceed the IBK's allowed maximum. From the other side of the pond, we have American teamand Brazilian contenderjoining the fight. The full qualifier summary can be found here Another asian team was going to join the roster, but three of the five players fromwere denied a visa. The(IBK) then decided to have a decider match, filling the vacant spot with whoever wins a bout between the CIS/EU-qualifies third and fourth place. That would have come down to French teamfacing off against the Polish, but ended in a def-win for the French after the Polsih team disbaneded following the offline qualifiers.99DMG-Juniorbots (Winner BOT World Championship 2015 U-BOT (2nd Place BOT World Championship 2015 ÜberholverBOT (Winner EU/CIS-Qualifier)Botka Boyz (2nd Place EU/CIS-Qualifier)Bouchon (3rd Place EU/CIS-Qualifier)BOTIDA DE COCO (Winner NA-Qualifier)exBOTables (Second Place NA-Qualifier)76WARRIORS (Winner Asia-Qualifier)The playoffs will take place in theof Botsawana, where the eight final contestants compete for 1.337.000 USD worth of in-game currency. Quarter and semi finals are best of one, while the grand finale could span as many as three maps.The generous boost in prize money resulted in the IBK being unable to pay their staff for the full event, meaning the Quarter finals on thursday afternoon are held excluding the public. The staff will arrive pending the semi-finals on saturday, where a full broadcast is available starting 17 CET (5 PM CET). Broadcasting rights to this exclusive event were of course highly contested, resulting in streams being available in a multitude of languages!The International Bot Commitee has found a strong business partner in OCZ , who will outfit the BOT PCs with super fast SSD drives to help them get on the server more quickly and seek to impove the conditions of demo-copying, which went horribly slowly last year.We are looking forward to an amazing Bot World Championship 2016 and hope you'll tune in when the worlds greates BOT-Teams compete for 1.337.00 USD ingame-currency. With CSGO Lounge as another tournament partner, BOT fans will be able to bet on all matches starting with the semi-finals.Additonal Bonus: We had the chance to interview BOT Troy, the most famous bot in the CSGO, right after the offline qualifier. You can read the full interview here on Saturday.