E-Frag.net has announced the dates and captains list for its annual World Championships. The event pits players from around the world against one another on national teams in the style of the World Cup of Hockey.

In its press release, E-Frag said the qualifiers for the international tournament will take place from June through August, and the finals will take place Oct. 12-16, with a $100,000 prize pool.

This year, 93 teams will represent different countries from around the world, up significantly from the 79 teams that participated in the inaugural 2015 World Championship. The teams will be broken down into North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania, and the best eight teams will compete in the finals.

E-Frag also listed the captains that will recruit teams on behalf of the 93 teams. Some of the notable captains returning from last year include Natus Vincere's Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács from Slovakia, mousesports' Nikola "NiKo" Kovač from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and ENCE eSports' Aleksi “allu” Jalli from Finland.

Other notable returning captains are mouz's Chris "chrisJ" de Jong for the Netherlands, Virtus.pro's Filip "NEO" Kubski for Poland, Gambit's Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov for Russia and Jérôme "NiaK" Sudries for France, all teams that made it to the World Championships finals last year. NiaK's Team France is the defending champion, having defeated NEO and Team Poland 3-1 in the Grand Finals.

One notable new captain this year is Casper “cadiaN” Møller, who is replacing SK Gaming's Jacob "Pimp" Winneche as captain for Team Denmark. cadiaN is currently not signed to a team, but he stood in for SK Gaming at the recent DreamHack Open Tours.

In February, E-Frag released a teaser video for the upcoming tournament.

A location for the finals has yet to be decided.

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