E-Frag have revealed the format and schedule of The World Championship's European qualifier, which consists of two qualifying rounds and the main qualifier, offering three spots at the finals in Belgrade.

The European qualifier for The World Championship will start with the first qualifying round, where 16 seeded teams meet 16 non-seeded teams in a best-of-three, two-round bracket.

Qualifying round one teams:

Seeded teams Turkey Turkey Belarus Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Latvia Latvia Ukraine Ukraine Serbia Serbia United Kingdom United Kingdom Romania Romania Lithuania Lithuania Slovenia Slovenia Czech Republic Czech Republic Estonia Estonia Italy Italy Switzerland Switzerland Georgia Georgia Ireland Ireland Non-seeded teams Bulgaria Bulgaria Croatia Croatia Moldova Moldova Macedonia Macedonia Luxembourg Luxembourg Albania Albania Montenegro Montenegro Greece Greece Cyprus Cyprus Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Armenia Armenia Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Israel Israel Malta Malta Austria Austria

Top eight sides will then advance to the second qualifying round, where they'll meet eight other teams who earned their spots based on results in last year's World Championship.

A best-of-three series between a team from the first round and a team directly placed in the second round will decide who advances to the main stage of the European qualifier.

Qualifying round two seeded teams:

Iceland Iceland Slovakia Slovakia Hungary Hungary Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Spain Spain Portugal Portugal Finland Finland Denmark Denmark

And finally, eight more teams have been placed directly into the main qualifier, four of whom received primary seeds due to placing top four in last year's finals, while the other half have secondary seeds.

They will be joined by the eight winners of QR2 in four GSL groups, with top two sides in each group making it into the best-of-three, single-elimination playoffs.

Primary seed Secondary seed France France Norway Norway Poland Poland Germany Germany Sweden Sweden Belgium Belgium Russia Russia Netherlands Netherlands

Most of the schedule was also released by E-Frag:

August 4th - Qualifying Round 1 draw ( azubu.tv/efragtv August 8th - Qualifying Round 1 begins August 22nd - Qualifying Round 2 draw August 23rd - Qualifying Round 2 begins August 27th - Main Qualifier draw August 29th - Main Qualifier group stage

The main qualifier will have three spots on offer for the $100,000 World Championship 2016 Finals, taking place in Belgrade, Serbia, from October 5-9.