ESWC 2011: Participants list fills

Ten days ahead of the annual Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris, the participants list for the Dota 2 event has started to continuously fill. The following teams have been chosen to occupy one of the twelve available slots, based on either a sufficient placing in a national qualifier, or a submitted application that proves the team's strength.

(SGC) - Selected team(V) - Selected team(Orange) - Selected team(M5) - Selected team(monkey) - ESL.eu qualifier #1-2(Na`Vi) - ESL.eu qualifier #1-2(old Rangers) (BX3) - ESL.eu qualifier #3(LG) - Nationally qualified(NEXT) - Nationally qualified(4GL) ESL.eu qualifier #4TBDTBDAs seen above, Orange.eSports have decided to attend Paris, shortly after their triumph at the Electronis Sports Thailand Championship. The Malaysians have only one week to train on Dota 2, as issued on the official Orange facebook page A similar fate has struck Moscow5 after a excessive DotA-weekend in Kiev, where the Intel Challenge: SuperCup 9 was won. The team proclaimed today via their official website , that their preperations for the upcoming ESWC finals have officially begun at an isolated team house.Strengthening the eastern European forces at the tournament will be Natus Vincere, whose status remains unclear and ASUS Summer vice champion and full professional DotA squad NEXT.kz, who have been seen in the Dota 2 beta more frequently in the last days.The western European fraction will be represented by monkey, Virus, BX3 and SGC. While the two last-mentioned have no DotA obligations left, monkey and Virus will face each other this week in the ROCCAT GosuCup #4 round of 16.The compilation is rounded off by Bolivian Lias Gaming who have not appeared in the competitive DotA landscape yet.ESWC 2011 will take place from the 21st to the 25th of October within the scope of the "Paris Games Week" trade fair in Paris, France and features a prize pool of $22,000 for it's Dota 2 tournament. eswc.com - Source