The Placement tournament for CEVO's Season 8 Professional division has ended, with Kinguin and E-frag.net qualifying for the European division and eLevate and Method qualifying for the North American divison.

CEVO's eighth season promises $150,000 for its Professional division which will conclude with offline finals at the MLG.tv arena in Columbus, Ohio from November 6-8.

Two teams from each region are given a chance to join the Professional division via a Placement tournament, which ran from late July to August 13.



E-frag.net close out the list of teams qualifying via the S8 Placement tournament

In North America, it was Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele' eLevate team that was the first to qualify, followed by Method in the consolidation final (the latter team having also recently qualified for PGL Season 1).

In Europe, Kinguin qualified for CEVO-P Season 8 in the upper final by defeating E-frag.net 2-1; undaunted, the Bulgarian team rallied today in the consolidation final against Yegor "⁠markeloff⁠" Markelov's FlipSid3 and became the second European team to qualify for the Professional league.

CEVO Professional Season 8 Placement EU Best of 3 FlipSid3 Matchpage 0 2 E-frag.net 8 Cache 16 9 Cobblestone 16

The teams which qualified for CEVO-P's eighth season via the Placement tournament are therefore:

Europe North America Kinguin Kinguin TBA* TBA* E-frag.net E-frag.net Method Method

With the regular season expected to begin next week (although the Professional division's play will be cast into doubt with the upcoming major), more information remains to follow concerning a complete team list and season details.

*Update: Although eLevate qualified for the spot at the time of publishing, the subsequent release of the eLevate roster by the organisation has left the second North American qualification slot unverified.