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West tournament formatThe prize pool for the West tournament is $5,500 ($3,000, $1,000 and $500), with an additional +25% from ticket sales.Round 1: Online Qualifier (Open)Two qualifiers will be held, one for the Americas and one for Europe, with a cap of 64 teams allowed in each. The top four teams from each region will progress to round 2. If you're interested in signing up just follow this link.Round 2: Qualifiers Round 2 (Invited)The top eight teams from the open qualifiers will join 16 tier2 teams for the second round. The top8 will the join 8 top flight teams in the Main Event.Round 3: Main EventThe main event will see the eight teams from round 2 join eight teams from the top-flight which include :Virtus.Pro,Rox.Kis,Team Empire andTeam Life.East tournament formatThe eastern format for the Netolic is more straightforward and also, in contrast with last season, will be receiving the bulk of the total prize purse for the competition, with $10,000 going towards the eastern grand finals. It will not however, have an open qualifier but instead gather a collection of well-known SEA teams in an invited qualifier, such as;First Departure,Orange eSports,Mineski andMith.Trust.The most prolific teams from the invited qualifier will join the main event whereTeam DK andTitan will join them. Several other Chinese teams have yet to confirm due to the teams being on holidays for the Chinese New Year, these includeVG,LGD,Tongfu andIG.