The International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) announced the 21 CS:GO teams that will be competing at the 8th e-Sports World Championship in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 6-9.

The CS:GO competition will be played alongside the League of Legends and Hearthstone tournaments, with the country with the best results in all three games combined taking the title of the e-Sports World Champion.

Last year's competition was won by Serbia and had Korea taking second place, but featured StarCraft 2 - which was replaced by CS:GO for this year.

The organizer announced the participation of the following CS:GO teams:

Athletico FiRENATioN FiRENATioN Hardknocks TYLOO Anubis Anubis ENCE eSportsLab eSportsLab nxl ExAequo MVP Project Mineski Nexus 5FRAGS iNation Team South Africa Team South Africa Dank Deaglez Dank Deaglez Maaischguet Maaischguet Signature DreamRAR Sabertooth Team Maldives Team Maldives

With most teams and players prioritizing one of the two overlapping events: WESG EU&CIS and TWC 2016, TYLOO should be the favorite for the event - as they are the only HLTV top 30 team to attend.

Team such as Athletico could have something to prove if they get a chance to face off against lower tier European teams such as ENCE, 5FRAGS or Nexus, while iNation will hope to get a good result to defend their nation's first place from last year.



With Tyloo attending, China are set to win the CS:GO competition

The tournament will use a round-robin group stage format, followed by a single elimination best-of-three playoff bracket. The prize pool for the CS:GO competition is $20,000, with additional prize money awarded for final national rankings.

CS:GO Prize pool distribution: