CEVO has revealed the composition of the group stage of the Season 8 placement tournament.

Prior to the start of each CEVO season, a placement tournament is held to determine the final two participants in the Professional division - featuring the strongest teams and the highest prizes.

Sixteen teams from both Europe and North America will take part in the placement tournaments, which will kick off with a round-robin group stage.



Team Kinguin will try to qualify for CEVO's professional division

The top two sides from each group will advance to a double-elimination bracket featuring a best-of-three format to determine which two teams will be placed in the Professional season.

Below you can find the group draw in full:

European tournament Group A Group B HellRaisers HellRaisers Team Property Team Property ESC Gaming ESC Gaming Lions.mix Lions.mix Orbit Orbit FlipSid3 Tactics FlipSid3 Tactics INFINITY INFINITY LQQMPP LQQMPP Group C Group D Publiclir.se Publiclir.se LDLC White LDLC White PiTER PiTER MortalKombat MortalKombat Team Kinguin Team Kinguin SK Gaming SK Gaming melty melty ENCORE ENCORE North American groups Group A Group B eLevate eLevate Method Method Venon Gaming Venon Gaming Incursion Incursion Liquid8 Liquid8 Mostly Harmless Mostly Harmless Quintic Gaming Quintic Gaming Nexus eSports Nexus eSports Group C Group D vVv Gaming vVv Gaming Ace Gaming Ace Gaming Mortality eSports Mortality eSports EnemyGG EnemyGG neXup Gaming neXup Gaming WinOut WinOut Noble eSports Noble eSports Aviato Aviato

CEVO Season 8 Placement Schedule:

Group Round 1 - July 20-21

Group Round 2 - July 22-28

Group Round 3 - July 29-30

Playoffs - August 2-11

Meanwhile, CEVO has announced that the Season 8's Professional division will conclude with the offline finals at the MLG.tv arena, in Columbus, Ohio from November 6-8.