The group draw for the 2012 Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) finals has been made, with the 10 participants in the CS:GO tournament being divided into two groups.

Highly-favoured Ninjas in Pyjamas will have to lock horns with mousesports' German team, Area51, ProGaming.TD and LowLandLions.

The winner of the French ESWC qualifier, who will be determined on Thursday, only one day before the start of the finals, will face FM-eSports TOXiC, Anexis, ESC Gaming and n!faculty.

The group draw was based on the seeding distribution for the tournament, which was made in accordance with the teams' results in recent tournaments and in the national qualifiers.

It was feared that an early showdown between NiP and VeryGames - who are widely expected to come out on top in the ESWC qualifier - in the group stage was in the pipeline, but the two teams will not be able to face each other before the play-offs.

Only the top two teams from each group will progress to the semi-finals, which will be played in a best-of-three mode.



Group A

Group B Ninjas in Pyjamas Ninjas in Pyjamas ESWC France winner ESWC France winner mousesports mousesports FM-eSports TOXiC FM-eSports TOXiC Area51 Area51 Anexis Anexis ProGaming.TD ProGaming.TD ESC Gaming ESC Gaming LowLandLions LowLandLions n!faculty n!faculty

In the female CS:GO tournament, defending champions UBINITED will come up against ALTERNATE, Epsilon eSports and blackWidow, while in the other group, Pink Zinic, now known as 0+, will meet Reason Gaming, inFernity Ladies and the winner of the French ESWC qualifier.

Group A

Group B ESWC France winner ESWC France winner UBINITED UBINITED 0+

0+ Team ALTERNATE

Team ALTERNATE Reason Gaming

Reason Gaming Epsilon eSports

Epsilon eSports inFernity Ladies

inFernity Ladies blackWidow blackWidow

HLTV.org will be in Paris providing live coverage of the ESWC finals from November 2-4, so stay locked to our website for all the latest info on this event.

