All participants of the European WCS Premier League are known. Over the last five days eight players managed to secure a spot in our qualifiers. Joined by the 24 recently invited ones, these 32 players are going to compete in the first group stage of WCS Europe - divided into 8 groups with 4 players each. The groups for the first ever Premier League now have been drawn.



WCS Europe Season 1 Premier League Groups The format used will be the Dual Tournament Format, where you need two wins to advance or you will drop after two losses. 16 players will qualify for the second groupstage while 16 players will drop to the Challenger League.



Each group will feature five matches played in Best of three: Player #1 vs. Player #4 Player #2 vs. Player #3 Winners of these matches will then face each other The losers of the initial matches face each other The loser of the 3rd match and the winner of the 4th match will face each other

Group A (April 23rd) Ji Soo 'fOrGG' Park Kim '461959' Hammar Artem '5263070' Garavtsov Patrick 'Bunny' Brix Group B (April 24th) Pedro 'LucifroN7' Moreno Durán Dennis 'HasuObs' Schneider Oleksandr 'Bly' Svusiuk Dmitry 'Happy' Kostin Group C (April 30th) Jos 'ret' de Kroon Marcus 'Thorzain' Eklöf Oleg 'TITAN' Kuptsov Eugin 'ForeverYoung' Oparyshev Group D (May 1st) Jong Hyun '7093297' Jung Giacomo 'Socke' Thüs Dmytro 'DIMAGA' Filipchuk Vladimir '5272856' Syzranov Group E (May 2nd) Johan 'NaNiwa' Lucchesi Mykhailo 'Kas' Gaida Dario 'TLO' Wünsch Choi '7033961' Sung Jin Group F (May 7th) Artur 'Nerchio' Bloch Juan 'VortiX' Moreno Durán Philipp 'monchi' Simon Antoine 'Dayshi' Stievenart Group G (May 8th) Ilyes 'Stephano' Satouri Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen Jon 'BabyKnight' Andersen Andreas '5107071' Ullrich Group H (May 9th) Seong Won '6531921' Mun Grzegorz 'MaNa' Komincz Rickard 'SortOf' Bergman Jérémy '2697122' Vansnick





To learn more about the StarCraft II WCS, visit ESL TV's James 'Kaelaris' Carrol and Yoan 'ToD' Merlo are going to commentate these groups (Round of 32) for you free in ad-supported 720p HD. All matches of group stage #1 will be played online and can be seen at ESL TV from April 23rd to May 9th starting at 18 CET.The format used will be the Dual Tournament Format, where you need two wins to advance or you will drop after two losses. 16 players will qualify for the second groupstage while 16 players will drop to the Challenger League.Each group will feature five matches played in Best of three:To learn more about the StarCraft II WCS, visit www.starcraft2.com/wcs and the WCS Blog otacon , Friday, 19/04/13 21:00