WorldGaming has announced a tournament in Canada which will have over $70,000 in prizes.

The tournament will start with several online qualifiers, which will lead to offline regional qualifiers, and will end with the national finals, which will take place in Toronto on September 23-24.

Registration for the online qualifiers, which just opened, costs $18.75 per team. Team captains can head here know more information about the registration process— which also involves registering with CEVO—, scheduling, and ruleset.

WorldGaming will host a big event in Toronto, in September

The online qualifiers will feature a single elimination bracket, while the regional finals will have a Swiss group stage with single-elimination playoffs, and the national finals will have a GSL group stage followed by the single-elimination playoffs.

All eight regional finals events will be held on September 10 at selected Cineplex theatres located in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

The prize distribution will be:

Regional Finals (Each) 1. ~$1,900 + Spot at National Finals

2. ~$800

3. ~$400

4. ~$200

National Finals

1. ~$20,000

2. ~$9,500

3-4. ~$4,800

5-6. ~$2,800

The schedule for the online qualifiers is:

Qualifier A: Toronto & Edmonton: Saturday, August 12th, 2017

Montreal & Winnipeg: Sunday, August 13th, 2017

Oakville & Calgary: Saturday, August 19th, 2017

Vancouver & Ottawa: Sunday, August 20th, 2017 Qualifier B: Montreal & Winnipeg: Saturday, August 26th, 2017

Toronto & Edmonton: Sunday, August 27th, 2017

Vancouver & Ottawa: Saturday, September 2nd, 2017

Oakville & Calgary: Sunday, September 3rd, 2017

The regional finals events, each one featuring four teams determined by online qualifiers, will be held at the following locations:

Alberta

Scotiabank Theatre Chinook

Scotiabank Theatre Edmonton

British Columbia

Cineplex Cinemas Langley

Manitoba

Scotiabank Theatre Winnipeg

Ontario

Scotiabank Theatre Ottawa

Cineplex Cinemas Winston Churchill

Cineplex Cinemas Scarborough

Quebec