Every team and player that want to represent their country at the final event must fill an application form on the official website, from the 19th to the 28th of May. Then, Games-Services will form a committee to review these applications, which will consist of members from Gotfrag.com, ESWC's Official Media Partner.
This committee will proceed to the selection of the champions according to their latest performances and past achievements, with the selected list being announced on the 30th of May on Gotfrag.com. This list will have the following representatives for each game:
- 2 Counter-Strike teams
- 2 Warcraft players
- 2 Quake IV players
- 2 Trackmania Nations ESWC players
- 1 Pro Evolution Soccer player
- 1 Gran Turismo 4 player
Every team and player that will be chosen to represent their country will have to cover the travel expenses from their own pocket. To fill this application form, you can simply go to http://www.esworldcup.com/.
*UPDATE* GGL has already released a statement regarding this issue:
The Global Gaming League was surprised and disappointed by the unilateral announcement from Games Services about the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) 2006 United States qualification process.
GGL partnered with ESWC last year and looked forward to doing so again this year. In the past, to support the gaming community, GGL has even voluntarily paid for the U.S. team’s travel expenses and was a sponsor of Team USA the year prior to our formal involvement with ESWC.
Over the last few months, GGL has been working to resolve Game Services’ new business demands related to ESWC. As recently as yesterday, we made a new proposal to meet these demands, including GGL once again sponsoring the travel expenses of the U.S. team.
Unfortunately, our desire to reach an amicable resolution to our business dispute apparently was not mutual. We wish the ESWC well and regret the inconvenience and cost that their decision has caused the players.
Game Services has already replied to this announcement by releasing a statement:

“The Global Gaming League was surprised and disappointed by the unilateral announcement from Games Services about Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) 2006 United States Qualification process.”
GGL has been notified the 17th of May that they were no more in charge of the licence.
“Over the last few months, GGL has been working to resolve Game Services’ new business demands related to ESWC.”
After months of negotiations GGL signed a contract for the ESWC 2006 licence with obligations the 29th November 2005. ESWC has never changed its business demands towards GGL. Conversely GGL decide to call their engagement into questions. We agreed on new conditions on the 21st of April 2006 to resolve the issue and GGL has received a signed fax concerning the extension of the partnership to a studio and live broadcast rights to make possible the US preliminaries. But GGL changed again their request and asked for more options that we couldn’t afford. As we were middle of May and as nothing append to select players, we took the difficult resolution that you know.
“As recently as yesterday, we made a new proposal to meet these demands, including GGL once again sponsoring the travel expenses of the U.S. team.”
ESWC agreed 2 times on 2 different GGL proposals that met our demands. 2 times GGL did not respect their commitment.
The only thing we can say is that we are really sorry for the American community that deserve a real challenge and fair competitions for ESWC but time is short to do thing in a better way today.
Matthieu Dallon
Games-Services ESWC / CEO