The winners of each group qualify directly to the EM finals in Hanover on March 6-9. The teams that got second in their groups will have to play an additional playoff match against teams that got third for the remaining EM spots.

Yesterday's games in Group C cleared the situation completely. SK Gaming will advance from first place and Roccat or Gravitas will be second depending on whether or not Gravitas Gaming can beat SK at 21:00. For SK, this is a game for a perfect record, but Gravitas will avoid Group D's runner up in the playoffs if they win.

Tonight's match between CMAX.gg and ALTERNATE aTTaX will decide who takes first and second place in Group D and emuLate will play wooSai to win a playoffs spot.

There are several playoffs scenarios for teams from Groups C and D. If SK Gaming beats Gravitas, then Roccat will be second in Group C and the pairs will be as follows:

** Roccat vs. winner of emuLate vs. wooSai
** Gravitas vs. loser of CMAX.gg vs. ALTERNATE aTTaX

If Gravitas wins, then Roccat will fall down to third place. This will change the pairings and we will have the following matches:

** Gravitas vs. emuLate vs. wooSai
** Roccat vs. loser of CMAX.gg vs. ALTERNATE aTTaX

The situation in Group B is simpler. Friday's game between Mousesports and mTw.PokerRoom will decide who qualifies from first place without additional matches. The playoff pairings are almost set:

** Fnatic vs. atlanteam
** loser of Mousesports vs. mTw.PokerRoom vs. Virtus.pro

[b]Update:[/b] The pairs for the qualifier playoffs will be randomised and the draw will be made on Friday.