The ESWC Masters is an invitational tournament which is a new addition to the ESWC 2008 season. It is a standalone event but the top three teams or players in each tournament that have not qualified to the Grand Final will receive a spot in the San Jose event.

The invite lists have changed several times but today the ESWC has closed them. They are as follows:

Counter-Strike 1.6 (Male):
roccat
x6tence
SK Gaming
Team ALTERNATE
Spirit of Amiga
emuLate
dimension4
Get2Gev-Esport
against All authority
nEophyte
Team NOA
Mousesports
DCC-Gaming
fnatic
Excello
Evil Geniuses ca
Hellway
Made in Brazil
Meet Your Makers poland
eSTRO

Warcraft 3:
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li
Daniel 'ixi' Spenst
Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn
Marc 'yAwS' Förster
Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang
Seo Woo 'ReiGn' Kang
Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen
June 'Lyn' Park
Yoan 'ToD' Merlo
Bora 'PsYkO' Kim
Leif 'KleeneX' Boutin
Mateusz 'hG' Pietrzak
Christophe 'Wolf' Laporte
Peter 'DNA' Agardi
Daniel 'LiiLD.C' Claesson
Jae Wook 'Lucifer' Noh
Shahriar 'Demigod' Shaki
Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang

DotA:
Plus 46

Evil Geniuses
The Elder Gods
Meet Your Makers
Legend electronic sports warriors of Legend
Serious Gaming
Clan H2O-PMS
Storm Games Clan
Reborn

Quake 3:
Zhibo 'Fan Zhibo' Fan
Grégory 'falcuma' Ollivier
Arnaud 'slx' Lanoe
Paul 'czm' Nelson
Chance 'Chance' Lacina
Dongkin 'Dongjin' Suh
Daniel 'ddk' Kapadia
Thomas 'griffin' Wall
Jeffrey 'Draven' Debipersad
Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager
Benjamin 'Unity' Rovira
Pierre-Emeric 'link1n' Portier
Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson
Magnus 'fox' Olsson
Marcel 'k1llsen' Paul
Richard 'noctis' Gansterer
Alexei 'Cypher' Yanushevsky
Karl 'fooKi' Johansson
Mateusz 'matr0x1' Ozga
Cyrus 'proZaC' Malekani
Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski
John 'ZeRo4' Hill
Andreas 'ArrW' Ihrfors

Trackmania:
Fruit
Razv
Rapt
Munkeholm
Dridrione
Carl
Selrahc37
Lign
Toni
Sis
Spy
Connect
Jeff
Xenogear
Bergie
Moriah
Frostbeule
Gallo
Sliver

Counter-Strike 1.6 (Female):
PMS Clan Europe
Les Seules
N!FACULTY
Badgirls
LowLandLions
Emulate
Computex
Team Excello Girls
Forze.Female
PGS Gaming
Aurora-Gaming
SK Gaming female
Esuba
Team ALTERNATE Female