With qualification for the Extreme Masters European championship via domestic competitions recently the international draw is upon us as the teams unable to grab more direct spots vie for the chance to move on. The draws for round one have been released and these teams will be competing to decide who gets a shot at qualifying. The winners move on where they will play again while the losers are out.

The matchups:
K1ck eSports Club vs. Home Dominant
Glitz! vs. Defeaters
PlayMore vs. Pincho Baltics
Deageless vs. [aalon]
Amazing Gaming vs. Dark Passage
Netherlands Team #2 vs. UNIR - Zotac.CS
tp.usports vs. Ledpc e-Sports Club
mystical Lambda vs. Delinquent habits Cs
eSuba vs. Antwerp Aces.cs
visage vs. Exitus Letalis
INCOGNITO vs. neXtPlease Gaming
team skozi vs. CFD
Virtuoso.cs vs. D4gaming
Snabba vs. Sport in the Game
Geh aB Clan vs. fivefacts
Team-Coolermaster vs. VOL3
KerchNET vs. BenQ Deltasport
Team DSRack vs. wooSai

While at first glance there may seem to be a lot of unknown teams for casual fans there are certainly some interesting squads hoping to progress. The Ukraine's A-gaming is still pretty much the side who took home bronze medals at the 2007 WCG, albeit less successful in the last couple of years. France's d4 contains some of the best French players of all time such as OliGan and MaYeRs. Sweden's wooSai have been in competition domestically recently and are known for their player Alexander "fury" Nyström who has gained fame through his frag movies. Spain's Ledpc took 4th at the recent GameGune event in July, beating fan favourites DTS.chatrix along the way.

To get an understanding of the structure of the qualification process interested parties can go here.

We'll be following the matches and keeping you up to date on the scores here at SK-gaming.com.

Source: ESL-World
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