The event to be held from the 17th until the 24th of October will have a total prize pool of $31,500. The location is the beautiful Gitex Shopper & Consumer Electronics Expo in Dubai.

Ex-Begrip, now Meet Your Makers swe, qualified themselves a couple of days ago after winning the game against ledpc . However, MYM received three penalty points due to an illegal duck bind and a SteamID being wrongly entered, in their game against the Spanish. This means that if MYM.Swe will make it in the top teams to receive prize money, they will have a 9% reduction on the total amount they receive as penalty.

Vitriolic Gaming, on the other hand, missed the Global Challenge in Chengdu due to lack of funding, so this will also be the first time in a while we will see the ESWC 08 champions in action, although they were quite successful last year after placing second also in Dubai.

In general, the Extreme Masters is amongst the favourite tournaments as it puts together some of the best teams with amazing games expected. The list of participants is now as follows:

Meet Your Makers swe
SK Gaming
Vitriolic Gaming pl
Virtus.Pro
k23
Mousesports

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Source: ESL