Over the past few weeks, the qualifying tournaments for the Starladder Star Series were held, to decide the teams joining up with the previously announced invitees to fight it out in the StarSeries fora spot in the finals.

The first qualifier was organized for Russian participants only. The victors of the tournament, Sergey 'Garrid' Barinov and Igor 'BCAA' Shtan'ko, were actually already invited, though Dima 'bloodless' will likely be replacing Leo 'Zephyk' Strokov. Because of this, only three new teams entered the pool, leaving an additional slot to be filled up later.

Russian qualifiers:
Mouse One
'Tropos'
Roman 'Bugagashka' Brizickij
Vadim 'Relish' Kazakov

Bring It On
Oleg 'CorrupteD' Kiviljov
Artëm 'Insolence' Krickij
'Palliative'

One Day Top Place
Paul 'CJIEDOIIbIT' Livkov
'Pururin'
'evo1wa'

The second qualifier was open for all countries, but despite this, the tournament was still dominated by Russia, with only two European teams breaching the Ro8. To make up for the fifth slot as well as one of the teams, Going Bonkers, cancelling their participation, the Open Qualifiers had six qualifying teams.

Open Qualifiers:
Alice in Wonderland
'm8bro'
Alice 'Lacri'
Vsevolod 'Sevushka'

Eskimo of Lava
'shrpne'
Ilya 'Gerhard' Mizunov
Ismat 'Ismat' Safarov

FusRoDah
Anton 'Wifo' Novikov
Misha 'Letun' Burzev
Antony 'stiffy'

NonStandart
Andrey 'Slepec' Fapovich
Aleksey 'Zarplata' Vinichuk
Valera 'Garcon4uK' Ognev

TillTheEnd
Pavel 'Anata' Danilov
Sasha 'ShadowDemon' Bannikov
Denis 'fuzzy' Noskov

Flux
Alexander 'Choperius' Holzmann Ekholm
Jonas 'pa1nkillar' Hansen
Christofer 'Bubba' Rudenmalm

The sixteen teams will now participate in the StarSeries ladder in a round robin format, in order to determine the four best teams to face off in the LAN finals in Kiev. The ladder should start off April 14th with Russian streaming by Cyberarena.tv and English streaming by SemmlerTheRiot.

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