The tournament will now feature two weekly cups in two regions, namely, America and Europe. The purpose is to let players from anywhere can play at their convenience. Players can even sign up for both the American regional tournament which is called SteelSeries Cup and the European regional tournament in the name of PokerManager Cup at the same day, however the start time is centered on respective time. The SteelSeries Cup will kick off at 15:00 EST while the PokerManager Cup will start at 15:00 CET.

The weekly cup winner will receive a prize money of €250 which makes the Excello Cup entitled to best paid weekly tournament. The top 16 players in each region will move on to regional final after eight weekly tournaments this season and the tour four players in each regional final will compete for the €500 top prize money in the season final.

Totally 128 players will be able to take part in every weekly tournament. All matches from the beginning to Quarter-Finals will use best of one mode while both Semi-Finals and Final will opt for best of three mode.

Maps for each round:

Twisted Meadows
Turtle Rock
Terenas Stand
Secret Valley
Echo Isles

Mappool for Semi-Finals and Final:

Echo Isles
Gnoll Wood
Lost Temple
Secret Valley
Treasure Island
Twisted Meadows
Turtle Rock
Terenas Stand



Schedule
Upper bracket start: 07:00, Sun 27th
Upper bracket final: 19:00, Sun 27th


Attending players
Robert 'rob' Rehm
René 'Ciara' Krag
Nicolai 'Taager' Nguyen
Juha-Matti 'Satiini' Bäckström
Oh Seong 'FiveStar' Kwon
Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
Vladimir 'BeckS' Skubko
Eugene 'FrizzeR' Verestnikov
Ilya 'KemPeR' Babushkin
Vadim 'KPECT' Erokhov
Nikita 'NapS' Shatokhin
Artem 'Vyfer' Ostashevskiy
'WhiskeyLulaby'
Valentine 'FiX' Krulikovsky
'Vacuume'
Chris 'Lado' Whiteside