NiP and H2k Attending ESWC

With the ESWC Grand Finals 07 in Paris in a few days there is some team information for you guys.

Unfortunately South-Korea's 2nd place slot (Lunctic-Hai) and the US 2nd placed slot (mugNmouse) are unable to attend the Grand Finals in Paris. The teams who were placed 3rd and 4th in the US qualifier are unable to attend as well.

The ESWC staff decided to give 2 slots to other countries to replace Lunatic-Hai and mugNmouse. The staff selected the countries based on the ESWC Country CS rankings which is based on the results of each country during the past 4 ESWC Events. Sweden comes into 1st place, with USA 2nd and Denmark 3rd. Since USA are unable to send a team, Sweden and Denmark got the extra slot each.

We shall be seeing NiP representing Sweden and H2k-Gaming representing Denmark at this years ESWC Grand Final in Paris.

There was also a similar case in Bulgaria, where Bulgaria female team Bad Girls Fundaman1a are unable to go. The runner up of the Swedish ESWC qualifier (Seules) will attend ESWC 2007 instead of the Bulgarian side Bad Girls Fundman1a.

Also today ESWC released the pool of seeds for the tournament:

COUNTER-STRIKE MALE
Top-seed Pool: (alphabetic order)
Alternate.aTTaX (first Germany)
Begrip (first Russia)
eSTRO (first South Korea)
Fnatic (first Sweden)
Made in brazil (defending champion / first Brazil)
NoA (first Denmark)
Pentagram (first Poland)
TR-Victory (first China)

High-seed Pool: (alphabetic order)
69°N°28E (invited from Finland)
Begrip (second Sweden)
emuLate (first France)
MeetYourMakers (invited from Norway)
Mouseports (second Germany)
Turmoil (first United Stats of America)
wNv.cn (second China)
x6tence (first Spain)

Medium-seed Pool: (alphabetic order)
A-Gaming (first Ukraine)
Global Gaming (second Denmark)
goodgame (second France)
G3x (second Brazil)
Ninjas in Pyjamas (third Sweden)
Team Dignitas (first United Kingdom)
The Doctors (first Canada)
Virtus.Pro (second Russia)

COUNTER-STRIKE FEMALE
Top-seed Pool: (alphabetic order)
Be the Best (Defending champion)
E-Honor (first China)
Ladies (first Brazil)
Unfinished (first Sweden)

High-seed Pool: (alphabetic order)
ID Gaming (first Germany)
SK-Gaming (invited from United Stats of America)
Redcode (first Spain)
Seules (second Sweden)

Medium-seed Pool: (alphabetic order)
Aurora-Gaming (invited from Danemark)
Fainted (invited from Norway)
Megapolis (first Russia)
Orbital.elles (second France)

We here at HLTV.org would like to wish every team the very best of luck at this years ESWC Final in Paris