Counter-Strike Tournaments Get a Dose of Estrogen

Apr 12, 2007

For the fifth time, the Electronic Sports World Cup will organize a Counter-Strike Women's tournament during Grand Final hosted at Expo Park of Paris from July 5th to July 8th.

This competition is set for 24 teams: 13 qualified, 10 invited, and 1 defending champion.

13 slots will be granted through national preliminaries in the following countries:

- Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Canada - China - France - Germany - Netherlands - Norway - Russia - Serbia - Spain - Sweden

Use the contact referenced on the several www.eswc.com country pages to get more information. 10 slots will be open to women teams without national preliminaries in their country. To be selected, teams must send a candidate application by email to candidate@eswc.com from April 12th to April 26th. This email must gather the following elements:

- In the subject title of the email: Application for ESWC 2007 CS Women In the content of the email: - Team's manager last name, first name, email, phone number and address. - Link to the team's profile that must created on www.eswc.com with all 5 team's member registered (for example: Team BTB profile page) - Team's achievements. - A little description (5 to 10 lines) of the reasons why ESWC Organizing Committee should select you.

From April 27th to April 29th, ESWC Organizing Committee will analyze each candidate's application and will select 10 teams according to their performances and their past achievements. The selection will be announced April 30th.

Those 10 selected teams will have to confirm their presence and provide to ESWC Organizing Committee their travel justification before May 15th. Past this dead line, they will be removed from the participant list and replaced by a team in the waiting list.

According to ESWC's rule of the defending champion, the French team BTB takes the last remaining slot to defend their Counter-Strike Women World Champion 2006 title. More information will be announced May 3rd during the press conference in Paris and May 4th on the official site.

About Games-Services and ESWC

ESWC is a sporting project designed, produced and managed by an European company of events production, communication and computing development, specialized in video games and electronic sports. Since 2000, the video games events and the activities of Games-Services have given rise to the publications of more than 2000 national and international press articles, the production of more than 500 hours of TV reports, and more than 2,000,000 Internet reviews all around the world. Games-Services manage directly all the logistic, marketing and sports sides of the events hosted. Games-Services run all the computing development, hosting and administration of all relevant Internet activities. Games-Services supervise the international Electronic Sports World Cup preliminaries and directly produce the qualifiers in France and the Grand Final.