ESWC have announced the eight groups for the upcoming LAN tournament in Paris, France.

The thirty-two participants of ESWC 2016 have been broken into eight groups of four. The group stage will see a best-of-one winners' bracket match, whilst the lower bracket will be best-of-three. The top two teams from each group proceed to the single-elimination round of sixteen, where all eight quarter-finalists will be decided. The entirety of the playoffs will feature best-of-three matches, all the way through to the Grand Final.

The top eight teams of the tournament will secure a portion of the prize pool, the distribution of which can be found below:
1st place - $20,000
2nd place - $15,000
3rd & 4th places - $10,000
5th, 6th, 7th & 8th places - $5,000

Following are all of the aforementioned groups:
 

Group 1Group 2Group 3 Space Soldiers Heroic Gambit Gaming GEx Overcome GODSENT Academy iGame.com Team LDLC Bpro Gaming Red Instinct Bravado Gaming Norse


 

Group 4Group 5Group 6 ALTERNATE aTTaX Team Kinguin PENTA Sports For the Win Sectorone Epiphany Bolt Tricked eSport Preparation Epsilon eSports Team Five Wyvern eSports Sferis Pride Group 7Group 8 ENCE eSports Luminosity Gaming Pain Gaming We Got Game Rogue k1ck eSports Club Fnatic Academy Tengri


Images courtesy of eswc.com