24 teams, 16 from the A-Series and eight seeded teams - top eight from last season - will be competing in the first qualifying cup of EMS One Europe today. The winner of the cup will receive $500 and also 100 points to collect in order to make it to the next round.

The qualifiers for EMS One Season 2 has begun and the eight teams who made it to the offline final last season, have been directly seeded to the Round of 16 which directly translates to them scoring an immediate 10 points for participation.

 At the time of publish, the Round of 32 composed only of teams from the A-Series have begun.

EMS One will be rewarding the first placer with $500 and also a total of 100 points to collect in order to move onto the groupstage. The top sixteen teams at the end of four qualifying cups will move onto the groupstage.

1st place - 100 points
2nd place - 75 points
3rd-4th - 50 points
5th-8th - 25 points
9th-16th - 10 points

Schedule (CEST)

21st May
19:00 - RO32
20:00 - RO16
21:00 - RO8

22nd May
19:00 - Semi-finals
21:00 - Grand final

Source: ESL