The first NA edition for Enter the Storm has started. Here are the qualification rules in short.

All eight qualifiers for ETS NA #1 are open to any teams with Battle.net NA accounts. Each week, the teams will fight for valuable qualifier points to determine which eight will advance to the $5,000 grand finals in December.

Eight (8) qualifier brackets
 

  • Open registration, each qualifier lasts for one day
  • Americas Battle.net server
  • Maximum 16 team slots per individual qualifier (first come, first serve)
  • Single elimination bracket
  • Best of 1 matches for the entire bracket (except for the Qualifier Final)
  • The qualifier final will be a Best of 3 match

Point system:
 

  • ?1st place - 16 points
  • 2nd place - 8 points
  • 3-4th place - 4 points
  • 5-8th place - 2 points

Enter the Storm NA 1 Finals
 

  • Top 8 teams from Qualifier Leaderboard
  • Americas Battle.net server
  • Double elimination bracket
  • BO3 matches for the entire bracket (except for the Grand Final)
  • Grand Final is BO7 match with 1 game advantage for the winners bracket team

The top 2 teams in Enter the Storm NA 1 Finals will be directly seeded to ETS NA 2. Rules will be updated in the near future to outline the format of ETS NA 2. 

Full breakdown of the rules can be found here.

Register for ETS NA Qualifier #1