The organizing committee of ESWC announces the draw pools for the ESWC Grand Final 2008.

ESWC Grand Final 2008 is just around the corner. Today the organizing committee of ESWC has released the draw pools, as the previous years, consist of a total of four pools. The teams will be divided in eight groups of five teams each. Teams finishing first and second in each group will advance to the second group stage.
Each pool will be randomly composed by one from each seed pool and two to three for the challenger’s pool, depending on the tournament. A group cannot consist of more than one team from one nationality, should a team be drawn into a group with a team from the same nationality, the team is put aside and another participant will be drawn.

The teams have been seeded by their previous results in ESWC, ESWC Masters, national finals and other major competitions.

Top seeds

e-STRO
fnatic
Made in Brazil
PGS.MYM
mTw
mousesports
roccat
SK Gaming

High seeds

Alternate
emuLate
EYESports
Frag eXecutors
Virtus.pro/pro100
Dignitas
wNv
x3o

Medium seeds

Dragon
Evil Geniuses
LowLandLions
MoB
Millenium
Motus
n!faculty
Vatos Locos

Challengers

Assassin List
defs
Incredibles
Libya CS
Make it Happen
Mindless
Name
N1
Punto.cl
QTP
Speeder
Team 34
Winners
Xuxan

The group draw till take place this Monday the 18th of August, starting at 15:00CET.

HLTV.org will be following the group drawn and will on-site in San Jose to cover the ESWC Grand Final, August 25-27th.