Groups for TWC Main EU quals. out

The groups and format for TWC European Main Qualifiers have been revealed.

After two initial rounds which determined eight of the sixteen teams participating in the main qualifier stage, E-frag.net have released the groups and schedule for the last phase of the qualifying process.

Four groups of four teams will kick off the competition with a best-of-one GSL format where the decider matches will be played as best-of-threes. The teams that manage to finish their group in the first two places will advance to the single-elimination playoffs.

Sweden will be in Group D 

Following the best-of-three quarter-finals, four countries will advance to the best-of-five semi-finals whose winners will qualify for the LAN Finals taking place from October 5-9. The losers of the semi-finals will play a best-of-five third-place decider match in order to determine the last team that will qualify for the finals in Belgrade, Serbia.

TWC European Main Qualifiers groups are as follows:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
France	Russia	Poland	Sweden
Netherlands	Belgium	Norway	Germany
Lithuania/Denmark	Iceland	Kazakhstan	Finland
Estonia	Turkey	Portugal	Spain

The schedule for the group stage of the qualifier can be found below:

Tuesday, August 30th
14:00	France	vs. Estonia	BO1
15:00	Netherlands	vs. Lithuania/Denmark	BO1
16:00	Russia	vs. Turkey	BO1
17:00	Belgium	vs. Iceland	BO1
Wednesday, August 31st
14:00	Poland	vs. Portugal	BO1
15:00	Norway	vs. Kazakhstan	BO1
16:00	Sweden	vs. Spain	BO1
17:00	Germany	vs. Finland	BO1
Thursday, September 1st
14:00	Group A winners' match		BO1
15:00	Group B winners' match		BO1
16:00	Group A elimination match		BO1
17:00	Group B elimination match		BO1
Friday, September 2nd
14:00	Group C winners' match		BO1
15:00	Group D winners' match		BO1
16:00	Group C elimination match		BO1
17:00	Group D elimination match		BO1
Saturday, September 3rd
14:00	Group A decider match		BO3
17:00	Group B decider match		BO3
Tuesday, September 13th
14:00	Group C decider match		BO3
17:00	Group D decider match		BO3

Here are the teams that have qualified for TWC 2016 Finals so far:

Australia	China	Argentina	USA
Tunisia	EU slot	EU slot	EU slot

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

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