16 teams in total will be battling it out in the upcoming season. Naturally, the top 8 teams of APM powered by Intel Season 1 are automatically qualified.
These are the top 8 qualified teams:
mousesports
Team SoloMid
Team Dignitas
PENTA Sports
E-Frag.net
KILLERFISH
SK Gaming
They will be joined by the following 8 invited teams:
FlipSid3
Copenhagen Wolves
G2.Kinguin
Lounge Gaming
Property
LDLC White
Vexed Gaming
PlanetKey Dynamics
Prize Pool
1st $20,000 + 5 PCs
2nd $10,000
3rd $7,000
4th $3,000
Online Stage Format
The 16 teams will be split into 2 groups of 8. Each team will play 7 BO2s. The top 4 of each group will make it to the LAN finals.
The Offline Finals will be played in a double elimination bracket with best of three matches. The Grand Final will be played in a best of five. Every team that makes it to the finals is automatically qualified for the next season. Valve's current competitive map pool will be used.
Current information and standings can be found on acer.TaKeTV.net.
Commentary
Once again, Rahim 'Babam' Abdullaev will grace us with his legendary commentary. Apart from that our partner ESL will provide full international coverage with Russian, Polish, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and even more streams.
TaKeTV will be casting every match in German. Games will be brought to you by the casting duo Fabian “fabE” Logemann and Fabian "V3n0m" Doellert.