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The Warcraft Premier League is pleased to announce the teams that will be participating in the Season 3 qualification tournament. With the tremendous success of season 2, we have decided to expand the league to a total of 16 teams. The season 2 playoff teams will join the 8 teams left standing at the end of the season 3 qualification tournament.

Here, at last, for your viewing pleasure, are the Warcraft Premier League Season 3 Qualifier Seedings. As previously stated, two clans received preferential seeding. sRt and aTm, being active ACL teams at the time of the merger, have been awarded the #1 and #2 seed, respectively.

Without further ado:

Warcraft Premier League Season 3 Qualifier Seedings:


#1 Sexy-RTerz ( sRT )
#2 GOLD A-Team ( aTm )
#3 Team Pentagram ( CNN )
#4 e-sports4extreme ( es4x )
#5 United 5 ( u5 )
#6 Team LanFan ( Lfan )
#7 Clan K2 ( K2 )
#8 Against All Authority ( aAa )
#9 pro-Gaming ( pG )
#10 Check 6 ( x6 )
#11 Guardians ( G] )
#12 elite Team ( eT )
#13 Fight TO Reign ( FTR )
#14 Internationally Known ( InT )
#15 One.magic ( oneM )
#16 Gamers X ( Gx )
#17 War3Live. ( W3L. )
#18 Fearless Gaming ( Frls )
#19 ecLipse Team ( ecLs )
#20 Geek organisation ( geek )
#21 nEophyte.intel ( nEph )
#22 4 The Win ( 4tw )
#23 Tatarstan Team ( BarS )
#24 Starcoma ( sCa )
#25 Stofftiere Online e.V. ( sfto )
#26 old School clan ( oSc )
#27 not So easy ( nSe )
#28 The-Feared ( TFG )
#29 Landed ( Landed )
#30 Sys X ( SX )
#31 Team Rush ( tR )
#32 Fist of Heaven ( FoH )

Detailed seedings here.

The qualifiers will be a 32-team double elimination tournament. The first week of play begins on July 12th and contines until July 18th. Thirty-two teams will be battling it out over a 5 week period for the right to join the following 8 teams in Season 3:

Advanced Online Losers North America ( a-L.MSI )
Ecko Unlimited ( Ecko )
Electronic Gaming Evolution ( eGe )
Good Game League ( GGL )
Keepers of Destruction ( KoD )
Lineage of Kings ( LinK ) <--- <3 this clan
Minute Men ( MiN )
Team Zero ( tZ )

In accordance with the new season 3 rules, the playweek now begins on Tuesday and ends on Monday. It is the responsibility of all qualifier clans to know and follow the rules in their most up to date form.

View the full tournament brackets here.