12 to 16 for ET

After receiving massive interest in the ET competition at CPC2 I've been long looking at how to expand the tournament structure to include more teams and with an all be it unorthodox solution, we're glad to announce that the ET tournament will now be 16 teams big, instead of 12.

Our initial schedule has been changed and at the event, we're running games later, however the most crucial fact is that we will run 4 matches from the tournament online. The tournament is set out with 4 teams in each group, each team is seeded and the highest seed will play the lowest seed from each group online. This was chosen as it is the match most unlikely to be effected by online or offline conditions.

Whilst this is not the most ideal setup for a LAN event, its a simple question to those players who want to come and sit in the 12-16 team bracket. Would you rather play 1 game online and still 2 more on LAN, or simply not come to the LAN at all?

At the end of this week a lot more information will be released on a variety of aspects for the event, schedules, groups, seeds and of course invites and qualifiers.