Saturday August 13th - GROUP A and B
14 GMT - Match 1 & 2 | Best of 5 - Courland, Finland, Hungarian Plains, Scandinavia, Danish Straits, Pripet Marches, Wallachia
16 GMT - Match 3 & 4 | Best of 5 - Hungarian Plains, Portugal, Saxony, Finland, Courland, Anatolia, Dnieper Basin
18 GMT - Match 5 | Best of 5 - Saxony, Wallachia, Dnieper Basin, Portugal, Vistula Basin, Danish Straits, Pripet Marches
Sunday August 14th - GROUP C and D
14 GMT - Match 1 & 2 | Best of 5 - Courland, Finland, Hungarian Plains, Scandinavia, Danish Straits, Pripet Marches, Wallachia
16 GMT - Match 3 & 4 | Best of 5 - Hungarian Plains, Portugal, Saxony, Finland, Courland, Anatolia, Dnieper Basin
18 GMT - Match 5 | Best of 5 - Saxony, Wallachia, Dnieper Basin, Portugal, Vistula Basin, Danish Straits, Pripet Marches
note: England has been replaced by Danish Straits in the pool.
Important Information
Civs
In a Best of 5, you must use one of :Flag_Italian: Italians or :Flag_Maltese: Maltese in at least 1 game to win.
Check the Rules & Settings for more detailed description
Each player will have a map ban. The higher seed will ban one map from the pool first, followed by the lower seeded player. Those maps will be removed from the pool and the remaining maps in the order they are listed.
Civs may not be repeated, at the beginning of the series players will ban a civilization that will not be allowed for either player, and before each game you will blind pick which civ you use.
Special Rules:
Crabats are banned from use.
Desert Cav are banned from use.
Barbary States revolution is banned from use.
Format
The GSL Format will play as follows:
Example of Group A:
Match 1: Seed 1 vs Seed 16
Match 2: Seed 8 vs Seed 9
Match 3: Winner of Match 1 vs Winner of Match 2
Match 4: Loser of Match 1 vs Loser of Match 2
Match 5: Loser of Match 3 vs Winner of Match 4
The winners of match 3 and match 5 will qualify for the bracket stage.
GROUPS
Group A: Kynesie, JulianK, Ungurs, Frontline Group B: Optimus, Aykin, Minimoult, April Group C: Revnak, Conquerer97, Absolute Eutopia, samby Group D: Ezad, Kaister, Kevin, Warsword
First Round Matchups
Group A: Kynesie vs. Frontline JulianK vs Ungurs Group B: Optimus vs. April Aykin vs. Minimoult Group C: Revnak vs. samby Conquerer97 vs. Absolute Eutopia Group D: Ezad vs. Warsword Kaister vs. Kevin