IESF World Championship group stage revealed

IESF World Championship 2018 will take place on November 9, at the Kaohsiung Arena in Taiwan. In Kaohsiung, a total of 26 teams will be battling it out for a $20,000 prize pool.

The tournament will begin with a classical best-of-one, round-robin group stage, from which the top two teams from each group will advance to the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs.

CS:GO fans can look forward to some prominent names such as  Ricardo "fox"Pacheco from Spanish organization Giants, who have been drawn into Group D alongside Flow and ForGlory, SCARZ Absolute, who have been placed in Group E, and Eetu “sAw” Saha from promising Finish team HAVU, who will take on Revolution and Xiphos in Group H.

(Ricardo "fox"Pacheco in GIANTS jersey)

Champion of the tournament will earn a $10,000 in cash, while the second team get $6,000 and the third $4,000.

 The complete list of teams with a group drawn you can find down below: 

Group A

Ground Zero

UltiCoin

LANGUDAR

Desperados

Group B

Aequus

AaB Elite

Namibia

Vilay

Group C

TNC

Invictus

Virus

Group D

Flow

Giants

ForGlory

Group E

FLuffy Gangsters

SCARZ Absolute

PROTEA

Group F

Beyond

Nexus

Berzerk

Group G

FrostFire

Sad Story

Macau Legend

Group H

HAVU

Revolution

Xiphos