Europe - Right after announcing the sixteen qualified teams yesterday, we will present you the final groups today. There will be four groups with four teams each. You will also find a complete schedule for the entire EMS Mainround in this news.

Groups
Each group consists of two QR2 and two National Qualifier winners. The best team of every group will advance to the playoffs, which marks the final stage of the EMS Season II. Second and third will play one relegation round to assign the missing teams for the playoffs.

Group A - 4Kings, extenSia, sigh6, Die Doppelnullen
Group B - The Last Resort, Team GamerArea, Fracture, warriors of Legend
Group C - syre, Team Empire, IDAC, Animate Gaming
Group D - Clan United, Total Llamas, Team Pandemic, Kompaniet

Groupstage:
Sunday, 13.04.08 20:00 CET - Playday 1
Sunday, 20.04.08 20:00 CET - Playday 2
Sunday, 27.04.08 20:00 CET - Playday 3

Relegation:
Sunday, 04.05.08 20:00 CET

Playoffs:
(Double-elimination Cup)
Sunday, 19.05.08 20:00 CET - Saturday, 29.06.08 20:00 CET

We've put in some free weeks between Groupstage, Relegation and Playoffs to loosen the schedule up and give teams the possibility to prepare for these important matches.

Maps
It is with great excitment that we are able to announce the map list for the ESL Major Series Main Round! We are very confident that the mapcycle will provide you with some very exciting games. First matches of the Main Round are about to start on Sunday, 13/03/08 at 20:00 CET (default time).
Week 1
1) Gravelpit
2) Granary
3) Badlands

Week 2
1) Turbine
2) Badlands
3) Well

Week 3
1) Well
2) Granary
3) Gravelpit

Maprules
If any of the maps result in a draw, an overtime of 10 minutes is played. The team with the first cap wins the match ("Golden Cap").

If the overtime ends with no cap, cp_well is played as decider map, with no timelimit, according to the "Golden Cap" rule.

Finally, in the event of a draw on "Gravelpit", there will be no overtime. You will be required to play cp_well as the decider map, following the "Golden Cap" rule.

- ESL TF2 Admin Team

Taken from the ESL site.