TWC EU qualifier format revealed

The European qualifier for The World Championship will start with the first qualifying round, where 16 seeded teams meet 16 non-seeded teams in a best-of-three, two-round bracket.

Qualifying round one teams:

Seeded teams
Turkey	Belarus	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Latvia
Ukraine	Serbia	United Kingdom	Romania
Lithuania	Slovenia	Czech Republic	Estonia
Italy	Switzerland	Georgia	Ireland
Non-seeded teams
Bulgaria	Croatia	Moldova	Macedonia
Luxembourg	Albania	Montenegro	Greece
Cyprus	Azerbaijan	Kyrgyzstan	Armenia
Uzbekistan	Israel	Malta	Austria

Top eight sides will then advance to the second qualifying round, where they'll meet eight other teams who earned their spots based on results in last year's World Championship.

A best-of-three series between a team from the first round and a team directly placed in the second round will decide who advances to the main stage of the European qualifier.

Qualifying round two seeded teams:

Iceland	Slovakia
Hungary	Kazakhstan
Spain	Portugal
Finland	Denmark

And finally, eight more teams have been placed directly into the main qualifier, four of whom received primary seeds due to placing top four in last year's finals, while the other half have secondary seeds.

They will be joined by the eight winners of QR2 in four GSL groups, with top two sides in each group making it into the best-of-three, single-elimination playoffs.

Primary seed	Secondary seed
France	Norway
Poland	Germany
Sweden	Belgium
Russia	Netherlands

Most of the schedule was also released by E-Frag:

August 4th - Qualifying Round 1 draw (azubu.tv/efragtv)

August 8th - Qualifying Round 1 begins

August 22nd - Qualifying Round 2 draw

August 23rd - Qualifying Round 2 begins

August 27th - Main Qualifier draw

August 29th - Main Qualifier group stage

The main qualifier will have three spots on offer for the $100,000 World Championship 2016 Finals, taking place in Belgrade, Serbia, from October 5-9.