National Qualifiers:
The national qualifiers serve to identify a country’s champion team and its representatives for the rest of the championship. There will be one national qualifier for each of the following countries:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
The players must be citizens of the country they represent. By entering the competition, the players consent to collection and further processing of their name, surname and their country of nationality by Wargaming, as may be needed for the purpose of verifying the qualifiers in which they are supposed to play.
At the end of the national qualifiers, IP checks will be conducted to ensure that this rule is respected. In case the IP does not match the selected qualifier, the players will be asked (via forum, in-game messaging, or via their registered email) to provide proof of citizenship, and will have 24 hours to provide this. Failing to provide proof of citizenship may result in disqualification.
- In case a team is disqualified, the second team will take its place. If additional games are required to determine a winner, the teams will be contacted accordingly. The details (date and time) will also be available on the page of the relevant qualifier.
National qualifiers structure:
- Group Stage - Teams will be divided into groups of four. The top two teams advance to the next stage.
- Group stage point distribution: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for defeat.
- If two teams have an equal amount of points, their ranking will be based on their head to head ratio.
- Playoffs - Teams will play a single-elimination tournament until a winner emerges as the country’s representative.
- In case of draws in the single elimination tournament, both teams will be removed from further competition.
- The battles are played in the Encounter mode for the group stage and first rounds of playoff. For quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals, we'll use Attack/Defense mode.
- Battles will be one match for Encounter and best of three for Attack/Defense mode.
- Team sides on the maps are decided randomly by the system.
- In case of a large amount of sign ups there may be a possibility of having some rounds of qualifier being played the following day.
Note: the team that wins the national qualifiers of Germany automatically advances to Gamescom to play as the host nation.