The first season of the European Masters Series is happening from March 25-26th with a $3,000 prize pool. While six teams are already confirmed, the other two have the chance to qualify on March 18th.

The European Masters Series is a new online competition featuring six invited teams, including Outlaws and ex-DarkPassage. The final two participants will be decided by a 128-team single-elimination online tournament happening on March 18th – teams can sign up here.

TuGuX's new team have a chance to prove their value

Vexilla, KPI, iNation and Above the Rest are also confirmed for the first season, which will feature a double-elimination format with a best-of-three upper bracket and a best-of-one lower bracket.

The eight teams will not only compete for the $3,000 prize-pool but also for a place in European Masters Series' season 2, as shown in the following prize distribution:

1. $2,000, S2 invite
2. $1,000, S2 invite
3. S2 invite

These are the six squads that are invited for the online tournament:

Outlaws	Vexilla
KPI	iNation
ex-DarkPassage	Above the Rest

KPI #87 Juan 'meisoN' Carlos ChacónFrancesc 'donQ' Savall GarciaJavier 'dragunov' SánchezAlejandro 'alex' MasanetAlejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano Above the Rest #168 Milen 'MILENK0' LeNikolay 'pNshr' PauninBranislav 'BrN' PanovKonstantin 'sleepy' VassilevIvo 'ivrchy' Netov Vexilla #102 Dima 'def' LemeshchukOleg 'novel' VolchkovIlya 'medusa' MertsalovAleksey 'ace' KazakovVadim 'Flarich' Karetin ex-DarkPassage #45 Tugay 'TuGuX' KeskinÖzgür 'woxic' EkerUfuk 'SasuKe' GöktaşMuhammed 'mini' Salman iNation #90 Anel 'NENO' CekovićLuka 'emi' VukovićĐorđe 'DJOXiC' NiciforovićNemanja 'huNter-' KovačNestor 'LETN1' Tanić Outlaws #41 Preslav 'acl' PavlovIvan 'Rock1nG' StratievPetar 'Partodis' CholakovTeodor 'SPELLAN' NikolovTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov