ESWC 2015 PGW Open groups drawn

The ESWC 2015 PGW Open will be a tournament for French teams running on the same weekend as DreamHack Cluj, and for which official groups have now been drawn.

Running from October 27-November 1, the ESWC 2015 PGW Open will feature 16 French teams battling for $15,000 during Paris Games Week.

Following the direct invitation of eight prominent teams in the French scene (excluding EnVyUs and Titan who will be in Cluj) to the tournament itself, eight more teams have advanced via qualifiers hosted both by CEVO and Masters des Jeux Vidéo (two cups each).

LDLC White is placed in Group C of the PGW Open

Following the conclusion of these qualifiers, ESWC have now released an official group draw which follows a seeding formula of "Top, High, and Challenger" seeding.

Following this logic of seeding, the official ESWC PGW Open group draw is:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
melty	LDLC Blue	LDLC White	WeGotGame
DeadPixels	ASUS ROG School	unKnights	beGenius ESC
Havane	Red Instinct	Redzone	Madcorps
Pulse Gaming	melty fe	Nexus Experience	Team Less Nana

As previously mentioned, the group stages will use a round robin, best-of-three format with the top two teams from each group advancing to a single eliminiation, best-of-three playoffs.

The prize-pool distribution for the $15,000 PGW Open was also recently announced and is:

1. - $7,500
2. - $5,000
3. - $2,500

A tentative schedule for the event can be found in HLTV.org's earlier article about the tournament here.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

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