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UPDATE!

Since there have been some problems with the attending teams the tournament starts at @ 18:00 GMT which is 19:00 CET. At that point you can also find the hltv's.
Any info about fixtures isnt present yet, i will post it as soon as possible.
Find more information at #cpl.uk , this irc channel covers the entire tournament.


After the initial seeds were leaked yesterday afternoon, the official seeding list was due to follow up yesterday evening at 8pm - despite this originally proposed time, the official seedings have only just been released. These would inevitably be different given a change the teams attending that took place late yesterday afternoon, with 5 teams officially dropping out.

However, the seedings have not just been changed to compensate for the removed sides: the lower seedings that involved many of the UK participants - which has been subject to a lot of feedback and criticism here on [ukct] - have been revised and altered. After many people seemed critical of ImaGine's seeding, the [clanbase] Open Cup Div2 winners find themselves 9 placings better off, rising from #29th to #20th. In addition, veLocity find themselves stepping ahead of LicK in the new revised seeds.

So, here is the list in full, and below it the 5 teams who have confirmed that they will not be in attendance:

Final Seeding List

1. SK
2. Mouz
3. NiP
4. Catch Gamer
5. MiBR
6. 4kings
7. Clan-IT
8. g3x.Intel
9. NoA
10. a.Losers-MSI
11. Team9
12. AllTheRage
13. Team.Gamehotel
14. ICE Gaming
15. pod.graz
16. c4u
17. highfive
18. Just a Shoot
19. casual5
20. ImaGine
21. minim
22. ethernet
23. veLocity
24. LicK
25. Selected5.UK
26. Engine On Mute
27. psyc

Removed Teams

Team Wings

Bz

aAa.cs

iEngland

Endzone

Although people will still find room to disagree, these newer seedings will be greeted much more enthusiastically I do believe. Whether or not all of those 27 teams do indeed turn up at the event or not however remains to be seen, and I'm sure come the first match day we could see a few other teams joining the current list of removed clans.

As for brackets, it can only be assumed that the first 5 seeds get a bye through the first round and the others face-off in a lowest-vs-highest seed fashion accordingly. Although psyc may feel relieved that they no longer have to face SK.swe in the first round, I doubt the probable challenge of 4 Kings is a particularly enviable one.