The organisers of SLTV StarSeries have announced the eighth season with sixteen teams in it and a total of $15,000 in prize pool.
The new season is set to run from today until December 8th with the online phase, whereas the finals will be once again held at Kiev's CyberSports ARENA on December 19-22nd. Sixteen teams will play the round robin format in online phase with the top four places qualifying to the LAN finals.
VeryGames, NiP, fnatic and n!faculty have decided to pull out of the new season to put all their efforts in preparations for DreamHack Winter, which means that Astana Dragons are the only team remaining from last season's LAN finals. To replace the departed ones, the organisers decided to invite the ESWC 2013 champions Clan-Mystik, as well as LGB eSports, iNation, mousesports, ENCE eSports and Nostalgie.
The two sides who managed to qualify in SLTV StarSeries VIII are momomo and ELTZ, the Danish team managing to win the SLTV ProSeries VII, while the Russian team finished in second place.
 mousesports |  Natus Vincere |
 Clan-Mystik | KerchNET |
 ENCE eSports |  USSR |
| Astana Dragons | Nostalgie |
 Universal Soldiers |  MOMOMO |
 k1ck | ELTZ |
| ALTERNATE |  iNation |
| 3DMAX |  LGB eSports |
The prize purse for SLTV StarSeries VIII is the same as previous season, $15,000 which will also be distributed similarly. You can find full rosters of each team here.
1st. $7,500
2nd. $4,000
3rd. $2,500
4th. $1,500
