The group stage of our new invite tournament is about to start. The groups are all scehduled with the times and the dates and most importantly; the players!
During the past few weeks we have been working hard to find and invite 24 of the absolute best players in the foreign scene today. We are still waiting for a couple of confirmations regrading the dates, but despite that, these will be the four groups in Masters of the Craft.
Only two players from each group will move on to the playoffs, so the participants will have to show that they belong in the tournament and fight hard to stay in. The format of the group stage is a round robin, which means each player has to face all of the others in their group in a bo1. The players with the best stats after the round robin will move on to the single elimination tournament that is the playoff.
| Invited players | |
| Group 1 | Group 2 |
  excello.IefNaij |  ToT)XiaOzI( |
 ToT)SquaLL( |  MYM.CrayOn |
  HoRRoR.T-ScT | excello.Chosen |
 ToT)Arew( | ToT)iNfeRnaL( |
 ToT)Gosia( | Nony[Media] |
| MYM.Dreiven |  MYM.Strelok |
| Group 3 | Group 4 |
| iDG.fosken | ToT)Mondragon( |
 3D.TemujiN |  ret[Media] |
| iNcontroL[Media] |  3D.StormtoSS |
 ToT)Cloud( |  3D.Notforu |
| RoX.A2 | Artosis[Media] |
| MYM.White-Ra | ToT)Gohan( |
The first group will play their matches in roughly two weeks, and then the next weekend the second group will play their matches, meaning the dates 22nd and 23rd February for the first group, 29th February and 1st of March for the second one. Group three will play the 8th and 9th of March and the final group will play 14th and 15th of March.
Note that we have given each group two days to finish their games, and the players should get ready to play those two days. The Sunday each weekend might be used as well if the players cannot find a time the other days, but by default it is those days. A playing schedule will be up for each group in time for their matches, with stats and Gosubets and hopefully some live broadcastings and other coverage.
We also would like to take the opportunity to tell the players who did not confirm these dates yet to contact so we can get a final group drawing.
