Extreme Masters III premiere tonight

Tonight see's the Extreme Masters III tournament move into the main round when things start to get serious.

After a series of national qualifiers followed by two European qualifying rounds, the Extreme Masters III tournament moves into the main round. We shall see 32 of Europe's finest Counter-Strike 1.6 teams battle it out in an attempt to book themselves one of twelve berths in the offline LAN finals which will be held in Hamburg, Germany next year.

The 32 teams who have made it this far include:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
SoA iNNERFiRE wooSai Millenium aAa Alternate n!faculty SK Gaming	Dignitas SoH.ch JustPlay x6tence hoorai.XQ Virtus.Pro XLbet.ATS MYM	Playzone Dimension4 s00n lanklan Amazing fnatic Gameplay mousesports	AndThenSome eXplosive dakarma TBH.MSI Ledpc emuLate Blank mTw

The top 2 from each group will automatically gain places in Hamburg and will be that much closer to the huge total prize purse of 200,000USD. The other 4 places will be between the 3rd and 4th in each group who will play the respective 4th and 3rd in the next group.

With such high stakes all the matches will promise to be exciting, and as always HLTV.org promises to bring you full event coverage.

The matches kick-off tonight and are currently live with the opening match between Dignitas and XLBet.ATS.

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More results, HLTVs and upcoming matches can all be found here.