The ESWC Masters will host 6 international tournaments which will gather more than 300 players coming from over 20 countries and 5 continents. Stakes will be high in Paris as champions will compete to win their qualifying slots for the ESWC Grand Final organised during the NVISION in San Jose(www.nvision2008.com), but also for an overall prize-money of 65,000 US$.

The selections were made among hundreds of applications sent to the ESWC Organizing Committee, according to various criteria such as: level and achievements, the international diversity of the attendees, and the national opportunities champions have to qualify for the ESWC Grand Final. The other French champions which will take part in the ESWC Masters will be announced on June 4 according to the ESWC French rankings (www.eswc.com/france).

For Counter-Strike 1.6:

(Tournament gathering 20 teams: 4 French teams + 16 International teams)

• DCC gaming (Netherlands)
• estro (South Korea)
• Evil Geniuses (U.S.A.)
• Fnatic (Sweden)
• Four-Kings (United Kingdom)
• Hellway (Switzerland)
• Made in Brazil (Brazil)
• Meet Your Makers (Poland)
• Mousesports (Germany)
• mTw.AMD (Denmark)
• nEophyte.AVG (Czech Republic)
• Nextlevel e-Sports Club (Spain)
• SK Gaming (Sweden)
• Team Dignitas (United kingdom)
• TEAM ROCCAT (Finland)
• wNv.CN (China)

For Counter-Strike 1.6 Women:

(Tournament gathering 16 teams: 2 French teams + 14 International teams)

• Aurora-Gaming (Denmark)
• badGirlsclan (Spain)
• DarkAngels (Portugal)
• D-Link PGS (Poland)
• EHONOR (China)
• eSuba (Czech Republic)
• forZe.female (Russia)
• Les Seules (Sweden)
• mouz.female (Germany)
• n!faculty (Germany)
• PMS Clan Europe (Finland)
• SK Gaming (U.S.A.)
• Team Excello (Bulgaria)
• unFinished (Sweden)

For Defense of the Ancients:

(Tournament gathering 12 teams: 2 French teams + 10 International teams)

• Ehome (China)
• Evil Geniuses (U.S.A.)
• Meet Your Makers (Denmark)
• Mousesports (Sweden)
• Plusfortysix (Denmark)
• PMs clan (U.S.A.)
• Reborn (Iran)
• SK Gaming (Sweden)
• Storm Games Clan (Slovakia)
• The Elder Gods (Romania)

For Quake III:

(Tournament gathering 24 players: 4 French players + 20 International Players)

• av3k (Poland)
• Brescia (Denmark)
• Chance (U.S.A.)
• Cooller (Russia)
• Cypher (Belarus)
• czm (U.S.A.)
• Fazz (Sweden)
• Fookie (Sweden)
• Fox (Sweden)
• Hell (United Kingdom)
• If-22 (Netherlands)
• K1llen (Germany)
• Maxtr0x (Poland)
• Prozac (Sweden)
• Rapha (U.S.A.)
• Razerj (China)
• Rocketboy (China)
• Shiva (South Korea)
• Sombra (Spain)
• Zero4 (U.S.A.)

For Trackmania Nations Forever:

(Tournament gathering 20 players: 4 French players + 16 International Players)

• Bergie (Norway)
• connect (Estonia)
• Frostbeule (Sweden)
• Fruit (Austria)
• gaLLo (Germany)
• Jeff (Iran)
• Luigeck (Malaysia)
• Mojo (Canada)
• Moriah (Portugal)
• Mr.main (Bulgaria)
• Munkeholm (Denmark)
• R2k (United Kingdom)
• Spy (Belgium)
• Tauan (Italia)
• Toni (Czech Republic)
• Xenogear (Netherlands)

For Warcraft III:

(Tournament gathering 24 players: 4 French players + 20 international players)

• Demigod (Iran)
• Diesel (Bulgaria)
• DNA (Hungary)
• Efittaja (Finland)
• Grubby (Netherlands)
• Happy (Russia)
• Hasuobs (Germany)
• HoT (Ukraine)
• Infi (China)
• Lucifer (South Korea)
• Lyn (South Korea)
• Sase (Sweden)
• Shy (South Korea)
• Sky (China)
• SoJu (South Korea)
• TeRRoR (Poland)
• TH000 (China)
• ToD (France)
• Xiaot (China)
• Xlord (Germany)