Starladder has announced the Season 8 of Starseries I-league with a prize pool of $500,000 and is set to take place in Belek, Turkey from October 21 to 27 with an updated format featuring double-elimination Play-offs bracket.
The tournament will have 16 of the world’s top team where 12 teams will be invited and other 4 will be qualified from qualifiers for Europe, Brazil, and China. Invited teams are not yet announced but Starladder added that it will feature 7 of top 10 HLTV ranking teams. More information regarding the qualifiers is given below.
A slot is reserved for the 8 European teams in the main event and the teams will fight for that slot in GSL-style group followed by a single-elimination bracket, with all of the matches being BO3 and will played from September 26 to October 6.
Teams playing the European qualifier:
| GROUP A | GROUP B |
| GamerLegion | Sprout |
| Nemiga | Heretics |
| Adwokacik | pro100 |
| Aristocracy | Movistars Riders |
2 slots for the Asian Teams are reserved for the main event and will be played in a double-elimination qualifier format and will be played from September 26 to 30.
Teams participating in this qualifier:
• TYLOO
• Invictus
• Lynn Vision
• 5POWER
• BTRG
• EHOME
• JiJieHao
• AUGUST
The final qualifier slot is reserved to a Brazilian team which will win the CBCS Season 1, which will be played out in Sao Paulo on October 4-11.
Other 12 teams will be invited by the organization featuring the world’s best team.
