Like mentioned before qualifiers have become necessary for the north european division after 52 clans have signed up. 16 of those clans won't have to qualify for the group games. All others will have to play in a single knockout round. The winners will proceed to the groupgames and fight for a payoff position there while the loosers will be put into a b-divison so that they have a few more games, too. The pairings were decided by a random draw. All games must be played until next thursday the 25th of january (because this is the official start of SD2). The games are best of three (with dm2, dm3, e1m2, e3m7 and dm6 to choose from, tiebreaker map will be decided randomly if teams cannot agree otherwise). Please request an admin in #smackdown for each game! Both screenshots and demos from winners pov have to be submitted. If a game does not take place in time we will draw a winner.

Here are the pairings: