A few days after the ESL announced the National ESL league for North America, more informations were released about the main Quakelive event brought by ESL to the new world: the IEM5 American Championships.

The Regular Season will be played through 4 online qualifiers cups and The Big Bang 2010 LAN event. Also, 7 Online ESL Open Cups will be run for additional points and prizes. After that, United States of America DaHanG, the current American champion, and 15 qualified players will participate to the Playoffs during 4-5th September. And Finally, the Finals will be played with the best 8 players from the Playoffs in October in United States of America New York City.

Hopefully, something clearer will be published about the qualifiers and how exactly the slots will be given. Until then, here is a detailed schedule of the coming cups, qualifiers and events.


Links: Announcement, mIRC #esl.quakelive