LOOT.BET and UCC have announced a new league featuring teams from Europe and CIS that will hand out $150,000 over the course of five seasons. The first season will kick off with the open qualifier which can host up to 256 teams and will take place on January 26-27 with one spot in the closed qualifier on offer. The winners of the open qualifier will join Syman, Chaos, and Nemiga in the closed stage to claim the only remaining slot in LOOT.BET League Season 1. The closed qualifier will be held on January 28-February 2 with a double-elimination format.  The qualified side will be accompanied by nine invited teams in the regular season taking place on February 4-March 4. At the end of the round-robin group, the top four teams will advance to the double-elimination playoffs which will be played out on March 5-8. LOOT.BET League Season 1 participants can be found below:  AVANGAR Red Reserve Windigox6tence Galaxy x-kom  Winstrike pro100 HAVU NoChance Closed qual. slot The $30,000 prize will be distributed in the following manner in Season 1:
 HAVU #57 Lasse 'ZOREE' UronenOlli 'sLowi' PitkänenAaro 'hoody' PeltokangasSamuli 'Twixie' HerralaPetteri 'peku' Jaakkola  Winstrike #35 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' Rahkonen Aurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan  x6tence Galaxy #25 André 'BARBARR' MöllerLinus 'Bååten' AnderssonGustav 'ZINKEN' BjörkTim 'nawwk' JonassonNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora  AVANGAR #17 Bektiyar 'fitch' BahytovTimur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali  Chaos #72 Fredrik 'FREDDyFROG' GustafssonJoakim 'Relaxa' GustafssonNiclas 'PlesseN' Plessen  Windigo #30 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovViktor 'v1c7oR' DyankovYanko 'blocker' PanovGeorgi 'SHiPZ' GrigorovValentin 'poizon' Vasilev  pro100 #46 Ivan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsDima 'def' Lemeshchuk Vadim 'Flarich' KaretinLeonard 'kenzor' VolodarchukMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis  Red Reserve #53 William 'draken' SundinJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunDenis 'grux' Gutaj  Syman #63  Maksim 't0rick' Zaikin Sanjar 'SANJI' KulievSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy  NoChance #54 Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Kevin 'kRYSTAL' Amend David 'frozen' Čerňanský Haakon 'Radifaction' TholoŽygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas  x-kom #56 Oskar 'oskarish' StenborowskiMichał 'mono' GabszewiczDaniel 'STOMP' PłomińskiGrzegorz 'jedqr' JędrasKrzysztof 'Goofy' Górski   Nemiga #58 Kirill 'hitMouse' TsarevVladimir 'ROBO' NeskeyAleksandr 'mds' Rubets Rassim 'Jyo' ValijevIgor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov |
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