Stage 2 of the European qualifier for gamescom will take place tonight and feature recent NASL winner Stephano and HSC V champion Nerchio among 30 others. Only 8 of them will advance.

The 32 players to play the qualifier consist of 16 that have been seeded depending on their past performance in the Intel Extreme Masters, and 16 who have qualified through Stage 1 on July 12th.

They will play for 8 slots in the third and final stage of the qualifiers, where 8 top players, among those Code S player NaNiwa and last seasons biggest surprise, Feast, are already waiting for them.

Don't miss this!

Tonight's qualifier will see some of Europe's best players - some of which are considered part of the world elite of StarCraft II.
The games of this qualifier will be streamed on ESL TV and commentated by James 'Kaelaris' Carrol.

Who's playing tonight?

Note that only the best 8 of these players will advance to the third stage.

Qualified from EU Qualifier Stage 1
Nerchio LaLuSh Welmu ReaL	Turuk VortiX monchi Ourk	NightEnD Adelscott SyDe Bly	ToD JonnyREcco SortOf Happy
Directly Seeded Into Stage 2
ParanOid Tefel ClouD Delphi	Grubby LucifroN7 Naama RINE	Fraer SjoW VPBenQlsLivko Snute	Socke Stephano Na'Vi.Strelok GoOdy
The bracket for Stage 2 can be found here.

..and who's waiting in Stage 3?

Directly Seeded Into Stage 3
Tarson Ret	NaNiwa Feast	elfi DarK.FoRcE	Kas White-Ra