The winner of the fifth HomeStoryCup will qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship at CeBIT 2013. The top 24 players will receive points for the ranking of the upcoming season 2012-13.

32 players from around the world will meet in the apartment of TaKe from the 5th - 8th of July. The total prize purse is 25,000$ with the first prize being 10,000$. Below you can find the groups for the first stage. The top two of each group will advance to the second group stage, followed by the playoffs.

Group A Socke Nerchio ToD Naama	Group B ClouD IdrA Bly BlinG	Group C Ret Happy ReaL iNcontroL	Group D SaSe GoOdy DIMAGA DarKFoRcE
Group E MC HasuObs Tarson TLO	Group F MaNa Sleep Kas Destiny	Group G Sheth YongHwa sLivko DBS	Group H Mvp Golden NightEnD monchi