The first season of the European Development Championship (EDC) will kick off on December 7 and will see 16 teams duke it out for their share of a $30,000 prize pool. The participants will be split into four GSL groups and will play best-of-one opening matches. From there, the remaining matches will be played in a best-of-three format, with the top two sides from each group advancing to the playoffs.
The eight teams coming out of the groups will face off in a single-elimination, best-of-three playoff bracket for the $17,500 first-place prize, which will be awarded to the winner of the grand final, scheduled for December 20.

forZe (no.28) are the highest-ranked side in attendance
Endpoint, who recently secured promotion to ESL Pro League, and Russian pair FORZE and Espada headline the invite list for the tournament. NAVI Junior and BEZ ZP (formerly Cyber Legacy) join the 14 invited sides to round out the participants' list, with the duo having locked down spots after topping the closed qualifier at the end of November.
The matches will be broadcast in English on the official Eden Esports Twitch channel, with stream coverage also available in eight other languages.
The complete team list is as follows:

Endpoint

FORZE

ALTERNATE aTTaX

Copenhagen Flames

Heretics

K23

SAW

NAVI Junior

Espada

Movistar Riders

Budapest Five

Galaxy Racer

HellRaisers

Illuminar

SKADE

BEZ ZP


Movistar Riders #49


Lucas 'steel' Lopes

Sebastian 'larsen' Larsen

Alejandro 'alex' Masanet

Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano

Kristjan 'shokz' Jakobson


FORZE #28


Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyev

Almaz 'almazer' Asadullin

Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev

Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikov

Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov


HellRaisers #37


Dmitriy 'jR' Chervak

Nikolaj 'kalinka' Rysakov

Vadim 'Flarich' Karetin

Dmitriy 'ProbLeM' Martinov

Nikita 'JIaYm' Panyushkin


Espada #29


Dmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' Bandurka

Dmitry 'S0tF1k' Forostyanko

Vladislav 'FinigaN' Usov

Abdul 'degster' Gasanov

Robert 'Patsi' Isyanov


Galaxy Racer #59


Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun

Fredrik 'FREDDyFROG' Gustafsson

Joakim 'Relaxa' Gustafsson

Niclas 'PlesseN' Plessen

Adam 'dezon' Wahlqvist


ALTERNATE aTTaX #47


Robin 'ScrunK' Röpke

Stefan 'stfN' Seier

Sabit 'mirbit' Coktasar

Marko 'kressy' Đorđević

Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich



Endpoint #30



Robin 'robiin' Sjögren

Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel

Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath

Kia 'Surreal' Man

Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan


BEZ ZP #71


Denis 'seized' Kostin

Timur 'clax' Sabirov

Mikhail 'tricky' Krutov

Aleksandr 'glowiing' Matsievich

Stanislav 'fostar' Ostashevskiy


Budapest Five #62


Ádám 'kolor' Domoszlay

Fodor 'fleav' Levente

András 'coolio' Fercsák

Kornél 'kory' Szedlár

Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás


Illuminar #36


Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski

Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak

Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski

Tomasz 'phr' Wójcik

Arek 'Vegi' Nawojski



Heretics #82



Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey

Timothée 'DEVIL' Démolon

Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang

Jordan 'Python' Munck-Foehrle


Copenhagen Flames #54


Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen

Sebastian 'Basso' Aagaard

Jakob 'Daffu' Schildt

Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi

Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard


NAVI Junior #73


Eugene 'Aunkere' Karyat

Kirill 'Gospadarov' Gospadarov

Oleksii 'Topa' Topchiienko

Ivan 'kapacho' Koplenko

Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy


SKADE #41


Teodor 'SPELLAN' Nikolov

Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov

Viktor 'Duplicate' Mitev

Aleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov

Blagoi 'oxygeN' Dimitrov


SAW #35


Omar 'arki' Chakkor

Christopher 'MUTiRiS' Fernandes

Ricardo 'roman' Oliveira

Tiago 'JUST' Moura

Renato 'stadodo' Gonçalves



K23 #38



Rustem 'mou' Telepov

Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov

Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus

David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan

Aidos 'kade0' Khairzhan