Open bracket

— Anyone can participate;
— The top 4 from the upper bracket move forward into pool play;
— The top 4 from the lower bracket move on to the Championship bracket.

Pool play

— 16 teams from Europe, North America and Oceania;
— 4 teams from Open Bracket;
— Format — round robin, matches — best of 5;
— The Top 2nd teams from each group will go into the winner’s portion of the Championship bracket; 
— The 3rd-place team will go into round 3 of the elimination portion of the Championship bracket;
— The 4th-place team will go into round 2 of the elimination portion of the Championship bracket.;
— The 5th-place team in each pool will go into the 1st round of the elimination portion of the championship bracket.

Championship

— 24 teams Double Elimination championship bracket-style;
— all matches — best of 5.