Hi everyone,

Summer is over, but we have you sorted with more hot e-sports events in Europe and North America, including a change to win a spot under the warm sun of Las Vegas! Under the spotlight today, two major competitions coming on ShootMania and TrackMania:

Let’s begin with the Electronic Sports World Cup, which will this year take place from the 2^nd to the 4^th of November during the Paris Games Week show in France, with TrackMania Nations Forever and ShootMania Storm as official disciplines. TrackMania² Canyon will also be featured with a competition at the event, so the whole ManiaPlanet family is united under the eSports banner!

TrackMania qualifiers for the ESWC have already taken place, and so have the ShootMania qualifiers for France. But for ShootMania players in North America, UK, Nordics and Germany, you have until the 28^th of September to register your team, and the qualifiers will take place between the 1rst and the 14^th of October.

• ESWC North American Qualifiers
• ESWC UK Qualifiers
• ESWC Nordics Qualifiers
• ESWC German Qualifiers 

IGN just announced that the next edition of their IGN Pro League (IPL) event will feature ShootMania as its first shooter! The competition will take place between November 29^th and December 2^nd at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, featuring a total prizepool of 100.000$, and here are the links for registration the qualification phases:

• European Qualifier #1 (of 2) Registration Page – October 1st – 5th
• European Qualifier #2 (of 2) Registration Page – October 15th – 19th
• NA Qualifier #1 (of 4) Registration Page – October 10th – 14th
• NA Qualifier #2 (of 4) Registration Page – October 22nd – 26th
• NA Qualifier #3 (of 4) Registration Page – October 29th – November 2nd
• NA Qualifier #4 (of 4) Registration Page – November 5th – 9^th

You can find more information on the IPL website over here.

Enjoy the competition and the show, and don’t forget that there are many other tournaments organized every week, either online or offline at events throughout the world andthe can follow the news on the many community websites as ShootMania eSports, Mania-Actu and many more.

Watch this space for more ManiaPlanet news soon !