Guild Wars World Championship

Description
The Guild Wars World Championship is a tournament event sponsored by ArenaNet that will be held annually to match the top teams from each region against each other. The teams will qualify from each territory through a long season followed by a playoff. Then the qualifying teams will travel to a host country to play each other in person for the title of World Champion.

Format
The first season of the tournament began on October 1st, 2005. The format of the Championship is as follows:
 * 1) This process takes place in each territory separately.
 * 2) On the first day of the season, at midnight, the Guild ladder is reset.
 * 3) Guilds will fight to gain a higher ranking in the ladder.
 * 4) After three months, the top 12 ranked teams will enter playoffs.
 * 5) At the end of the playoffs, the top two teams will qualify to the World Championship.
 * 6) All the teams from the different territories will play each other in the World Championships. The format for which has not been announced yet.

Note: The number of teams actually entering the regional playoffs were ten for Europe, ten for North America, and six for Korea.

For the first Championship, to be held in Taiwan on February 2006, two guest teams, one from Japan and one from Taiwan will play exhibition games against the finalists.

Prizes

 * First place: 50,000 USD
 * Second place: 25,000 USD
 * Third and Forth place: 10,000 USD
 * Fifth and Sixth place: 2,500 USD
 * Exhibition Match: 2,500 USD

In addition, if the Taiwanese team wins the Exhibition match, NCTaiwan will provide them with 10,000 USD prize money.

European Regional Play-Offs
Contrary to the initial announcement, no 11th and 12th guild participated in the european regional play-offs.

Round 1
As the four high-ranked guilds, Esoteric Warriors [EW], The Valandor [Val] Rus Corp [RUS] and Lamer's Ultimate Majority [LuM] recieved a bye during this round.

(*) Since no 11th and 12th guild participated Grim Monolith [Grim] and Immortal Legio [IL] also recieved a bye during this round.

Korean Regional Play-Offs
As defending Korean Champion 2005, War Machine [WM] is seeded as 1st.

Round 1
The defending Korean Champion 2005 War Machine [WM] and the highest-ranking guild The Last Pride [EvIL] recieved a bye during this round.

North American Regional Play-Offs
Contrary to the initial announcement, no 11th and 12th guild participated in the north-american regional play-offs.

Round 1
As the four high-ranked guilds, Eternum Pariah [EP], Treacherous Empire [Te], Temporal Threshold [TT] and Ectos And Shards [EnS] recieved a bye during this round.

(*) Since no 11th and 12th guild participated Idiot Savants [iQ] and Girls on Top [BoA] also recieved a bye during this round.

World Championship Finals
The champions of the territories are seeded 1st to 3rd according to their world rank. The runner-ups of each territory are seeded 4th to 6th in the same order of territory.

Quarter-Finals
The two highest-ranking champions recieve a bye during this round.