Gaming Festival groups announced

The groups for the upcoming Gaming Festival 2011 have been announced – The event will kick off on Saturday in Belgrade, Serbia.

Gaming Festival 2011 is a Serbian event hosted by the same organizers who hosted the KGB CM Storm event in April. The event will take place Saturday to Sunday this weekend in Belgrade and has attracted 32 teams.

Saturday will feature the group stage, which will see eight groups of four teams, where top to in every group will advance to the playoffs. The groups were drawn yesterday and are as follows:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
BGDonLINE	ArchAngels	DPS	es.netzone
Hunters	eZone	LWC	IDZUO
faithiN	experience	Veritas	NovaSix
gamecore	SCUMBAG	highfive	KNB
Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
neXtPlease!	TeamWork	volgare	nbk.ro
TiN!	UNiTY	iNation	kbp
ESS	PB	Mala Columbia	PlayNation
INFINITY	Phantoms	IMT	TF

Sunday will feature the playoffs, which will be a single-elimination bracket, where the Round of 16 will be played best-of-one map, rest of the bracket will be best-of-three. The prize purse for the tournament has been set to €1,500 and will be split between top three finishers.

1. €900
2. €400
3. €200

You will be able to follow Gaming Festival 2011 right here on HLTV.org, as we will be on site in Belgrade to bring you all of the action as it happens.