The beginning of March saw Orgless defeating FlipSid3 2-0 to win UCC: Europe and taking home $9,000 in cash prizes. These two teams, alongside fourteen others, will take part in the new season of Uprise Champions Cup, which will be played online all the way through.
Divided into three stages, the tournament will start on March 13th. The first stage, which will end on April 15th, will feature four groups as the teams will be fighting off in a best-of-three GSL format. The top two from each group will advance to the second group stage.

Deadfox & co. will try to defend their championship
The second group stage will run from April 15-May 15. Two groups will each have four teams where every team will play a best-of-three with one another in a round robin format. The top three from both groups will advance to the final bracket where the double-elimination format will come into effect.
The top placed team in each group will get a BYE in the first round as the second and the third placed teams will go up against each other. All the matches except the grand final will be a best-of-three. The grand final will be a best-of five with the team coming from the upper bracket starting the series 1-0 ahead.
The full team list can be found below:
Orgless | FlipSid3 | E-frag.net | Nostalgie |
Method | FMESPORTS | SK | Gambit |
DenDD | Ancient | Platinium | CSGL* |
ENCE* | HellRaisers* | noKappa* | ALTERNATE aTTaX* |
* Teams that are awaiting confirmation.
The prize pool for the tournament is the following:
1. - $25,000
2. - $10,000
3-4. - $2,500
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E-frag.net #17


Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov

Emiliyan 'spyleadeR' Dimitrov

Nikolay 'nkl' Krastev

Viktor 'v1c7oR' Dyankov

Simeon 'dream3r' Ganev


FMESPORTS #71


Reece 'Puls3' Marrs

Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel

Ian 'Immi' Harding

Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath

Ben 'esio' Doughty


Orgless #33


André 'BARBARR' Möller

Alexander 'SKYTTEN' Carlsson

Viktor 'flashie' Tamás Bea

Lasse 'maeVe' Elgaard

Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz


DenDD #48


Erik 'zende' Sundeqvist

André 'berg' Kjellberg

Isak 'cype' Rydman

Robin 'robiin' Sjögren

Benjamin 'BENDJI' Söderena


HellRaisers #19


Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow

Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný

Martin 'STYKO' Styk

Patrik 'Zero' Žúdel

Sergey 'smike' Sklyarenko


Nostalgie


Vadim 'MSE' Zimin


Gambit #18


Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev

Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov

Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov

Rustem 'mou' Telepov

Jan 'wayLander' Rahkonen



SK #22



Michael 'Friis' Jørgensen

Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh

Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche

Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen

Emil 'Magisk' Reif


Method #47


Alexey 'ub1que' Polivanov

Igor 'dERZKIY' Radosavlevich

Ivan 'spaze' Obrezhan

Savelii 'jmqa' Bragin

Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyev


FlipSid3 #16


Yegor 'markeloff' Markelov

Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy

Oleksandr 'Shara' Hordieyev

Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk

Georgi 'WorldEdit' Yaskin


noKappa #21


Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz

Bartosz 'Hyper' Wolny

Karol 'repo' Cybulski

Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski

Dominik 'GruBy' Swiderski


ENCE #30


Aleksi 'allu' Jalli

Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi

Tom 'stonde' Glad

Mikko 'xartE' Välimaa

Juho 'juho' Lampinen


Ancient #27


Markus 'pronax' Wallsten

Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg

Simon 'twist' Eliasson

Mathias 'pauf' Köhler

Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson


Platinium #66


Lambert 'Lambert' Prigent

Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin

Valentin 'mistou' Balbastro

Théo 'LoWkii' Téchené

Alexandre 'xms' Forté


CSGL #29


Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek

Jacek 'MINISE' Jeziak

Paweł 'innocent' Mocek

Michał 'MICHU' Müller

Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski


ALTERNATE aTTaX #26


Christian 'crisby' Schmitt

Oliver 'kzy' Heck

Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch

Kevin 'keev' Bartholomäus

Stefan 'stfN' Seier