LOOT.BET and UCC have announced a new league featuring teams from Europe and CIS that will hand out $150,000 over the course of five seasons.

The first season will kick off with the open qualifier which can host up to 256 teams and will take place on January 26-27 with one spot in the closed qualifier on offer.

The winners of the open qualifier will join Syman, Chaos, and Nemiga in the closed stage to claim the only remaining slot in LOOT.BET League Season 1. The closed qualifier will be held on January 28-February 2 with a double-elimination format.

Maikelele's NoChance have been invited to the first season

The qualified side will be accompanied by nine invited teams in the regular season taking place on February 4-March 4. At the end of the round-robin group, the top four teams will advance to the double-elimination playoffs which will be played out on March 5-8.

LOOT.BET League Season 1 participants can be found below:

AVANGAR
Red Reserve
Windigo
x6tence Galaxy
x-kom Winstrike
pro100
HAVU
NoChance
Closed qual. slot

The $30,000 prize will be distributed in the following manner in Season 1:

1. $18,000
2. $7,500
3. $3,000
4. $1,500

HAVU #57 Lasse 'ZOREE' UronenOlli 'sLowi' PitkänenAaro 'hoody' PeltokangasSamuli 'Twixie' HerralaPetteri 'peku' Jaakkola Winstrike #35 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' RahkonenAurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan x6tence Galaxy #25 André 'BARBARR' MöllerLinus 'Bååten' AnderssonGustav 'ZINKEN' BjörkTim 'nawwk' JonassonNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora AVANGAR #17 Bektiyar 'fitch' BahytovTimur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Chaos #72 Fredrik 'FREDDyFROG' GustafssonJoakim 'Relaxa' GustafssonNiclas 'PlesseN' Plessen Windigo #30 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovViktor 'v1c7oR' DyankovYanko 'blocker' PanovGeorgi 'SHiPZ' GrigorovValentin 'poizon' Vasilev pro100 #46 Ivan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsDima 'def' LemeshchukVadim 'Flarich' KaretinLeonard 'kenzor' VolodarchukMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis Red Reserve #53 William 'draken' SundinJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunDenis 'grux' Gutaj Syman #63 Maksim 't0rick' ZaikinSanjar 'SANJI' KulievSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy NoChance #54 Mikail 'Maikelele' BillKevin 'kRYSTAL' AmendDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýHaakon 'Radifaction' TholoŽygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas x-kom #56 Oskar 'oskarish' StenborowskiMichał 'mono' GabszewiczDaniel 'STOMP' PłomińskiGrzegorz 'jedqr' JędrasKrzysztof 'Goofy' Górski Nemiga #58 Kirill 'hitMouse' TsarevVladimir 'ROBO' NeskeyAleksandr 'mds' RubetsRassim 'Jyo' ValijevIgor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov