Your chance to enter the first of what is set to be many Brink tournaments and earn yourself a chunk of the huge €15,000 prize purse.

The hype surrounding Brink is huge right now and with thousands of people set to undertake the challenge of picking up the game competitively there is some good news: A brand new tournament has been announced. Brink has had people hot under the collar for some months now and co-inciding with the release of the title by Bethesda studios a huge €15,000 tournament has been announced and is open to the general public to partake in.

Players are able to take part in the Brink Championship by playing in one of the many qualification cups which will be getting underway in the coming weeks, hosted by the ESL. Winners of the qualifiers will be given the chance to battle it out infront of thousands of spectators later this year at Gamescom in Germany, alongside some of the biggest e-sport titles in the world. In order to sign up to the tournaments simply keep an eye out on the ESL Brink section over the next few days for updates.

The press release read:

BRINK has been getting lots of attention right from the start. This shooter truly has potential and deserves every second that we spend on it. Several national and European cups will be open for the BRINK teams that you'll form before the release and in the first days after it.

Qualify for the playoffs and play the grand final at Gamescom 2011. Thousands of people will be watching live in front of the biggest stage western eSports has ever seen!

The dates:
May 13th - Release of Brink & signups starting
May 23rd - Start of the Qualifcation Cups
June 13th - Start of Group Stage
July 4th - Start of Playoffs
August 17th-21st - Grand Final at Gamescom 2011