GameGune, the annual event held in Northern Spain has announced the first eight teams attending this years event at the end of July.

The tournament will feature a total of sixteen teams starting off with four groups of four teams each with top three advancing. Eight teams will be placed in a double elimination best-of-three bracket's first round while the third place finishers proceed to lower bracket.

This year's event features the standard map rotation of de_dust2, de_forge, de_inferno, de_mirage, de_nuke, de_train and de_tuscan. Maps will be picked using the veto system.

First eight teams are now announced with the other half of the participant list coming up next week with the schedule for the event. 

fnatic	Friis, karrigan, moddii, Xizt, TBA
DELTA	ben, dOK, DRIVE, sonamed, tOMI
ALTERNATE	approx, Kapio, Roman R., Tixo, Troubley
x6tence	arki, FlipiN, Kairi, oFF, xikii
Anexis	BERRY, Lomme, Nuggi, Snappi, zanoj
k1ck	axoN, coachi, fox, mUt, rmn
zNation	AERO, hoNdroz, little, redman, wAke
BTK	breaker, FORGETME, NESTA, PaNj4rd, st1cker

GameGune 2012 will run on July 26-29 in Bilbao, Spain and offers a prize purse of 22,500€. HLTV.org will be on-site to provide full coverage of the event.