The group stage at MaXlan 2011 is underway, featuring a total of eighteen teams split in four groups.

Taking place in the French city of Épinal, MaXlan started earlier today with the group stage. Two groups feature five teams, while another two house four teams each. All four groups will send two teams to the next group stage. The second group stage will be two groups of four teams, where top two in every group will advance to the playoffs.

The groups the first group stage at MaXlan 2011 are as follows:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Millenium	QWERTY	eSahara	K1nGz
casselavague	SpaceGoofs!	Virus	Sypher
rqcS	LDPQ	4THEROAD	SecretStory
exec	wAv	iBANDIDO$!	3DMAX
Exnihilo	eXtensive

Currently we do not have any coverage of the event and there are currently not any HLTV's available, we do however plan on adding coverage once the event reach the playoffs and at that time HLTV's will hopefully be working.