ESEA Finals team list

14-6-2014 04:31

ESEA has released the final team list for the upcoming season 16 finals in Dallas.

The event will run from June 27th to 29th at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Dallas and will pit the top four sides from the North American and the European divisions against each other, with $47,500 up for grabs.

Due to the fact that the rosters have been locked for weeks, teams like dignitas and Clan-Mystik were unable to attend the event, forcing ESEA to come up with an alternative.

In the event, the North American organisation had to call Wizards, now known as Over Gaming, who curiously were the bottom-placed side in the European league on a 5-11 record.

The participants' list for the ESEA finals is the following:

North America	Europe
iBUYPOWER	NiP
Open Equal Free	Virtus.pro
NetcodeGuides	Natus Vincere
compLexity	Over Gaming

Before the actual tournament, ESEA will be host its traditional All-Star Game between North America and Europe, with each team in attendance having at least one player defending the colours of their region.

Starting on Monday, each team will have a poll running on ESEA's website for 24 hours for fans to choose their favourite player. The players with the highest number of votes will make it to the All-Star game.

In the end, there will be a continental poll with the remaining players who did not make the cut to choose the fifth player for each region. The voting schedule is the following:

Day 1: iBUYPOWER
Day 2: Open Equal Free
Day 3: NetcodeGuides
Day 4: compLexity
Day 5: Ninjas in Pyjamas
Day 6: Virtus.pro
Day 7: Natus Vincere
Day 8: Over Gaming
Day 9: American Last Chance Poll
Day 10: European Last Chance Poll

The schedule for ESEA 16 LAN finals can be found here.

very much n1

2014-06-14 04:32

Yeep, hopefully all the EU Teams, will attend this time

2014-06-14 04:33

2 replies

Hopefully.

2014-06-14 09:33

they will, this is the list that are for sure attending.

2014-06-14 10:15

niceeeeeeee

Over Gaming > HEH

2014-06-14 04:35

Over Gaming in the finals... *facepalm*

2014-06-14 04:36

5 replies

if they're in the final, thats because they deserve it, no ?

2014-06-14 10:36

4 replies

Clearly not, they ended up last in the league. Titan were stupidly removed because of a 24h late roster change, as well as CM, Dignitas and ex-LGB later on. Fnatic should be the ones to go, maybe they couldn't attend on such a short notice or want to focus on something else I don't know, but Over Gaming attending is a joke, and in my opinion all the blame goes to ESEA for not being flexible with their rules.

2014-06-14 11:21

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oh sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeet ok thx i dont really follow cs tournaments so idk

2014-06-14 11:24

No ? That's because nobody else can go.

2014-06-14 12:02

They won the intermediate one but not the pro league. Well atleast last place still gets guaranteed $3000

2014-06-14 12:26

wow Over Gaming

2014-06-14 04:39

Lets vote for fiffy to the Dreamteam!

sweet to see overgaming attend, ill be rooting for them

2014-06-14 04:49

Sweet!

2014-06-14 04:51

over gaming can easily win against Manajumas and Netcodeguides.

2014-06-14 05:05

3 replies

2014-06-14 09:34

.. mm yes.

2014-06-14 12:08

2014-06-14 12:56

wut

2014-06-14 05:18

i dont understand why overgaming chose to participate in that expensive tournament instead of probably 1 or 2 in european soil..

2014-06-14 05:22

$3000 guarenteed, so they wont lose a huge amolunt of money

2014-06-19 09:52

Can't understand why they wouldn't allow some of the Euro teams like Dig and Titan to attend - the rule they're disqualified under is being broken only in letter, not in spirit, which indicates that it's a bad rule. Surprised that OG would want to attend, but GL to them anyway, hope they get some wins.

2014-06-14 05:29

I agree. In NA roster-hopping is a big problem but in EU its really not as big of a deal. with how much money teams have to shell out to come here for ESEA LAN they should be able to swap out a player if they have to.

2014-06-14 14:06

NA and EU teams participate in the same competition therefore the rules are obviously the same for everyone. The problem, as usual, is that everybody complains about the roster lock during the competition, especially if the team, f.e. Titan, is affected by it.

2014-06-15 01:36

This will be epic, cant wait for esea finals. :)

2014-06-14 06:50

- over gaming + titan

2014-06-14 07:40

titan cant attend due to roster change kennyS -> shox

2014-06-14 07:55

ez for NA

2014-06-14 07:50

nope nop nope. NiP + VP >>>> All NA Teams

NaVi>NA

2014-06-14 12:16

iBP > all na/eu teams.

2014-06-14 08:11

Open Equal Free = manajumas?

2014-06-14 08:56

Yeah, they changed their name to promote the charity when they got to CEVO-P playoffs.

2014-06-14 10:13

Shows how incredibly stupid the ESEA roster lock system is. Oh well, have fun watching ex-Wizards being crushed like a can.

2014-06-14 08:58

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i think u will get surprised(atleast i hope so) by this guys lvl on lan... anyways u should read the report, there were a lot of roster changes so thats why they invited OG

2014-06-14 09:38

Yeah or maybe lock a roster for more than two month on this period is a bad idea ? Bad for viewers, bad for esea, bad for the game ?

2014-06-14 11:35

Ask ESEA :P

2014-06-14 12:34

Are they actually any good on LAN? They have good aim, but they don't seem to execute strats very well

2014-06-14 12:17

Kairi, MusambaN1 and FlipiN played many LANs , theyre the old school of 1.6 , Musa and Flipin archived rly good results in the past in 1.6 era with the old x6tence. I mean they always say that they usually perform better at LAN than Online and as far as i know its true :P

2014-06-14 12:32

nvm :P

2014-06-14 12:35

over gaming roster please?

2014-06-14 09:11

Over Gaming are: David "Kairi" de Miguel Christian "loWel" Antora Juan "meisoN" Chacón Jonathan "MusambaN1" Torrent Antonio "FlipiN" Rivas

2014-06-14 09:16

lol jonathan µTorrent

2014-06-14 10:16

ez 4 NAVI

2014-06-14 09:24

NaVi OEF Final

2014-06-14 12:18

GO GO GO SHROUD ! OEF all the way !

overGaming to beat all murican teams, murica fold

2014-06-14 09:37

shroud rape inc

2014-06-14 09:53

Gl Over Gaming i can see them pulling an "upset" or two, if you could call beating NA teams an upset...

2014-06-14 10:09

Over Gaming ??? rly ??? where is Titan ????

2014-06-14 10:10

Disqualified due to roster changes. Same for digi.

2014-06-14 10:14

Over Gaming lol GL xd

2014-06-14 10:22

-overgaming 80%

2014-06-14 10:33

testcase for ibp, if they fail inb4 - steel

2014-06-14 10:57

Over gaming = Wizards btw

2014-06-14 11:03

2ez4EU volvo nerf EU

2014-06-14 11:26

Does anyone know why fnatic can't attend?

2014-06-14 11:32

Nice experience for OG But please Musa replace Flipin (Aguila ,Fox, Alex , Sukitron...)

2014-06-14 11:43

Fox on that team would be nice

2014-06-14 12:20

-meison - kairi - flipin + aguila +fox +soker/sukitron

2014-06-14 13:08

OG are terrible, shouldn't even be at this event, I think they would even struggle at UK lans to make it to the grand finals. gl iBP vs NiP final pls ;D

2014-06-14 12:30

Well they beat all your UK teams :P , even your top1 FM

2014-06-14 12:44

2014-06-14 12:54

OUCH!

2014-06-14 13:01

'All uk teams' u see fm and rasta Xd who have only ever had a stable lineup in 2013. u forget about other teams that are not on hltv like mine who smash them quite often ^^

2014-06-15 01:08