ESEA Finals teams found for S17

24-9-2014 10:16

Regular season has finished in both Europe and North America and the eight participants for ESEA Invite Season 17 Finals have been determined.

In Europe fnatic reigned supreme with a 15-1 record, followed up by dignitas, the new Titan roster as well as mousesports, who just pulled out of the Game Show League Finals.

NiP decided to drop out of the season to focus on other events this fall after a slow 2-4 start. Virtus.pro were the fifth place finishers, barely missing out on the Finals.

Torbull's ESEA will host one more Finals event in 2014

In North America defending champions iBUYPOWER remained on top with a 13-3 record, followed by three teams at 11-5; Cloud9, eLevate and the former LunatiK roster, now known as Denial.

This means the following eight teams will be traveling to Dallas later this fall to take part in the $47,500 event:

fnatic	dignitas	Titan	mousesports
iBUYPOWER	eLevate	Cloud9	Denial

ESEA Invite Season 17 Finals are currently scheduled to take place on November 21-23, though the organizers are considering moving the event to a date after DreamHack Winter.

nais one

2014-09-24 10:17

4 replies

Fnatic easy

2014-09-24 15:59

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2014-09-24 21:28

2014-09-25 18:21

i wouldn't be so sure... C9 on LAN can be pretty kickass if they are on point, also fnatic.... they are good but they are douchebags so, LAN time = Fear to get face beaten by fat hiko and crazy shazam. 10/10 fnatic won't win

2014-09-25 19:48

Mouz realy ? :D

2014-09-24 10:18

7 replies

they will "skip" this lan as well ;-) #Onliners

2014-09-24 14:40

I hope they will come at esea lan , and rekt ibp at home . Oh wait . We are not online anymore ..

2014-09-24 14:57

3 replies

Online dreams

2014-09-24 16:21

should be easy to beat ibp on LAN, they are best online team NA

2014-09-24 23:12

1 reply

they won both past 2 esea lans

2014-09-25 04:21

i hope so

2014-09-24 16:26

They are in my top 8 so a clear invite for mousesports because I'm always correct

2014-09-24 16:29

mouz xd

2014-09-24 10:18

Lol mouz

2014-09-24 10:18

Waiting for mouz, saying cant go

2014-09-24 10:21

1 reply

yeah hahahaha +1 :D

2014-09-24 12:34

All-in Fnatic

2014-09-24 10:22

Mouz wont going to Dallas,they didnt know the Finals will be OnLan tournament ...

2014-09-24 10:24

How many hours i wonder before mouz officially withdraws.

2014-09-24 10:32

Like seems like the orga dont want to send them to lans cause the trip cost dont Add up when they are so bad offline. It starting to be realy ridicouless that the performance level is so diffrent on lans.

2014-09-24 10:32

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On the other hand, this is a extremely expensive journey, and if the organizers choose to move the dates to after DH, the planetickets will only be way more expensive. I can easily understand why some organizations hesitate to send their team.

2014-09-24 10:39

12 replies

But their results shows that they should be able to battle for the top 3, ye its a investment for the org, but their team keeps qaulifing for lans all the time.

2014-09-24 10:46

11 replies

And at somepoint the team will make results. If they wont attend ESEA Finals, i cant really blame them. This is a huge investment. I would say that travel costs is nearly 5000 USD, and this is without hotel. The fact that two of their players have to make some work for their sponsors and due to that cant get visa in time is unlucky, but this is what happends. I dont know if you have been on the scene long enough to remember the russian and chinese teams early, but they had visa problems all the time. You have to put up cost and benefits as an organization, when you send your team to an event.

2014-09-24 10:59

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I know but mouz has always been sending their teams to events. And the price money Wasent bigger either, but idk whats up now, just would assume that as big GO is now the sponsor would trow more money on the big orgs but idk.

2014-09-24 11:08

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Compared to LoL and Dota2, CSGO isnt really big :(

2014-09-24 11:12

8 replies

What do i know :( it atleast has more attension Than for many years

2014-09-24 11:17

Compared to competitive video games CS:GO is massive though

2014-09-25 04:24

6 replies

Yea, compared to tetris and such sure it is massive. But we dont really care about those type of games, do we?

2014-09-25 13:15

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Tetris isn't very competitive. Compared to games that aren't based on skins or slow and clunky movement or shitty centralized matchmaking, and instead are only based on player skill and improvement, it's absolutely massive :)

2014-09-25 14:46

4 replies

Please let me know what games that is?

2014-09-25 15:05

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Quakeworld, xonotic, urban terror, quake3, action quake 2, revenge of the cats, Warsow, Warxon (still in alpha), openarena many are even open source and entirely free

2014-09-25 15:12

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Besides some of the quake games, non of these games have ever made it to a real competetive level, and therefore i cant really say anything about them, but i guess there is a reason they didnt make it. Even thou theres skins in CSGO, LoL and dota2, these are stll games that require a shit load of player skill and constant improvements.

2014-09-25 15:29

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Most of them are only played competitively, and aren't on the "COMPETITIVE LEVEL" because not enough people play it. There are cups and leagues and tournaments all the time, and the games take more skill than CS:GO or mobashits. The reason they didn't make it is because there is no advertising for them. Like I said, many are free and open source projects, you really have to go looking to find the perfect games to find them, you don't just get them thrown at you to download. CS:GO, LoL, DotA2 require very little player skill. If anything it's mostly memorization and just forcing your body's muscle memory.

2014-09-25 15:37

"So different?" Just because chrisJ doesn't hit an incredible flick how he does in uncounted online games? Because you saw one video where he misses a lot of shots? It's not like mouz didn't beat VP on LAN aswell. Oh wai-

2014-09-24 11:20

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Didnt say anything bout chrisj And think he had like 5 kills vs vp XD. GG allu would say

2014-09-24 11:51

Gogogo Device and Olof, show US what EU's can really do out there =D

2014-09-24 10:46

Titan! And i hope ibp can step up.

2014-09-24 10:51

Ez4jw

2014-09-24 10:51

mouz to choke on yet another lan GGWP

2014-09-24 10:54

nice

2014-09-24 10:59

HAHAHAHAAHA MOUZ there is literally 0% chance they will attend a LAN

2014-09-24 11:04

allu>

2014-09-24 11:10

Ez lan 4 mouz ! Gj allu;)

2014-09-24 11:10

VP unlucky :( maybe mouz will skip esea too :D

2014-09-24 11:11

looks like the winner of this lan is already decided. fnatic will stomp every team

2014-09-24 11:17

12 replies

In Murica ? No. In Murica IBP stronk.

2014-09-24 11:23

9 replies

they can only beat c9

2014-09-24 12:23

8 replies

clearly

2014-09-24 12:29

last game c9 vs ibp 16-0 rekt

2014-09-24 17:59

6 replies

it was forfeited...

2014-09-24 19:13

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No.. It was 12-0 c9 and then the match got Ddoss and iBP was too embarrassed of how badly they were losing so they report a FFL to esea so it looks like they didn't play. They are the biggest bunch of arrogant and sketchy faggots. They have no integrity, and people wonder why every one in america support c9 and not iBP. Well that's just another reason added to the very long list that grows exponentially daily. End of my rant lol

2014-09-24 21:06

It was 12-0 before ddos and before iBP forfeited...

2014-09-24 21:07

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Clearly u couldn't comprehend the sentence I wrote that they reported an FFL. Silly HLTV users. Brain IQ of an liberian african dying of Ebola

2014-09-24 21:27

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he posted literally 6 seconds after you if you look at the times, you probably hadn't even posted when he loaded the page. calm down.

2014-09-25 04:27

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Yea, his post wasnt here when i was writing mine.

2014-09-25 06:20

agreed

2014-09-24 12:52

+10000000

2014-09-24 16:21

once again more european teams will dodge another lan that's not in europe. esports is such a joke that a trip to america is considered expensive to an "esports organization". they are already walking advertisements.

2014-09-24 11:18

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yeah ibuyplane tickets should offer them a few ones :D

2014-09-24 16:29

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*FREE and yes I agree. Ibuyplaintickets should sponsor every team that qualified trip to the lan

2014-09-24 21:29

Fnatic and Diggy in finals unless they meet each other before that, else it will probably be c9 and diggy/Fnatic

2014-09-24 11:21

Fnatic ez

2014-09-24 11:24

nice lineup of teams, hope the eu teams don't pull out.

2014-09-24 11:30

lekker chris

2014-09-24 11:34

Either Fnatic or Dig will win this or something amazing will happen :D

2014-09-24 11:47

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Dig will choke on or before semis. No point of them to be in the final. I think fnatic/iBP/C9/Titan - semis...

2014-09-24 13:31

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dig > titan, ibp, C9 Just a matter of time we'll see dignitas break their "curse", and then they'll win more tourneys when they break it

2014-09-24 15:33

mouz skip again gg

2014-09-24 11:52

LAN not for mouz

2014-09-24 11:53

-mouz +NaVi

2014-09-24 11:54

I strongly think it will be easy for Sweden

2014-09-24 11:55

Mouz top 8

2014-09-24 11:58

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online

2014-09-24 14:21

2 replies

yeah i mean top 8 esea :D

2014-09-24 15:37

1 reply

Still pretty nice achievment for them :D

2014-09-24 20:41

cloud9 strong on lan

2014-09-24 11:58

C9 #1

2014-09-24 12:02

European rooster seems awesome, will be fun tu watch.

2014-09-24 12:07

Mouz can't go stop this :D

2014-09-24 12:14

easy money in the bank for fnatic edit: also, this is where mousesports stops being a joke and starts being a serious problem. instead of us seeing a real lan team like vp, they are blocking their spot because they can melt face online for whatever illegitimate reason. i say mouse should stop being invited to online leagues if this lan event becomes a replay of earlier ones.

2014-09-24 12:22

mouz cuz lan

2014-09-24 12:23

iBP cuz ESEA

2014-09-24 12:50

Mouz is going to leave and we're gonna see VP at the LAN.

2014-09-24 12:51

Looking forward to seeing eLevate

2014-09-24 13:03

They wrote mousesports but I read Virtus.Pro.

2014-09-24 13:20

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mousesports virtuspro That's y may be...

2014-09-24 13:33

ez for allu the lanmeister

2014-09-24 13:35

mouz skip ESEA Finals INB4

2014-09-24 13:35

EZ for ibp

2014-09-24 13:44

2 replies

xdddddddddd fnatic vs ibp 32:0

2014-09-24 13:51

1 reply

only in europe!

2014-09-24 14:03

2Ez4Fnatic&C9

2014-09-24 14:20

ESEA LANs just get better and better.

2014-09-24 14:33

ez mouz

2014-09-24 14:40

C9 v Fnatic or Dignitas final pls!

2014-09-24 14:58

4 replies

C9 vs Dignitas would be the dream final for me.. Hope to see dignitas go far at least...

2014-09-24 17:16

3 replies

We already saw that at cologne. And how did it play out xD

2014-09-24 21:32

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Just because dignitas choked vs. them once, doesn't mean a final with the two teams will not be a good/close final.

2014-09-24 21:52

16-14 and one of the best game of the tournament..

2014-09-25 06:29

mouz won't skip all mouz players are actually really excited to go to Murrica

2014-09-24 15:28

dignitas fan, but fnatic will prolly rape every team there.

2014-09-24 15:31

fnatic > Titan > Cloud9 > dignitas > iBUYPOWER > mousesports > eLevate > Denial

2014-09-24 15:34

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Nearly true but it's more like fnatic titan dignitas mousesports cloud9 Ibuypower elevate denial

2014-09-24 16:31

4 replies

ROFL. Onlinesports over C9 on LAN? please. His list is pretty accurate, people like to claim Dig messed up at ESL against C9, yet both teams did, and Hiko just outplayed them in that 2v4.

2014-09-24 18:18

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I don't believe you dude

2014-09-24 18:34

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That's fine, but you're the one that thinks Onlinesports > C9, which simply isn't true. Or you're just trolling, who knows.

2014-09-24 18:40

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Who knows if you're not trolling

2014-09-24 18:59

ibp are better than c9 in america bro

2014-09-24 22:30

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i think Cloud9 are way "better" than iBP on Lan! we will see :p

2014-09-24 22:36

nice

2014-09-24 15:38

Should be a pretty sick Lan, looking forward to it =D

2014-09-24 15:58

no LDLC im disappoint ;_;

2014-09-24 16:06

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+1 3 of the LDLC members were at the last Esea LAN finals

2014-09-24 16:08

yesterday mouz had eu flag all day today they are back at german flag what?

2014-09-24 16:07

FNATIC BABYYY!!!

2014-09-24 16:20

mouz skip this even because chrisJ will become a new haircut on this weekend.. and he cant skip the barber schedule ( scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1.. )

2014-09-24 16:22

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I heard clys brother will play for him

2014-09-24 16:30

Who will go instead mouz?

2014-09-24 17:02

Hope to see mouz performing well :)

2014-09-24 17:06

ESEA Bitcoin Mining Finals

2014-09-24 17:09

Shame on u VP

2014-09-24 17:14

1. fnatic 2. dignitas 3. Titan 4. Cloud9 5. iBUYPOWER 6. mousesports 7. eLevate 8. Denial

2014-09-24 17:17

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Lol... Elevate will finish last obv, also i'm not so sure that fnatic will win this so easy... C9 in LAN can be pretty kickass as dignitas.. This will be a good event

2014-09-25 19:49