Eight invited for ESWC qualifier

24-9-2014 21:42

ESEA has announced that it has handed out eight invitations for the European ESWC qualifier.

From October 2-5, ESEA will be hosting the male European ESWC qualifier, which will reward the top three teams with spots at the French event later that month.

The qualifier will be limited to 64 teams, and it is worth noting that teams from countries that have national or regional qualifiers will not be able to sign up.

ESEA will not be providing financial support to the teams who qualify for the ESWC finals, which means that the winning sids will have to gather the funds to able to attend the event in Paris.

The organisers of the qualifier have now revealed which eight teams have been invited for the tournament. These sides will be seeded 1-8 in the bracket. You can find them below:

mousesports	ALTERNATE
Orbit	ESC Gaming
The Lone Rangers	Property
3DMAX	Recursive

To sign up for the qualifier, head over here. Registration will be closed on October 1.

cool

2014-09-24 21:42

najs, should be a sick tournament

2014-09-24 21:43

Nice (:

2014-09-24 21:43

esc ez

2014-09-24 21:43

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No chance there :( Teams too strong Kappa ofc

2014-09-24 21:59

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play.esea.net/?s=stem&stem_page=stem_sch.. They can do this :)

2014-09-24 22:02

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I would like this but the reality is that the esc have a chance if there will be a lot of luck in the ladder. :)

2014-09-24 22:13

nice flag mousesports XD

2014-09-24 21:44

Recursive same lineup as in Assembly?

2014-09-24 21:44

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histeli twista sunny ruuit stonde

2014-09-24 21:59

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2014-09-24 22:04

it feels like world championship

2014-09-24 21:44

wtf, recursive?

2014-09-24 21:44

mouz,property,esc i think

2014-09-24 21:44

mouz to win qualfier ofc

2014-09-24 21:45

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And then miss LAN.

2014-09-24 21:57

I don't believe this to be fair tbh. How about the Iberian Qualifier? or even the CIS qualifier? So if a Portuguese team wins the iberian qualifier, the spanish won't be able to attend this qualifier or the other way around ? The same goes for the CIS teams.

2014-09-24 21:46

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2014-09-24 22:00

how is it not fair? every team has only ONE chance to qualify - if they have local qualifiers they can't sign-up to this event.

2014-09-24 22:06

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I am talking about qualifiers where there are 2 or more countries involved. Better don't play qualifiers in the CIS area for example, it involves Russia, Ukraine etc and it will be a easy win for HR. Why will the other teams even spend their money there... not letting them join this qualifier is kinda silly. Let's say that NaVi wasn't invited, then it would be down to a HR vs NaVi duel on the qualifiers, and one of them wouldn't get a chance to attend this event, when weaker teams than these 2 might get to the event via this qualifier.

2014-09-24 22:12

This. On the iberian qualifier, at least one good team will be out of ESWC, and I think that any of the top teams attending the Iberian Qualifier is better than some already "invited". Seems strange at some point.

2014-09-24 22:42

It all comes down to people/organizations paying for a spot. The ones that pay for it can decide how they want to hold the qualifier.

2014-09-24 23:59

Mhh havent seen recursive in action since assembly but lets see , im going to favor mousesports or 3DMax though

2014-09-24 21:46

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RCE showed potential, though! Im curious to see how they'll do.

2014-09-24 21:56

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Indeed

2014-09-24 22:06

they have a new lineup anyway

2014-09-25 10:36

They played in fragbite and looked ok

2014-09-25 23:35

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Missed that but its a team to not sleep on for sure

2014-09-26 00:40

2014-09-24 21:47

3DMAX, mouz or esc will win these qualifiers. Probably mouz

2014-09-24 21:48

TLR and two Finnish teams invite? Why not invite the best teams.

2014-09-24 21:58

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because the best teams are already directly qualified

2014-09-24 23:23

read the story...

2014-09-25 14:23

WHY MOUZ??

2014-09-24 21:59

With biggest prize pool thats gonna be the biggest tournament in csgo history ever. Sadly.

2014-09-24 22:01

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i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/00.. ?! It is $50000, not even close to being the biggest. We already had 3 majors with 250000 dollars each..

2014-09-24 22:14

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biggest prize pool without valve backing. game is growing by itself with the community. dont let the inflated numbers of valve tourneys fool you.

2014-09-25 00:05

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eswc is owned by the company oxtent which is providing the prize pool if I'm not mistaken. They can make it bigger because they are working together with the pgw who are hosting the event.

2014-09-25 00:42

I think that might be what he meant like if it had bigger prize pool. With the teams attending it would be the best event. I could be wrong it's hard to tell with his poor English skills.

2014-09-25 00:46

mouz&3dmax

2014-09-24 22:05

Svk cz teams?

2014-09-24 22:09

why alternate over PKD?

2014-09-24 22:13

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alternate and rest are invited to quals not FINALS :p

2014-09-24 22:27

Planetkey already invited to ESWC, this is only qualifier.

2014-09-25 02:53

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yeah youre right, thanks :)

2014-09-25 15:00

gl ESC

2014-09-24 22:20

looking good, gl to tlr!

2014-09-24 22:20

Property.Alternate,Lone Rangers,Recursive...no chance..

2014-09-24 22:21

Mouz will get to the last match of the qualifier and then lose it.

2014-09-24 22:33

lets go TLR <3

2014-09-24 22:41

needs more ROKO

2014-09-24 22:56

go property!

2014-09-24 23:08

go TLR btw

2014-09-24 23:13

The Lone Rangers?

2014-09-24 23:18

Same date as ByLAN and GIGACON, basically excluding Norwegians from the qualifier. Bad :/

2014-09-24 23:44

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This is normal as Norwegians teams have already their own ESWC qualifier at ByLAN eswc.com/en/2014/game/csgo/qualifying/32 And only teams without national qualifier can participate in the ESEA European Qualifier.

2014-09-24 23:53

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haha grilled :p

2014-09-24 23:55

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first :p

2014-09-24 23:59

Bylan is already the Norwegian national qualifier. So norwegian teams can't participate to the ESEA qualifier. eswc.com/en/2014/game/csgo/qualifying/32

2014-09-24 23:55

Countries who CANNOT participate: Denmark France Norway Portugal Russia Spain Ukraine

2014-09-25 00:00

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Ah too bad, I thought the rule was that one could not participate in two different qualifiers. At least 4 teams with known Norwegians are going to GIGACON instead of ByLAN(The events are at the same time, and in different parts of Norway), so those teams have 0 chance to qualify for ESWC this year. But OKey then.

2014-09-25 00:09

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Yupp life sucks, I'd rather have a one swedish qual instead of an international with 3 qual spots.

2014-09-25 00:13

I don't know all of the teams that are going to ByLAN, except Expert and LC, i think bx3 is going aswell. Gigacon has potential to be a big event with good teams anyway, i just hope they don't use 1-2 years with giving out prizemoneys, because if that happens, it will be realy bad for the norwegian scene. (Sponsors etc.).

2014-09-25 10:09

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..... i just hope they don't use 1-2 years with giving out prizemoney, because if that happens (and some are scared it will happen, because some of the people in the management have had those problems before). .... ***

2014-09-25 10:11

Of Norwegian teams BX3, tempteam, AGENT and one more team I don't know the name of (stinger gem Etc in the lineup) is going to GIGACON.

2014-09-25 16:53

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Nice, seems like gigacon can be a good tournament after all!

2014-09-25 18:49

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There are several good Swedish teams coming as well. Team Property, Flipsid3 Tactics and one more I don't remember the name of. So yeah, it should make for a good tournament.

2014-09-25 22:54

gogo property

2014-09-25 02:26

Mouz to win qualifier and then decide they have a team photoshoot on the day of ESWC, so they can't go.

2014-09-25 03:40

I don't follow the scene as closely as I wish I could nowadays.. forgive my ignorance but can someone explain to me why teams from the Finnish & UK scenes have to qualify from an invited pool of European teams from a much, much higher calibre of skill when the Algerian, Bahrain, Chinese, Indian and Japanese scenes get their own qualifier? And didn't the eSports World Cup used to be only 1 team per country? I notice Denmark, France, Sweden and Possibly Ukraine will have 2 available slots - yes I know they have the strongest scenes but I always thought half the prestige was earning the right to represent your country?! Should be a fantastic tournament, just find these decisions a little bizarre

2014-09-25 05:09

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ESWC has national qualifiers. Anyone can candidate to be one. Unfortunalety some coutries don't have a national qualifier. This european tournament is for the teams from coutries without qualifier

2014-09-25 10:46

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Yup I know all of that, been around for awhile :p doesn't really answer any of the points I raised in my comment.

2014-09-25 12:51

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this year we put a focus on strong teams, with also slots for countries all around the world

2014-09-25 23:31

Its all about money and buying the rights to hold a qualifier. Earlier there have been teams or players from single player games from the same country. Its all about invites and the external qualifiers. Just remember last year, when it was two french teams in the final. In the first ESWC in 2003, there were also two swedish teams attending and going to the finals, but after that it was only one team per country until 2012 or something like that. So its nothing new. Potentially we could see five swedish teams contending this year.

2014-09-25 14:49

where is dAT :(

2014-09-25 06:34

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In the UK/RU qualifier: eswc.com/en/2014/game/csgo/qualifying/57

2014-09-25 10:47

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oh my gush,nice nice.woooh

2014-09-25 20:22

chrisj, tabsen > easy mouz easy life

2014-09-25 08:28

mouz ezpz

2014-09-25 09:24

mouz its a waste of spot

2014-09-25 11:17

really hoping for TLR to qualify

2014-09-25 15:33

They chose the teams well imo! But a bit (just a bit) sad that Epsilon didnt get invited, cos clearly they won make it out of the French qualifier with Titan and LDLC :| Mouz and Property ftw. Hope the best for the finns; 3DMAX and Rec!

2014-09-25 15:37

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Epsilon lost against iGamerz in The french qualifier. Titan was already invited and France had 2 ESWC spots through qualifier which the first on went to ldlc as they beat epsilon in the finals. Now the second one is going on and the finals will be -BZ- vs iGamerz (the team who knocked out epsilon)

2014-09-25 23:38

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Ah, okey. thanks for the info!

2014-09-26 11:31