ESWC Montreal with $75,000

6-5-2015 22:00

The Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) has announced that the upcoming event will give away $75,000 in cash prizes.

At the end of March, ESWC announced the first details about this year's world finals, scheduled to take place from July 9-12 in Montreal, Canada, as part of the Mondial des Jeux Loto Québec and Just for Laughs Festival.

Sixteen teams from around the globe will be competing in the male CS:GO tournament, which will have $75,000 up for grabs. An identical figure will be distributed among the participating teams in the form of travel support, bringing the total purse to $150,000.

ESWC Montreal will feature 16 teams

fnatic, last year's champion, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Team SoloMid and EnVyUs have received invitations to attend the event. Eight teams will be determined by qualifiers held in Europe, China, South Africa and North America, while the remaining four participants will be selected by ESWC after reviewing applications from teams all over the world.

Below you can find the teams confirmed so far for the event:

Fnatic - Defending champions
NiP - Invited
Team SoloMid - Invited
EnVyUs - Invited

The qualifying and the application process for ESWC Montreal is the following:

Qualifiers:

Central Europe - CSGames
Northern Europe - LionSEK
Null element Russia/CIS - CyberStadium
United States - CEVO
France - Oxent
China - 5eplay
Canada - Mondial des Jeux
South Africa - Orena

Application spots:

Worldwide
North America
South America
Asia / Oceania

Teams wishing to apply for one of these four places simply need to fill out the correct application form.

ESWC Montreal will be the second Counter-Strike championship hosted by the French company in North America, where it also organised an event in 2008. PGS.MYM, featuring Virtus.pro duo Filip "⁠NEO⁠" Kubski and Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas and team coach Jakub "⁠kuben⁠" Gurczyński, came out on top of the tournament after beating South Korean side eSTRO in the grand final.

fnatic won the 2014 edition of the ESWC world finals after beating LDLC in the grand final, this way taking home the big prize of $20,000.

unexpected

2015-05-06 22:00

15 replies

expected

2015-05-06 22:19

11 replies

ESWC needs to step up

2015-05-06 22:24

10 replies

this is bs, envyus is only there cuz french. also no vp who won like 4 eswc is also a bs.

2015-05-07 01:41

9 replies

"Central Europe - CSGames" why even bother? ofc VP>g2>rest in central europe

2015-05-07 01:43

they just invited the last major winner (before fnatic, who was already invited as the title defender) and nip because is nip and tsm because of their recent form.

2015-05-07 03:10

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dont bo fooled, wcg and eswc is all about money. i hope vp and navi ll boycott this shit.

2015-05-07 04:50

"envyus is only there cuz french" never go full retard

2015-05-07 05:59

envyus is the second best team atm -.-

2015-05-07 12:45

2 replies

ahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahhaahah how much?

2015-05-07 12:51

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaahahaahahahaha

2015-05-07 15:01

VP Cannot attend due to Taz getting married.

2015-05-12 17:14

this is bs yes ! Let's not invite the last year finalist !

2015-06-01 02:19

ADD VP NAVI TITAN C9

2015-05-06 23:17

>C9 Ayy

2015-05-07 01:40

Clown9 will get out in the groups again,but this time with 1 win instead of 1 loss :D

2015-05-07 03:43

wow

whoooooooooooooo

nice!

woohoo

nice

2015-05-06 22:01

tier 2 prize pool..

disappointing

I cant fucking wait <333 its going to be the first Lan tournament i'll see in person :D

Fake flagger?

2015-05-06 22:32

nah just living in Canada :P

2015-05-06 23:07

mOE ez

vp?

2015-05-06 22:02

4 replies

maybe they didnt confirm it yet(i reply to myself because edit dont work for me)

2015-05-06 22:03

3 replies

they are not good enough to get an invite

2015-05-06 22:04

infused is better Kappa

2015-05-06 22:11

original

2015-05-06 22:13

ez for smn

Toronto > Montreal

Sway Gaming to comeback and take it all.

lol`d

I will be there Will any ESEA staff be there?

eh?

lego fnatic

8 Qualifiers then 4 slots for Application form. 2 North America, 1 for Asia/Oceania and 1 for Worldwide.

2015-05-06 22:05

cool

"as part of the Mondial des Jeux Loto Québec and Just for Laughs Festival." Guess they will be inviting clown9 then, HEHEHE TOP BANTER

2015-05-06 22:07

I see what u did there

2015-05-06 22:14

LETS GO USAAAAA. Oh i meamt canada ;)

Invite Kinguin or riot!

have they played any official matches yet?

2015-05-06 23:34

Nope!

2015-05-06 23:41

then they can try the qualifier

2015-05-07 04:34

awesome

2015-05-06 22:08

Go Argentina... Oh wait

I hope they invite Kinguin.

2015-05-06 22:34

ez Keyd

2015-05-06 22:09

INVITE KINGUIN IF YOU WANT VIEWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DEMAND IT COMMUNITY SPAM THEM DOWN

2015-05-06 22:10

no one watching for kinguin u fool haha

Unfortunately, people will be interested to see how an international team fares against the top teams, so you are wrong yet again.

2015-05-06 22:35

unfortunatly everyone knows they will fail so its not interesting

2015-05-06 22:36

Agreed kinguin should go

2015-05-07 09:21

-Envy + VP or Na'Vi

Navi!

2015-05-06 22:25

why the fuck is everything in canada hosted in montreal? toronto gets no love

vancouver, one of the most, if not THE most, beautiful city gets no love.

2015-05-06 23:35

anywhere but montreal, it's not really even "Canada"

2015-05-07 02:02

Expect voxx there and either bravado or Heat.

wuuuuuuuuuuuut n1

N1N1N1N1N1N

2015-05-06 22:15

wheres VP?

ez tsm

2015-05-06 22:16

I remember multinational teams stopped being a thing because of this fucking ESWC. At least Scandinavian ones. Time to make up for the harm you've caused the CS scene and invite Kinguin.

Finally a event I can go to

2015-05-06 22:22

So this how its gonna go guys! 4 invited professional teams (fnatic, NiP, TSM and enVyUS) 8 qualified teams (Central Europe via CSGAMES, Northern Europe via LIONSEK, Russia / CIS via CYBERSTADIUM, USA via CEVO, France via OXENT, China via 5ePLAY, Canada via MONDIAL DES JEUX and South-Africa via ORENA) 4 selected teams from the application forms(The open application forms are for 2 North American teams, 1 from Asia / Oceania and lastly 1 for worldwide) More can be found here eswc.com/en/news/16-teams-and-150k-us-fo..

2015-05-06 22:23

Oops the 2 Open Application are for both North and South America so 1 each.

2015-05-06 22:27

Kinguin pls

+ VP + Navi + Keyd + Team Kinguin + Titan + Penta + Mouz + cloud9 + Hellraisers + LGB

2015-05-06 22:26

2015-05-06 22:28

no clown9 now

2015-05-07 00:54

deal with 75k/4

2015-05-06 22:29

Hi, To clarify a bit regarding the Central European qualifier of ESWC. It is open also to European teams from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, UK, Netherlands etc. So all teams in Europe have a chance to qualify of course.

2015-05-06 22:31

Uhm, so can Northern European teams also attend this qualifier?

2015-05-06 22:52

No, there is a scandinavian one for you :) Same for teams from CIS countries which have their own qualifier.

2015-05-06 22:54

ehm, scandinavia to me is sweden, denmark, norway. Could you clarify the countries?

2015-05-07 00:14

Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Island

2015-05-07 09:49

"Male CS:GO tournament" is that necessary?

good

2015-05-06 22:40

2015-05-06 22:44

Except for CEVO qualifier, other qualifiers will have their playoffs offline, not online.

2015-05-06 22:45

2015-05-06 22:48

montreal very nice

2015-05-06 22:49

Skyred from vietnam should the asia slot, they won all in asia.

2015-05-06 22:53

yes +1 chinese teams are bad

2015-05-07 00:17

Dont really fancy lions holding the northern europe qual, imo fragbite should have done it.

2015-05-06 22:55

gl hf

2015-05-06 23:02

so they invited TSM and NiP but they didn't invite 3rd and 4th team from last ESWC which is VP and Na`Vi fuck logic forgot it is baguette event

2015-05-06 23:06

Poles angry because VP is not invited.

2015-05-07 01:18

yy yeah? NiP didn't even go out of groups at last ESWC, dignitas lost to VP in quarters.

2015-05-07 01:58

NICE GO KEYD

2015-05-06 23:16

Probably nV cant attend. They need to do some GTA heists.

2015-05-06 23:19

hyyype

2015-05-06 23:21

tabarnak

2015-05-06 23:25

Would be great if you could make a minor correction: Qualifiers: Russia/CIS <-- in fact, this will be "Russia/CIS/Baltics" since Baltic countries (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) will also have their own qualifier.

no NaVi LOL + VP

2015-05-06 23:58

only top teams :)

2015-05-07 00:19

Then why do they invite envyus?

2015-05-07 00:37

Because this year alone they've won 3 tournaments and have placed top4 in every lan they've been in.

2015-05-07 01:19

It's past, they can't win anything now, even online they looks badly latetly. In the other hand NiP won nothing in this year.

2015-05-07 12:26

South African qualifiers - Watch this space :)

2015-05-07 00:18

DAMN YOU, ADD KEYD ALREADY!!!

2015-05-07 00:26

check me win the montreal qualifier

Keyd and Dex

2015-05-07 01:46

Almost though Oceania didn't have a spot =\. At least there's a application spot but would've been cool if there were qualifiers here.

2015-05-07 01:50

It's better than being completely snubbed I suppose (which we have for every single ESWC CS:GO event).

2015-05-07 04:45

VOX will get the Asian/Oceanic spot so no need to worry

2015-05-07 09:28

There are plenty of good teams there, VoX yes but also Immunity

2015-05-07 09:51

I think one spot is enough for AUS atm

2015-05-07 10:46

No SA Qualifiers? fu

2015-05-07 02:47

good job 5EPLAY!

2015-05-07 03:11

Tickets? Where do I buy tickets for ESWC Montreal!

2015-05-07 03:24

montfake

2015-05-07 03:48

China and South Africa get quals + applications, while Australia who have been active internationally only get to apply... Ok...

2015-05-07 04:36

I'm not sure what the issue is between the Oceanic scene and ESWC, it's almost like they personally do not like us. This is the first time we've actually been recognised at all, even though Vox started travelling to events on their own dime in late 2013.

2015-05-07 04:47

I know back in the day the ESWC quals were privately run of you bought the license. Surely this day and age it can happen in Australia. The ESWC, Kode5 and WCG quals were some of the best events. Plus, it truly guarantees that the best team at the time is being rewarded with the international slot.

2015-05-07 05:34

Each year we try to have as most national or regional qualifiers as we can. We don't snob any country. But this is hard to have a partner in all of them. And more, we can not welcome dozens and dozens of teams to Montreal. So we prefer to do when we can regional qualifiers to let a chance to more country at least. With 16 international teams it already should be one of the biggest of the year, like in 2014.

2015-05-07 09:54

#InviteKeyd The team Keyd will be in the US playing the championship ESL ESEA, they deserve this Invite

2015-05-07 04:46

They will go through the application process. They got into ESWC 2014 by this method, will probably happen again.

2015-05-07 09:13

75K prize + 75K travelling support. I love this! Gives worse orgs also possibilities to join. I'm amazed!

2015-05-07 05:52

Qualifiers: Central Europe - Penta/mouz Northern Europe - dignitas/hopefully lgb Russia/CIS - NaVi United States - Liquid/elevate/clg/luminosity/whatever France - Titan China - ? Canada - ? South Africa - ? Application spots: Worldwide - VP North America - c9 South America - Keyd Asia / Oceania - Vox Eminor

2015-05-07 07:30

Kinguin can't participate in any of these qualifiers, am i right?

2015-05-07 09:35

well it will depend of the nationality of the company behind the team. When there isn't a clear majority of players with the same nationality, this is the nationality of the company which will serve to define its qualifier. Moreover, there is also application form for them.

2015-05-07 09:59

Yeah but the application spots are pretty much decided aren't they? VP will get the worldwide spot, KeyD the SA spot, C9 NA spot and Vox Oceania/asia spot.

2015-05-07 10:45

I don't know, maybe they will let VP qualify through the Central Europe qualifier but that would be unfair imo. Plus they have 3 players from Northern Europe, maybe they could participate in this one.

2015-05-07 13:33

nice..

2015-05-07 09:01

no qualifier for south east asia? they can apply for a seat directly?

2015-05-07 09:11

China has a qualifier and will get 1 team in the tournament. Other Asian teams can apply in the Asia/Oceania category, but that spot will most likely go to Vox Eminor

2015-05-07 09:36