Keyd Stars, Vox to ESWC Montreal

28-5-2015 19:33

Keyd Stars and Vox Eminor have been invited to compete at ESWC Montreal, the French organisation has revealed.

The Brazilian team will represent South America at the Canadian event, while Vox Eminor take the slot that was reserved for Asia and Oceania, with both sides being selected because of their results "in past local and international tournaments".

This will be the first ESWC event for the Australian side, who recently gave a good account of themselves at Gfinity Masters, taking maps off fnatic and NiP, and beating Liquid 2-0.

FalleN's Keyd Stars to attend ESWC Montreal

As for Keyd Stars, the Brazilian team, who recently moved to Los Angeles to compete in the ESL ESEA Pro League, attended last year's ESWC event as KaBuM.TD, finishing fifth in their group, with one victory from five matches.

"We are really excited about representing our country once again at ESWC," said Gabriel "FalleN" Sguario.

"The tournament is always great and we hope to perform ever better than our last participation. Thanks for the opportunity!"

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

Fnatic - Defending champions
NiP - Invited
Team SoloMid - Invited
EnVyUs - Invited
Keyd Stars - Invited
Vox Eminor - Invited

Meanwhile, ESWC stated that the remaining two invites, a worldwide slot and a North American place, will be handed out in the coming weeks.

ESWC Montreal 2015 will run from July 9-12 as part of the Mondial des Jeux Loto Québec and Just for Laughs Festival, with $75,000 up for grabs in the 16-team male CS:GO tournament.

2015-05-28 19:34

28 replies

lmao, is this a joke? so far the only good team is TSM. Where is VP or Navi? anyway easy 1st place money for TSM.

2015-05-28 19:57

27 replies

fnatic>tsm

2015-05-28 20:00

11 replies

Even with olof they cant win against tsm haha nub

2015-05-28 20:07

sure mate, thats why TSM won bo3's since MLG Aspen vs fnatic?

7 replies

kek just checked, you're right, sry m8

2015-05-28 20:10

3 replies

meh, we all know TSM will choke anyways when it matters the most.

2015-05-28 21:06

2 replies

I'd like to see a team that people could actually bet on, unlike Virtus.Throw... TSM imo seems as one...

2015-05-28 21:58

1 reply

TSM is a very safe bet atm, unless they match vs VP. They seem to lose everytime.

2015-05-29 00:42

Come here after tsm has won esl esea pro league or major.

2015-05-28 20:14

lol

2015-05-28 20:38

yes great standings so far in esl esea

2015-05-29 21:05

1st stage of a loss: denial. hahahaa how much?

2015-05-28 20:15

get off olo69

2015-05-29 04:19

VP or Navi haven't played their qualifier matches yet?! GLHF watching your first ESWC tournament btw!

9 replies

You do know that NIP was out in group stages @ last eswc while VP was 3rd and Navi was 4th,fnatic first and nv 2nd. If any teams were to be invited it should have been TOP 4 at the last event... I dont even understand why NIP is invited...They dont win shit

2015-05-28 20:20

4 replies

They are easily the best team in Sweden behind fnatic though? I'm in no way a Nip fanboy, it's kind of amusing to me they think something is wrong = why they aren't winning.. no, the simple fact is there are a handful of teams nowadays who would need to fuck up in some way before they stand a chance. VP I agree as said in my comment below, navi not so much!

2015-05-28 20:27

VP has been finishing in the top 4 at quite a lot of events,i can understand TSM being invited,why NIP has done nothing to warrant an invite, im sure they would not have qualified for MLG aspen considering the competition...whole of second half of last year nip barely attended anything apart from majors because they failed to qualify for anything,and this year they are invited to all events lol.

2015-05-28 20:57

If there is a chance to invite NiP, most organizers will do it and will keep it doing no matter how bad NiP is performing. It's the team with the biggest fanbase, as simple as that. Unless that changes, which I don't see it happening since the rest of top teams gets a lot of unjustified hate (imo) for different and mostly stupid reasons.

2015-05-28 21:22

ESWC since a few years is a pure marketing.

2015-05-28 20:35

tard? i ve been following cs since 2004 and i watched the poles winning ESWC twice.

2015-05-28 20:21

Oh apologies. I thought you didn't notice the invited teams are clearly the best in their region bar NiP but with fnatic being champs it's no biggy they don't have to qualify. I do agree about the Poles, g2 aren't going to put up a fight so they should be invited. Despite their recent form I don't think Navi are clear cut over F3 or even HR in their current form.

2015-05-28 20:23

vp was top3 in the last event. it should be enough to invite them directly instead nip who got out in groups!

2015-05-28 20:36

cuz nip totally doesn't get into the final of nearly every major

2015-05-29 21:07

Nice Try, Troll

What? Envy have been doing god-awful lately but they can still bring it against other T1 teams. Same goes for NiP, they always surprise us on LAN. And do you really think that TSM will easily beat Fnatic? They may have a great record against Fnatic but that doesn't mean that it'll easily go TSM's way.

2015-05-29 03:32

where have u been last months? TSM always eliminate fnatic. fnatic cant do shit about it. their skill is just too low.

2015-05-29 03:44

There always has to be that one person that complains about the teams attending, is there some qouta im not aware of???

2015-05-29 05:10

NiP, Fnatic, nV, KeyD strong teams, not JUST TSM, TSM are just the strongest.

2015-05-29 12:08

GL JKS ! Go aussies

Great news !

Well last time the tournament format was dogshit with idk 6 teams or so in a group and two advance. lel

Invite NaVi and VP

2015-05-28 19:35

+1 this would be a perfect tournament

2015-05-28 19:37

Theres a cis qualifier and im assuming one in polish region though i think these 2 should get instant invite.

2015-05-28 19:45

POLAND is not CIS..

2015-05-29 01:34

Try and read properly before responding. "and im assuming one in polish region"

2015-05-29 02:33

no vp no fun

They will get invited later the list isnt full yet they have to invite more teams :)

2015-05-28 20:08

nice

Glad they're invited. They deserve it

2015-05-28 19:36

go vox !

VOX <3

2015-05-28 19:38

ez for Fnatic

I'm kinda sad because dexterity asked first for a spot in this tournament :v, will be hard for them to play a tournament if they only invite keyd

fake flag

2015-05-28 19:41

nice logic... why a French org would invite a team that never played any international tourney over a team that was top8 last major?? if dexterity wants to play this kind of championship they need to start from the smalls. what a bad english in my post rofl

2015-05-28 20:05

ok fakeflagger keyd is the best team, competing at top level why would they invite dex instead of keyd? -logic

2015-05-28 20:12

stop crying y'all know i'm huehue, I was just trolling in a cheater thread, they could invite both since asia have one spot if i'm not wrong :D. Dex>>keyd

yeah, dex>>keyd ayy lmao

2015-05-28 20:45

2-0 never forget

2015-05-28 20:49

dex = 1 win keyd = 1000 wins ayy lmao

no na team rekt

2015-05-28 19:40

will come later m8

2015-05-29 21:09

Deserved

No NA teams rekt

Nice reading skills M9, "Meanwhile, ESWC stated that the remaining two invites, a worldwide slot and a North American place, will be handed out in the coming weeks." rekt.

6 replies

Maybe he was talking about playoffs...

2015-05-28 19:47

What 'playoffs'? Playoffs for a tournament that hasn't even started yet? It's simple. If your team receives an invitation, you compete at the event. No invitation? You don't. There is no 'online/offline qualifier' for this event.

2015-05-28 19:51

jk there's only 8 invited teams. But 1 invite specifically for an NA team. It just hasn't been handed out yet.

2015-05-28 20:06

Yes But no NA teams in the first announcement, which means they don't care about you as much as they care about the other continents

2015-05-28 21:23

that doesn't make sense

2015-05-28 21:59

the other na team will be dexterity, keyd is from north america and they've beaten keyd 2-0 once. they can therefore wreck c9 anyday. rekt.

2015-05-29 03:59

Yo Good job ESWC We know Asian teams are shit right ? So let them remain shit. Who are we to care. I hope the best for this tournament :)

2015-05-28 19:42

What are you talking about? There was a spot up for Asian/Oceanic teams and Vox took it. Vox is far from shit.

2015-05-29 04:39

Read the article carefully.

2015-05-29 06:23

no invite NaVi and VP? LOL

Lmao vox and keyd wont be able to do shit.

at least vox vs keyd will be fun, underdogs vs underdogs matches are fun

2015-05-28 20:30

sorry what teams have come from your country?

2015-05-29 04:21

Better to have no team than having one embarrassing your country. :-)

2015-05-29 04:26

You clearly don't follow CS if you think Vox or keyd have embarrassed their countries.

2015-05-29 05:23

thats kinda unfair with DeXterity, since keyd are able to qualify through the american qualifier

2015-05-28 19:43

It's invite-only. There's no 'qualifier'.

2015-05-28 19:46

wtf, eswc doing weird shit since 2010

2015-05-28 19:49

why they have a news about china qualifier in their site D: ?

2015-05-28 20:31

Would be surprised to see them in TOP3 ....

2015-05-28 19:44

Nice GL KeyD

hope they don't invite garbage na teams so the tournament is somewhat interesting to watch i wan't to see who's the best not what na can get the least amount of rounds

'Meanwhile, ESWC stated that the remaining two invites, a worldwide slot and a North American place, will be handed out in the coming weeks.' sorry for you ( and me too) but there will be at least 1 NA team invited

2015-05-29 21:13

Nice!!!!

I love c9 but they doesnt deserve any free invites anymore. Atleast at this moment. :D Should be more fun if NA have 2 slots but with quals

2015-05-28 19:48

gl guys.

Gl guys!

nice, like both teams <3

2015-05-28 19:50

gg ez 4 keyd m8

2015-05-28 19:55

HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE

2015-05-28 19:56

Atleast they could have invited team nxl =(.

Either VP or NaVi will probably get the invite, the one left out having to make it through the qualifiers. Not sure who the invite should be but I'd guess either Cloud9 or Liquid (because it's a Canadian org), or even LG.

youtube.com/watch?v=sTsVJ1PsnMs

2015-05-28 20:04

ez4cajunBBBBB

The Brazilian team will represent South America SA, not NA ok guys?

2015-05-28 20:11

This my favourite none Swede team atm, fuking love KeyD and Fer.

2015-05-28 20:22

Havoc!!! ("__")

NIP was out in group stages @ last eswc while VP was 3rd and Navi was 4th,fnatic first and nv 2nd. If any teams were to be invited it should have been TOP 4 at the last event... I dont even understand why NIP is invited...They dont win shit

Where is the VP ?

GO KEYD!

Will they provide travel support? Probably won't be financially good for vox otherwise

NA tournament only invite EU teams... 1 qualifier spot for NA and for 1 worldwide spot, poor NA.

2015-05-28 20:26

Keyd >>>>>> ALL TEAMS

HellRaisers NiP TSM EnVyUs Titan Na´Vi Virtus.Pro fnatic There's two pots of teams for you, chop chop, invite.

2015-05-28 20:33

2015-05-28 20:39

Skyred from Vietnam should get worldwide slot

2015-05-28 20:43

neoph inviting inc. (i hope) :D

2015-05-28 21:09

Nice

2015-05-28 21:19

Nice!

2015-05-28 21:35

keyd will get this haha of course not but i still in lovin

2015-05-28 21:37

noobs

2015-05-28 21:56

noice

2015-05-28 22:40

Let me buy tickets to the event already ESWC!

2015-05-28 23:52

add argentinians teams to the scene :( we can beat any brazilian team.

2015-05-29 00:44

8 replies

UYSAUSAASUHUHASHUASHUASHUASHUASHUASHUASHUASUHASUHASHUHAUS you never won and will never win, wake up for life

2015-05-29 01:49

what are u talking for? only fallen and co can beat argentinians teams. The rest off your players are bader as argentinians are.

2015-05-29 02:29

dExterity > All argentina teams the best team of you is the level of Mastermind

2015-05-29 02:35

2015-05-29 03:18

i agree with you, my friend!

2015-05-29 03:48

pele>maradona

2015-05-29 04:04

Messi > Maradona > Di stefano > Neymar > Pele

2015-06-01 02:09

>Neymar>Pele i lol`d

2015-06-10 17:22

Keyd received invite the international-spot, will have even more one Brazilian team, Taco posted a picture of a suitcase and wrote "news soon", maybe they represent the BR-spot in the championship

2015-05-29 01:51

Read again. Keyd received the South America spot.

2015-05-30 02:20

keyd fanboyism is real

2015-05-29 01:57

They're hostile even to other brazilian lol, just because I said dexterity would be better in this tournament. Only vp fanboys have the same level of fanboyism.

2015-05-29 02:06