ESWC Nordic qualifier called off

6-6-2015 01:11

ESWC tournament director Sylvain Maillard has revealed that the Nordic qualifier has been cancelled.

The qualifier was initially supposed to be hosted by LionSEK but, according to Maillard, the packed CS:GO tournament schedule until the end of the month has made it impossible to organise a tournament like this in time for the ESWC finals.

The spot that would go to the winner of the qualifier will instead by filled through an application process, whose form can be filled via ESWC's website.

Teams like dignitas will have to apply for a spot to attend ESWC

fnatic and Ninjas in Pyjamas have already been invited to ESWC, while Team SoloMid recently declined their invitation due to family obligations and were replaced by Natus Vincere.

A total of $75,000 will be on offer at ESWC 2015, with a further $75,000 being distributed between the invited and the qualified teams in the form of travel and accommodation support.

good luck teams

2015-06-06 01:11

noooo rip

2015-06-06 01:12

cool

2015-06-06 01:12

lol

2015-06-06 01:12

wtf :/

2015-06-06 01:13

LGB GOGO!

2015-06-06 01:13

wow

2015-06-06 01:14

wait what the fuck?

2015-06-06 01:14

Afraid of the Nordic masterrace?

2015-06-06 01:15

So now dignitas will probably get a free pass to ESWC. Bullshit. At least have an online bo3 between dignitas and LGB

2015-06-06 01:15

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no automtic in dignitas getting the spot, they have had some decent online form recent months but didnt manage to qual for either faceit or DH but for some reason gets invite for esea esl league.

2015-06-06 01:18

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True. LGB was snubbed from the ESL ESEA League. Would be really pissed if i was LGB and they got snubbed from ESWC too.

2015-06-06 02:10

not surprised, eswc cant organize anything properly

2015-06-06 01:16

Sad to see .... Does the apply count for any team or just nordic onces is my question as if it doesn't we could see titan or a team like them pick it up

2015-06-06 01:17

rip

2015-06-06 01:18

expected

2015-06-06 01:18

Some one is going to be screwed over... Bit does this mean that the team who would have participated in Nordic can now try in other qualifiers near their region?

2015-06-06 01:19

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doubt it

2015-06-06 01:20

online qualifier please.. ex-Property, LGB, Dignitas

2015-06-06 01:34

rip

2015-06-06 01:34

I hope VP will play

2015-06-06 01:46

1 reply

VP will play in euro qualification

2015-06-06 13:17

srs?

2015-06-06 02:11

Pathetic

2015-06-06 03:21

That's really unfair.

2015-06-06 04:59

I guess SK will get the spot

2015-06-06 05:08

3 replies

Dignitas > SK retard

2015-06-06 05:36

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I know but as org. SK>DiG

2015-06-07 04:59

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How is that relevant to what team gets invited. Tournament invites should be based on skill, its not like Dig can't afford to send them anyways

2015-06-08 04:26

Acer imo /acer

2015-06-06 05:34

1 reply

2015-06-06 15:03

Good luck

2015-06-06 06:24

team Acer deserves the spot

2015-06-06 07:17

bit sad that they couldn't even arrange a qualifier

2015-06-06 08:28

Rip underdogs

2015-06-06 09:24

titan plz ;(

2015-06-06 11:12

Sk/Dig/1337/LGB Guess that it will be a popularity contest :(

2015-06-06 11:51

75k$ lol. get your shit together, tournament organizers.

2015-06-06 13:08

Half a year to fix a qualifier, but hey, what can u expect from a norweigan organisation ^^

2015-06-06 13:16

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They have done it several times before

2015-06-06 13:41

This is so weird. There is too many good teams with "names" and unknown teams in Nordic to have it as invite. Never ever let a Norwegian organization host a qualifier again.

2015-06-06 13:36

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Cuz why? Cant u read?

2015-06-06 13:40

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Excuse me? How is my statement invalid? There are like 6 teams with achievements and also like 40 teams that actually could win the qualifiers vs dignitas, sk, 1337, lgb etc so how cant i read? Its fcked up to have the nordic part as invite.

2015-06-06 14:03

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dont blame the organizer, there where no time for a onlan qual cuz of tight scheduals

2015-06-07 06:45

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they posted this information in like april. So Lions have hadd time to make this happen. If they akes faceit to do this for them it would have been done already.

2015-06-07 13:35

This is really retarded, imo.

2015-06-06 14:46

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+1 why dont they just ask faceit to hold the nordic qualifier for eswc and actually give all the underdog teams a chance i mean there is easy 5 teams in each nordic country with the chance to qualify ^^

2015-06-06 15:14