Na`Vi confirmed at IEM Oakland

18-8-2016 23:46

Natus Vincere are the seventh team confirmed to attend the Intel Extreme Masters in Oakland, California from November 19-20.

Billed for November 19-20, ESL's IEM Oakland event already has a packed portfolio of top teams, with another five more remaining to be announced before the twelve team event will take place at the Oracle Arena in the Californian city.

The next invitee was announced earlier today by ESL and is none other than Natus Vincere, with the CIS region team having recently made a high profile roster swap of bringing in Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and removing veteran Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko (they also were recently invited for the $250,000 ESL One New York event taking place in early October).

Na`Vi are the seventh invited team to IEM Oakland

ESL have billed Na`Vi as the defending champions as it was indeed Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács & co. who won last year's IEM stopover in California which took place in the nearby city of San Jose.

ESL have yet to announce the actual prize-pool of the event, however it is expected to be announced in the coming weeks along with the remaining five teams that will compete. The current list of attending teams is:

SK	Liquid	Virtus.pro	Natus Vincere
Astralis	Ninjas in Pyjamas	G2

They were born to win! Watch @natusvincere defend their title at #IEM Oakland!https://t.co/NdCqbCCCX4 pic.twitter.com/xssxZsy8Yc
— Intel®ExtremeMasters (@IEM) August 18, 2016

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nice one , ez for ence edit: ive been waiting for this moment for a long time , i would want to thank my mom and my dad because they make it possible as they changed my internet

2016-08-18 23:51

18 replies

Nice news. But as always the best CS team in history, SK gaming, will win.

2016-08-18 23:47

15 replies

Ez for cheaters :)

2016-08-18 23:48

10 replies

Please don't be sad because we are so superior

2016-08-18 23:49

9 replies

Yep with cheating only :)

3 replies

cry

2016-08-18 23:50

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Be proud of cheaters = nice logic .

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nice prove you show.

2016-08-19 00:00

'we are' again they are pro players, you are trash, remember this

2016-08-19 00:11

hahaha, +1

2016-08-19 01:16

2016-08-19 13:19

Cry because russia is so bad in CS hahaha

2016-08-20 01:41

Slums

2016-08-19 00:12

lol

dude, calm down; playing good for half a year does not make a team the best in CS history. Talking about CS Go history, it is fnatic that has been the best team (based on performance & titles for prolonged period of time, not based on you feelings); NIP were good when there were no real competition in CS Go, so I guess that does not count to full extent. In CS 1.6 history, it is hard to tell, there were periods of VP dominance, Na'Vi dominance, fnatic dominance & yeah SK dominance. Current SK, even though being dominant now, has not achieved anything close to what it requires to become the greatest team in CS history. So please stop spamming, ok?

2016-08-19 07:54