Team list for IeSF finalized

30-9-2016 14:48

The International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) announced the 21 CS:GO teams that will be competing at the 8th e-Sports World Championship in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 6-9.

The CS:GO competition will be played alongside the League of Legends and Hearthstone tournaments, with the country with the best results in all three games combined taking the title of the e-Sports World Champion.

Last year's competition was won by Serbia and had Korea taking second place, but featured StarCraft 2 - which was replaced by CS:GO for this year.

The organizer announced the participation of the following CS:GO teams:

Athletico	FiRENATioN	Hardknocks	TYLOO
Anubis	ENCE	eSportsLab	nxl
ExAequo	MVP Project	Mineski	Nexus
5FRAGS	iNation	Team South Africa	Dank Deaglez
Maaischguet	Signature	DreamRAR	Sabertooth
Team Maldives

With most teams and players prioritizing one of the two overlapping events: WESG EU&CIS and TWC 2016, TYLOO should be the favorite for the event - as they are the only HLTV top 30 team to attend.

Team such as Athletico could have something to prove if they get a chance to face off against lower tier European teams such as ENCE, 5FRAGS or Nexus, while iNation will hope to get a good result to defend their nation's first place from last year.

With Tyloo attending, China are set to win the CS:GO competition

The tournament will use a round-robin group stage format, followed by a single elimination best-of-three playoff bracket. The prize pool for the CS:GO competition is $20,000, with additional prize money awarded for final national rankings.

CS:GO Prize pool distribution:

1. - $10,000
2. - $6,000
3. - $4,000

great chance for so many teamsz

2016-09-30 14:48

8 replies

greatest chance for tyloo they are the only tier 2 team the rest are tier 3-5

2016-09-30 14:50

6 replies

ez for ence tho?

2016-09-30 14:51

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no allu no ez

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EZ FOR TEAM ITALY ELEGIGGLE SADLY ITALY IS WORSE THAN UK CS

2016-09-30 15:27

Tyloo is Tier 3 at the very best, just as renegade is Tier 4 at very very best.

2016-09-30 16:12

What tier is Tricked and Epsilon?

2016-09-30 17:02

tyloo aint no tier 3 team boii. renegades are a tier 4 team and the rest of au cs is tier 10. but my boys in china aint no tier 3 team but nt swedistan.

2016-09-30 17:12

ence,tyloo,ination biggest favourites

2016-09-30 16:18

nice

This post was originally #1, but I edited it

2016-09-30 14:49

good

Seems good TBH

East for Ence

East for Ence?

ez 4 ence ban me :>

2016-09-30 15:09

cool

ez 4 ence

"Dank Deaglez"

EZ TYLOO

ez for Dank Deaglez

No Allu, no ez

2016-09-30 16:55

too ez for tyloo

Dank Deaglez lol

ez for ence

ez ENCE

God damn. I'm not first :(. Feelsbadman.

Go italy

lets gooo

Athletico+PeetyG=ez win

iNation with Ynk?

nah, but kassad (ex-mousesports coach) is playing for them.

2016-09-30 14:54

No, he just stood-in at the qualifier

2016-09-30 15:23

Ez Maldives

EZ 4 ENCE

Who?

2016-09-30 14:52

Lets go nxl

DREAM.rar LETS GOO BOIS!!

EZZZ FOR ENCE

2016-09-30 14:53

EZ FOR ENCE finally?

expected

2016-09-30 14:57

That 10k $ first prize

2016-09-30 14:58

Easy for Dream Rar

2016-09-30 15:00

Who cares ? XD

You since you replied. While you clean toilets those kids will have fun in Asia for free, jelly fgt

2016-09-30 15:06

5 replies

nt german scene.

2016-09-30 15:07

4 replies

Ur a nobody )))

2016-09-30 15:08

3 replies

Just like you :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

atleast he doesn't hate and is not jelly like you ^^ frustrated fgt

2016-09-30 15:34

You know what xd means ? It's joke.

2016-09-30 15:36

Ez for Sunny the real carry of ence

2016-09-30 15:01

ez for crazyguy

2016-09-30 15:04

EZ for Athletico

Hahaha ence. This is major for them : d

2016-09-30 15:10

Ez for ence 4Head

WTF Most random team list I've ever seen. I wonder how these teams ended up here.

2016-09-30 15:17

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By qualifying

HLTV didn't announced this tournament nor the qualifiers... they also didn't ever featured any matches related to the event. Then out of nowhere, this news. If the main CS website didn't drop a single letter on the whole thing, I wonder how these small teams were aware of the existence of the tournament (and it's qualifiers, as you're saying).

2016-09-30 15:26

Each country's federation holds a LAN event, the winner of the LAN event qualifiers to go representing the country. That's the overall premise not sure if everyone has done it or not, but that's what was done for Anubis (which is my team). EDIT: The event contacts the federations, the federations generates local announcements for their respective country. Which is why it was pretty low-key I guess.

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...you're from Iraq?

It's an Egyptian flag, and I'm a dual nationality. Which is the reason why I've been the team captain for Egypt the last two years. Pretty common knowledge. hltv.org/news/14968-world-championships-.. hltv.org/news/17887-twc-2016-captains-un..

2016-09-30 15:31

First time I've ever messed up flags... the day has come. Nice then, good luck!

Haha, there's a first time for everything :). Thanks! We'll need it.

2016-09-30 16:37

Common knowledge? Get off of your high horse lmao

2016-09-30 15:46

That was not my intention :), I meant that it wasn't a secret that I have a dual nationality, if I were a little bit more awake at the time I wrote that, I should have said it was public knowledge since I'm not embarrassed by it. I agree though, "common knowledge" did sound bad!

2016-09-30 16:35

Such common knowledge

lets go hardknocks

Ez team maldives

2016-09-30 15:18

ez4eslab

lol dank deaglez ez :D

2016-09-30 15:28

yaay. go swiss :D

2016-09-30 15:30

ez4ence, and crazyguy <3

they need to stop calling events "world championships" , the only true world championship event was WCG, and it was a limited format anyway that doesn't really work in modern csgo.

2016-09-30 15:35

gl FiRENATioN

2016-09-30 15:40

You're telling me all these random nonamers teams pay their own trip to the event? Traveling to Jakarta will be more expensive than the 1st place for the EU teams. lol

2016-09-30 15:52

same with WESG.. at least this is 20k tournament, not 100k xd

isn't WESG 1.5m?

2016-09-30 15:58

yes but regional finals have 75k i think, space soldiers destroyed all me and aus teams..

2016-09-30 16:01

IeSF and national federations covered the trips for the teams, they're sending people in 3 games. Similarly how in WESG all teams have their trips paid by WESG.

2016-09-30 15:56