Seven more teams invited to ESWC

3-10-2016 20:05

ESWC has announced that it has handed out invites to seven more teams.

Luminosity, Fnatic Academy, Gambit Gaming, Heroic, Preparation, Epiphany Bolt and Tengri are the new teams who have been invited to compete at ESWC 2016, which will take place from October 27 to 30 as part of the Paris Games Week trade fair.

A total of $75,000 will be up for grabs in this competition, featuring 32 teams from all over the world, who have either been invited or determined by regional and national qualifiers.

Heroic invited to attend ESWC

The most recent national qualifier took place over the weekend in Braga, Portugal, with k1ck oldschool, a mix team led by former FaZe member Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco, winning the tournament after beating FTW.Evo 2-0 in the grand final.

With this new round of invites, there are now just eight spots up for grabs in the tournament. The upcoming weeks will see China, France, Poland and the Benelux host its own qualifiers, but the distribution of the final four spots is still unknown.

Below you can find the current list of participants for ESWC 2016:

ENCE	Rogue
ALTERNATE aTTaX	Epsilon
Space Soldiers	Tricked
PENTA	Kinguin
GEX	Bravado
Red Instinct	Bpro
iGame.com	LDLC
ANOX	Overcome
k1ck oldschool	Luminosity
Gambit	HEROIC
Preparation	Epiphany Bolt
fnatic Academy	Tengri

2016-10-03 20:05

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2016-10-03 20:07

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Well as far as I see he clearly intended to go for place number 3

2016-10-03 20:37

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oh shiet you are right

2016-10-03 20:55

Fnatic academy?! What did i miss lol!

2016-10-03 22:05

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lmao

2016-10-03 21:29

EZ4ENCE

2016-10-03 20:06

ez4INDIA

Name checks out

2016-10-03 20:21

what a dank meme

2016-10-04 02:04

wohooo

wow

damn!

dsa

ayy

NOWAY OMG

nice!

cool

rip

LETS GO LDLC

Alex gonna ask for french identity. Last UK hope is nearly gone

2016-10-03 21:40

epip, lol

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that's not even close..

2016-10-03 21:30

100% accurate. 7 teams.

2016-10-03 22:26

haha

2016-10-04 14:46

ez4ence

lgr is now iGame.com?

Yes

where is dp

ez for fox

E Z

2016-10-04 10:53

fak

EZ for LANTARES

eZ for Space Soldiers, Xantares top 1

didnt read

Jonathan E is gonna make you sorry for not reading.

2016-10-03 20:46

Nice

So ez 4 kingwin

ez4igame

That is one big tier 3 tournament.

ez 4 Heroic gl LG

nice one, gl k1ck oldschool

always cool to see eswc with so many teams from different countries! Its sad that the quality decreased doe but well, gl k1ck!

If they'd put money in larger prize pool instead of paying travel expenses for 32 teams... Then they could actually have like 8 top tier teams and like prizepool of around 200k. But it's alright there has to be more of these big LAN tournaments for lower tier teams so scene can develop and new talent is discovered.

2016-10-04 01:34

ullalalaal 100% pure tier4 LAN

Ez for xantares

95% Europe teams only 1 SA team no chinese teams :(

2016-10-03 20:08

There is a Chinese qualifier

2016-10-03 20:33

Inviting teams from Iran and forgetting about north africa? lel

Let's hope for the best overcome

lmeu, norse > eph

Ez4Overcome

fnatic academy WHY?

ez for iGame

2016-10-03 20:09

rip eswc

ESWC was (one of) the events last year with huge issues (technical or whatever) that players really hated it right? please delete this if its not, genuine question only

Big tier 2/3 tournament we needed!

2016-10-03 20:10

ez for Tengri alga Kazakhstan <3

i rly think that Tengri go to win this ( + Mou and Adren = <3 )

2016-10-03 20:18

Why fnatic aren't invited? By HLTV ranking they're top 26 so it's perfect for them. Kappa

Lol RIP ESWC tier 3-4 tournament

2016-10-03 20:11

Finally a good tier2/tier3 tournament!

2016-10-03 20:12

what are you smoking? This isn't tier 2. This is tier 3/4

2016-10-03 20:43

Gambit, Kinguin, Epsilon, Heroic are tier2, and they're obvious favourites to win the entire thing.

2016-10-03 20:57

Heroic maybe. Tier 2= top 6-20 in the world imo

2016-10-03 20:58

This is great tournament that is not featuring top teams, but many other interesting teams are there. You can smoke your "tiers" and die if you want.

2016-10-03 22:19

salty 2nd worlder

2016-10-03 23:27

Salty kid.

2016-10-04 06:30

Ez XANTARES Ez SS

tengri will win this

this is a huge LAN for tier 2/3 teams, holy shit

Remember when eswc used to b a big tournament now fnatic academy is attending lmao

EZ for gambit

2016-10-03 20:13

EZ for mah bois at iGame.com

Luminosity to win this sheeeet

2016-10-03 20:14

75K prize money. Lol. So low

2016-10-03 20:16

given its a tournament with all tier 2/3 teams thats pretty damn high.

2016-10-04 00:23

feel the power x6 :D

Ez for KINGWIN

2016-10-03 20:17

ez Tengri.

ez for overcome, Aaqib ‘Bababiceps‘ Dingankar will carry.

Right now I'd say it's between Heroic and +zeus Gambit

+zeus +fox and we'll have a fair team for this tournament

2016-10-03 20:45

LDLC>

Tengri lez go!

2016-10-03 20:19

GG Gambit. 3v5 all tournament.

2016-10-03 20:23

where is GODseent ?

2016-10-03 20:24

hope ence doesnt finish last

2016-10-03 20:26

Kikck have a chance to get out of groups

Ez for 'Merica

2016-10-03 20:29

sick event!

too ez for Team Kinguin

2016-10-03 20:34

gooo tengri! :D

2016-10-03 20:36

shabby maa chodega

2016-10-03 20:39

Go Tengri!

ez4Tricked

2016-10-03 20:50

tengri top 30 next rank update

2016-10-03 20:54

Spirit?

would be cool with Norse and ArchAngelz

2016-10-03 20:59

Overcome gl

2016-10-03 21:00

EZ FOR LDNC

2016-10-03 21:02

gl epsilon

EZ4SPACESOLDIERS

2016-10-03 21:11

this is nice tournament heroic go win

Ez For Norway, best Scene ever xd :D

It's a good tournament to show your strenght and potentially get invited to bigger LANs and jump in HLTV rankings.

2016-10-03 21:31

why not invite hellraisers

2016-10-03 22:21

ez4 k1ck

2016-10-03 22:22

2016-10-03 22:23

ESWC used to be a great tournament, now it's a tier 2-3 level. What happened to the french tourney?

2016-10-03 22:29

No money, no big teams.

2016-10-03 22:30

That is what i call a really interesting (subtop, even though some top teams like Heroic are in) tourney with diverse teams. I'd rather watch this than Gfinity with 4 teams only (and not even top top teams, not Tier 1 teams at least).

2016-10-03 22:45

This is too easy for Heroic

2016-10-03 22:49

all shitty teams. ayy lmao

2016-10-03 23:23

Ez for heroic

2016-10-04 00:03

KQLY can play this tournament.

2016-10-04 00:38

HLTV, there is an error on a team. Red Instinct is oficially Red Instinct Rising Star and with 5 diferent players (MAIDHEN, Lambert, LoWkii, LaAw and Fuks).

2016-10-04 00:46

Red Instinct dropped their team and moved their Rising Stars team up to their official lineup.

2016-10-04 06:02

gl LG

2016-10-04 00:56

I like seeing a big tournament with more of these up and coming talents and semi pro players. We might see some toight matches. Toight like a toiger. Also hope to see some players shine. You kinda never know when someone new steps into the spotlight when given a good opportunity.

2016-10-04 03:34