Cloud9 and Liquid invited to IEM Oakland

27-6-2017 00:44

Cloud9 and Team Liquid have been invited to attend IEM Oakland, ESL has announced.

The North American duo join Astralis, FaZe, G2 and SK, who were all previously invited by ESL.

Both teams were last weekend in attendance at the ECS Season 3 Finals, in London. They were in the same group, with only Cloud9 managing to progress to the semi-finals, in which they would be defeated by FaZe.

Cloud9 confirmed at IEM Oakland

IEM Oakland will run from November 18-19 at the Oracle Arena, with $300,000 up for grabs. Two more teams will be determined by invites, while the remaining four sides will come from qualifiers, which have not yet been announced.

Below you can find a provisional list of participants for IEM Oakland:

Astralis	FaZe
SK	G2
Cloud9	Liquid
Invite	Invite
Qualifier	Qualifier
Qualifier	Qualifier

Is it finally their time to shine? @TeamLiquid head to Oakland for Intel Extreme Masters! #IEM https://t.co/4YCGnb5YOl pic.twitter.com/x0AxHpKm1t
— Intel®ExtremeMasters (@IEM) June 26, 2017

The first NA team to join the lineup - welcome @Cloud9 to #IEM Oakland!https://t.co/hiS1nKRLSu pic.twitter.com/7Vv793jlbt
— Intel®ExtremeMasters (@IEM) June 26, 2017

wasted spots

2017-06-27 00:44

37 replies

true

2017-06-27 00:45

11 replies

dw they wont waste anymore by inviting a shit team like kinguin or vp

2017-06-27 01:04

10 replies

Ireland xD

2017-06-27 01:41

6 replies

lol laugh all you want but majority of your shitty population migrates here because it shits on poland in every economical way

2017-06-27 03:37

5 replies

Lies, majority migrate here (UK) then those that don't go to Ireland

2017-06-27 08:33

4 replies

lmao pussy fakeflagger calling me a liar hahahaha nt

2017-06-28 16:18

3 replies

hahahah r u dumb? flag auto set nerd

2017-06-28 17:00

2 replies

nt fakeflagger, stop trying to bait me dumb stinker

2017-06-28 23:30

1 reply

so rude

2017-06-28 23:45

Yeah because they will qualify anyway

2017-06-27 02:12

+1 shrud lover

2017-06-27 02:37

you have just reminded me that VP has not been invited yet. VP...

2017-06-28 06:26

Vp and NiP incoming

14 replies

Why should you invite 2 T4 teams?

2017-06-27 00:58

13 replies

4 money

2017-06-27 00:59

T4 teams like fnatic and mouz? They won't be invited

2017-06-27 01:30

Tier 2 teams

2017-06-27 05:14

Lol atleast fnatic and mouz are in epl and ecs

2017-06-27 09:36

so 1st of all who the fuck said that I support mouz and at least fnc and mouz can compete against higher level teams while VP loose against BIG/Penta

2017-06-27 10:59

idk, fnatic losing to every NA team on lan. Fnatic T5 team confirmed?

2017-06-27 12:20

keep fangaying C9 because they won two BO1s lmao

2017-06-27 13:48

salt?

2017-06-28 08:35

no, pepper 4Head

2017-06-28 10:33

German scum ha

2017-06-27 21:56

haHAA

2017-06-27 22:25

2017-06-28 22:14

at least one +1, I love you

2017-06-28 22:33

well, last tournament showed that these teams can surprise so these are not wasted spots gtfo

2017-06-27 00:46

2017-06-27 01:12

not wasted if they can beat Astralis or wreck G2

2017-06-27 01:27

money>skill

2017-06-27 03:13

c9 during summer is never a wasted spot liquid might be though, we'll see

2017-06-27 03:32

2017-06-29 14:26

2017-06-27 04:24

+1000000000000

2017-06-27 04:59

trash like fnatic/vp/g2/envyus/etc is sure not wasted spot

2017-06-27 09:45

should have invited Optic instead of C9.. at least they are actually trying to build a real team

2017-06-28 23:47

Where is Tyloo's invite?

2017-06-27 01:08

I would enjoy that tbh

they have to qualify 2 spots for asia

2017-06-27 02:38

they would never get an outright invite but they have a strong chance to qualify

2017-06-27 18:32

Sick

wasted

where is optic?

LUL xD

2017-06-27 01:02

Optic in 2017 lul

2017-06-27 02:07

choke 9 really???

Expect

Not entirely wasted

easy opponents 4 eu

ez for fnatic

C9 wtf??

Well top2 team from NA so must have something for home crowd

2017-06-27 00:48

I think Misfits is better (they just have to get the opportunity to show what they have with full roster), but yeah it's because of the fanbase.

2017-06-27 00:54

dunno man, they've been showing good results lately here and there. Could be a nice surprise.

2017-06-27 01:06

Winning 2 bo1s and getting out of groups every other time...

2017-06-27 01:18

why do you say that Misfits is better than C9?

2017-06-27 08:31

Expected

Clg inc

Maybe if they get through the quals

2017-06-27 02:25

Why no events with vp this year???? SK are on almost every events in this year wtf

2017-06-27 00:47

cuz SK is top1 and vp is... ???? Top15

Because vp is tier3 this year

2017-06-27 00:49

Cmon guys. They lost iem and starlader and fucked some online matches but it was long time ago. Give them a chance. Let them try

2017-06-27 00:55

they'll have their chance to prove themselves again on ESL One Cologne, and the krakow major. I'm sure if they do well they'll start being invited again.

2017-06-27 01:36

Next invites: North and Fnatic Closed qualifier invites: BIG,NiP,Redreserve, HR

NA 2 spots

lol fnatic can't even beat Liquid in a bo3 wasted spot

2017-06-27 01:32

Then VP I'd wasted spot as well. Most tournaments invite teams based on their rankings. Mad toiletcleaner lul

2017-06-27 14:54

what about imt? I think they found themselves. They're playing really well. Better than C9. Optic too is better than c9. where are they??

Current optic is not better than C9 dude

2017-06-27 01:10

yeah.. they were bad last 2 tournaments. But I believe hahaha

c9 have defeated every team on this list so far except for faze i think. so i don't see why they wouldn't be able to compete

Cloud 9 only beat SK in online matches or in a tournament for 10k, SK will fuck Cloud 9 any day if they care about it. Same for Faze, Astralis and probably G2

2017-06-27 01:23

So are we going to just pretend that the ESL S4 LAN Finals never happened, where C9 won 200k, or did you just repress that painful memory?

2017-06-27 01:58

Not the same SK lineup so maybe he isn't counting it

2017-06-27 03:38

jesus christ stop living in the past, epl brazil was almost 9 months ago and it was a fluke run

2017-06-27 03:57

So because something happened in the past, doesn't make it factual evidence? Get your head out of your ass.

2017-06-27 04:17

Nt. Also every team cares about their lan matches. Don't act like g2 or sk were just running around pugging it when they lost to c9 lol. These teams are more consistent than c9 I'll give you that. But you still can't pretend c9 doesn't compete with them

2017-06-27 02:14

Cooool

It's summer bois, get your tank tops.

2017-06-27 00:56

Well,okay.It's good

+Fnatic and north and it will be more stacked than ECS just with the invites.

Or could be better to invite north and Navi, Fnatic qualifies in EU, gambit in CIS, immortals and clg in NA. Since it's an NA tournament prob 2 spots for qualifiers.

2017-06-27 06:46

Dignitas pls

It's about time Team Liquid started getting invited to events like this instead of having to qualifying for it!

2017-06-27 01:15

Not time, it's about good performances! They did pretty well at ECS and deserved this chance.

2017-06-27 01:31

Hopefully not Nip and VP next

CLG and North and you have even better teams than ECS.

fnatic North INC

2017-06-27 01:22

The best north american team, hope of n.a , highest skill ceilling, better names on paper, better strategies and better logo+bran deserved the invitation......but Clown9 didn't.

2017-06-27 01:29

What about: North, fnatic, Na'Vi, Virtus.pro, Immortals, Gambit, mouz?

lol thank god they aren't inviting that shit team optic.

2017-06-27 01:40

CLG > Choke 9

2017-06-27 01:47

RIP Optic

2017-06-27 02:01

NiP should be invited since they won it last year...

2017-06-27 03:00

True, if they really won. Nip is shit now but still champion is champion

2017-06-27 11:23

how is c9 #6 on the hltv rankings?

2017-06-27 03:14

Where the fuck is GAMBIT!!!

2017-06-27 03:22

Let's go Zelão! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-06-27 04:11

Must be north and fnatic

2017-06-27 04:16

North and NiP, fnc wouldnt make it out of groups anyways.

2017-06-27 09:05

Oh and NiP would? Lmao

2017-06-27 12:21

NiP at least has to defend the title they won last year, so it makes sense to at least invite them even if they would go out in groups. But we wouldn't know that since we haven't seen the new lineup.

2017-06-27 16:54

Yeah that's a pretty solid argument, they will go out in groups but they do deserve to defend their title. We have seen their form with their lineup tho since they already played some matches with REZ and they are stillpretty much tier 3/4. And it would be ignorant to say Fnatic can't make it out of groups, their performance at Dreamhack Malmo was pretty good and they could definitely make it out of groups.

2017-06-27 16:57

Where are the REZ games? send me link

2017-06-27 18:04

nvm guess I was mistaken. Could've sworn I've see them play with REZ tho. Anyway don't have much faith in them either way.

2017-06-28 10:08

Vp+nip+fanatic+gambit+Navi+north+2

2017-06-27 04:46

When all you read is cloud9 liquid and you think a roster change is happening, but then you remember it's NA

2017-06-27 05:10

Expected for an NA LAN. Gonna try and go to this one.

2017-06-27 06:09

W A S T E D ........P ........O ........T ........S

2017-06-27 06:53

NiP because title defenders

2017-06-27 09:04

another easy major for brasil

2017-06-27 09:16

RIP direct invited for grandpaps from VP

2017-06-27 09:43

Next Oakland Champs NIP and North. Virtus.Premier and Fnatic have to qualify for this tournament . Qualified for sure Fnatic Hellraisers Dignitas and Mousesports

2017-06-27 10:04

+fnatic +Virtus.Throw pls

2017-06-27 10:40

wasted lul

2017-06-27 10:42

North/Gambit and Tricked(HUNDEN will be the MVP)

2017-06-27 10:49

C9 ok , but Liquid ? o_O

2017-06-27 10:53

Wow Oakland is packed already!

2017-06-27 11:02

Lel

2017-06-27 12:59

its not like they will win it anyways glhf

2017-06-27 13:04

Virtus pro and ninjas in pyjamas just for viewership numbers

2017-06-27 13:24

Wasted spots LMAO

2017-06-27 14:53

another NA choke inc

2017-06-27 14:55

Not really deserved, but they need NA teams because the audience and viewership. They are not bad teams tho, it´s very possible that they can upset much better ranked teams. I hope at least they don´t tilt and choke.

2017-06-27 16:28