North handed Epicenter invite

6-9-2017 14:16

Last year's champion, although under the Dignitas tag at the time, North, has been invited to take part in this year's Epicenter in St. Petersburg.

The Danish team, which turned some heads last weekend after finishing in second place at DreamHack Masters, has been confirmed as the fifth team in the Epicenter lineup.

A lot of expectation was created around the Danish squad when Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså stepped into the shoes of the now OpTic player Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif. The new member of the team didn't disappoint, and was a central figure in his team's success in Sweden. Now, North, scheduled to play in Montreal this weekend, will also have Epicenter to look forward to.

North showed one of the biggest improvements in the first tournament after the break

There are now three more invites left to give out, plus two teams to qualify from an on-site wildcard stage which will feature the best teams from the regional qualifiers. The tournament, which will take place at the Yubileyny Sports Palace on October 23-29, will have $500,000 up for grabs.

The teams confirmed to the event so far are:

SK	Astralis
Gambit	Virtus.pro
North	Invite
Invite	Invite
Qualifier	Qualifier

Lul

2017-09-06 14:17

6 replies

tier 4 event

2017-09-06 14:18

5 replies

Expected

2017-09-06 14:19

actually first edition had a crazy cool production and huge prize money. it was one of the best tournaments

2017-09-06 14:25

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Yeah i also Think that

2017-09-06 20:04

ahahah with sk

2017-09-06 14:53

Yes 80% of their wins is tier 4 tournament

2017-09-06 16:46

ayy

ez for navi

North handed vac ban

Ez for sk

yuh

ez again

as expected

G2 next

Ez for g2

They should have invited them first. They are champions of the previous event.

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That was under dignitas genius

2017-09-06 15:18

9 replies

So? Doesn't change anything

2017-09-06 15:19

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Yes it does. I dont know where you have lived but invites are given to orgs not teams

2017-09-06 15:20

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Virtus.pro are finalists with the same org but they invited them only as the fourth team

2017-09-06 15:21

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And? Tournaments usually give a guaranteed invite to the winning org only so they are lucky to get one in the first place considering how trash they have been

2017-09-06 15:23

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What do you mean? They made the finals in the last tournament they played in. And they made it to best 8 teams in the last Major.

2017-09-06 15:47

He is obviously talking about VP, not north, chill fanboy!

2017-09-06 19:16

Implying VP deserved it and were not invited because of fanbase?

2017-09-06 15:40

That is wrong. As when a team qualifies for a tournament it is the players within the team that gets the invite and not the org. Which also the reason that teams must have 3 or more players of the core roster that qualified. This is to secure the players right for the tournament because org would be able to switch entire teams out with new players. And in the same time denying the possibility of players buying out "seats" on a qualified team, to some extent at least.

2017-09-06 16:11

Major spots are given to the players, not the org. ESL Pro League spots are also given to the players not the org.

2017-09-06 21:00

What's different with being invited now?

2017-09-06 15:28

g2 soon

Let's hope not

Expected... We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

Well you're not smart, hostile as shit, and loyal like the SS would be hitler.

2017-09-07 12:48

Thanks my fan <3 appreciate your support!

2017-09-07 15:39

navi next, then G2 and FAZE/Optic/C9

2017-09-06 14:20

Faze were confirmed in trailer

2017-09-06 15:08

final invites: fnatic, immortals and big

Rofl

EZ VP NEXT INVITES : G2 Faze Envy

2017-09-06 14:24

Envy wut

2017-09-06 15:00

Probably Faze, G2 and Navi/C9

2017-09-06 20:06

On russian site another info, they will give only 6 invites and get 4 team from china, cis, na, eu to play wildcard for 2 slots, So there will be only 8 teams on main event

its old info for first epicenter cs go event

2017-09-06 15:51

Epicentr s2 annonce was the same as we see now on hltv, but they reduced 2 slots after offical annonce

2017-09-06 17:09

+fnatic and g2 pls

2017-09-06 14:34

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Ye invite fnatic for 0-3 in groups with vp

2017-09-06 14:59

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same for navi, vp and faze, so no matter

2017-09-06 15:05

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Navi can show pretty good perfomance.

2017-09-06 15:07

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and fnatic can't, nice logic

2017-09-06 15:10

Well, they were sucking at last DH, lets see, but im sure they will show nothing soon

2017-09-06 15:11

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stfu u russian piece of astralis fangay, go and suck thorins dick

2017-09-06 15:15

Hahahaha

2017-09-06 15:33

Triggered dicksucker

they lost to imt who are #6 atm

2017-09-06 16:58

they are 6 only because they got 2nd place at major with easiest bracket

2017-09-06 17:00

thats why both fnatic and imt rekt Na'Vi on major but u still think that Na'Vi is better than them

2017-09-06 17:27

Lmao there was other navi roster at major, retard

2017-09-06 17:28

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yy i forgot that everything changed and now they play great

2017-09-06 17:30

Not great but much better, they need time for trainings to improve their game and they will be top5-6 team atleast

2017-09-06 17:41

i can say the same about fnatic, they have already shown potential with new roster

2017-09-06 19:33

+G2 + Faze + Na'Vi

2017-09-06 14:47

If they invite Virtus.pro who absolutely suck at the moment and not NiP I will be absolutely fuming.

2017-09-06 14:50

Maybe they invited VP because their org is from Russia?

2017-09-06 15:29

ez for my boyz again!

2017-09-06 14:55

Hope for Astralis - North grand final <3

2017-09-06 14:57

Me too

2017-09-06 15:02

Astralis won't get out of groups, so nvm

Nice joke fnatic fan :)))

2017-09-06 15:32

Nice joke 1 major fan :)))))))))))

Im astralis fan from time when karrigan joined team stfu

2017-09-06 15:34

u still got 1 major, we got 3

u still won only shitty tier2 dh for last year

2017-09-06 15:45

last year? We won 6 tourneys, how many tourneys did Astralis win in 2016?

Oh wait you didnt win that tier2 dh, the last win was iem katowice which was 1.5 years ago

2017-09-06 15:49

both of ur flag confused me lmfao

2017-09-06 18:11

Whats wrong?

2017-09-06 18:19

Ez for the defending champions

2017-09-06 15:16

next invite navi.

2017-09-06 15:31

next invites gonna be G2, NIP, FaZe(or Na'Vi)

2017-09-06 15:55

They lost a map to Gambit yesterday, so yay. No god-level teams thus far.

2017-09-06 16:07

you believe that c9 and optic/ liquid perform better?)

2017-09-06 16:09

NA scene in CSGO. LUL

2017-09-06 16:30

They are both just came from malmo, north did 2-0 against gambit on LAN lol

2017-09-06 17:43

Fitch was overzealous and Hobbit was too careful. Both didn't practice double peeking that gave them the poor result.

2017-09-06 17:52

+ NiP +NaVi +clown9 or G2

2017-09-06 16:12

Faze comfirmed, so +faze +navi +g2/nip/c9/etc (g2 is more possible)

2017-09-06 17:44

NIP deserve invite over navi. Faze, nip g2

2017-09-06 19:22

Just remember navi is cis team, epicenter is cis tournament with cis fans

2017-09-06 23:34

I know, but I'm saying that NIP deserve it more.

2017-09-07 08:20

If they show good perfomance in next event, yes

2017-09-07 09:24

+faze +g2

2017-09-06 16:19

+NaVi 100%

2017-09-06 16:20

jajajaja 100% lul

2017-09-12 08:47

Wtf? Where is FAZE UP!!

+NaVi +c9 +g2 LUL SpaceSoldiers to qualify Dope LAN incoming

2017-09-06 16:59

Where's G2 invite ?!

2017-09-06 17:23

I hope they will invite vega to closed quals :>

2017-09-06 17:45

last invites Na'Vi G2 FaZe / Immortals

2017-09-06 17:46

G2 Immortals Faze/Navi/Fnatic would probably be best invites

2017-09-06 18:23

fnatic,navi,faze next

2017-09-06 18:44

Where is Cloud9 ???? Putin's veto or what?

2017-09-07 08:40

They just dont deserved i think - new lineup+only 8 invites where other eu teams are more prior. They could be invited instead vp, but now they have only chance to go through qualifer

2017-09-07 09:30