G2 invited to EPICENTER

7-9-2017 13:05

G2 Esports have accepted an invite to compete at EPICENTER 2017, the event's organisers have announced.

The DreamHack Masters Malmö champions join SK, Astralis, Gambit, Virtus.pro and North, who were all previously invited to the event.

G2 were in attendance at least year's EPICENTER event, where they finished 5th-6th following a 2-1 defeat at the hands of SK in the first round of the playoffs.

G2 secure EPICENTER invite

Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon's men have received the final invite to the $500,000 tournament, which will have just eight teams and not ten as originally announced by Epic Esports Events. The final two participants will be determined by a wildcard stage, held on site and featuring the winners of regional qualifiers held in Europe, the CIS, the Americas and China.

EPICENTER 2017 will run from October 23 to 29, with the playoffs being held at the Yubileyny Sports Palace, an indoor sports arena. The current list of participants for the event looks as follows:

SK	Astralis
Gambit	Virtus.pro
North	G2
Wildcard #1	Wildcard #2

This weekend, the final open qualifiers will be held in Europe, the CIS and the Americas, with spots in the respective regions' closed stage up for grabs. Teams can sign up for these open qualifiers by clicking on the links below:

Europe - Register
CIS - Register
Americas - Register

One of the best teams in the world, @G2esports , received the last direct invite to #EPICENTER CS:GO! #epicgg pic.twitter.com/QW88aX1OzL
— EPICENTER (@epicentergg) September 7, 2017

Finally tier1 team edit: finally 1st. thank you my friends for support.

2017-09-07 13:07

5 replies

No swedish team to Epicenter... WTF

2017-09-07 15:24

2 replies

Sweden in 2017 rawr eggsD

2017-09-07 19:30

1 reply

Yes but one team should still be invited. No one can argue with that.

2017-09-07 19:34

They inviter VP but not NIP...

2017-09-07 15:52

VP was in the final of the last Epicenter that's why.

Expected

2017-09-07 13:05

why

finally

good luck Mr. NBK-

2017-09-07 13:06

expected :D

Waste of spot

9 replies

+1(Vp kick) Better would be NaVi(cauze intresting to watch games with they) Or NiP( won this tournament in 2k16)

2017-09-07 13:24

7 replies

Nip didnt win EPICENTER last year lol

2017-09-07 13:37

4 replies

Rofl look at the time of both our posts.. we are meant to be friends hahaha

2017-09-07 13:38

ayyy gimme five

2017-09-07 17:58

2017-09-07 13:37 YOU L337 M4T3

2017-09-07 13:57

Sorry, doesnt saw what its about epicentr. In my mind was iem okland

2017-09-07 14:21

Nice bait on nip.

fuck. Its about epicentr :DDD I think what its new about iem xD Sorry for b8

2017-09-07 14:20

LUL, tier1 team waste spot ANd VP ? ANd Gambit ? And Astralis ?

2017-09-07 19:14

no navi?

Why so ez?

nice

rip faze and na'vi

lol vp invited but no faze

0-3

2017-09-07 17:48

2017-09-07 20:03

+NAVI +Cloud9

I aren't disagree

#G2ARMY

lul no faze navi or nip but vp ye

2017-09-07 13:08

3 replies

xdddd

2017-09-07 13:12

owner of epicenter owns vp..

2017-09-07 13:25

they still can make it with quals

2017-09-07 14:38

no na`vi no attendance wtf r u think epicenter

2017-09-07 13:09

A lot of CIS audience support GAMBIT, not only NAVI

2017-09-07 15:14

NaVi next!

2017-09-07 13:13

This was the last invite, they can play the open qualifier lul

2017-09-07 13:16

Navi ???

Other Wildcard #1 Other Wildcard #2

lel lost all respect i had for epicenter no navi also "Along with the logos of the three confirmed teams, FaZe's logo appeared in EPICENTER 2017's video announcement, so it is expected that the European squad will be confirmed for the event soon." nice where is faze btw? "Epic Esports Events has revealed that the tournament has been expanded from eight teams to ten." aaand we see 8 teams again dafauq epicenter ???

2017-09-07 13:21

FaZe sucks bro olof & gardians are garbage T3 team dont cry

2017-09-07 18:45

NiP pls. They got fucked by the shitty system last tournament. I think they owe em

2017-09-07 13:22

Did navi decline invite?

yes lad

Wasn't this a 10 team tournament a day ago?

2017-09-07 13:27

The information that was originally provided to us was incorrect.

2017-09-07 13:32

Fair enough. Very unfortunate..misses so many good teams.

2017-09-07 13:34

faaak only 8 teams, no navi and nip, feelsbadman

2017-09-07 13:43

T3 teams anyway

2017-09-07 14:23

SUPERTEAM

2017-09-07 13:45

-vp +na'vi and real tier 1 tournament

2017-09-07 13:49

EleGiggle -Virtus Pro +Boot-DreamScape

2017-09-07 13:59

Hard EleGiggle +1

2017-09-07 17:49

No Navi No Faze No Nip No Immortal but Vp ok.

2017-09-07 14:10

Deserved.

Rip faze and bot guardian

2017-09-07 14:11

Can't wait until the wildcard games this is going to be fiire

Good :) Apetico tournament :)

rip faze

2017-09-07 14:27

2017-09-07 14:30

Why invites, I like to see qualifiers. Its free money for the pros

2017-09-07 14:34

deserved

2017-09-07 14:53

the luckiest teams will get VP into the group :D

2017-09-07 15:16

2 more invites wtf hltv?

2017-09-07 15:27

Wtf is wild card?

2017-09-07 17:50

Navi and vega pls xD (Navi and nip)

RiP Faze invite lul Nice trailer with faze logo, epc

2017-09-07 15:28

2 more invites

2017-09-07 15:29

Wait, where are 2 more spots wtf??

2017-09-07 15:45

No Godsent? No party..

2017-09-07 16:12

RIP SK RIP North

2017-09-07 16:35

no swedish team, no NaVi lol nt epicenter

2017-09-07 16:59

Na´Vi? FaZe? NiP? Where???

2017-09-07 17:02

faze can't pass the groupstage nip raped by g2 navi can't even beat nip /close

Epicenter and russian tournaments are total shit. Nice invite of Na´vi! Good luck xD No fans in this tournament. I dont will see this shit.

2017-09-07 17:03

cry is free

2017-09-07 17:57

audience will be good dont worry, little crier, NaVi sucks btw

2017-09-07 18:48

VP will win this... Seriously, wonder how much money went under the table from the VP org to Epicenter to invite them.

2017-09-07 17:12

None its the same owner

2017-09-07 17:56

FaZe Fans cry is free ahah

2017-09-07 17:45

inb4 wildcard

2017-09-07 17:51

Yeah but its not sure that they will succeed xD

2017-09-07 18:35

yeah ik wtf does wild card mean btw?

2017-09-07 20:41

ez another 16-0 lol

2017-09-07 18:05

would like to have fnatic and FaZe from quals :)

2017-09-07 18:21

FaZe t3 team now, expected they didnt get invit

2017-09-07 18:37

pretty bad they didnt invited NiP or Na`vi instead of VP and Gambit

2017-09-07 19:32

Shox with hands open is such a meme material

2017-09-07 20:42

G2 invited to EPICENTER

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