FaZe and Cloud9 invited to DreamHack Masters Marseille

5-3-2018 22:42

DreamHack have revealed two more invites for DreamHack Masters Marseille, as FaZe and Cloud9 will be joining the list.

The two finalists of the ELEAGUE 2018 Major, FaZe and Cloud9, have been confirmed as participants at the first premier CS:GO event to be held in France, DreamHack Masters Marseille. The tournament will feature a $250,000 prize pool, 16 teams, and will be held on April 18-22.

FaZe and Cloud9 have already played three BO3s this year

Following the Major, FaZe continued to pick up solid placings, but failed to grab a trophy at either StarSeries i-League Season 4 or IEM Katowice 2018, losing to Natus Vincere and fnatic, respectively. On the other side, Cloud9 have been on a downward trend, as their Major victory has been followed by a second place at cs_summit 2, a group stage exit in Kiev and a top six in Katowice.

Six teams for the upcoming DreamHack Masters event are now known:

Astralis	SK
MOUZ	G2
FaZe	Cloud9

Tickets for the events are now available for purchase, you can find them by going here.

looking tier1 so far

2018-03-05 22:43

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+liquid, navi, nip, fnatic would be ideal

2018-03-05 23:24

wow

Looking Forward

Virtus pro invite in every top tourneys

fnatic is next

Ez for best team in the world and Choke Clan

2018-03-05 22:44

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But faze is the best team in the world

2018-03-05 22:49

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faze STILL 1 cry is free

2018-03-05 22:53

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Good thing, or Karrigan would be paying out the rear for his tears. Kidding of course. FaZe is a great team. Just having trouble closing games out. As an NA fan, I've seen this a lot. It gets better over time.

2018-03-06 00:05

edgy

2018-03-06 00:16

You can think they are the best, but I think that it's so competitive that it's hard to say who's best. I understand what you mean though.

2018-03-06 01:35

true true, point taken. But if you look at their performance, they somehow (in the last few months) Have almost always made deep tournament runs. They deserve that #1 spot imo

2018-03-06 09:25

But how can a team be #1 when they don't win anything?

2018-03-06 17:39

sick

YES C9

ez 2nd place for faze

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2018-03-05 23:48

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2018-03-07 12:11

noice

ez mouz

Invite fnc and na'vi already.

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+1 and north and nip. Also I want to see the new optic roster in action.

2018-03-05 22:47

Watch EPL. I have little faith in Optic plz no invite

Online. Though.

2018-03-06 02:05

where's VP?

Cloud9 exited in the quarters in Katowice. Accuracy is key in your articles. Get it together

Easy 2nd place for FaZe... Winner to be decided

Lol

2018-03-05 23:08

Why don't they just invite the teams they plan to invite at once? The list should be fairly substantial given they invited Astralis, who did nothing to deserve that invite so early.

Probably accepted first.

+liquid +navi +fnatic +nip

Na'Vi and fnatic left

Liquid?

Inb4 FaZe looses final last map in OT

Inb4 last map is Inferno and goes into quadruple OT with FaZe losing it

2018-03-05 23:26

Cloud9 made playoffs in Katowice, they didn't go out in groups remaining six invites: Fnatic, NiP, Na'Vi, Liquid, Gambit and +1

2018-03-05 22:45

Nip maybe.

2018-03-05 22:48

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NiP and Fnatic are guaranteed because of Intel Grand Slam

2018-03-05 22:50

how so? this tournament is in the Intel Grand Slam section? or?

2018-03-05 23:15

Yes: liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Intel/Grand..

2018-03-05 23:20

what happens if no team wins 4 tournaments? who gets the award?

2018-03-05 23:22

it will continue until a team gets 4 wins for now, I don't know how long that will hold though

2018-03-05 23:30

I swear to god if Navi and Liquid do not get invites...

2018-03-05 22:46

invite fnatic, and good luck to AGO in qualify (if only will take part in it)

Where’s liquid?

WHO TO WHAT?

Tier 1 event

now invite fnatic and navi

2018-03-05 22:57

probably envyus will get invited cuz french

Last invites probably for fnatic and Liquid.

why

Invite fnatic and navi and very good tourney

What about NiP , No NiP No DH :/

2018-03-05 23:05

Wow, just add Liquid, fnatic and Na'Vi and you get the strongest team list possible at the moment.

2018-03-05 22:51

I wasn't expecting that much, but this shapes like a solid tier 1 event. I completely agree the list now needs fnatic/Liquid/Na'Vi and maybe NiP (6 invite slots still left) and this will end up being one of the most intense Dreamhacks ever...

2018-03-05 23:09

Every 'Masters' event from DreamHack ends up being stacked and sick, so you better expect this to be one of the best tournaments of the year.

2018-03-05 23:10

Man, I'm either blind or stupid, but I totally missed that this is a Masters event... That's a hard facepalm moment right there. I guess that explains why it's so stacked. But still, I think this will be much more entertaining event than previous Masters, considering how many teams from the invites are peaking right now. It's literally unpredictable who will win, even predict who will be top 4 would be hard to do.

2018-03-05 23:17

Why does this article say C9 exited in groups at Katowice? Dat not true Also agree with the above comments. Get Liquid and Navi in particular in this tournament and it is absolutely stacked. Still not sold on Fnatic but throw them in to why not.

I mean Fnatic just won Katowice...

if astralis can get an invite they why not for fnatic

2018-03-05 23:06

Yeah I'm with it bring in Fnatic.

if g2 doesnt win its gg

2018-03-05 22:59

Ez 2nd place for FaZe

2018-03-05 23:03

Wanna bet who comes 2nd guys?

Bitcoin on FaZe losing 2-1/3-2 with Inferno last map and it goes OT

2018-03-05 23:29

Nice! Now we know who's gonna be the 2nd place in this event

hopefully no group system. i wish al the teams could play against each otherduring group stage. wsiss system with a bo3 is the best.(or lower bracket with all the losing teams are able to play against each other) iem group a was western conference group b was eastern conference.

Both finalist came from group B. Swiss has too much random to it, always one crap team going through from lucky matchups and one good team going out from playing really hard matchups.

2018-03-05 23:41

thats why i gave the nba example. group a teams devoured each other up. all group stage matches on group a were insane and took a toll on the teams mentally. faze and fnatic breezed through.

2018-03-05 23:43