Team list, talent for ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier announced

20-6-2018 17:19

Eight of the world's best teams have been invited to this year's edition of ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier, which will take place on July 21-29.

CS:GO returns to Atlanta and ELEAGUE's arena in the Turner Studios this July. ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2018 will close out the first part of the year with eight elite teams competing for a $1,000,000 prize pool.

FaZe will return to Atlanta after winning last year's tournament

Astralis, FaZe, Natus Vincere and MOUZ have been confirmed for the tournament, with the all of the eight competing teams currently amongst the top 10 places of our rankings.

The team list is as follows:

ELEAGUE has also revealed the on-air broadcast team for the tournament. Slotting into the host position this time around will be Alex "Machine" Richardson, with Sue "Smix" Lee returning as the reporter. The casting and analysis will be done by renowned names such Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole and Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović.

The full lineup for the broadcast team is available below:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Host
Sue "Smix" Lee - Reporter

James Bardolph - Caster / Analyst
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia - Caster / Analyst
Anders Blume - Caster / Analyst
Jason "moses" O'Toole - Caster / Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunovic - Analyst

gg ELEAGUE is back

2018-06-20 17:19

12 replies

gg expected

2018-06-20 17:21

8 replies

gg SK so bad

2018-06-20 17:56

7 replies

gg no nip

2018-06-20 17:58

2 replies

No G2 ;_;

2018-06-20 18:02

In case you havnt find out, they didnt invite nip because of the minor

2018-07-04 09:27

Group A - c9 +navi / mouz = group of death

2018-06-20 18:28

3 replies

+1 so C9 got easier opponents to play with

2018-06-20 19:20

1 reply

Yeah , they has some chance to forward

2018-06-20 21:51

rip group A xD

2018-06-21 15:45

will be a qualify?

No only 8 Teams

2018-06-20 17:49

so bad without SadoG

2018-06-20 17:23

Eleague sucks. Way better than pgl tho

2018-06-20 17:20

Lit

Great

C9 LUL

CLOWN9 OMEGALUL

Since when Janko was British lmao

Machine gonna carry

Nice

looks promising

perfect teams

Anders and Ynk are British?

What have they done to wanko

2018-06-20 18:36

#RunSKG

Same pricepool as major lul

prize*

2018-06-20 17:29

E League best company hands down

Smix<3

No Richard Lewis and thorin ripperino

STOP INVITE SK TO EVERY EVENT THEY SUCK THEY SHOULD NOT BE INVITED TRAAAAAAAAAAAAASH

10 replies

Because they are Top 6 in Ranking...

2018-06-20 17:36

9 replies

If you think they are #6 you are stupid they have gotten out of groups most of any team in top 10 they just get invited to every event so they get free points....

2018-06-20 17:40

You have Brazilian IP, fakeflagger

2018-06-20 17:42

no u

2018-06-20 17:44

From winning two tier 4 tournaments... Pretty sad tbh. But I guess someone has to get last place anyway.

2018-06-20 17:54

5 replies

Do u really think sk is worse than c9?

2018-06-20 18:27

4 replies

Never..

2018-06-20 18:58

Probably not. I was just pointing out the obvious reason why their rank 6 is a pointless indicator to them being a good team.

2018-06-20 19:51

But U said “Some1 has to get last place “ And generally the last place is for the worst team So that doesn’t make sense

2018-06-21 00:37

Generally two teams will share last place in a GSL group format. So it makes perfect sense.

2018-06-21 06:54

:( vp?

Who?

2018-06-20 18:09

why clown nine? is shame to the eleagues

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2018-06-20 17:22

Good Good, none of the bad guys

EZ4ASTRALIS

Also ANDERS

I expected ez4ence :((((

2018-06-20 20:16

But they are not at the event :((((

2018-06-20 20:33

awesome,I love eleague events

Ez for SK I WANT TO BELIEVE

Smix <333

Eleague always has the worst and the smallest talent team of all the event organisers.

smallest, yes. Worst? What the actual fuck is wrong with you? I would've loved to see some more names there but the ones they have are fucking glorious

2018-07-09 13:39

Ez4 navi

why is SK still invited to top tier events?

6 replies

If u read the post

2018-06-20 17:26

why is FaZe lost ALL BO3 for SK in last year?

2018-06-20 17:31

Become SK had the mental edge and were a top 5 team. Now they are struggling. That being said, SK has a massive fanbase which will bring view to eleague (and let's not forget coldzera)

2018-06-20 18:10

hltv.org/matches/2322785/faze-vs-sk-esl-..

2018-06-21 02:45

"18th of May 2018"

2018-06-21 02:47

we're talking about this year 2018 event is in 2018 english por favor

2018-06-21 04:41

Stacked tourney PogChamp

Idk when Anders change from danish to British, YNK from serbian to British and Moses from American to British... Fixed

2018-06-20 17:28

VP ? Kappa

2018-06-20 17:24

sick team list if we only had +NRG -Clown 9 xddd

c9 with fns?

2018-06-20 17:25

with NBK

2018-06-20 17:33

with n0thing

2018-06-20 17:34

This Is gonna be greeeeat so many good teams

Finally no Henry g and sadokist

this is sick... cant wait too see the match page mibr x fnatic.. holy.. im hyped even tho SK isnt doing good

2018-06-20 17:27

machine hosting PogChamp should be ez for Astralis, looking forward to it!

Stacked tournament tbh, will be great to watch

Cloud9 succks

Holy shit this is stacked. Eleague back at it

No thorin or richard Lewis, great event

2018-06-20 17:30

FeelsGoodMan no cringe jokes and racism FeelsGoodMan

2018-06-20 17:47

Why NiP why?? :(

Because they’re bad

2018-06-20 17:32

GeT_RighT is dead since 2016

They will be in EU minor 21-22 July

2018-06-20 19:09

Top 8 basically...love to see it

No G2 :-[

Why smix omg

DUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDU

C9 0-2

Nice Eleague, good to see they arent inviting big org with sucking lineup like VP or NIP, even tho inviting SK and Clown9 suck its still some great invite team and talent wise, looking forward for this insand production to give us a good event

C9 is the eleague major winner.they might be the first invite.

2018-06-20 19:07

Yeah thats a pretty shitty way to invite and that situation proves it, Biggest fluke tournament ever and they hard suck now

2018-06-20 19:50

Its not. NiP got invite IEM Oakland 2017 for winning that in 2016. North got that for Epicenter. Navi got that for ESL Newyork. Its nothing new. Atleast here they won a major this year not last year.

2018-06-20 22:04

no henryg and sadokist :(((

ANDERS POGGERS

2018-06-20 17:37

Wtf, i expect 16 teams not 8

2018-06-20 17:41

Machine is the host. That’s a great improvement

2018-06-20 17:48

Wow. Good teams

cloud 9 OMEGALUL

I like this talent lineup and the team list couldn't be any better. I don't think these are the group draws because these would be pretty imbalanced I'm really looking forward to this event

2018-06-20 17:51

Well I would say these are pretty balanced groups, Clown9 is bad and liquid pretty overrated so group A have 2 Top teams and 2 weaker one and group b have 2 good teams in navi and mouz 1 team that we dont really know about but should be pretty nutty in fnatic and one bad team in SK, Only reason why this may look unbalanced is because Astralis is too strong atm and theyre almost a secured playoff spot

Yeah I think it might be good in that faze and astralis are guaranteed not to meet before the final so its probably good. I just feel like navi and mous would be a lot easier to upset and maybe give a team a semifinal finish that theu wouldn't get with better groups

2018-06-20 22:09

SMIX there? oh well, rip my no fap challenge

2018-06-20 17:53

Rip nip

c00l

This is a tournament boysssss

2018-06-20 17:59

machine hosting \o/

2018-06-20 18:03

No Richard Lewis, no Thorin = NO PARTY :( I really miss these two together on desk

2018-06-20 18:08

I miss moe on the desk

2018-07-16 10:16

I don’t like him tbh but he was quite good on the desk.

2018-07-16 11:02

C9 wasted spot

2018-06-20 18:05

i think its time that people realize the fact that c9 is the third best NA team atm

omg why smix

NO NRG & NORTH - SHIT SHOW

2018-06-20 18:17

awesome talent and great teams, ELEAGUE production is not bad either, hoping for a great event oh well the times will be quite fucked but whatever :P

Cloud9??? better invite NiP!

2018-06-20 18:23

They will be in EU minor 21-22 July :(

2018-06-20 19:10

ah Thanks

2018-06-20 19:30

if the SK lineup turns mibr ... who's the guest? New SK or new mibr?

2018-06-20 18:29

nice teams , well picked

2018-06-20 18:35

North & NRG ???!!!!! Not C9 & fnatic

2018-06-20 18:40

NaVi DaVi

2018-06-20 18:51

WHERE IS G2

2018-06-20 18:54

No bad matches - except SK ofc, ELEAGUE & $1,000,000 Prize pool

2018-06-20 18:57

Good to see a mouz fan that really dont renember nothing about last year..

why should I remember last year with botspiidi

2018-06-20 20:22

+1 but I thought is bot denis =)) in 2018 SK cant do anything againt Mouz

2018-06-21 06:11

No Sadokist, no party

2018-06-20 19:04

Sick lineup for teams (no random no name teams!). Great lineup for talents as well. I love Anders/Moses and DDK/Bardolph duos. Looking forward to it. I wonder if they will save tickets for live audience. I would love to go.

2018-06-20 19:05

why no G2 :(((((((((

No Gambit so will cheer for Navi

2018-06-20 19:25

Woooo Alina Li is reporting :)

2018-06-20 19:44

back smix <3

2018-06-20 19:57

now none want nip in their tournament =/ so sad

2018-06-20 19:58

ez 4 dudududududududududu

2018-06-20 20:06

I am wondering what the format will be. Only 8 teams, 9 days. Can we get double elimination playoffs?

2018-06-20 20:14

Olofmeister isn't in the picture :thinking: Have a less depressing day! -VeryDepressingGuy

No sadokist???

No henryG???

2018-06-20 21:04

the first part of the year - July 21-29. wut

2018-06-20 21:10

smix i love u i just watch for u hahahha

2018-06-20 21:12

no nip no fun

2018-06-20 21:32

Why invite bot9

Eleague are cheaters they will again provide adderall to CROUD9 to heightened their hearing stimulus beyond 20khz so as to OVERPERFORM again but don't you worry i already altered the drug in factory destined to reach Georgia

2018-06-20 22:22