Ten teams for StarSeries i-League S6 revealed

14-8-2018 10:11

fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and North are some of the squads that confirmed their attendance at the upcoming StarLadder event.

StarSeries i-League S6 will take place on October 7-14 in Kiev, Ukraine, where 16-teams are set to compete for a $300,000 prize pool. Up until now, only two teams for the event were known, the respective champions of the North American and European qualifiers NRG and Fragsters.

draken and co. will be playing at the event in Kiev

Now, the tournament organizer revealed 10 teams that will be playing the event. Firstly, six squads, placed 9th-18th in our rankings, joined the list as invited teams. fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas, North, Renegades, HellRaisers, and Gambit were the teams that made the cut.

The full list of the six invited teams is available below:

StarSeries also announced a change to the spot distribution in the regional qualifiers for Europe and North America. Instead of each region only having one spot, North America now has two, while Europe has four.

nexa's Imperial will attend StarSeries despite their loss in the final of the qualifier

That means that the runner-up in NA, Complexity, and the teams that finished top-4 in Europe — Sprout, Imperial and OpTic — will also be attending StarSeries i-League S6.

The four qualifier teams that will now be playing the event are:

With all of these teams confirmed, 12 out of 16 teams for StarSeries i-League S6 are now known. Two more slots are reserved for invites, while the likes of TYLOO and MVP PK are vying for the two final spots which are reserved for the Asia qualifier.

The full team list for StarSeries i-League S6 is as follows:

Invite #1

Asia Qualifier #1

Invite #2

Asia Qualifier #2

Ez for NiP

2018-08-14 10:11

23 replies

Expected.

2018-08-14 10:12

1 reply

nice

2018-08-14 10:21

Ez natosaphix

2018-08-14 10:24

2 replies

Plus one

2018-08-14 12:10

EzNo with this teammates

2018-08-14 17:14

2018-08-14 10:41

2018-08-14 11:37

Ez best swedish team fnatic

2018-08-14 11:21

maybe if draken was consistent lol

2018-08-14 15:08

Ez for nip? yes

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If they invite navi/mouz/ence no even tho fnatic>nip

2018-08-14 17:15

Ence lost to nip recently. Fnatic is trash after draken and xizt join with them. Now nip > Fnatic

2018-08-14 17:19

NoiceTry

2018-08-18 00:00

pls invite ence

2018-08-14 12:20

Yes

2018-08-14 16:23

NP4NiP

2018-08-14 13:48

+1000

2018-08-14 17:20

not to ez for dead team Kappa

2018-08-14 15:45

Ez4REZ

2018-08-14 17:40

Ezi to fnatic. The players exchange between fnatic and NIP, i think that fnatic overcome better

2018-08-14 18:03

nip 2018 XD

2018-08-15 05:44

Lets fucking go NiP

2018-08-15 11:25

No navi no faze no astralis no mouz Tier2 Well theres 2 slots left, so maybe navi Otherwise ez for fnatic

2018-08-14 10:14

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every tournemant without navi and astralis is tier 2

2018-08-14 10:17

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so if both of them didn't qualifie to the major so the major now is a tier 2 tour? wow -500iq

2018-08-14 10:29

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But navi is already qualified. However if that scenario were possible it wouldnt make the major tier 2 because literally every other top 10 team is there besides NRG but it would certainly reduce the prestige of it and likely mean a lot less if a team like faze or mouz won.

2018-08-14 10:39

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I mean he said "every tournemant without navi and astralis is tier 2" i'm a astralis fan but this is so stupid isn't??

2018-08-14 10:40

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Like I said tournaments without those two mean a lot less and in pretty much every other case besides the major that would be true.

I Mean sometimes u just need to watch something without knowing the future cuz almost every game Astralis or Navi play is 85% for them xD

2018-08-14 10:42

Right that's why the tournament becomes easier to win when they dont attend

2018-08-14 10:49

And jot that exciting

2018-08-14 17:17

but they would have attented, wouldn't they? I talked about tournemants for example esl belo horizonte, where only Faze, mouse have attented. So that tournemant is, atleast imo not a tier1 tournemant

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both ESL BH and ECS were tier 2 events to be tier 1 you need the majorty of top 10 teams there

2018-08-14 11:28

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2018-08-14 11:40

its like saying blast pro 2018 is a tier 1 event because it has astralis while it has loads of teams outside the top 10 (VP, NiP, Cloud9)

2018-08-14 11:42

in my opinion the only tier 1 tour.s are ESL pro league and they majors that's it

2018-08-14 11:48

Maybe eleague too?

2018-08-14 13:23

ESL BH is t2, but ECS is t1 because it had a qualifier for top teams.only top 4 teams from those qualifers in NA and EU made it.

2018-08-14 12:27

theatrically if the qualifier makes it a tier 1 event, does that mean if only teams out of the top 10 qualify does it still make it a tier 1 event? ECS S5 and ECS S5 Finals are different events

2018-08-14 12:35

yes it will becasue they qualified over other top teams. every team had equal chance in those qulifiers and if these teams played better than those top teams in that tournament and qualified over them,it will be a t1 tournament. same goes to any tournament like major or epl or wesg which have real qualification process unlike events like katowice where they invite a fixed number of top teams first.

2018-08-14 12:43

so consider astralis and navi are top2 by the time of next major but they fail in qualifiers. does that mean that major is t2? also if there was no astralis & navi in eleague, will you consider it t2 if it had top 3-10 teams t1 and t2 are decided based on number of top teams and qulaifiying process etc. not just top 1 or top 2 teams.

2018-08-14 12:29

They could have just declined their invitations as the major is right around the corner. Tier3 BTW

2018-08-14 10:38

What? This event is in October :D Btw, I'd guess some of these teams (Like Liquid) will go to the CS_Summit as it's played at the same time.

2018-08-14 10:43

Oh yea thats right +1

2018-08-14 13:22

Lol, missed the date of this tournament, my bad

2018-08-14 19:43

0/8 obvious tier 2 tourney

2018-08-14 10:52

+1 ezz for fnatic

2018-08-14 11:51

Navi declined invite? Is it some t1 tournament at same time?

starladder is the only big tournament in october

2018-08-14 10:15

what about epicenter

2018-08-15 05:36

I thought this event was in october too

ez4imperial

2018-08-14 10:13

NO NAVI LMAO

No Ence?

They invite sprout but not Ence???

sprout is no invitation read the article again!

Thats right! Im just delusional Ence fan.

2018-08-14 11:30

navi?????

ez 4 nip

No top 5 teams? WTF

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fnatic is there

2018-08-14 10:26

Ah, I mean HLTV's top 5 not kick_friberg_ffs's top 5

2018-08-14 10:35

Why would you trust a ranking which has Liquid in their top 3?

Liquid is top 4 right now at worst and have better form than faze so...

2018-08-14 11:58

You smoked that lad. cheers. +1

2018-08-14 12:07

Is this really the CS you want to watch? Astralis winning every competition?? Pls ? It's ok to not have top 5 teams and i really like this ...

2018-08-14 10:28

Don't get me wrong buddy ..I'm actually, excited! I really want to see Gambit vs compLexity at the grand final.

Hope i see an unexpected CS here ... Have fun

Hfhf

Why are u raped by JW bro?

2018-08-14 11:32

Yes? I want to see if any teams can figure out how to beat them as well as seeing them be rewarded for their insane practice dedication and teamplay if no team can.

2018-08-14 11:59

aaaaaa NiP <3

Starseriers becoming like a t2 tournoment

another month another starseries lets go NiP! <3

So why did the qualifier even go until the final if top4 got invited anyway?

cause they changed their mind at the end after the qualifier

Probably a lot of top teams declined invites for some reason. Maybe they planned a vacation after the major, maybe there's another tournament we don't know about yet.

where is mouz

"For the likes of... MVP PK" but SZ are way more likely to qualify than MVP

why did they invite a Gambit? they still running their deepness in their cs career

Hopefully mastermind blade can help them!

2018-08-14 10:19

will he able to find out any talents over here?. As he found many talanted guys like s1mple elec etc.

2018-08-14 10:20

Yeah trio 30yo gyus who not leave, young talents...

2018-08-14 11:23

only tier2 teams

KAZAKWA SOULE SHSHESSS=WWS

T2 teams, hope ez gambit with blyad3

2018-08-14 10:16

T2 event

Watch mibr get invited and go 0 3

wtf??? Renegades?? Sprout?

very happy to see two swedish invites, its been a while

2018-08-14 10:18

SLTV from t1 to t2,sad..

allo where is ence??

It would be too ez 4 ence so they didn't get invite

2018-08-14 12:21

Next invite VP and MİBR

Na’Vi + G2 incoming

G2??

2018-08-14 22:14

Finally FNATIC accept to go to some lower tournaments so they can win some ez trophies and confidence

and rankings lmao. look at mibr 2 t3 event wins and top 6

2018-08-14 11:35

Yeah, ive stopped watching those shit rankings a long time ago, the way the algorithm is done is a joke and give us nonsense shits like this

2018-08-15 14:19

So in october unannounced big tournament or why no t1 teams?

Nice spelling "starlader"

2018-08-14 10:23

No liquid, na'vi or astralis?? Let me guess, mibr invited to this tier 3 event to try to win something decent in 2018 OMEGALUL

if u had atleast half of brain u would know all 3 teams declined invite

2018-08-14 14:35

How tf does gambit get invited and not VP

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+1 even vp is better than gambit nowadays xd

2018-08-14 10:34

Yeah ik and w snatchie they could become better

2018-08-14 10:37

nah I doubt it, they need to kick neo and maybe Pasha.

If neo and pasha are kicked byali will probably leave

dont get all the pasha hate. he is the only player performing in vp

nope lol its byali, rest are bots.

2018-08-14 11:49

The only chance navi had to win another tournament lmao

nice bait

2018-08-14 19:45

Where is Na'Vi?

2018-08-14 10:25

invite mibr and c9 and you have a t3 lan

And Fa2e Clown

Is navi going to skip all the tournaments after major?

nice tier3 event for navi ez win at homecrowd

Ez for fragsters

NAVI ez INVITE

2018-08-14 10:30

solid tier2/3 event, expected more from starseries tbh

2018-08-14 10:32

Ez Inv for RNG #YTB

Shit team list = shit event. 300k wasted.

This could be a good event for Fnatic, grabbing the confidence before Blast, Chicago and the Pro League in Odense!

fnatic is in esl one ny not blast. also fnatic doesnt need a tier 2 event to build confidence , they will win stockholm or major

Build confidence BEFORE Blast I wrote. Blast Pro Series Copenhagen, if you didn't understand... Since October is after September it would be weird if an event in October would build confidence before an event in September, right? :D

2018-08-14 15:20

oh i thought u were talking about blast pro series istanbul my bad

2018-08-14 15:41

No worries! +I agree with them winning Stockholm and the Major :D

2018-08-14 15:43

yeah they are really looking good with draken and xizt

astralis navi/mouz are reinventing themselves and meta shifting so they're obviously going to sit out a T2 tourny to stay one step ahead of the teams in the top 10

2018-08-14 10:44

Ez4Imperial

where are virtus.pro?

2018-08-14 10:50

I think they invited soon we have two remaining spots

How tf tyloo not invited to this Starladder must be drunk

Because asian teams are bad and tyloo should easily qualify along with flash or boot probably

2018-08-14 10:55

They'll make it through the Asian Qualifier anyways

2018-08-14 10:56

Tier 2 tourney should be ez for nrg or north

2018-08-14 10:53

+1 i think imperial and fnatic have a good chance aswell

2018-08-14 11:44

Invite for Heroic

+ Na`Vi +Astralis

2018-08-14 11:00

Tier 1.5 event if no Astralis/FaZe/Na'Vi

2018-08-14 11:04

For some reason I have a feeling StarSeries happening every 2 weeks.

2018-08-14 11:11

2018-08-14 11:55

+Navi, pro100

2018-08-14 11:14

Nice one from The Denis, sproutman.

2018-08-14 11:15

Easy event for fnatic

tier 2 event

2018-08-14 11:22

EZ4ENCE

2018-08-14 11:24

Finally ez 4 North

StarSeries S4 - tier1 (mouz,navi,astralis,faze,liquid....) StarSeries S5 - tier1.5 (only navi, mouz, liquid) StarSeries S6 - tier2 (No navi,no mouz, no liquid....)

2018-08-14 11:25

what if nip and fnatic became top 5 teams in october?

2018-08-14 14:12

That would mean that every other team needs to be in a slump

2018-08-15 00:15

they don't. only navi and astralis have more than 500 points. if fnatic win a big event, they can even reach top 3-4 easily. same with nip. not sure about nip is playing, but fnatic is down becasue they lost 2/5 their points from lekro andgolden. they also only gone to 3 events in last 3 monts with roster changing compared to mibr who gone to 7 events and have similar points. if fnatic din't change their roster, they would have bben top 6 now. and they can easily reach top 5 performing decently in the coming tournaments. hltv.org/ranking/teams/2018/august/13

2018-08-15 07:58

ez for ENCE

ez for fnatic lmao

2018-08-14 11:38

VP and NaVi/mibr going to be invited

2018-08-14 11:41

tier3

2018-08-14 11:50

No top 5 teams : not watching

2018-08-14 11:53

nip and fnatic top 5 by the time of october if they make semis in two of dh masters,major and esl newyork/blast. only top 2 are hard to get, all others have less than 500 points.

nip fnatic grang final ez pz

2018-08-14 11:54

HR, renegades, gambit LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL free money to fnatic /closed

2018-08-14 12:04

ez fnatik

I'll revolt if Navi don't go there

2018-08-14 12:08

Maximum 2 teams out of Astralis, Navi, Faze, Mouz, Liquid? But why Starladder?

2018-08-14 12:11

another useless tier3 event gg

2018-08-14 12:19

Ez NiP. -Agent Harold

2018-08-14 12:45

ez IMPERIAL

2018-08-14 12:57

Who cares tier 10 tournament?

2018-08-14 13:01

Hope that Navi and Ence get the last invites lel :/

2018-08-14 13:04

i thought starseries were t1 tournament not t3

Surely we will see tier 1 teams in this. why would they decline an invite to a 300K event with so many lower tier teams, big opportunity

2018-08-14 13:15

too many starladers it feel like its a starladder every 2 week it lost the prestigious.its same as a dreamhack open now

2018-08-14 14:37

too ez for ence... heard they turned the invite down as it would be of no challenge for them

Bait or joke?

2018-08-14 13:51

What do u think lmao

2018-08-14 20:38

Both, honestly.

2018-08-14 20:42

What tha fuck?

Awesome talent-pool! It's a tier-two tournament at best, but it looks like it'll be incredible. I SO wish fnatic and NiP duke it out with their current teams. :D

2018-08-14 13:50

starladder will soon became tier 3 tournament . must be something why all good teams decline this tournament

2018-08-14 14:36

Tier 2 event

2018-08-14 14:50

So ez4NRG

Ez money for Swedish guyd

2018-08-14 15:03

Hoho-haha

2018-08-14 15:11

Denmark 4teams out of 16... solid

2018-08-14 15:14

Should be pretty ez for Fnatic unless Navi or Astralis join the list

2018-08-14 15:15

If fnatic won't win this, welcome to disband

2018-08-14 15:24

Starseries = Tier 2 LANs

TL come and play

2018-08-14 15:29

how is this tier 2 tournament getting a 300k prizepool. NRG about to swoop in another big prize pot. unless a top 5 team gets invited.

2018-08-14 15:53

n o r t h

2018-08-14 15:54

Ence esports should be invited

2018-08-14 15:55

ez nip

2018-08-14 16:32

ez for Fragsters

2018-08-14 17:04

t2 tournament

2018-08-14 17:43

No liquid, na'vi or astralis??

2018-08-14 18:07

EZ 4 IMPERIAL

2018-08-14 18:12

2018-08-14 23:44

LUL only 2 invite slots left, gonna be tier2 event, what a joke Starladder ?

2018-08-14 18:46

More like "OpenSeries T2-3 i-League S6" Automatically letting losers in who were lost in the qualifiers because almost every TOP10 teams rejected the invites? LOL 300k is nothing special even for T2 events these days. LOL And obviously top teams doesn't like going to Kiev. LOL HOW TO STEP UP FOR A NEXT SEASON? INCREASE YOUR PRIZE POOL TO AT LEAST 500K! CONSIDER CHANGING THE LOCATION!

2018-08-14 19:22