FaZe invited to IEM Sydney

27-11-2018 00:47

FaZe have been invited to compete at IEM Sydney, ESL has announced.

The European giants become the second team to be confirmed for the Australian event, following in the footsteps of Renegades, who were last week announced as the first invited side.

FaZe will return to Sydney as defending champion, looking to repeat this year's victory after taking down Astralis 3-0 in the final with Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström filling in for Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer.

FaZe will return to Sydney

Currently ranked fourth in the world, Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's side have just one more event before the end of the year, BLAST Pro Series Lisbon, after failing to qualify for the ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals.

IEM Sydney 2019 will run from April 30 to May 5, with the playoffs being held at the Qudos Bank Arena. There are now just six invites left as the remaining eight spots will be determined by online qualifiers for teams from Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania.

Below you can find the current team list for the $250,000 competition:

Renegades

Invite #3

Invite #5

Invite #7

Europe qualifier

Asia qualifier #1

Asia qualifier #3

Oceania qualifier #2

FaZe

Invite #4

Invite #6

Invite #8

NA qualifier

Asia qualifier #2

Oceania qualifier #1

Oceania qualifier #3

deserved

2018-11-27 00:48

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wasted spot

2018-11-27 00:49

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2018-11-27 00:55

+1 And Renegades aren’t a wasted spot for all you people thinking they were.

v shkoly nahooy

2018-11-27 01:29

2018-11-27 05:08

so true give it to vega squadron

2018-11-27 06:40

Poor b8 m8

2018-11-27 07:09

2018-11-27 18:55

wasted spot 😎😎 kkkkkkkkkkk

2018-11-27 01:16

2018-11-27 03:27

Yeboii

Another event they'll be smashed by astralis at LUL

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5 months left. Astralis may become shit in that time and FaZe become top1, who knows.

2018-11-27 08:01

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Lol ok. Gl

FAZE TIER 2 LMAOO

2018-11-27 09:27

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hltv.org/matches/2328792/faze-vs-mibr-ie..

2018-11-27 10:20

are u serious? mibr talking about faze comeon dude, not even 1/8. how many events in 2018? 0. olof > mibr.

2018-11-27 11:14

hehe boi

Cul

LUL

ugh faze

should -1 of the asian and oceanic spots and add +1 to na and eu quals

3 replies

nice bait.

2018-11-27 01:00

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2018-11-27 01:03

fake flagger spotted

2018-11-27 08:47

free 250 if they wanna trihard?

invite Grayhound ffs

2018-11-27 00:51

nah theyll have to qual

Grayhound or Tainted Minds

2018-11-27 05:57

order lookin decent too

2018-11-27 06:51

They're bad tbh

2018-11-27 08:10

Nice

only deserved when -karrigan

2018-11-27 00:57

only deserved when disband 😎😎 kkkkkkkkkkkk

2018-11-27 01:26

saying lg fan

2018-11-27 15:22

saying fnatic fan 😎😎

2018-11-27 15:25

wasted spot next invites to vp and gambit?

2018-11-27 00:59

if gambit go to sydney ill eat a shoe

2018-11-27 01:05

Don’t eat my lamp

2018-11-27 02:44

saved

2018-11-27 09:35

not god damn kidding

2018-11-27 10:07

ok vince

2018-11-27 12:33

faze in 2k18 xaxaxaxa

mousesports in 2k18 xaxaxaxa

2018-11-27 01:10

Any team that isn't Astralis in 2k18 xaxaxaxa

2018-11-27 01:21

true

This really opened my eyes

2018-11-27 07:13

s1mple 1 ban too 😎😎

2018-11-27 07:51

Astralis dominate 2018 and FaZe still manage to win 3 tier 1 events.They need to be in form and when they are, they will stop astralis.I hope this will happen at the major.You can laugh all you want at FaZe, but we saw that they are the only team currently in the world who can match Astralis and actually stop them.No Liquid, no Navi, no mouz, no mibr, only FaZe can do it!

2018-11-27 02:01

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Na, I'm pretty sure any team in the top5 is capable of beating astralis

2018-11-27 09:16

yeah, who? m16r? lulquid? MOUZ? Natus Perdere? Stop it dude, only FaZe can do it the problem is they tilt when they start loosing

2018-11-27 11:16

Literally anyone CAN beat astralis, it's cs dude, anything can happen

2018-11-27 12:06

Yes of course, but FaZe is the only team who can do it couple of times at 3-4 events, even in finals(they've proved it).Teams like Liquid or mouz can do it once and after that they will struggle in the next 4-5 meetings against astralis.I hope very soon that FaZe is gonna take care about team issues and who is calling and whatever and start playing like beasts they are.

2018-11-27 13:24

saving strats for major

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2018-11-27 21:37

+1 they've done it and they can do it again. Mastermind gla1ve can't perdict insane fast pushes and calls, when they try to take map control. they loose simply because faze has more firepower. But if they play slow and let them have map control, faze looses

2018-11-27 11:17

wasted invite VP bettter

2018-11-27 01:06

Expected

2018-11-27 01:13

still no -karrigan?

2018-11-27 01:14

Another tournament to choke for choke clan

2018-11-27 01:17

Ez win ez life

2018-11-27 01:20

2018-11-27 01:22

expected

2018-11-27 01:24

NiP invite or riot

2018-11-27 01:32

yayy lets get it boise

2018-11-27 01:38

Wasted spot

2018-11-27 01:43

ChokeLan Lul

2018-11-27 02:20

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shox fan laughing at FaZe??? kkk

2018-11-27 02:32

shox > faze

2018-11-27 03:05

USA > India

2018-11-27 04:09

i wouldn't disagree

2018-11-27 06:17

olof > french scene

2018-11-27 11:18

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2018-11-27 02:34

Wasted spot. Until they keep karrigan the shit BOT they will never win.

2018-11-27 02:35

Faze will pick up Kennys when guardian retired

2018-11-27 02:42

l can see that happening actually

2018-11-27 03:07

EZ 4 GuardiaN

2018-11-27 03:06

I hope theres less cringe faze fans in the crowd this year

2018-11-27 03:26

last year was amazing aussie crowd.

2018-11-27 11:19

yeah it was great but in the grand finals there was just some sperg howling all game right behind me

2018-11-27 12:00

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2018-11-27 06:36

250k, 16 teams, wtf intel, share the money you are earning with overpriced coffe lake refresh

2018-11-27 06:43

they have to cut prize pool coz australia is so expensive in every regard,

2018-11-27 06:52

mLw next EZ 4 ADKIZZLE if so

Would be funny to see this "wasted spot" shittalkers getting rekt when Faze lifts the trophy again

2018-11-27 06:59

2018-11-27 09:17

With karrigan? y right :D

2018-11-28 01:35

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2018-11-27 07:27

Renegades btw.

2018-11-27 09:12

Lmao

2018-11-27 09:23

Ez4FaZe

2018-11-27 07:35

faze is wasted spot

nt m16r

No astralis = fun tournament pls

2018-11-27 08:17

Ye you right, cuz why would they invite the current #1 team which came 2nd at their last event. Would rather see another tier99999 team from au

2018-11-27 09:20

Its more interesting when the underdogs have a chance

2018-11-27 23:38

They always have a chance, might not be a big one, but still a chance

2018-11-28 06:21

Invite ex-ss pls... They made europe qualifiers last time, but hit by visa issues. Send them an early invite and they will have time to deal with visa stuff this time. Thx.

2018-11-27 08:30

nice

2018-11-27 08:32

plzz invite fnatic&red reserve&x6tence galaxy

2018-11-27 08:37

Invite NaVi 100%

2018-11-27 08:50

3 Oceania teams from qualifier and just one from Europe? Fair enough, gonna be fun to watch them playing against good EU teams, lmao

2018-11-27 09:07

why u pretending like this is a real tournament? wait for 2 invited shit au teams together with 3 qualified shit au teams. this tournament is like when they let the retard on to the basketball Court to score while everyone is watchng and cheering.

2018-11-27 09:42