Liquid finalise iBUYPOWER Masters team list

4-1-2019 22:00

Liquid have secured the final invite to IBUYPOWER Masters 2019, the event's organisers have revealed.

The North American giants bring the team count to eight, joining three other sides currently in the top 10, Astralis (No.1), FaZe (No.6) and fnatic (No.9).

The event will mark the debut of Liquid's new roster, featuring Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip as the new fifth player and Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag as coach following the departures of Brazilian duo Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo and Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado to MIBR.

Stewie2k will play his first event for Liquid this month

iBUYPOWER Masters 2019 will take place on January 19-20 at Avalon Theater Hollywood, in Los Angeles, with $200,000 on the line. The tournament will begin with a best-of-one double-elimination group stage, followed by a single-elimination, best-of-three playoff bracket.

The final team list for the event is the following:

WOW

2019-01-04 22:00

oh crap

2019-01-04 22:01

2 replies

Expected

2019-01-04 22:02

Now its competitive

2019-01-04 22:47

A good test for the new firepower.

1st

nice

fuk u

Nicee

ez then eleague after this

Lol why invite luminosity and not mibr?

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MIBR forfeited the invite.

2019-01-04 22:03

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y tho

2019-01-04 22:30

Why

2019-01-05 08:21

Because they know they cant win t1 tournaments

2019-01-05 13:16

1 reply

2019-01-05 13:24

Because LG > mibr

2019-01-04 22:18

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2019-01-04 22:19

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Mibr doesn't even have a 5th

2019-01-04 22:21

And still can be better than Luminosity with 5

2019-01-04 22:23

True

2019-01-05 12:18

Nt fakeflagger

2019-01-04 22:27

No u

2019-01-04 22:39

Luminosity 1 major mibr 0 majors

2019-01-05 03:31

2019-01-05 05:20

MiBR top 5 Luminosity top 30

2019-01-05 13:21

na tier 8 team lul

Nice bait

15th

Congrats man

2019-01-04 22:46

expected

EZ StewieSK

t1 tournament suddenly lol

Only missing NAVI

2019-01-04 22:04

navi t1 lul

2019-01-04 22:28

navi t3

2019-01-05 09:01

true dat, would've loved to see them there as well

2019-01-04 23:59

Yeah. Astralis, navi, liq and faze will be only relevant t1 teams of 2019 (at least until summer)

2019-01-05 13:17

glhf

6 na orgs lmao

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5. Liquid org is from Netherlands

Is luminosity a na org?

2019-01-04 22:31

pretty sure luminosity is NA

2019-01-04 22:34

No I was just checking didn't know

2019-01-05 02:31

really, didn't know

2019-01-04 23:50

I mean its supposed to not be a high tier event. Its supposed tp habe some tier 2 teams from NA only but of course they saw that they could invite other teams since there is no event going on so yeah.

2019-01-07 19:13

Sorry... but faze are going to win this event. They always win one right after a roster change. Then the go back to being shit

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If the 5th is S1mple, then they’ll win. But if it was Adren, we’re not even gonna see them in the playoffs.

2019-01-04 22:05

Thats what ppl said with cromen

2019-01-04 22:09

That was with karrigan calling.

2019-01-06 11:38

at least the best brazilian team was invited

Yeah. But they forfeited to attend. I don’t know why, though.

2019-01-04 22:06

You don’t know that, you’re some random guy from Brazil. Why would you have inside info? MIBR most overrated team ever can’t do shot against real teams

2019-01-05 03:11

There’s a interview from Fer here on HLTV, lad, he said their coach manager (dead) was analyzing the possibility of MIBR to attend the event.

2019-01-05 15:40

Yeah. In the last 5 months, they were the team that almost were able to defeat Astralis on the grand final of two big events. They were not rekted as Liquid and Navi are used to.

2019-01-05 15:42

Now confirm to us who did Faze sign in

ez fix

Oof imagine all NA teams fall on groupstage LUL

kkkkkkkkkkkk

2019-01-05 03:12

1. Australia 2. Liquid 3. FaZe 4. fnatic 5. C9 Screen it

fnatic>faze!!!! who is faze 5th??

2019-01-04 22:25

Prop NaToSaphix, mb nex or Frozen. They have got do many options after last changes

its AdreN

2019-01-05 11:28

This tournament is in 2019 not 18

2019-01-04 22:48

Gang shit

Nitr0 said on stream last night before it was even announced lmao

Again a tournament where liquid are invited to lose to astralis on the final

2019-01-04 22:08

New look liquid my friend. Good test to see how well they are clicking rn.

2019-01-04 22:16

I know. Imo they are better in paper but it is the team name that makes them lose or something like that

It does seeem liquid is cursed as a cs org but I think when they start clicking they are going to be insane. Even better then the old simple lineup.

2019-01-04 23:20

If they beat astralis in this tournament, they'll have so much confidence going into the major...

2019-01-04 22:20

I think they will need more time still. As a new core to beat Astralis but once they click I think they will do big things.

2019-01-04 23:18

Looking forward for this event, I just hope that faze, fnatic etc get proper preparation to win the event

if some lollipop asks mes to prediction this tournament of teams ill go with tis 8teams

2019-01-04 22:11

oh christ, even as a Liquid fan, why? We're just gonna get it up the ass from Astralis again anyway :(

2019-01-04 22:12

LETS FUCKING GO NEW LOOK LIQUID

2019-01-04 22:14

PogChamp

2019-01-04 22:17

Expected. Finally jeez

Excited

Expected.

Nice. Another defeat for Liquid against Astralis in final.

Gonna be a good event. Time for teams to put their strats to work and to get a sense of where they stand in terms of skill after a long break. Tournaments of this type excite me more than premier tournaments at time (because of the break, especially). #ToTheStars

Time to shine T.L stew...

WHY DONT FUCKING INVITE NAVI WHYY WHY THEY DONT DESERVE?

after this event kickuid>crapusdeficere !!!

Let’s go

Is this considered a big event? I remember back in 2017 they didn't consider IEM Sydney a big event because the prize pool was 200k instead of at least 250, even with teams just as good as in this one, or am I wrong?

2019-01-04 22:26

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events are considering big if enough top10 teams are in attendance which should be the case here

2019-01-04 22:29

hltv.org/events/2713/iem-sydney-2017 This event had 3 clearly left out of the group of tier 1 teams but SK, FaZe, Astralis and OpTic/North were all inside the top 6 if not mistaken at that time. And apparently wasn't considered tier 1, or was it?

2019-01-04 23:24

it's actually the other way around. any 250k event is considered big by default, unless there's not enough top 10 teams. the only case where that happened was, to my knowledge, zotac cup. i've never seen an announcement that an event with less than 250k was bumped into the top category.

2019-01-05 15:50