ELEAGUE CS:GO Invitational 2019 viewer's guide

24-1-2019 13:54

HLTV.org presents the viewer's guide for the ELEAGUE CS:GO Invitational 2019, containing a comprehensive outline of information about the tournament.

The start of the highly-anticipated ELEAGUE CS:GO Invitational is imminent, where four invited teams will duke it out on January 25-27 at the ELEAGUE Arena located in Atlanta, GA, United States.

FaZe will be looking to secure their first victory of the year

The $150,000 event will feature a double-elimination bracket, with all matches played out as best-of-three series. FaZe will kick off their campaign against Cloud9 while BIG takes on Complexity in their first match.

Below are all four participants:

BIG

Cloud9

Complexity

FaZe

The schedule for the event can be found below:

Friday, January 25
20:00 - FaZe vs. Cloud9 | BO3
23:00 - BIG vs. Complexity | BO3

Saturday, January 26
20:00 - Lower bracket final | BO3
23:00 - Upper bracket final | BO3

Sunday, January 27
20:00 - Consolidation final | BO3
23:00 - Grand final | BO3

Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez will play host to the event, while Sue "smix" Lee will be seen interviewing players over the weekend. The British duo of James Bardolph and Daniel "ddk" Kapadia were chosen alongside American counterparts, Jason "moses" O'Toole and Sean "seangares" Gares, to fulfil the roles of commentators and analysts, interchangeably.

The full list of on-air talent is below:

Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez - Host
Sue "smix" Lee - Interviewer

Jason "moses" O'Toole - Commentator/Analyst
Sean "seangares" Gares - Commentator/Analyst
James Bardolph - Commentator/Analyst
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia - Commentator/Analyst

Lastly, the $150,000 prize will be distributed in the following manner:

1. $80,000
2. $40,000
3. $20,000
4. $10,000

Big has chances

2019-01-24 13:55

28 replies

only cause they're against faze and C9 any other tournament they would lose

2019-01-24 14:00

22 replies

BIG will win easily XANTARES MVP FaZe is a hopeless team at this point with toxic selfish kid NiKo being their "IGL"

2019-01-24 14:24

20 replies

He has the right to be toxic as he always hard carry the team

2019-01-24 16:05

9 replies

Least they still have Guardian

2019-01-24 18:45

Nothing justify. If he want better players, he should try delivery curriculum in mibr or to try buy s1mple. If he is a ace, he must take responsability for it. Anymore is kid cry.

2019-01-24 18:46

5 replies

Only one player in MIBR would take a spot in Faze. Cold. Stop overrating them.

2019-01-24 21:43

4 replies

Lmao

2019-01-25 10:49

3 replies

So who else, Fallen is not a better AWPer than guardian. Fer has been terrible for a long time now, taco is an ok role player. Felps is a gimmicky smoke pusher, not a consistent player.

2019-01-25 16:29

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OMEGALUL Dude, Fallen is a great awper and IGL which could save FaZe in the actual situation. I agree with Fer getting bad with the time, but TACO is one of the best Entry Fraggers actually, better than Rain imo. Felps isn't only a smoke rusher, he improved a lot since he got out of SK. He even got the IGL role and did a great job on INTZ, which could help FaZe a lot now too.

2019-01-25 17:34

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Fallen is not a great awper any longer, he is a very inconsistent ok awper that sometimes shows glimpses of his former self. Fallen has never used Taco as a proper entry, so often he just went in solo to die in the old SK. But maybe Zews can get some new proper tactics into Fallens a head. I must admit I do t watch low tier BR teams so it is possible that felps has improved.

2019-01-26 02:27

Guardian alwats carries Niko.

2019-01-25 12:52

nah fam, have you ever seen the games where Niko is just popping off

2019-01-29 09:43

+1 very nicely but to words, i was FaZe fan but i lost hope in then in mid 2018. they didn't get to sement their era in january of 2018 ones they choked the boston major. FeelsBadMan

2019-01-24 16:13

Plastic fan has been spotted

2019-01-24 18:07

Better than toxic fanboy

2019-01-25 10:52

EXPECTO PLASTICO UNLUKO MALUKO LOSERINO MAXIMO

2019-01-24 21:31

Toxic????????????????? oh shut the fuck up you fucking baiter

2019-01-24 22:09

Listen ChoKo fanboy, he’s a fucking toxic selfish kid and all you can do is try to protect your idol for being an absolute asshole who only cares about himself and not the team.

2019-01-24 22:29

Hes been sacrificing himself for the team, he cant be the star fragger anymore because of chokigan, cant you understand? what is he supposed to do? Go out in Groups every tournament? But ooooooh at least Chokigan is the one IGLing, not NiKo Ofc You dont understand yet that Karrigan IGL= 0-3 Out in the Major Karrigan is a washed up bot, bottom fragging and not even winning vs T3 BR Teams lul

2019-01-24 22:41

You can't blame the FaZe's failure only on Karrigan. Yes he is a bot but MiBR even with Tarik having poor results they almost won against Astralis a bunch of times.

2019-01-25 10:55

Tarik was a major MVP, Non choker and Succesfull IGL that knows how to use his talent in Stewie2K Skadaddy the NA Xyp9x (Autimatic) and RUSH b Karrigan with all the talent he had in hand, he decided to not make ANY Compact IGLing system no discipline as GuardiaN Said: hltv.org/news/25916/guardian-niko-is-the.. They didnt even have a fucking practice schedule? What the fuck? this is FaZe clan not some amateur shit Tarik and Stewie2K, If they spoke Portuguese, MIBR Would have been the best team in 2018 and with an extra major in the Faceit London Major "Frustration got to us after the first day," the Norwegian said. "Even though the circumstances were the same for both teams, it was a little bit too much. "I know that how we played at iBUYPOWER Masters is not how we are going to play at future tournaments." FaZe are gonna play well This Eleague invitational, but i doubt they are gonna win, they will probably get an IGL if they go 0-3 out of the major

2019-01-25 12:07

I came here to laugh at you

2019-02-08 08:23

Thats right

BUG has never won a tournament

2019-01-24 14:41

So wrong lul but no nex no win :(

2019-01-25 11:17

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk remember no bug no win

2019-01-24 22:07

+9999

2019-01-25 10:56

sgares<3

EZ4NIKO

Wtf these matches are so late... even for AMERICAN viewers... Edit i mean the secomd match is late. I know its a Friday night but this literally starts at midnight Eastern time and its a bo3

2019-01-24 13:57

14 replies

Won't the Faze match start on 1pm? Or do I know the timezones wrong?

8 replies

You're correct. I checked the matchpage and the Faze match does start at 1 pm for central time. For some reason this viewer guide didn't have it set so it shows what time it will be for your timezone.

7 replies

oh ok then xd In Turkey the BIG match will start on 1am tho, FeelsBadMan

Rip

2019-01-24 14:01

rip indeed.

2019-01-24 14:13

Yeah I was just about to say that these time are considerably good compared with iBP masters

2019-01-24 14:59

true. I had to stay up till 1 am watching the ibp grand finals

2019-01-24 15:03

It was horrible like almost everyone was asleep in europe

2019-01-24 15:07

almost everyone in na that has a job the next day was alseep as well it was awful. i didnt have work the next day so i got lucky

2019-01-24 15:08

You have to think about the fact, that there are two EU teams and two EU players on C9. So it makes sense, that the time is as much likely to see in Eu as in NA

2019-01-24 14:07

We should "make" CS time for every tournament. BO3 at almost midnight is almost impossible to watch if you are going to work 6hrs later

that was always the problem with eleague but at least its not 4AM like usual eleague finals xd

2019-01-24 14:19

Nvm i thoguht it was that late for American viewers. Yeah its actually earlier than before. They should always make it this timezone. Maybe push it forward an hour for people who work day jobs but this is better for Eu viewers

2019-01-24 14:26

Indeed better for EU viewers but the grandfinal still starts at almost midnight over here. Many EU viewers will have to skip it.

2019-01-24 14:28

ez faze

yay ez4faze

2019-01-24 13:56

Weird team selections still but good talent.

-C9 +Liquid and this tournament would have at least 50k viewers per match.

2019-01-24 13:59

Why not -compLexity though?

2019-01-24 14:53

They have n0thing, the new guy.

2019-01-24 15:13

I feel like -C9 and -coL Then +MIBR +Liquid Now that would be a solid event.

True

EZ FIRST CUP FOR XANTARES

2019-01-24 13:58

LETS GO BIG

2019-01-24 14:08

#GOBIGORGOHOME

2019-01-24 14:09

Hype is real! Xantarez, smooya and tabseN will destroy them all! Gob b = master brain tiziaN = one of the world best supporter! Ez for BIG!

2019-01-24 14:14

+1 EZ

2019-01-24 14:20

Another trash event from ELeague. This production has been going downhill massively, from their best "real ELeague" to clash for cash LUL (free 250k$ for Astralis against Tier 4 VP) and this.

If this isn't the biggest bait u are just stupid Probably got baited but whatever

From great event (even though 0 atmosphere, this is not a crowd in Katowice or a stadium in Russia) to mediocre choice of teams and unwatchable events for EU timezones.

In Germany the scnd games are 11pm so that's pretty good I guess

2019-01-24 14:02

BIG was the only good choice of team here (with XANTARES). C9 has downgraded pretty heavily with Zellsis, FaZe looks poor right now, coL is slumping hard since the Major. Where are Astralis, Vitality (with ZywOo the prodigy), MIBR or Liquid with their new rosters ? Those (these are examples) are much more interesting teams.

They invited Astralis but they wanted to play Ibuypower if I'm not mistaken. Liquid Idk maybe they are bootcamping with stewie. C9, col are hometeams and Idk if u don't remember the elegue major but the crowd was pretty good.. Oh and the downgrades, I think Faze and C9 will recover over time, both just changed there roaster a few times in the last year

Yeah thanks for your reply and my bad Vitality couldn't go for example (if they had to play the last chance qualifier for the Major on Sunday)

2019-01-24 14:21

Sure I would have loved to see Vitality playing alongside Astralis, Liquid etc.. Maybe next tournament

2019-01-24 14:22

Flag checks out

2019-01-24 14:52

xantares ez 30k doesnt have to carry bots

Don't know who Bardolph got in bed with to become Eleague's top casting pair alongside ddk. HenryG and Sadokist should've casted last year's Boston final.

1. Faze 2. Cloud9 3. Complexity 4. Big Even tho I would like to see Complexity vs Faze in the finals

1. FaZe, 2. BIG, 3. compLexity, 4. C9.

1. BIG 2. C9 3. FAZE 4. COMPLEXITY.

+31

2019-01-24 18:50

Mark my words: Faze will bomb out of this tournament hardcore.

2019-01-24 14:03

Maybe, but if you remeber 2 years ago turnament in Malmo septembar 2017, where Faze clan dropped in first stage of the turnament with than faze new roster (Guardian, Olof). After that they had ELEAGUE PREMIER turnament 2 weeks later, they were unstoppable . This situation where Faze now, reminds me of it :D

2019-01-24 15:25