NiP secure IEM Sydney invite

27-2-2019 11:59

Ninjas in Pyjamas have been invited to compete at IEM Sydney, ESL has announced.

The Swedish giants become the sixth team confirmed for the event, joining the previously invited trio of Renegades, FaZe and MIBR, plus BIG and Swole Patrol, the winners of the European and North American qualifiers.

Currently ranked sixth in the world, Ninjas in Pyjamas are one of the eight teams through to the IEM Katowice playoffs, with their quarter-final match pitting them against Astralis.

NiP will attend their first IEM Sydney stop

This will be Ninjas in Pyjamas's first-ever trip to Sydney for an IEM competition. Last year, the Swedish team tried to qualify for the event but were defeated by Virtus.pro in the quarter-finals of the European closed qualifier.

IEM Sydney will run from April 30 through May 5, with the playoffs due to be held at the Qudos Bank Arena. There are now just five invites left as the remaining spots in this 16-team competition will be filled through Asian and Oceania qualifiers.

The team list for the Australian event currently looks as follows:

Renegades

MIBR

Swole Patrol

Invite #5

Invite #7

Invite #9

Oceania qualifier

AU/NZ national champion

FaZe

BIG

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Invite #6

Invite #8

Greater China qualifier

Southeast Asia qualifier

East Asia qualifier

great

2019-02-27 11:59

11 replies

deserved

2019-02-27 12:00

9 replies

+1 well deserved

6 replies

EZ Swag Patrol

2019-02-27 12:16

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Expecto, NiP is back in it

-1 undeserved

2019-02-27 12:28

3 replies

can you tell me why?

2019-02-27 13:17

Why? LOL

2019-02-27 13:33

I would like to know why?

2019-02-27 14:28

>invite >secure

2019-02-27 12:01

Last year they were defeated by virtue pro. -word 2018 -regards from old VP

2019-02-27 12:05

2019-02-27 15:31

woooooo

Unexpected

Wtf

Nice

Absolutely deserved, gl

NiP is improving, surely a nice contender

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NIP is the team thats looked so promising for so long but never quite got there.

2019-02-27 14:01

They are a good balanced squad they just havent had that moment where they completely click yet. I hope day it just happens and nip become a real top squad again. They have aĺl the pieces, now its just putting them together

2019-02-27 20:07

Invite Na'Vi also

2019-02-27 12:02

They will. Only reason they wouldnt would be navi declining

2019-02-27 20:08

Nice swole patrol line up XDD

2019-02-27 12:04

Brax 1v5 ez

2019-02-27 12:06

+1 we want to see the vintage swag playstyle

2019-02-27 12:10

Invite tier 4 team axaxaxaxaxaxaa

Was gonna say if nip are tier 4 what are ence but they made top 8 too haha so RIP my comment

2019-02-27 20:11

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2019-02-27 21:32

swole patrol LOL

Faze noobs

Fuck E United. Disgraceful what they did to swole. If liquid don’t get invited the liquid org should loan swole patrol Elige nitro Twistzz and Naf to join swag and win that shit.

2019-02-27 12:09

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I guess there isn't question do liquid get invite or not. It's like they accept it or not. No way esl don't invite top 2 team.

2019-02-27 12:14

True. It just pisses me off seeing what EU did to swole. They would have got beat on lan by prob everyone anyway but after watching them win the the qualifier I wanted to watch that pug style cs on lan.

2019-02-27 12:22

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Well let's be fair, eU simply did what orgs do, recruit and sign players. Maybe your angst should be more specifically focused on markE, food, and vanity who straight abandoned swole after qualifying for this event. To be fair, a team with swag unfortunately doesn't have the potential to make majors, which is the ultimate goal of a cs org, but they could have at least done him right by competing in the tourn they qualified for together. But truthful in all of it, s0m got dicked the worst. S0m might not be swag in terms to talent but he is def better than food and vanity, and a good argument for better than markE cause dude is so young and has high potential.

2019-02-27 13:23

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It was a big org pushing around a small org. They should have waited till Sydney was over. They just salty swole shit on them.

2019-02-27 13:28

Er you're from the US, land of capitalism, but yet you aren't aware of how businesses and corporations work? By this logic, if you go and interview for 2 jobs, 1 company is quite larger than the other, pays better, and has more potential for you to advance in the company and life in general, you would still choose the lesser of the 2 companies cause you thought the larger one was "bullying" the smaller one cause they have more upside as an employer for you?

2019-02-27 14:20

I was looking forward to seeing swole play on lan. They played great in the qualifiers. Wanted to see them vs better teams.

2019-02-27 14:21

That I'll agree with man, they did look like a strong team, young but still strong. I thought they'd have made a solid showing in Sydney but I just can't say I blame eU for the 3 dudes leaving. If there is any silver lining for swole it's swag and s0m, those 2 are ridiculous good and if they can find 3 other solid players to rep swole at Sydney (not sure if that'd be allowed or not), they could totally make some noise at the event.

2019-02-27 14:56

2019-02-27 12:08

Swag solo invite

Swole patrol how

they won na qualifer

2019-02-27 12:47

lol

2019-02-27 12:11

no Oakland no win

2019-02-27 12:12

Deserved

NAICE

2019-02-27 12:17

Invite Navi Ast Liquid now ty

2019-02-27 12:19

wasted spot lmao

2019-02-27 12:20

-1

2019-02-27 12:41

axaxaxaxaxaaxaxa

2019-02-27 13:52

mad?

2019-02-27 15:07

sounds like some nip fans are axaxaxaxaxax

Big to minor lmao no major in Berlin

2019-02-27 12:42

cry is free men))

2019-02-27 13:49

a fan of VP should not be allowed to talk shit about any other team

2019-02-27 13:18

imagine stalking my profile Just to talk shit axaxaxaxaxaxaaxaxa

2019-02-27 13:51

it takes literally one click to access your profile, so why not?

2019-02-27 15:19

Ez big after saving strats at major

2019-02-27 12:54

Now Vita

2019-02-27 12:30

+12456789

2019-02-27 15:33

No Astralis gg

2019-02-27 12:33

better for the public if boringtralis is not invited

Lol okay

2019-02-27 15:20

Niiiiiiice

2019-02-27 12:34

swag unbanned?

2019-02-27 12:37

Not valve event

2019-02-27 12:44

Fnatic next

Maybe Vitality and ENCE are the nexts

2019-02-27 12:46

Surely not they did the open qualifier so it means that they aren't invited , same for g2

2019-02-27 14:02

It doesn't work like it. The qualifier took place before the Major and G2 was invited on the closed qualifier considering they hadn't a better HLTV rank than Vitality. Now Vitality ranked-up in the HLTV ranking so they have even more chances to be invited. On top of that that's not because you were invited to the Closed Qualifier that you can't be invited at the Event. Here is an exemple (LDLC): liquipedia.net/counterstrike/DreamHack/2.. liquipedia.net/counterstrike/DreamHack/2..

Pretty sure astralis wont go, too far to travel.

2019-02-27 12:51

Really bad excuse not to go id say. They went to the first two so inexpect them to go

2019-02-27 13:34

yeah, and last time they went devices sickness reappeared. Im pretty sure they wont attend a lot of events with huge amounts of travel involved, and they already committed themselves to the Blast Pro in brazil.

2019-02-27 13:41

expected from future major winners

no SA qualifier? thanks God

2019-02-27 12:59

Why Swole Patrol? :|

2019-02-27 13:06

Made it through qualifiers.

2019-02-27 13:27

OK, thank you.

2019-02-27 13:40

Now invite Astralis, Navi, Liquid, Ence, and then some other team I don't know and you've got yourselves a tier 1 tourney.

2019-02-27 13:26

Nipperino!! very nice very good!

2019-02-27 13:30

"best crowd in esports" lmao according to who

2019-02-27 13:46

In the country of the afl you’ve never experienced as good crowds asAustralia

i hope that ence gets an invite and maybe vitality

2019-02-27 14:34

Swag v. 5

2019-02-27 15:45

Swole Patrol: swag aka one man army :))

2019-02-27 15:50

NiP is back on the scene bois!

2019-02-27 16:01

2019-02-27 16:51

#GONINJAS

2019-02-27 17:07

sweeeeet

2019-02-27 17:28

Invited because of reputation and past achievements. Not so much because they are a dominate team that can challenge others to win.

2019-02-27 20:42

Funniest event of the year, aussies are awesome. Laughed so hard so many times last event. Compared to aussies, the American audience is like a dead freaking opera.

2019-02-27 20:46