NRG to attend Arctic Invitational

1-3-2019 11:41

The North American squad NRG is the first team to be confirmed for the ~$115,000 event in Finland.

The Arctic Invitational will feature four teams and, taking place in the 13,000-seat Hartwall Arena in Helsinki on September 14th. Three of the attending teams will be invited, with the last one securing a spot via a Finnish Qualifier.

daps and co. will be in Finland this September

NRG, who have just replaced Jacob "⁠FugLy⁠" Medina with Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik after a disappointing run at the IEM Katowice Major, are the first team to accept an invite to the tournament, with other "internationally successful" teams set to join the list.

The team list for the Artic Invitational now looks as follows:

NRG

Invite

Finnish Qualifier

EZ for finnish qualifier EZ4ENCE

2019-03-01 11:42

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2019-03-01 11:44

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EZ FINNISH TOURNAMENT

2019-03-01 12:00

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SUOMI

2019-03-01 16:05

Ence will get invited after major semis for sure.

2019-03-01 11:49

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no they wont. One swedish team will reveice invite and one from cis. So they have to go thru finnish qualifier= 2EZ4ENCE

2019-03-01 12:11

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I, as ENCE, would not even participate. Why try qualify againts bot teams, when you clearly deserve the spot. Waste of time. At least it should be so that they qualify opponent for ENCE, and the winner of that match gets to this tournament.

2019-03-01 17:08

hltv.org/matches/2329088/ence-vs-sj-wesg..

2019-03-01 21:16

Oof

2019-03-02 03:31

Would be a huge disappointment if ENCE wouldn't qualify. That can happen in CS. Two bad gun rounds in one side of your own map pick can destroy a lot with some additional bad luck.

2019-03-01 12:15

Can happen in CS, but the next best finnish team currently is worse than the previous iteration of ENCE was. I would not be surprised if ENCE decides to even skip this, as why bother qualify against bots, when they most certainly will start get a lot of invitations. Also, this tournament is funded by Elisa, the main competitor of Telia, which is sponsoring ENCE.

2019-03-01 17:06

Harkimo would not tolerate it. No more Hartwall 4 ENCE.

2019-03-01 21:17

2019-03-01 12:51

2019-03-01 14:19

Pog

2019-03-01 11:41

3rd

PogChamp

2019-03-01 14:59

Ez win for tariiiik

ENCE????

EZ4

2019-03-01 11:47

Nice

FINLAND!!!!!!

first

2019-03-01 11:43

Second invite is 100% ence 3rd invite i guess tyloo

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I believe its some tier3 rus/swe team

2019-03-01 11:46

mb mb it just prediction i dont sure about tyloo

tyloo would be nice

The Finnish representative is determined in the Finnish Championship tournament, 1 invite is for Sweden and one for CIS. Hoping to see NRG, NaVi, NiP and ENCE.

would be great to watch all these teams +1

2019-03-01 13:19

ENCE needs to play qualifer like any other finnish team

2019-03-01 12:06

ou ok than tywin lannister was right

2019-03-01 14:21

0-3

Probably ENCE, NiP and someone like HAVU for the last spots I'm guessing.

I believe the invites go like this: 1 for Europe 1 for CIS 1 for NA (NRG) I’m not 100% sure tho

2019-03-01 12:10

Ah alright. Ty for the information

2019-03-01 12:18

"NRG has proven that they are a consistant top team" did i fucking missed something ?

xD +1 maybe they meant inconsistent

2019-03-01 11:59

consistently inconsistent

2019-03-01 13:02

Hoping its NRG NiP fnatic and then ENCE thru qualifiers to accomodate other teams lol

KEK, ENCE through quals??? They will get an invite

2019-03-01 11:51

they will go through qualifiers

2019-03-01 11:58

Just what I hope happens bro

2019-03-01 12:02

They have invite for Europe/NA, which is filled bc of NRG, for Sweden (probably NiP, and for CIS (Na'Vi perhaps?) and a Finnish qualifier, where ENCE probably gets an invite to.

2019-03-01 12:13

+Ence +Asian team +Finnish team from quals

2019-03-01 11:50

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+Swedish team +CIS team +Finnish qualifier This is info given in an article.

2019-03-01 12:14

Ok. I just find it weird that ENCE will/could qualify instead of recieving an invite

2019-03-01 12:43

Yeah, I know..

2019-03-01 12:44

People behind this event don't have their interest on ENCE that much. They have contacts to Havu atleast I think.

2019-03-01 13:50

lol. If they legit invite HAVU over ENCE they are dumb AF.

2019-03-01 15:50

ez for 3-0 in and 0-3 out NRG

2019-03-01 11:54

NRG the worst team I have ever seen ranked Top 5

2019-03-01 11:56

wasn't one invite for sweden, one na/eu and one to CIS or some dumb shit? So basically these absolute bellends aren't going to invite ence if it goes according to plan and need to hope they win qualifier or some shit :D:D:D:D:D. Would be funny if ence wouldn't even go play qualifier and focused other events xddd