ECS Season 8 week 3 first matchups revealed

12-10-2019 17:50

FACEIT has revealed the matchups for the third week of ECS Season 8 in Europe and North America.

The first two weeks of ECS Season 8 saw AVANGAR and Sharks secure places at the LAN finals after topping the prize earnings from their respective regions, with week 3 being the first one to automatically reward the winning sides with tickets to the main event.

In Europe, we will see the return of four teams from week 2, including the winner of that bracket, HEROIC. The quartet will be joined by four heavy hitters in MOUZ, FaZe, BIG and Ninjas in Pyjamas, with three of those teams making their first appearances in this ECS season.

mousesports will look to secure a spot at the ECS Finals

On the other side of the Atlantic, ATK will be looking to repeat their success from week 2 against a stacked field of competitors that is headlined by current world No.3 team Evil Geniuses, who topped the week 1 bracket.

The first-round matches for ECS Season 8 for Europe and North America can be found below:

Europe

MOUZ vs. m1x
Virtus.pro vs. Tricked
FaZe vs. BIG
Heretics vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas

North America

FURIA vs. Riot Squad
INTZ vs. Cloud9
ATK vs. Complexity
ex-Singularity vs. Evil Geniuses

UPDATE: FACEIT has announced that HEROIC have pulled out of the tournament, with Heretics taking the Danish team's spot in the bracket.

insane

2019-10-12 17:51

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Performance by coL

2019-10-12 18:02

nice

2019-10-12 17:52

VP vs Tricked again Heroic vs NIP again wtf

Faze vs Big again

2019-10-12 17:56

week 3 with lan spot as prize? or again useless shit xaaaxax?

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yes each week 1 spot from now on

2019-10-12 17:53

xaaxax nice

they better hope mousesports&furia make it or soon this event gonna turn into tier10

easy for mousesports and the new compLexity

m1x players?

2019-10-12 17:54

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Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi Filip 'tudsoN' Tudev Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci Guy 'anarkez' Trachtman

2019-10-12 17:55

Guy 'anarkez' Trachtman

2019-10-12 18:28

2019-10-12 19:12

m1x .... it was a really good idea from ECS to have their qualifiers during season break ^^

Rematch for Nip

Rest in pussy VP

2019-10-12 17:57

I BELIEVE IN THE BEST TEAM OF ALL TIME TOO, GO BIG CLAN !!! #RunClan #VamousBIG #ComeToBerlin

Are you BIGGEST_BIG_FAN ?

2019-10-12 18:38

Who?

2019-10-12 18:57

he is germany best country

2019-10-12 19:14

vp vs tricked forever

2019-10-12 17:58

vp will win this week

VP vs Tricked "ah shit, here we go again"

I dont understand how ecs has fallen so hard

2019-10-12 18:03

ez4m1xx

2019-10-12 18:05

astralis 0 times vp 3 times nice

Ez4vp

How Teams like VP, MIX,TRICKED big can play Why Ecs cant invite Ence Vita or FNATIC, G2

2019-10-12 18:06

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maybe they did but they dont want to play? or idk

LUL Vitality defending champions not want to play??? Stupid ECS invite again again and again Tier500 VP or MIX XD Also cant invite ASTRALIS what a joke

2019-10-12 19:59

Vitality declined invite

2019-10-12 20:53

They dont wanna be champions wants again? OK but this move understates all ECS for Eu. If Astralis or Rest Teams I Say before cant be add Ecs move closer to UM League or Lootbet. Moving away from EPL

2019-10-12 21:04

online? ez xantares

2019-10-12 18:07

nice ez xantares

2019-10-12 18:13

ez for mouz

2019-10-12 18:17

Vp vs Tricked for the 135th time

2019-10-12 18:20

VP vs Tricked Ah shit, here we go again

2019-10-12 18:22

why did ecs willingly turn their tournament from a top tier 1 tournament into a tier 2 tournament?

2019-10-12 18:27

+1 Where the fuck are the top teams ?

2019-10-12 18:36

ESL is helping. either some teams already have deals or they just don't care about ECS. also DH (which is owned by same company as ESL) did a qualifier at the same time as ecs pinnacle. there were a bunch of forfeits. hltv.org/news/27765/exclusivity-rules-to.. "According to the rules, member teams of the ESL Pro League would not be able to play in other leagues, such as FACEIT’s Esports Championship Series (ECS), spanning over 14 days. " hltv.org/news/27758/esl-and-dreamhack-to.. even though valve came out saying against exclusivity ESL could still easily move events at the same time if they wanted.

2019-10-12 18:54