Elisa Invitational groups and schedule announced

20-4-2020 21:17

The organizers of Elisa Invitational have announced additional details for the BLAST Showdown qualifier, revealing the tournament's format, group distribution, and a detailed schedule.

The Nordic tournament, which will have two spots at the BLAST Spring Europe Showdown on offer, will begin with a best-of-one round-robin group stage, with its eight participants split into two groups.

The winning team of each group will move on directly to the spot-deciding semi-finals, while the second and third-placed teams will face off in the quarter-finals.

North and the new Heroic will face off in Group B

Group A features GODSENT as the highest-ranked side, joined by two more directly invited teams, ENCE and Dignitas, as well as Apeks, who locked their spot in the tournament from the Norwegian qualifier. Erik "⁠truth⁠" Hansen Dyrnes's squad will participate in the event with their coach, Pål "⁠Polly⁠" Kammen, standing in after they decided to bench Haakon "⁠Radifaction⁠" Tholo earlier on Monday.

HEROIC, who have just undergone two changes with René "⁠TeSeS⁠" Madsen and Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen being added to the lineup as replacements for Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer and Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen, and their domestic rivals North headline Group B, in which they will take on underdogs Nordavind and the Finnish qualifier team, KOVA.

Group A

Group B

Group A will be played on day one of the tournament, on Thursday, followed by Group B on Friday and the playoffs on the weekend. A detailed schedule can be found below:

Thursday, April 30

12:00 - Dignitas vs. Apeks
13:30 - GODSENT vs. ENCE
15:00 - ENCE vs. Dignitas
16:30 - GODSENT vs. Apeks
18:00 - GODSENT vs. Dignitas
19:30 - ENCE vs. Apeks

Friday, May 1

12:00 - Nordavind vs. KOVA
13:30 - North vs. HEROIC
15:00 - HEROIC vs. Nordavind
16:30 - North vs. KOVA
18:00 - North vs. Nordavind
19:30 - HEROIC vs. KOVA

Saturday, May 2

16:00 - Quarter-final #1
20:00 - Semi-final #1

Sunday, May 3

16:00 - Quarter-final #2
20:00 - Semi-final #2

who

2020-04-20 21:18

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2020-04-20 21:58

nice

2020-04-20 21:19

ez group for dignitas rigged shit

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Nah 1. Godsent 2. DIG 3. Apeks 4. ENCE Godsent goes to semi, DIG and Apeks go to quarters, ENCE go home without any win :)

2020-04-20 22:56

8 replies

sure about that?

2020-04-22 20:27

well this is a bad prediction

2020-04-22 20:29

Trolling? EZ for Jamppi

2020-04-30 12:22

1. ENCE 2. DIG 3. Apeks 4. GODSENT

2020-04-30 17:37

4 replies

Nah, Godsent looking pretty good, so is DIG (against non-shit teams), Ence is pretty ok right now so ig now it will be 1. GODSENT 2. DIG 3. ENCE 4. Apeks

2020-04-30 17:54

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bro did u watch the results at all?? :DD

2020-05-01 19:34

2 replies

Lmao i cry

2020-05-01 19:43

2020-05-01 20:05

EZ4ENCE

2020-04-20 21:32

EZ4Jamppi

2020-04-21 00:44

fuck me so ez for Apeks

2020-04-20 21:21

North=win

2020-04-20 21:24

lets go DIG

2020-04-20 21:35

Camon, ence in the playoffs

Not EZ4ENCE

2020-04-20 21:36

EZ FOR NORTH

2020-04-20 21:40

it's a shame Apeks just benched Radifaction... their best player lmao

ez nc69

2020-04-20 21:42

If this won't be easy for ence then nothing will ever be. It doesn't get easier than this

2020-04-20 21:51

all matches in groups bo1? are we going back in time? ffs

2020-04-20 21:53

Bettors must be ready for upsets

2020-04-20 23:12

WHERE IS BIG

2020-04-20 21:57

6 replies

2020-04-20 22:06

-1

2020-04-21 12:51

Nordic countries only

if you live in switzerland then germany is in the north, so what's the problem?

2020-04-21 01:24

Nordic countries only. Do u know what that means?

2020-04-21 17:26

Do you know what a joke is? Ah nvm, flag checks out my bad

2020-04-21 20:23

u think its a joke? u think I am a clown? piace of shit lucky that no flyes right now u are at my list son of dog

2020-04-20 22:07

2020-04-20 22:11

Kova = Hard in Finnish

2020-04-20 22:19

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2020-04-20 22:48

ENCE 2nd best Finnish team here

2020-04-20 22:57

Godsent are a tier above anyone else here, it's online and Bo1 tho.

2020-04-20 23:18

I think dignitas w/ hallzerk can take them

2020-04-20 23:23

Group A Dignitas Apeks Group B North Nordavind I have the feeling that GODSENT are not going to make it through. They are playing good vs good opposition, but when they are playing vs lower tier teams they seem struggle. And ENCE are complete trash now. I don't like new Heroic roster at all, I don't think they will make it. And KOVA are just Tier lower than their opposition.

2020-04-20 23:26