Elisa announces invites for Invitational Summer Swiss stage; map pool to feature Ancient

5-5-2021 12:25

HAVU, SKADE, and ENCE are among the eight teams confirmed for the $100,000 tournament in June, which will introduce a new map into competition.

The eight squads invited to the Swiss stage of the Elisa Invitational Summer have been announced by the tournament organizer. Alongside the aforementioned trio, CIS sides EPG Family and FORZE, as well as Endpoint, SAW, and Tricked made the cut.

The action in the Swiss stage kicks off on June 3 and will feature the new competitive map pool, where Train is replaced by Ancient. With the main Swiss stage of the event a month away, it remains to be seen if Elisa Invitational Summer will be the first tournament to incorporate Ancient in competitive play.

ENCE are looking to leave a mark after missing out on Flashpoint 3

Elisa Invitational Summer 2021 utilizes a format similar to Spring Sweet Spring cups, with a regional stage leading into the main stage, and the event concluded with single-elimination playoffs. A partnership between Spring Sweet Spring organizers Relog Media, Elisa Esports, and FunSpark ULTI was unveiled in April, creating a $2.7M event circuit that will culminate with an Elisa Champion of Champions tournament in 2022.

The team list for the main Swiss stage of Elisa Invitational Summer 2021 looks as follows:

Regional stage

Regional stage

The 16 teams competing in the Regionals stage, kicking off on May 6 with Train still in the map pool, have also been unveiled, with Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist's GORILLAZ and Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro's DBL PONEY featuring on the list:

nice HAVUJA KOVANA EZ4ENCE

2021-05-05 12:26

9 replies

bubububut you forgot GORILLAZ :((((((((

2021-05-05 12:28

3 replies

i literally read the article and forgot to write about this noob team i mean EZ4GORILLAZ

2021-05-05 12:30

Go Go Gorillaz!

2021-05-05 12:38

1 reply

#FeelGoodForGorillaz!

2021-05-05 16:55

EZ4ENCE & HAVUJA

2021-05-05 17:35

Who is Elisa? Anyone got phone number?

2021-05-05 20:57

😳😳😳 sorry don't have her number

2021-05-05 21:00

i will pm it to you

2021-05-07 07:19

I'm waiting

2021-05-07 19:32

F TRAIN ;-;

Very Nice!

ancient :0

2 replies

Endpoint 🤝 Ancient

2021-05-05 12:27

ancient no challenge for GOD MiGHTYMAX

2021-05-05 15:58

First ancient game???

read it again ahahah

2021-05-05 14:53

Other lower tier tournament could have the first ancient game...

2021-05-05 16:10

Go SAW

+Ancient is good but -Train is ... fuck volvo

+ancient letsgo

2021-05-05 12:29

Insta-banned map OMEGALUL

no sinners no party

2021-05-05 12:32

true :(

2021-05-05 14:22

They must have declined the invite? No way they did not get one

2021-05-05 19:04

probably, they have lot of matches

2021-05-05 19:54

2.7 dollar circuit lmao

2021-05-05 12:34

EZ 1 dollar for flusha.

2021-05-05 12:39

Tax took the pension mens

2021-05-05 20:09

flusha power so strong that he doesn't pay taxes 😎

2021-05-05 22:32

Let's go sAw! #sAwtouadar

2021-05-05 12:40

Guessing first tournament with Ancient in the pool will be Spring Sweet Spring 2 Regionals

2021-05-05 12:41

4 replies

I think it will be Elisa Summer Regionals, as they're starting tommorrow

2021-05-05 13:06

nah article says they will still have Train which makes sense given teams will have had like two days to pracc Ancient

2021-05-05 13:15

Oh shit, mb didn't notice that... makes sense on one hand, but switching the map pool inbetween stages of a tournaments also doesn't seem like the best idea

2021-05-05 13:18

2021-05-05 13:36

Nice!

2021-05-05 12:44

I still can't understand why does ENCE keep getting invited, their form has been just embarrasing in the last months

2021-05-05 12:45

#EZ4ENCE

2021-05-05 13:40

Idk Elisa is finnish teleoperator so that explains this invite, but not those others

2021-05-05 15:40

Past month, not that long since epl. I guess it's only about the world ranking and a recognizable org name tbh, that's why the invites despite the bad performance lately.

2021-05-05 16:14

They need to go back to bootcamping that was when they were winning

2021-05-05 17:32

Easy for Endpoint in Ancient

2021-05-05 12:47

no PL teams ?

2021-05-05 12:51

maybe because Fantasy Expo event will be in time of Elisa, if not then nobody cares about polish cs now :(

2021-05-05 14:36

insta ban ancient xD

2021-05-05 12:54

WHERE IS SINNERS? :/

2021-05-05 13:19

Where is DIG?

2021-05-05 13:23

It is time for DIG to stop playing this kind of Tier 3 tournaments and starts to go for the real ones.

2021-05-05 15:56

If it features Ancient, why isn't it visible in the map pool then? smh hltv

2021-05-05 13:25

It's still Train tho...

2021-05-06 05:28

EZ FOR NAVI JUNIOR AND GOAT MONESY

2021-05-05 13:32

ForZe let’s go!!

2021-05-05 14:04

Ez4 Epg Family

2021-05-05 15:03

Where are Sinners? They are so good and they should have been invited

2021-05-05 15:17

Easy for orgless gods

2021-05-05 16:29

It still shows train on the tournament page. Jonathan E, take care of that

2021-05-05 16:38

What's cool is that it is already added! if you select the image and go into inspect element, you can change the name to ancient.jpg instead of whatever map you selected and it will show you the image.

2021-05-05 18:16