Pinnacle Fall Series announced with $84,000; FPX, forZe among invited teams

20-8-2021 13:23

The tournament series will award teams with spots at LAN Sweet LAN in February 2022.

Relog Media and data partner GRID Esports have announced the Pinnacle Fall and Winter Series, a rebrand of the Home Sweet Home circuit of events. The debut tournament under the new banner is set to run from August 23 to September 8 with $84,000 on offer, and will feature a total of 28 teams across four stages.

A 16-team Regional Swiss stage will kick off the event. with the eight teams who top the stage advancing to a second, "Main" Swiss stage where they will meet eight invited teams.

In the Main Swiss stage, the pool of teams is once again cut down by half, and the remaining eight sides then play the first stage of a single-elimination playoff bracket, from which the top four teams advance to a secondary playoff bracket alongside another four invited teams.

Included among the list of teams invited to the Regional stage are GamerLegion, LDLC, and Movistar Riders, while the likes of FunPlus Phoenix, FORZE, SKADE, and Endpoint await in the Main Swiss stage. The four teams that will receive direct invites to the playoffs, meanwhile, are still to be determined.

The tournament series has been extended to run until March 2022 and will help in determining six more teams that will qualify for LAN Sweet LAN later next year, with MOUZ, OG, Complexity, FORZE, FunPlus Phoenix, and HAVU all already having attained spots by winning previous Snow Sweet Snow and Spring Sweet Spring events. The tournament organiser did not announce how the spots would be allocated, given the change in format.

The two series and LAN Sweet LAN also remain a part of the Elisa Champion of Champions Tour alongside FunSpark ULTI events and the seasonal Elisa Invitationals, from which the highest-scoring teams will receive direct invites to Elisa Champion of Champions.

Elisa, Relog Media, FunSpark unite to form $2.7m event circuit for 2021-2022

The teams who will take part in the first two stages of the Pinnacle Fall Series are:

Regional Swiss stage

Main Swiss stage

wow

2021-08-20 13:23

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ez cash money for FPX

2021-08-20 13:42

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another throw tournament to farm money

2021-08-20 14:12

nice B)

so many swedish teams tho

2021-08-20 13:24

easy for forze as always

EZ 4 Endpoint

2021-08-20 13:25

FPX still exist!

fpx only playing when they get invited too good for qualifiers i guess 🤡

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actually true

2021-08-20 13:32

Yes I hoped for seing them way more

2021-08-20 13:36

tbf they are above the skill level of half the teams in EPL they should definitely be getting invited to events if teams like OG are as well

2021-08-20 14:08

they're not bad but if you never play you dont get invites either you barely see them around anymore they only played 67 maps this year.. to compare that with forze (ranked one above them): 216 maps complexity(ranked a bit above them): 116 maps renegades (ranked one below, but trapped in aussie noscene hell): 61 maps

2021-08-20 14:49

FPX LETS GO!!!

2021-08-20 13:26

FPX LET'S GOO

2021-08-20 13:29

FPX Pogchamp

2021-08-20 13:31

nice FPX finally))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

2021-08-20 13:34

Oh finally

2021-08-20 13:37

fpx??????

2021-08-20 13:41

finally matches for FPX

2021-08-20 13:43

Fpx ez

2021-08-20 13:44

Why they didn’t invite BLINK,they can beat 70% of these team easly😡

2021-08-20 13:51

finally FPX EZ money for them

2021-08-20 14:06

Most of the Main Swiss teams wouldn't have advanced to the Main stage if they had to play.

2021-08-20 14:11

0 8

2021-08-20 14:37

( Y )

2021-08-20 15:09

damn so many swedish teams O_o

2021-08-20 14:26

Where is brazilian teams? O plano, t1?

FINALLY FPX PLAYING AGAIN HAHAHAHA.

2021-08-20 14:59

No Blink? Not watching

2021-08-20 15:22

dw hopefully blink can have good esea premier run and already in some other tournaments :)

2021-08-20 19:18

Why would FPX be invited if they are already in Lan Sweet Lan??

2021-08-20 16:02

Honestly I'm a little bit sad that they rebranded those Home Sweet Home Cups, I really liked them. But overall it should be a nice event for FPX to finally play and win something. But I believe in AGO. GL to every team.

2021-08-20 17:34