Funspark ULTI Finals revealed with Gambit, Astralis & more

13-1-2022 16:34

With top-10 teams such as Gambit, Astralis and Entropiq in attendance, the event promises to be a competitive one to kickstart the year.

The full details of the Funspark ULTI Finals have been announced, including the team list and schedule; the event will feature eight teams battling through a double elimination best-of-three bracket, with a best-of-three grand final, for a share of an impressive $250,000 prize pool. The event will take place online in Europe.

This is the first finals event for the Champion of Champions Tour, which includes events such as Home Sweet Home, Pinnacle Cup, Elisa, and Malta Vibes.

Gambit will be the highest ranked team in attendance

The games will take place between January 18-24, with two matches played per day, one at 12:00 and one at 15:00 . Commentators Harry "JustHarry" Russell and Hugo Byron will be tasked with bringing the action from every single game to life, with Alex "⁠Mauisnake⁠" Ellenberg and Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović handling analysis duties. The on-air team will be broadcasting live from Relog Media headquarters in Serbia.

The team list features the top finishers at the Funspark ULTI 2020 Europe event, BIG and Extra Salt, ECSTATIC and K23 from the Funspark 2021 EU ranking, and is rounded out by invites in the form of Gambit, Astralis, Entropiq and fnatic.

See the full team list and schedule below:

Gambit (Invite)

Astralis (Invite)

Entropiq (Invite)

fnatic (Invite)

BIG (Funspark Finals)

ECSTATIC (Funspark rank)

K23 (Funspark rank)

Extra Salt (Funspark Finals)

Schedule

Tuesday, January 18
12:00 Entropiq vs. ECSTATIC
15:00 Astralis vs. K23

Wednesday, January 19
12:00 fnatic vs. BIG
15:00 Gambit vs. Extra Salt

Thursday, January 20
12:00 Lower bracket game 1
15:00 Lower bracket game 2

Friday, January 21
12:00 Upper bracket semi-final
15:00 Upper bracket semi-final

Saturday, January 22
12:00 Lower bracket semi-final
15:00 Lower bracket semi-final

Sunday, January 23
12:00 Lower bracket final
15:00 Upper bracket final

Monday, January 24
12:00 Consolidation final
15:00 Grand final

No apeks no fun

2022-01-13 16:34

13 replies

bruh stop fanboy-ing

2022-01-13 16:37

4 replies

Novak owns Australia

2022-01-13 16:42

3 replies

No he doesnt

2022-01-13 17:03

We will see about that

2022-01-13 17:04

ez for astralis 5times major winner

2022-01-13 19:31

why do Gambit still participate in tier 3 tournament like in Youngster day

2022-01-13 16:47

6 replies

cuz they feel and know that they are lucky online tier2 team GamBOT

2022-01-13 16:48

I think thats a good thing for them, theyll get into the feel of the game sooner than the other teams who will have the 1st official on blast. Id guess this will make things smoother than playing blast right after 1 and half month break

2022-01-13 16:54

ez 250k

2022-01-13 17:22

because they flop in tier 1 if its lan

2022-01-13 17:43

wouldn't you take a free 150k

2022-01-13 20:35

hhhh

2022-01-14 02:42

birdfromsky vs Astralis pog

t10 tournament

t1 cs back :)

2022-01-13 16:35

Astralis really doing this huh?

Just realised that this event will have an MVP lmao

Oh dang, nice catch

2022-01-13 16:36

wdym it will have an MVP, every event can have an MVP technically

2022-01-13 16:40

MVP for HLTV rankings. You need like 2-3 top teams at the event for it to count

2022-01-13 16:46

2 replies

a single top10 team is fine

2022-01-13 17:17

1 reply

at least 2 unless it has more high rated non Top 10 teams or has a big impact/prize pool

2022-01-13 17:28

Looks like another free mvp for stat ladder sh0r0

2022-01-13 17:59

ez4faven

So, this will be the 1st MVP tournament, as there are 3 top-10 teams. Great to see, who will start the year's race.

Ez birdfromsky MVP

2022-01-13 16:38

First event for the new Col? Can’t wait

8 replies

Fair, although if they get signed by CoL do we know that CoL would get a spot in this tournament? Like if ES can't field a roster for the tournament, Funspark would probably just give their spot to the org with the next-best finish at the 2020 EU finals which would be ForZe

2022-01-13 16:43

7 replies

probably done on roster basis than org basis if you see what I mean

I do see what you mean, I don't know how often Tournament organizers do that kind of thing since it seems like they often have relationships with orgs, but not necessarily with players. But I hope you're right TBH because old ES/new CoL is a fun roster.

2022-01-13 16:56

5 replies

it would be awesome to see the new CoL lineup compete as Extra Salt "one last time"

2022-01-13 17:00

twitter.com/ExtraSaltGG/status/148167240.. Well look at that.

2022-01-13 18:05

want to know this week's lottery numbers?

2022-01-13 18:06

twitter.com/ExtraSaltGG/status/148167240..

yep just saw the HLTV article as well. This is a good outcome, in that these guys get a chance at a T1 tournament right off the bat. Especially considering we don't even know if ES will be able to field a full roster after CoL theoretically picks them up Granted, they won't be ready to hang with Gambit and Astralis, but who knows

2022-01-13 18:20

Gambit stat padders gonna lose to fnatic

nt gambit never lose to alex lmao

2022-01-13 19:04

2022-01-13 23:40

EZ for BIG. faveN will smoke these kids.

lmao astralis from major finals to this

Checkmate where?

They fucked Cm

2022-01-13 17:16

Wdym they fucked ? wtf Imagine grinding points to get DQ from main EVENT LMAO

2022-01-13 18:23

wdym bror? Its not their fault its funsparks fault.

2022-01-13 19:28

I bet Cm will fk this losers,

2022-01-13 19:34

smoooooooooooooooooooooooooyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

finally a tournament with relevant teams

I wonder if Extra Salt will become Complexity Or if junior and Grim will just go to extra salt

Pretty stacked, would be a good & doable tourney to win for BIG.

2022-01-13 16:39

I wonder who's gonna win?

astralis wtf lets goooooooooo

Nice! some good practice

EZ 4 Extra Salt and GOAT floppy

2022-01-13 16:41

With a prize pool this big they should’ve invited more Tier 1 teams. They are definitely lowballing who they could get to attend.

2022-01-13 16:49

One of the teams is the runner-up from last year, two are the ones who earned their places through playing in Funspark tournaments regularly, all the others are in the top 20, what exactly do you want

2022-01-13 16:51

No Mouz.. I wanna see if NBK is average bad or just bad.

nobody asked or cares tbh

2022-01-13 16:58

good tournament to start the year. literally "official practice" if u will

its really funny for asian slot cuz there been literally whole 3 season and they played for nothing 🤡🤡🤡

2022-01-13 17:06

+1 L for Funspark

ez money

2022-01-13 17:07

Gambit and Astralis stat padding and practicing at the start of the year. If only G2 could do that

2022-01-13 17:08

BIG gonna get REKTED so hard

2022-01-13 17:13

faveN will rekt some noobs, just watch. Only Gambit and fnatic have a chance vs new big

2022-01-13 17:25

well Gambit and fnatic are the only good teams there look at all the T2 bots there

2022-01-13 17:30

entropiq can put up a fight

2022-01-13 17:39

this is just funny because how they are not even mentioning about asian final spot xDD they played for nothing almost half year

2022-01-13 17:15

So? Checkmate tryharded for nothing

I feel Gambit-Fnatic final here

2022-01-13 17:20

online event and its organized by china, most likely every match will be fixed trust me

2022-01-13 17:26

EZ 4 Smoo Smoo

Oh that's very cool! Nice to see Astralis and Fnatic gaining experience as a team

2022-01-13 17:29

mother fuckers title said, fnatic as "more". BOI PUT SOME RESPEC ON THE NAME

easiest tourney for Gambit

2022-01-13 17:36

Shame for Gambit playing in tier 3 event against tier 3 teams like Astralis and BIG :(

2022-01-13 17:50

ez4gambit

2022-01-13 18:18

I think lucky back to awp

2022-01-13 18:27

lol ofc GAMBIT playing tier 2 Events! Thats all they do huh.... "2nd" in the world btw.

2022-01-13 18:28

I sense a schedule clash for Fnatic in the future

2022-01-13 18:33

Malta Vibes maybe?

2022-01-14 09:34

This is gonna be a really fun event. Excited to see if Astralis and Fnatic can compete against someone like gambit

2022-01-13 18:58

Didn’t even see Big. Also praying ES fluke to like a top 3/4 finish

2022-01-13 18:59

ez4fnatic (flag checks out yes)

2022-01-13 19:07

Serbia. Hugo and Harry and Mauisnake going from Ukraine to Serbia. Sounds sketchy.

2022-01-13 19:42

online tournament = shit tourney no one cares

2022-01-13 21:01

What option do we have?

2022-01-13 21:48

No option thats true

2022-01-14 16:04

Gambit always invited early on in the year for a free event against noobs.

2022-01-13 21:37

Mauisnake is a really bad analyst, he does a lot of mistakes in his analysis and sadly the other guys aren't correcting him.

2022-01-16 10:47

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