Imperial invited to ESL Challenger Melbourne

25-7-2022 12:09

The Brazilian squad will travel to Australia at the beginning of September.

ESL has announced the penultimate team invited to ESL Challenger Melbourne, inviting Imperial to participate in the $100,000 competition taking place from September 2-4 based on their ESL World Ranking.

The squad around Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo will be among the highest-ranked teams in attendance, at the time of the announcement being the second-highest only after OG, with Entropiq, ORDER, EG White, Wings Up, and VERTEX also set to attend after securing their spot in various qualifiers.

Imperial look to recover from a poor end of the season

With the off-season currently underway, rumors are swirling around the 'Last Dance' roster, linking them with the departure of their oldest member, Lincoln "⁠fnx⁠" Lau, following a string of early exits from events such as IEM Cologne and IEM Dallas.

Reports say their primary target is MIBR's Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes and that his teammate, Jhonatan "⁠JOTA⁠" Willian, as well as Rodrigo "⁠biguzera⁠" Bittencourt and Lucas "⁠Lucaozy⁠" Neves have also been considered. Should changes come to fruition, ESL Challenger Melbourne will be the team's debut with a new player.

Only one team is left to be revealed, coming from the ESL World Ranking as well:

ESL World Ranking

nice

2022-07-25 12:10

4 replies

trash invite. 9z deserved it more.

2022-07-25 23:28

3 replies

They need the community money bro what do you think ?

2022-07-25 23:31

+1. But Brazilian CSGO and Fallen bring a lot of more viewers than 9z to the matches. Also, Argentina is really poor so the sponsors wont get a lot of money from us

2022-07-26 02:56

2022-07-26 15:04

Boosting dat viewership

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2022-07-25 12:58

+1 only because that

2022-07-25 13:03

2022-07-25 13:07

+1 Let’s see if they can finish at least 2nd last

2022-07-25 13:38

Why so rude

2022-07-25 14:57

There is 2 aussie teams, even if Peacemaker stand in for Imperial, they are guaranteed to be 6th or higher

2022-07-25 17:29

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Dude. Too soon. RIP Peacemaker.

2022-07-25 19:50

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Yo le noob, You should be happy that fraudmaker is gone, now Imperial might make some progress.

2022-07-26 13:35

2022-07-25 17:58

2022-07-25 18:56

-1 they got invited due their massive skills

2022-07-25 19:45

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2022-07-25 21:35

+1 true

2022-07-26 00:47

my video on another HLTV article LFG

didnt know you made em… good videos as usual :)

2022-07-25 13:27

ty ty :D

2022-07-26 02:05

The Last chance

2022-07-25 12:11

Nice pun

You clearly know what a pun is

2022-07-25 20:32

Wow, I really remember this being The Last Dance. Sometimes you just read what you wanna read, lul. I'm curious if people correcting figure of speech is also classified as grammar n*zi.

2022-07-25 21:01

This guy is grammar communist

2022-07-25 21:49

Very nice

i love vini, but for what reason is their invite? (aside from gaules/br viewership)

2022-07-25 12:12

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it's based on esl rankings I think

2022-07-25 12:13

bro even team finest are higher than them in terms of ranking

2022-07-25 13:20

LANarkEZ

2022-07-25 14:04

No it's not. It's based on ESL ranking, not HLTV. Read the article

2022-07-25 15:09

Not in Pro League, so they are invited due to ESL Rankings :)

2022-07-25 12:14

Literally only for the viewership, our community is going to support they no matter what, you need people to look at your sponsor? Here you go

2022-07-25 12:39

Need viewership for your event? invite furia/imperial. Ez 100k viewers (as long as they survive)

2022-07-25 12:45

Imperial won't survive tho

2022-07-25 14:41

They dont deserve a tier 1 event, but tier 2/3 looks reasonable

2022-07-25 12:54

Wait how can you say that when EG are there?

2022-07-25 13:40

EG qualified through NA qualifier

2022-07-25 13:54

I am saying if eg can be in the tournament why not imperial

2022-07-25 14:06

sorry my bad

2022-07-25 14:11

Agree

2022-07-25 14:47

IMP IMP URRAAAA

2022-07-26 13:40

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Will they play with Chelo already? Or still FNX?

After player break so probably chelo

2022-07-25 12:31

I dont think this transaction is going through.

2022-07-25 16:39

Invite Imperial = 300k more viewers Good decision really

One hand shakes the other, good for Gaules, good for the event, good for the Brazilian community.

2022-07-25 12:16

good for csgo

2022-07-25 14:07

Even if you're not from Brazil, you gotta say that matches of these guys are great to watch, on the Antwerp major I was cheering for C9 but I can easily say that C9 v Imperial match was the best show that I've seen in the very long time, not mentioning other Imperial matches on major

2022-07-25 19:40

Hope they don’t invite Sprout!!!

2022-07-25 12:23

I don’t get it, are they deleting the whole five and just falleN left or?

2022-07-25 12:30

apparently they're kicking fnx and deciding which one among those names. despite padrim being a impactful player imo, his numbers are bad and every brazillian team is looking forward the rio major

2022-07-25 18:16