Astralis invited to Elisa Masters Espoo

14-10-2022 17:01

The Danish side are the lastest team to accept an invite for the $200,000 Finnish LAN.

Elisa Esports have announced Astralis as the fifth team to have been invited to attend Elisa Masters Espoo 2022, joining the likes of fnatic, ENCE, and BIG in Espoo, Finland just a few days after the conclusion of the IEM Rio Major.

Three more invited teams are left to be revealed, with three additional ones qualifying through Elisa events to bring the number of squads up to 12.

Elisa Masters Espoo will take place between November 16-20, boasting a $200,000 prize pool and a direct invite for the Play-In Stage of IEM Katowice 2023 thanks to its affiliation with the ESL Pro Tour.

Astralis are the latest team to be invited to Elisa Masters Espoo

HEET are so far the only team to have qualified for the tournament thank to their top finish at Elisa Invitational Spring 2022, with three more squads set to attend the event through their placings at various Elisa competitions.

The ongoing Elisa Invitational Fall will provide two teams with qualifying spots while another unannounced event will grant the last entry to Masters Espoo.

Astralis could look very different by the time Elisa Masters Espoo rolls around due to the cascade of changes caused by the team's disappointing results and failure to qualify for the IEM Rio Major. The organization has already removed coach Martin "⁠trace⁠" Heldt and Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke from the starting lineup, and stated that more changes "on and around the team" will occur.

The team has been linked with a possible return of Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz while their hunt for a rifler has them reportedly interested in a move for Sprout's Victor "⁠Staehr⁠" Staehr, despite the German organization's opposition to the transfer.

k0nfig and Astralis part ways

Astralis are currently ranked No.11 in the world, the second-highest at the event behind MOUZ, but it's likely their position will change significantly by November, with nothing on their calendar after the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown ahead of the Espoo event and more changes likely to come.

The teams attending Elisa Masters Espoo are now:

Invite

TBA

Elisa Invitational Fall

pog

2022-10-14 17:02

7 replies

damn astralis be the lastest team

2022-10-14 17:56

great

2022-10-14 18:02

from 4x major winners to invited for a tier 4 event

2022-10-14 18:17

4 replies

Sad times, brother.

2022-10-14 18:36

You can thank Emilia mainly for that

2022-10-14 18:47

2 replies

+1 hahaha and that shit rapper too

2022-10-14 19:30

hltv agrees with you, cuz they deleted my comment that disagreed with you. lmao.

2022-10-14 23:15

tournament for their lvl

have to get invited to keep the rank you know...

2022-10-14 17:30

1 reply

Tier 2/3 team wasting a spot on top 11

2022-10-14 17:41

still gonna lose every match

2022-10-14 18:26

Fnatic, Mouz, Ence? Tier above, unfair for my favorite team Astralis mens(( My beloved T3 Astralis cannot win against T1.5/T2.

2022-10-14 18:37

Wasted spot

device debut Pog

Is this really going to be the first event that new Astralis will debut in?

doubt, I think they will debut in cologne (if they qualify)

2022-10-14 17:14

Haha nice one (they won't)

2022-10-14 17:21

maybe g2 can tag along as well. lot of free time on their hands.

Not enough time, G2 lost de_airport against Astralis and have to wait for the next plane

2022-10-14 17:03

They were fighting for a spot in this tournament

Hahahahaha

2022-10-14 21:57

Konfig beat them with his fists bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣

2022-10-14 19:02

lMAO

KKKKKKKKK

who?

wasted spot

Threw the major RMR so they can play the real important tournament!

they don't deserve to be invited to events....

Still waiting for top team invites

2022-10-14 17:04

6 replies

keep waiting XD

2022-10-14 17:06

You dont see top1-7 teams here because they get straight invite to katowice play-in

2022-10-14 17:25

I know

2022-10-14 17:39

3 replies

then why are you waiting them?

2022-10-14 17:40

Because one of the leading organizers said that the event would have multiple top10 teams It was kinda predictable that it wasn't gonna be the case

2022-10-14 17:43

obviously they lied

2022-10-14 17:59

lmao

ELISASTRALIS!

2022-10-14 17:05

even there astralis dont win

Astralis be like oh we cant win a shit for already 2+ years lets invite us to tier 5 event maybe we can go into grandfinal

nah this is tier 2,5

2022-10-14 17:33

Bring back Device!

2022-10-14 17:07

why

they will finish lastest in the tournament

2022-10-14 17:08

astralis fe > main roster

Ofc invite because these bots would never qualify

2022-10-14 17:09

Refunding my thickets

2022-10-14 17:10

they found their level

thats huge

2022-10-14 17:11

Pog this is actually huge. I hope device will be there.

2022-10-14 17:12

Hopefully we see more of these tournaments. I miss where we had lots of tier1/2 events. Now its only fucking ESL and Blast Edit: Giving only 2 places for those online tournaments fucked up tho. Atleast give them 4/5 places wtf

2022-10-14 17:13

Online tournaments give 3 spots to this tournament. Heet qualified trough some elisa tournament dont remember which one.

2022-10-14 17:28

Elisa could be a regular operator on the field going forward depending on how this tournament will go. They do seem to be keen on making it big, and if this tournament will be successful enough, I can see them making an even bigger push to become the next Blast.

2022-10-14 17:42

look at the level that astralis gonna play, sad man.

One of Imperial / FURIA / 00Nation 100% certain will be invited

2022-10-14 17:15

I hope NIP too

2022-10-14 17:17

NiP will probably be one of the final invites I guess They have currently 0 Finnish players/orgs for an event in Finland, they want at least somebody to show up and inviting NiP with Aleksi and Swedes will get that I cant think of any reason for anyone to go to this LAN anyway, the only exciting team there so far is fnatic who are promising, other than that this is just 'best of the rest' and collapsing teams

2022-10-14 17:50

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I think having both NIP with Aleksib and ENCE (even without Finnish players) is enough to gain attraction from the Finnish crowd. Yeah, sure they can invite HAVU as well just for the sake of being Finnish but the teams in this tournament imo are out of their league. You'd preferably want to have as many top 15-20 teams as possible, and HAVU is not there yet, and probably won't be.

2022-10-14 17:53

Yea HAVU won't be there, they have not shown much promise with this roster yet, are not in the Elisa Invitational and there are for sure more popular teams that will say yes Which is a shame but deserved consequence of HAVU being unable to do anything with some ok rosters If NiP get invited though they should be favourites to take the trophy which would be great for them going forwards

If HAVU still had Elisa as their sponsor as they used to do that could be the case but afaik they are no longer sponsored by Elisa. But yeah, HAVU can only blame themselves if they end up missing this tourney.

2022-10-14 18:01

Sad that we are now a 1 player 1 coach scene

It is what it is..

"lastest" xd

Gonna be beaten by a qualified team

2022-10-14 17:19

this is nice

i dont think astralsi even hav quality fr these kind of tournament. they are even bad than academy teams. send them to play with kids.

Device first lan back

og/heroic/nip/outsiders three of those teams get invite

2022-10-14 17:29

I bet plenty of teams who deserve that spot more won't be invited at all

2022-10-14 17:32

That is fun.

lastest

2022-10-14 17:34

astralis will win this

2022-10-14 17:38

-xyp bot not enough firepower

2022-10-14 17:45

some orgs have to screw up a lot to be out of the top20. They will always get invites, even if they are thrash.

Esports for actual teams Espoo for astralis

Now Nip plz

who cars about mafia team

2022-10-14 18:08

"the lastest team" lol

2022-10-14 18:14

G2 has to play this tournament and win it to gain some confidence.

2022-10-14 18:31

gonna lose to superjymy

2022-10-14 20:27

This is more their level, but still needing invites huh

2022-10-14 18:38

Haters cryin

2022-10-14 18:53

rip

2022-10-14 19:01

nice to see tier 3 events also giving opportunities to tier 5 teams like Asstralis

2022-10-14 19:29

"the lastest team"

2022-10-14 19:59

all time low for astralis

2022-10-14 20:06

Just a small reminder about what are the stakes in this tournament. Guaranteed play-in spot for Katowice and nice paycheck, so there's something to play for.

2022-10-14 20:25

no one wants to see astralis

2022-10-14 20:33

huge L no one wants them

2022-10-14 21:18

Well, now that they failed to qualify for Rio Major, any official playing time is good for them but why with this temp roster? Are they gonna make the device move official and let him play instead?

2022-10-14 21:49