Elisa Invitational Fall 2022 playoff invites announced

Twelve teams are still in contention for the two Elisa Masters Espoo 2022 spots.

The knockout stage of Elisa Invitational Fall 2022 begins on Monday, pitting four invited teams against the eight squads who successfully progressed through the opening Swiss System. The invitees will join the tournament at the quarter-final stage, needing just two wins to secure one of the two spots at the $200,000 Elisa Masters Espoo 2022 LAN, starting on November 16th.

The highest-ranked invited team is Eternal Fire, who recently removed their IGL Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli in favor of 19-year-old Yasin "⁠xfl0ud⁠" Koç after a failed attempt to qualify for the IEM Rio Major.

GamerLegion will use the event as good warmup before the Rio Major

Joining the Turkish side in the quarter-finals are Movistar Riders, who also made a recent roster change after an unsuccessful IEM Rio qualification campaign, replacing Raúl "⁠DeathZz⁠" Jordán Nieto with Pere "⁠sausol⁠" Solsona Saumell, whom they acquired from Partizan. This is the Spanish squad's second roster change of the season, having lost Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García to ENCE in August.

The penultimate invite is Major-bound GamerLegion, who have just entered the top 30 in the HLTV.org World Rankings after a successful RMR event, where they notably eliminated G2 from contention.

TYLOO round out the invites, with the team on a European bootcamp following their BLAST Showdown appearance, where they got eliminated by Vitality without winning a map.

The playoff schedule for the $25,000 event is as follows:

Monday, October 24

10:00 SAW vs. Endpoint
13:00 ex-Finest vs. Sprout
17:00 Bad News Eagles vs. EYEBALLERS
19:00 MASONIC vs. SINNERS

Tuesday, October 25

10:00 TYLOO vs. Bad News Eagles / EYEBALLERS
13:00 Eternal Fire vs. ex-Finest / Sprout
16:00 GamerLegion vs. MASONIC / SINNERS
19:00 Movistar Riders vs. SAW / Endpoint

Wednesday, October 26

13:00 Semi-final #1 (BO3)
16:00 Semi-final #2 (BO3)
19:00 Grand Final (BO3)