fnatic to attend IEM Dallas instead of Virtus.pro

17-5-2023 18:28

Some of the Russian squad's players were unable to obtain visas ahead of the tournament.

Virtus.pro have withdrawn from IEM Dallas 2023 following the inability of a few of their players to obtain visas for the American event. fnatic were invited to replace the Russian core due to their fourth-place finish in the closed qualifier.

According to ESL rules, in the event of a team withdrawing from the tournament after the qualifier stage and before the replacement deadline, the next available squad from the bracket will be invited. In this case, William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman and company finished in fourth place in the closed qualifier behind OG, Cloud9, and Astralis — teams already invited or qualified for the competition.

fnatic will replace Virtus.pro at the $250,000 tournament

If the team dropout occurred before the start of the closed qualifier, then the next available team from the region in the ESL World Ranking would have received the invite.

This is the second development from IEM Dallas recently announced as earlier on Wednesday it was revealed that OG was invited to the tournament instead of an unnamed participant. Iulian "⁠regali⁠" Harjău was also announced to be stepping in for Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov at the tournament due to the Russian AWPer taking time off after the Paris Major.

OG invited to IEM Dallas; regali to step in for degster

IEM Dallas will take place May 29 - June 4 in the Texas city of Dallas and will host 16 teams battling it out for a $250,000 prize pool and a direct invite spot to IEM Cologne 2023. The winners will also fight for a notch in the Intel Grand Slam belt as the race for the fifth season of ESL's premier prize got started with Vitality's win at IEM Rio in April.

fnatic will join the tournament alongside the likes of HEROIC, G2, and ENCE as they tackle their first LAN tournament following their elimination from the Paris Major in 9-11th place.

The list of teams attending IEM Dallas is as follows:

Unlucky VP

2023-05-17 18:28

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2023-05-17 18:29

23 replies

3 major legends out of 16 teams lmao tier 3 event

2023-05-17 18:47

22 replies

This major is a joke. We all know it

2023-05-17 19:02

16 replies

Flair

2023-05-17 19:08

boo hoo choko worked his ass off for 20 years just to get complacent and got hit hard when new teams showed up.

2023-05-17 19:17

5 replies

You’re clueless

2023-05-17 19:40

cuz you're a silver bot you cant appreciate the beauty of good and smart cs

2023-05-18 02:05

3 replies

in the end it's all headshots and such

2023-05-18 08:53

2 replies

Who clicks first

2023-05-18 09:17

1 reply

ukcs )

2023-05-18 10:35

Major is the most fair tournament of them all. Any talented team can win over these overpaid paid clowns that are in big orgs nowdays

2023-05-17 19:43

6 replies

2023-05-17 22:00

It's a trade off really. It definitely allows the most opportunities for t2 teams but with how many teams get included in the later stages, there's a lot of BO1s and therefore more flukes.

2023-05-18 07:02

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Well bo3 is still not a big difference tbh. I ve seen plenty of "Tier 2" teams in major winning convincingly to these big orgs. i just think the gap between Tier 1 & 2 has shrunk a lot. CSGO is way more entertaining with tier 2 showing new aggressive strats from their stratbook. Slow CS is not a thing anymore

2023-05-18 11:51

What a delusional comment... Look at Furia who was the definition of only playing aggressively. Even they reverted to more passive play now because only aggression is predictable. Pace changes, defaults and the option to accelerate behind an opening are way more important then only having aggressive playbook options. Map control is far more important then anything nowadays because it allows you to have information and that is what usually is the deciding factor in winning a round. If you know an execute is coming before it is happening, that is insanely valuable. That does not mean aggression is bad by any means btw; it just means that there needs to be a balance between aggression and passive play because otherwise it gets predicable. Also saying a bo1 is not so much different from a bo1 really shows how little you know about veto and top tier CS. You need actual depth to be able to win a best of three against a T1 team. while in a bo1 you can easily get your comfort map and play of early momentum. In a bo3 on the other hand you may get your fav map and may even win that but if your only half as good on the others, the T1 team will just stomp you. Does that mean its impossible to win a bo3 against a better team? no but you actually need to play really well to do that. Just think about the amount of 2-0 teams at the major that failed to deliver in the bo3's.

2023-05-19 11:51

You think i will read this LUL. who is delusional now?

2023-05-19 16:23

You lack the attention span to read not even 300 words? I kinda feel like there goes any of your potential to have any relevant opinion. :D

2023-05-19 16:25

Imagine playing for a top 5 team who is sponsored by one of the richest orgs giving the best salaries and infrastructure in whole cs scene, and still lose to 17yo eastern europeans whose all experience comes from playing FPL pugs all day in their grandmother basement. G2 had all odds stacked in their favor and they still got eliminated before playoffs by T2 players. The major isnt a joke, G2 is.

2023-05-18 05:13

well now those kids got the sticker money theyre balling in the basement

2023-05-18 05:53

Ence G2 Cloud9 tier 3 teams, finally somebody agrees that if you lose at the major it does not matter how many events you win, you must be trash!

2023-05-17 22:59

You are a utter moron

2023-05-18 01:09

Nice try buddy, but I'm actually super smart!

2023-05-18 01:48

not trash, but overrated fluke team

2023-05-18 03:51

I'm not trying to defend G2 we did horribly and rn we deserve to be out called like this... But not only those who you named did bad also Heroic burnt themselves in semis and Faze also went 0-2 the first day of legends, so many "T1" teams performed badly, but in the end we just go on with our lives and with the fact that one team at one major * was the best (except Astralis in 2019 *) That's just CS works, and to be true I love it!

2023-05-24 16:03

Next Movistar Riders please

2023-05-17 19:41

Fanatic

9ine #10 Pain #11 BIG#12 BUT INVITES FROM ESL RANKING : MOUZ #15 OG #17 FNATIC #14 +#39 EG Local Hero xDDD

11 replies

Its esl ranking i think

2023-05-17 18:30

thats exactly what he posted?

2023-05-17 18:33

Was tired and apperantly uncapable of reading properly

OG and fnatic are actually from the closed quali

2023-05-17 18:39

Monte, ITB, Apeks > all these teams

2023-05-17 18:49

Fluke

2023-05-17 19:12

Yea because they fluked one time, sure bud

OG and fnatic are replacement teams determined by the closed qualifier placement and the world ranking was looked at WHEN the invites were given out, and we know mouz was higher than all those teams in february

2023-05-17 19:16

Fnatic is not by ranking. Did you even read?

2023-05-17 19:19

big very bad right now pain not that good as well and 9ine just showd that they are frauds by going 0:3

2023-05-17 20:12

pro.eslgaming.com/worldranking/csgo/rank.. if we take ranking from the date when invites were sent, fnatic and OG would get invite anyway

2023-05-18 02:23

honestly an improvement

2023-05-17 18:31

why tf eg here

mm cause they NA have rich viewership who cares about fair competition when even c9 the champions themselves and at moment of invites where solid t1 team and higher in rankings than almost all this teams, were not invited

2023-05-17 20:16

why no Polish team

9ine?

2023-05-17 18:37

oh no, sry, my bad

Only rallen and krasnal playing for relevant teams ?

2023-05-17 21:02

Should be same thing with other country’s aswell to bad EU corruption has gone so big

Virtus.Joke

2023-05-17 18:44

Poland scammed again.

stand-ins and pullouts for iem dallas incoming once again

2023-05-17 18:50

EZ4ENCE btw why not 9nine? excepted robbed again

2023-05-17 18:52

Missing all the best teams such as Monte, ITB, Apeks, GamerLegion. Weak tournament with fluke t1 teams.

2023-05-17 18:54

9 replies

these teams are having a fluke run we all know they cant pull up same performance again

2023-05-17 18:57

BR never puts up a performance

2023-05-17 19:00

2023-05-17 20:38

Nobody wants to see tier 2 teams, you’re delusional and just trolling I guess

2023-05-17 19:42

Flair, why always g2 fans...

“Flair” grow up toxic kid

2023-05-17 20:39

flair

2023-05-17 20:42

#69 keep confirming it kid

2023-05-17 20:43

Spirit Academy robbed

Russia gets what it deserves

2023-05-17 19:01

8 replies

Wtf are you talking about?

2023-05-17 19:13

I think he refers to Russias invasion of Ukraine. Somehow he seems to think innocent cs go-players should be punished for this.

2023-05-17 19:39

Innocent, good joke

Wdym? Clearly not Jame's strats are used, they would go save at this point and everything would be much better for everyone

2023-05-17 20:26

How tf some dead inside kids that plays video game related to things happening? Don’t tell me that monte coolstory plz, VP is Armenian now.

2023-05-18 03:33

Based

2023-05-17 19:28

Lol what? The so called “war” is purely orchestrated by the Democrats. Even millions of Americans are rooting for Russia because of how disgusted they are in their own government

2023-05-17 22:07