fnatic qualify for Gamers8 2023

19-5-2023 12:01

The European squad cruised through the open qualifier undefeated.

The first European open qualifier for Gamers8 2023 came to an end on Thursday as fnatic defeated Looking4Org 2-0 in the final. William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman's squad will join the likes of Vitality, G2, and HEROIC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to compete for the lion's share of a $1,000,000 prize pool.

fnatic will travel to the Saudi Arabian capital to compete for $1,000,000

fnatic defeated Sprout, GTZ, 500, and Looking4Org on their way to the top of the online qualifier without dropping a single map in the process. The qualifiers were played in a single-elimination, best-of-one format with a best-of-three final to decide the advancing team.

The French squad featuring Ali "⁠hAdji⁠" Haïnouss took down several big scalps in the bracket, including 9INE and Astralis, but struggled to bring the same level of competition in the final.

Gamers8 will be produced by the ESL FACEIT Group and is set to go live between August 14-20, hosting 10 of the top-15 ranked squads currently listed in the HLTV rankings.

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Three more teams will secure their attendance at the event as the organizers are set to announce two more invites while the teams that failed in the online bracket will get one more chance in the second qualifier will take place between July 11-12.

The current list of teams attending Gamers8 is:

Europe Open Qualifier 2

Invite

huh?

2023-05-19 12:02

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yeah they played the final about 20 hours ago, hltv running on ie confirmed

2023-05-19 12:06

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Gamers8>Gamers2

2023-05-19 14:17

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2023-05-19 17:14

very good

2023-05-19 20:01

hltv.org/matches/2364348/looking4org-vs-..

2023-05-19 12:13

VAS?!??

2023-05-19 14:56

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how to spot a re****

2023-05-19 17:00

ENCE gonna win the whole thing

ence 1-3

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It's not like previous results affect the later ones

2023-05-19 12:43

but they could foreshadow

2023-05-19 13:01

just like ence 3-0 foreshadowed 1-3

2023-05-19 13:05

the 3-0 was at a "qualifier" though, not at a finals like gamers8 will be (has 16 teams like legends stage)

2023-05-19 13:47

I don't understand how ence played so badly in the legends stage

2023-05-19 12:59

they r bad i watched their vertigo couple of rounds nertz is just braindead

2023-05-19 17:01

MASHALLAH

2023-05-19 12:03

GLHF!!

2023-05-19 12:04

news so late

2023-05-19 12:07

Pls invite NIP!!

Vitality and Ence will 100% go with stand-ins because of spinx and nertz.

2023-05-19 12:09

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Can you elaborate on this? Why?

2023-05-19 12:11

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I guess because they are from israel and its in saudi. I personally dont think it will be an issue but he clearly does.

2023-05-19 12:14

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Israel doesn't have relations with saudi and currently Israelis cannot enter the country so it could potentially be an issue

2023-05-19 12:18

Plus, if OG or MOUZ get invited or make it through the Open Quali, they'd be faced with the exact same issue.

2023-05-19 12:48

lol why is that

2023-05-19 13:03

You really ask why?

2023-05-19 13:08

KSA is pro-Palestine

2023-05-19 13:09

ah well

2023-05-19 13:48

I wish there was a train to Riyad

2023-05-19 16:08

would be cool to visit one day :)

2023-05-19 16:10

saudi and israel don't have good relations and terms together and israelis can't enter the country, so they'll probably be going with stand-ins unless anything changes till then.

2023-05-19 13:19

VP not forfeiting this one?

2023-05-19 12:16

this is their major lmao

2023-05-19 12:25

The only halal tournament 🙏

2023-05-19 12:17

blast wf 2022

2023-05-19 12:26

Better than animals tournaments

2023-05-20 12:23

Because they are from Israel and it's in Saudi tournament... And Saudis don't like Israel much

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70% of the world doesnt like israel lol i went to ireland last year and saw huge murals of free palestine

2023-05-19 16:15

Also israel doesn't like Saudi much. USA likes Saudi much more

2023-05-19 17:05

hahah israel is usa's dog they need to start behaving khoya

2023-05-19 17:22

yo fui a tikal !!! :-)

2023-05-19 22:56

24 hours lag

2023-05-19 12:24

will fnatic eliminate Gamers2 again in Gamers8?

So where are the other 6 gamers?

2023-05-19 14:40

Benched because of Niko

I hope they invite pain

oh dont worry about that, saudi arabia is built on pain and suffering from slave workers

2023-05-19 12:31

can confirm imma slave worker

2023-05-19 12:35

paiN lost their chance to qualify hehe

2023-05-19 14:14

i love oil money

but couldn’t qualify for top 8, unluko

2023-05-19 12:33

Sad for Maka & the boys :(

2023-05-19 12:50

they can try the second open qual

2023-05-19 13:26

-Spinx -Nertz just for this event

2023-05-19 12:56

blood money tournament, will not watch

2023-05-19 12:57

dont watch ESL , dont watch the major too since its all endorsed by ksa

Nice flag

2023-05-19 13:58

going for flag , no point to argue with you.

2023-05-19 14:23

Lets go sportwashing, makes oilmoney look clean

2023-05-19 13:00

wich charity did fnatic choose

2023-05-19 13:06

sweden new waterpark proyekt

2023-05-19 13:38

Unicef

2023-05-19 13:46

NiP

2023-05-19 17:15

kek +1

2023-05-19 17:25

Will watch it definitely must be a good tournament to watch saudi's are humble <3

2023-05-19 13:34

I hope Spinx and Nertz can enter Saudi Arabia. There was a olympian triathlete which was granted a visa to compete there so maybe it will be the case here as well

2023-05-19 13:51

hope not

2023-05-19 17:16

blood money best money gonna watch 100%

2023-05-19 13:59

no israel

2023-05-21 13:54

I'll watch but once that neom city is built I wont watch any tournaments there because they wiped out entire local tribe who lived in desert and didnt want to go :(

2023-05-19 14:16