Complexity to replace paiN at IEM Cologne Play-in

6-7-2023 17:47

The Brazilian team will miss out on the event due to "one of their members being unavailable."

paiN are not able to attend the IEM Cologne Play-in and will be replaced by Complexity, ESL has announced. The North American team has been chosen as the replacement due to being the next highest-ranked team in the ESL World Ranking in line with the ESL rulebook.

After their off-season coup of Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski, Complexity now get the chance to start their season with two tournaments on European soil. They will first attend the BLAST Premier Fall Groups starting on July 13 before taking the short trip to Cologne, where they will begin their journey in the Play-in.

EliGE is on for a busy debut month on Complexity

IEM Cologne 2023 Play-in will begin on July 26, with 16 teams battling for eight spots at the $1,000,000 main event. The first phase of the event will last three days and is set to feature two top-ten teams in Apeks and Liquid, as well as the likes of fnatic, FURIA, and Astralis, who went through roster rebuilds in the summer offseason.

Complexity, who are now the highest-ranked North American squad after Liquid moved away from the region, will be attending the German event as the only NA representative.

The IEM Cologne Play-in list currently looks as follows:

Vamos col

2023-07-06 17:48

rip pain

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I’ll never understand why did they disband the roster were really good together

2023-07-06 18:32

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2023-07-06 18:36

I swear this was one of their best seasons yet and they still changed so much

2023-07-06 20:34

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Need money bro so they selling their players while they can

2023-07-06 22:41

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Lmao, it's not what is happening otherwise they would sell their top players, thats not the case

2023-07-07 08:44

Idk how the org organize the budget but I guess paiN is a really stable organization talking about finance... I mean, they're not desperate for some k of dollars to an extent selling their place at the tournament.

2023-07-07 17:45

2023-07-07 04:19

Most braindead management ever

2023-07-06 18:39

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Sad but true rip pain

2023-07-07 02:29

why qualify when you can just be the replacement team every single time

2023-07-06 17:49

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USA! USA! USA!

2023-07-06 18:00

2023-07-06 18:04

Blast Partner boost comin in clutch

2023-07-06 18:13

2023-07-08 02:26

complexity finessing 3rd event in a row

Ez for col lmao

2023-07-06 17:52

What a joke, paiN disbanded after good results, nice team management !

2023-07-06 17:50

Damn, NA got a free spot LULZ How many times is this now? I've lost count

2023-07-06 17:51

BIG Academy? what did I miss?

2023-07-06 17:53

big academy qualified through german regionals but theyll play mostly main roster guys

2023-07-06 17:55

Probably qualis lol. But main team will play as main team now have 3/5 players that qualified with BIG Academy.

2023-07-06 17:56

you sure? They still havent annonced it will be that way and only 2/5 Players of the now main Team played the whole season, and I am not Sure if Krimbo will count as a third because he only played the final

2023-07-09 22:51

1 NA team at Cologne and that too as a replacement team xD

It's quite sad but I'm glad we're here in some way at all

2023-07-06 20:35

Rip

2023-07-06 17:54

why..

LETS GO

pain...

2023-07-06 18:01

How much is NA paying them

Plebs: NA getting free spots Smart people: Damn the Complexity with the former best rifler in the world get to test their new superstar out in Cologne? Awesome!

2023-07-06 18:06

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smart plebs: Damn the Complexity with the former best rifler in the world gets a free spot for NA and because of that they get to test their new superstar out in Cologne? LUL lucky af

2023-07-06 18:23

you got to see the full picture "Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest"

2023-07-06 18:52

Full picture: Complexity got lucky

2023-07-07 02:21

*decent

2023-07-06 18:38

galaxy brain people: write your comment

2023-07-07 00:49

more interesting ig in terms of reshuffled rosters

2023-07-06 18:12

awesome! we can see Elige in action again! looking forward to this!

again?

2023-07-06 18:22

ez for elige

2023-07-06 18:26

Yeah, great news!! Said no one ever, when coL replaces any team

2023-07-06 18:28

Wasted spot

2023-07-06 18:33

BALDPeek ELiGe

elige is washed up, change my mind

2023-07-06 18:37

Well Elige did swap alot of spots for Yeki so It could be just new roles Elige Rating with Yeki 1.09. Rating in 2022 before Yeki from January until July 1.16

2023-07-06 19:50

pain is so dumb, until the end of the year they wont have any oportunity like this, they wont go to any blast final, they probality wont be invite to any other tier S ESL tournament, this would be the ony one tier S for they.

2023-07-06 18:50

NA BACK

2023-07-06 18:54

You love to see it

2023-07-06 19:19

LETS GOO

2023-07-06 19:41

nice hope they get to cologne

2023-07-06 20:45

nice

2023-07-06 21:13

Guys, maybe one of you knows the answer. As BIG missed out the Play-In by just 1 oder 2 points considered to the world ranking when the invites were announced - if they have the same players before their changes - would they be invited as a replacement for Pain instead of Complexity?

2023-07-06 21:37