Five teams invited to ESWC 2010

20-4-2010 19:31

Electronic Sports World Cup have released an update to their website, stating five teams are invited directly to ESWC 2010.

Last week we reported that Norwegian team Lions had received direct invite to ESWC 2010. When the information about the Swedish qualifier became available, it was also revealed that both fnatic and SK Gaming clearly had received invites as well.

A fresh update on ESWC.com, show five teams invited to ESWC 2010. The ESWC committee have handed out an invite to the 2008 champions from Frag eXecutors (MYM at the time), as well as the top four finishers at ESWC Master of Cheonan last year. This means that following five teams have been invited for the tournament:

Frag eXecutors – ESWC 2008 champions
fnatic – ESWC Master of Cheonan champions
SK Gaming – ESWC Master of Cheonan 2nd
mousesports – ESWC Master of Cheonan 3rd
Lions – ESWC Master of Cheonan 4th

On the ESWC website, "awaiting confirmation" is written next to Frag eXecutors, which indicates that the reigning champions are still to accept the invite. G7 teams fnatic, SK Gaming and mousesports have by the looks of the update, all accepted the invite. This could also put the boycott against the ESWC brand and the new owners to the ground, meaning we would see all the big names in action this summer.

yeah FX :* when starts this event?

2010-04-20 19:33

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The event is 30/06 - 04/07

2010-04-20 19:36

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ok thx ;)

2010-04-20 19:37

Nixon, are you changed citizenship?^_^ podsel na salo?:D:D:D GOGOGO NIXON THE BEST!

2010-04-20 19:55

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debil, ti pohody sam eto salo sytkami havaesh... raz govorish zna4it nabolelo ?? P.S.: Sorry for non-English, but I don't know how to explain this to a people like that...

2010-04-20 20:23

Oh my.. you stuck on Ukraine :O I'm really really lucky coz I back 1 day before all the mess..

2010-04-21 10:46

Yeah, it's alright though, seems like I'm going home tomorrow.

2010-04-21 11:43

Awesome.

2010-04-20 19:32

; **** FX ; ]]]

good news WEMADEFOX AND EG add to list .D

might just as well put H2k on that list, since they won the swedish qual no?

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They sure did, but this news is about the five invited teams.

2010-04-20 19:38

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Haha Hvad sker der for dit flag? :D

2010-04-20 19:48

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It changed :)

2010-04-20 19:53

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Got hired by Mr. Arbalet as Na´Vi's media manager? haha :D

2010-04-20 20:27

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Naaaah, it will change when I touch down on Danish soil again.

2010-04-20 20:38

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Im wondering if FX got their money from ESWC... If I remember well they didnt got the second (or both) prize from ESWC, when the organization closed before.

2010-04-20 20:44

It's different owners no, they are not obligated to pay out owed dept.

2010-04-20 20:53

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different company, but the same brand, so I guess the new owner should pay. For example if you buy a company with debt you should pay the debt.But maybe this case is different I dont know...

2010-04-20 21:11

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It's different... In french law, we have something called "intuitu personae", which means you contract with a specific person and not another person, and this thing applies here... Old ESWC-owners had a contract to pay the winner of ESWC, but since they went bankrupt and sold the brand, they broke all the contracts and the new owners have nothing to do with old ESWC contracts so nothing to pay. Not very clear but that's it :D

2010-04-21 03:11

Thanks.So FX lost that price:(

2010-04-22 01:14

no they didnt

2010-04-20 21:06

Livin' the life with your enormous HLTV.org-salary in Ukraine huh? rofl :p

It's quite easy and cheap for that matter, to live good in Kiev :)

2010-04-20 21:18

Yeah, that's actually what i meant ;p

2010-04-20 21:27

obviously if they send 3 more invites as i guess they will add EG , NaVi , wmf prolly

mTw, Playzone.fi, Firegamers > wmf imo.

2010-04-22 00:05

fix danish qual to ESWC!!!!

2010-04-20 19:41

2011-06-21 22:34

go ESWC :)

2010-04-20 19:45

Does ESWC have this rule that a team should have atleast 3 national/local players? IMO, in that case, its a mini version of WCG :(!!!

Actually that makes the tournament a lot stronger as a lot of teams who field 3-2 or 4-1 combinations or even 2-2-1 will be able to field their full line-ups. Teams like mousesports when gore was in the line-up or the 4K line-up with 3 UK and 2 swe players were never as strong at WCG as they should have been with their full line-ups.

2010-04-20 23:57

This will be the best event of the decade :D

EG? The core of the team won in 2005. Get them on there.

2010-04-20 19:49

cbteam :(

wasn't there qualifiers at the gathering?

2010-04-20 19:54

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No, that was for WCG me thinks :P

oh ok

2010-04-20 19:56

That was WCG Qualifiers

WCG Nordic qualifier.

2010-04-20 20:36

Invited teams will also get paid travel from ESWC for Grand Finals?

2010-04-20 20:15

unfortunetly, they will get paid only hotels, but not travels and team which gonna win nation qual, will get paid everything!

2010-04-20 20:19

It's such a silly boycott. Good luck achieving anything with your 620 petition signatures against the ESWC...

2010-04-20 20:35

you have to know they just keep the name 'ESWC'... This is not the same team organizer! Ok, they don't pay cash. It's a shame for us... "Game-Solution, the organizers behind ESWC, have announced a bank guarantee to secure that all payments under the ESWC tournament are given to the respectable winners." And don't forget, everybody blame ESWC but : www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXPKMlch6s&fmt=22 That wasn't GREAT??! So, COOL TO SEE BEST PLAYERS IN THE WORLD @ ESWC! +EG +WMF COME ON !!!

2010-04-20 20:56

I somehow feel you think I am against the ESWC... (?). Because I am not.

2010-04-20 21:00

sorry but it's your "620 petition signatures against the ESWC...". I reacted instantly ^_^

2010-04-20 21:08

Hehe, I just feel the G7's boycott against ESWC is silly, now that they have new owners and everything...

2010-04-20 21:10

FX win ESWC 2007 ESWC 2008 ESWC 2010?? :)

2010-04-20 20:43

They wont even pass the groupstage if they keep playing like they did this year. Miss LUq :x those FX vs fnatic/SK matches were cool to watch

2010-04-20 21:02

God damn it I sure do to... but whatever U may say Marcus:D I don't think that pasha is the factor that made them weak I think that they just got lost with their team play...

2010-04-20 21:21

I also dont think that pasha is a bad player or anything. But that chemistry beetween all the players got lost and the results sure show that :s

2010-04-21 20:24

they're not the same team like in those years, so just get over it...

invite syNergy/AA plox because last few years holland n belgium didnt have qualifiers :[

2010-04-20 20:52

this should be awesome. i really hope they allow hltv for all matches.

2010-04-20 20:57

Maybe

2010-04-20 21:03

CBTEAM : ((((

Invite Na'vi and FG ://

2010-04-20 21:12

+1 would love to see both, especially FG!

2010-04-21 18:57

ya both are good teams :p fnx , bit and edward , markeloff :)

2010-04-22 19:38

so if you get invited you just get hotel expenses. But if you qualify (like h2k) you get flights + hotel expenses ? So why dont Poland just attend ESWC Polish quals and stomp everyone for the free flights ? + some extra prize money. Also, as someone said earlier, is there a nationality rule for players ? Core3 ?

mTw.dk?

coL EG Firegamers go~

2010-04-20 21:40

It prevents fx from loosing the national qual ;D It will be nice to see 2 teams from norway <3

2010-04-20 22:04

Na` Vi Should be invited and it will rape all as done in Arbalet ;p

2010-04-21 00:14

+UNiTED and Na`Vi

2010-04-21 09:08

Fx go start again~! I hope neo can back.

2010-04-21 09:46

Lions 4th ESWC ??? darn, it was a norway-swedish mix, with floreNz and prb if i don't mistakes, now they had changed their line-up, so why they are invited for this event O_o

2010-04-21 10:50