ESWC to invite 8 more CS teams

15-5-2010 00:02

The Electronic Sports World Cup has announced that eight more Counter-Strike teams will be invited for this year's finals.

These eight Counter-Strike teams will have to come from countries where the ESWC will not hold any qualifiers, with Denmark, Germany and the United States three examples.

Although the ESWC has announced National Partners in 35 countries, it has been revealed on its official website that the CS tournament will contain just 28 teams, 12 of whom will enter with an invitation.

Teams that wish to apply for one of these eight invites can do so until May 28th by going to the the ESWC's official website. The list of selected teams will be made public on May 31st.

The eight invited teams, who will have to pay only travel costs, will be selected by the ESWC commitee according to their achievements, motivation and capacity to attend the tournament.

The following list, published today on the ESWC's website, means that some countries, such as Portugal, Brazil and the Baltic states have been overlooked, but it is unknown whether it will still be updated:

01 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #1
02 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #2
03 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #3
04 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #4
05 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #5
06 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #6
07 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #7
08 - ESWC 2010 INVITATION #8
09 - fnatic
10 - SK Gaming
11 - mousesports
12 - Oslo Lions
13 - Algeria #1
14 - Algeria #2
15 - Argentina
16 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
17 - China
18 - France #1
19 - France #2
20 - Greece
21 - Lithuania
22 - Poland
23 - Romania
24 - Russia
25 - Spain
26 - Sweden
27 - Ukraine
28 - United Kingdom

ALGERIA #1 = inteNsity ALGERIA #2 = united[5] i guess

2010-05-15 00:04

9 replies

Ukraine = Na`Vi United Kingdom = Dignitas Sweden = H2k gaming/mYm France 1 = millenium Frace 2 = YoYoTech Poland = team DELTA Spain = x6tence Russia = UNiTED WeMade FOX PlayZone.FI FireGamers Evil Geniuses (not ment to be a reply)

2010-05-15 02:31

8 replies

1. I think maybe Mojawi Gaming is one of the French teams and I also think that Frag Executors will be invited instead of TEAM DELTA. 2. Playzone.fi no longer have a team. 3.I think that ledPC are going to play for Spain and not x6tence. Well well , just my opinion and my belives :D

2010-05-15 04:33

4 replies

Playzone.fi don't have a team? LOL

2010-05-15 10:32

3 replies

oh sorry for the wrong information :P I meant that Playzone.se don't longer have a team :P haha Playzone.fi still have a team : BASic danzer Freon jigetus VIDI

2010-05-15 11:50

2 replies

Of course :)

2010-05-15 16:11

1 reply

everybody can do mistakes :D hihi

2010-05-15 16:47

mb 4z? @_@

2010-05-15 05:59

Team DELTA? LOL. Ofc FX.

2010-05-15 09:53

Sweden already had an qualifier, and H2k qualified themselves. So no MYM luckely

2010-05-15 17:03

SK should not get a free pass, but I think they are "too big name" to be out.

2010-05-15 00:06

Oslo Lions should be replaced with Expert-Gaming now that zEn has taken his invite over to his new team? Or am I wrong?

2010-05-15 00:07

In theory, you are correct. But we'll have to wait and see what happens, as the ESWC has still announced "Oslo Lions" (Lions) as the participant.

2010-05-15 00:08

But in a news post a couple days ago, it was stated: "The team will be attending ESWC 2010 this summer, as Eng holds a spot for the event. The spot was firsthand given to Lions, but Eng has decided to withdraw it, giving it to his new team instead." :S

2010-05-15 00:26

i do belive that is the drill

2010-05-15 00:09

Argentina :D

2010-05-15 00:10

portugal k1ck?! :(

2010-05-15 00:11

portugal please :s

joz only on NETTTT* see you in lan h4x0r

2010-05-15 02:13

they are 2algeria team nice

2010-05-15 00:13

wait so USA will have no qualifiers?

They can still have invites i guess...

2010-05-15 00:16

hy does he have greece since they will not go ?

EE.UU (EG) EE.UU (coL) CHILE (i dont know) BRAZIL (FireGamers) BRAZIL (MiBR) KOREA (WMF) PORTUGAL (k1ck) AUSTRALIA (Archaic) Come on Topo's !

2010-05-15 00:18

Australia - Immunity?

2010-05-15 09:54

FG - fnx, nak, bit, FalleN, bruno CNB - spacca, prd, btt*, mkr, cky cmon eswc!

2010-05-16 00:08

Why the hell does Algeria have two spots? =P

2010-05-15 00:19

5 replies

because 2 is better than 1

2010-05-15 00:25

And 0 is better than both 1 and 2

2010-05-15 10:33

www.mathsisfun.com/

2010-05-15 12:13

www.gobacktoschoolkid.yes.you

2010-05-15 16:12

LoL nickyyy still don't know how to count that dumbass

2010-05-17 16:37

coz its ultra esports country, famous in counter strike community 9xA9xa889xa

2010-05-15 00:27

invite K1CK :p

2010-05-15 00:31

invite a Honduras :D:D:D:

FIREGAMERs

2010-05-15 00:35

FIREGAMERS[2]

2010-05-15 00:51

PORTUGAL K1CK

2010-05-15 00:52

add SERBIA !!!!!

2010-05-15 01:03

+ Na'Vi automatical !!!!!

2010-05-15 01:15

The confirmation about ESWC Portugal fail.

2010-05-15 01:16

firegamers :(

2010-05-15 01:36

Algeria #1 & #2, France #1 & #2. Just needs 2 more spots for Morocco and few for Guiana and Martinique and they can maybe make it 10 spots for "France"

2010-05-15 01:37

HAHAHAHA :D

2010-05-15 09:33

lol.

2010-05-19 16:05

LOl?!?! and brazil? firegamers is very better several teams... only renember, firegamers > fnatic in wcg 2009, bruno,nak,fnx win eswc 2006, 4th eswc 2007, and others...

2010-05-15 02:04

HEY, WHERE IS BRAZIL ?!

2010-05-15 02:07

WEMADE FOX, ALTERNATE, MTW, PLAYZONE.FI, CBTEAM, EG, FIREGAMERS, COMPLEXITY

2010-05-15 02:16

K1CK FIREGAMERS // MiBR -M- // oXmoze coL // EG UNiTED NAVI MYM // H2K WMF Tyloo LedPC

2010-05-15 02:56

BRAZIL ?????????????????

pz.fi

2010-05-15 03:00

brazil?

2010-05-15 04:08

No qualification for greece but the slot for a greek team still exists. But there is not any sponsor to cover the trip expenses :(((((

2010-05-15 04:19

firegamers please!

2010-05-15 04:43

BRAZIL - FIREGAMERS!!! LOL

2010-05-15 05:37

Croatia, Serbia on ? :)

2010-05-15 08:41

yeah, some ex-yu team :( just bih have a qualifier..

2010-05-15 12:01

where is Albania ?

2010-05-15 08:50

no balkans team? thats shit

2010-05-15 09:23

tyloo gaming plz!

2010-05-15 09:50

cooL ^^

2010-05-15 10:02

I really don't understand.. Why does spain have the right for the ESWC qualifier when there are no lan tournaments there for a long time? they even come to Portugal just to play for a local qualifier.. And what about algeria with the 2 spots? eswc credibility -10

2010-05-15 10:05

13 - Algeria #1 14 - Algeria #2 big shame l0l :)

2010-05-15 10:11

ur the shame here bro :)

2010-05-15 10:26

Just ignore him :)

2010-05-15 19:52

Give a Malaysian team 1 invite :(. We are in desperate need of international experience

2010-05-15 10:51

eu4ia :D

2010-05-15 10:55

invite K1CK and 1 Brazilian team :b

2010-05-15 11:00

team noT and inteNsity for algeria i think

2010-05-15 11:21

usa teams???

2010-05-15 11:56

sorry but why 13 - Algeria #1 14 - Algeria #2 and no portugal team, k1ck per exaple play pretty well

2010-05-15 11:58

Just wait :x there still 8 invitations

2010-05-15 19:55

blabla..

2010-05-15 14:02

eswc thumbs down --''

2010-05-15 14:04

k1ck and FireGamers already sent an application... I really hope that they'll get invited

2010-05-15 14:11

Brazil qualify? wtf? ? ? ? ? ??

2010-05-15 15:29

united5 to0 GL HF ^^Go hardd surtout

2010-05-15 15:30

2 teams of algeria, 1 of bosnia, other of lithania? AND PORTUGAL?? AND BRAZIL??

2010-05-15 15:31

Turkeeeeyyy

2010-05-15 19:17

So all the other countries (UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, etc.) wont have national qualifiers? In tht case, THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!

2010-05-15 20:47

Antwurp Aces manggg :P

2010-05-15 21:12

INVITE K1CK , they'll beat any Algeria team for sure. + Portugal deserves a ESWC qualifier, there are a lot of LAN tournaments here. I'm afraid ESWC is losing some credibility as they don't seem to know what's going on in the international scene of Counter-Strike. I hope this still change.

2010-05-15 22:19