fnatic, aL, Virtus to ESEA

18-11-2012 15:45

Last three teams for the first global ESEA Invite CS:GO season have been announced, and they are fnatic, Absolute Legends and Virtus.pro. Final spot will be up for grabs through a community vote.

On the previous days ESEA has kept announcing two teams a day as they have worked towards their total of eleven invited teams for the first global ESEA Invite CS:GO season, which will feature finals in North America.

Friis & co invited to ESEA

With all the big names such as Ninjas in Pyjamas, VeryGames and mousesports already invited, another fan favorite fnatic who recently made the switch to CS:GO have been included in the final batch of invites.

NiP	VeryGames	n!faculty	ESC Gaming
The Hawks	mousesports	fm.TOXiC	Anexis
fnatic	Absolute Legends	Virtus.pro	TBA

The final spot will be decided through a community vote on ESEA.net. Voting is expected to begin in the coming days, and we will of course keep you updated on it here on HLTV.org.

GL! admin fix The Hawks flag :)

2012-11-18 15:46

abl change pronax while u can

2012-11-18 15:46

Bet navi get voted in now

2012-11-18 15:47

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"NA'VI actually was the only team to decline the invitation because they want more practice with CSGO before competing. They just made the switch to CSGO. ~ Torbull"

2012-11-18 21:39

Na'Vi + too

2012-11-18 15:47

lol next time don't invite fnatic,they aren't good enough... they didn't play cs go a lot so they can only dissapoint

2012-11-18 15:48

9 replies

or rape source teams like ESC with a month of practice.

2012-11-18 16:08

4 replies

2012-11-18 16:12

Oh yes xD 16-2 VG >

2012-11-18 16:24

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they won against Anexis and FM.Toxic who were by the saucers opinions "top 5 world" in their first month of practice and their first CSGO LAN, unlike NiP, ESC is completely new to the engine and have to figure it out all by themselves. If we were to follow the logic of quality of 1.6, ESC will be the best team in the world in no time.

2012-11-18 17:15

powned for u m8 xd

2012-11-18 17:22

Let me remind you of that Fnatic players was the best of the best in the end of 1.6 scene. They have a extremely high invidual skill. I think that they will have their fair chance.

2012-11-18 17:33

3 replies

Me toughts exactly

2012-11-18 17:42

really hard to be the best this year.. people barely practiced.

2012-11-18 19:39

you sir have ur mouth full of truth...Have a good day :)

2012-11-19 03:41

Cool

2012-11-18 15:48

+Navi

2012-11-18 15:52

nice choices! go virtus!

2012-11-18 15:53

where and when will it take place?

2012-11-18 15:55

cph wolves deffo deserve to be there :/

2012-11-18 15:54

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+1 I would say CPH Wolves are almost equally skilled as Anexis, but better than many of the other invited teams.

2012-11-18 16:24

I agree that they deserve it more than anexis, n!faculty and fmtoxic but i think there are better teams who didn't receive an invite too. Anyway, the last slot is given by people's vote iirc, so it's very unlikely that we'll see cphwolves attending since they aren't very popular. I bet Na'Vi/Millenium/mouz.uk will take the slot

2012-11-18 16:32

GO GO GO AL!

2012-11-18 15:59

I'm voting for cph

2012-11-18 15:59

pathetic, there are few better teams out then half of that invited

2012-11-18 15:59

6 replies

like who?

2012-11-18 16:04

4 replies

3DMAX, Wolves, Area51 (unsure if Europeans only (enlighten me:)))

2012-11-18 16:08

1 reply

A51 US. Read post #31

2012-11-18 16:21

like 3DMAX ,like CPH wolves , like a51 , like dynamic ...

2012-11-18 16:08

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you're aware that this is the just EU section and there is a 12 team NA section too?

2012-11-18 16:21

well i think it's good they gave fnatic a chance to prove themselves, they din't play any GO till now, maybe they will be good.

2012-11-18 17:13

Half? I think its a pretty top list minus fm and nfaculty

2012-11-18 16:01

navi pls

2012-11-18 16:01

K1CK PLEASE!

2012-11-18 16:03

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k1ck noobs

2012-11-18 16:25

I think it was an unfair move to invite fnatic but not Na`Vi since both haven't done shit in CS:GO so far...anyways..it's pretty clear who the community will vote for!

2012-11-18 16:03

gl Vp

2012-11-18 16:07

People can argue with the list but you cant deny this is the strongest league yet from top tobottom in csgo

2012-11-18 16:08

needs some Na'Vi.

2012-11-18 16:09

+Na`Vi :D

2012-11-18 16:13

Do fnatic even have a lineup right now? Who's the new player?

2012-11-18 16:17

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that is not confirmed yet.

2012-11-18 16:58

lastone danish team my just ;D

2012-11-18 16:18

fnatic? :O Now fm toxic is not the weakest team there :> *whispers* Sometimes even I am horrified of my evil thoughts.. :<

2012-11-18 16:18

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Well, there could be Na'Vi also

2012-11-18 16:22

fnatic won't have problems smashing CSS teams.

2012-11-18 17:21

no Na`Vi? strange..

2012-11-18 16:36

2 replies

they will win the public vote as long as all you fanboys come out XFDDDDDDD

2012-11-18 16:41

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very funny HA HA HA :p

2012-11-18 16:42

it would be nice to see Na`Vi,gl to all :D

2012-11-18 16:41

Seems that ESEA are doing pretty well for now.

2012-11-18 16:45

getting better and better !! xD

2012-11-18 16:49

No schneider no fun.

2012-11-18 16:49

Na'Vi for the last spot? Hope so..

2012-11-18 16:57

NaVi very low in csgo. they need still few month

2012-11-18 17:09

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fnatic are even worse

2012-11-18 17:23

4 replies

hm bm mb but navi on stream lose all time to random ppl from pub =) very low aim

2012-11-18 17:36

3 replies

when they were playing all together? as I know marik plays too much GO now ^_^

2012-11-18 19:00

2 replies

yes they streamed few times full team pracc. vs cogu & co lose 16-2 etc.

2012-11-18 19:06

1 reply

:( ofc they need time

2012-11-18 19:07

i like every single esea's pick. looking forward for this awesome competition:))))

2012-11-18 17:13

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yes

2012-11-19 10:34

no myDGB :(

2012-11-18 17:32

+ WW

2012-11-18 17:36

friis easy

2012-11-18 17:36

the list just keeps getting better every day!

2012-11-18 17:42

nice !

2012-11-18 17:51

+JAS

2012-11-18 18:17

+ WW and CPH Wolves

2012-11-18 18:25

na`vi!

2012-11-18 18:36

Navi will proly win the vote lol, even though they don't really it but I guess financially it would be better for navi to win for esea.

2012-11-18 18:48

Not quite sure who to vote for. Of course, I'd love to see Na'Vi there, but they haven't been playing for very long. WW are certainly good, but I'm not sure if they have enough fan support to win the community vote. I'm just worried that the ESEA community will vote in a team without knowing anything about the international scene.

2012-11-18 18:51

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Apparently, Na'Vi refused an invitation to the league. Based on some comments I read on ESEA, a lot of people will be voting for mTw... exactly like I was talking about in my previous comment.

2012-11-19 03:57

Guys don't get too upset if you think there's a team not on there that should be. This is the first season of invite esea in Europe. Things will shape up better next season when teams that win open and maybe 2nd place(assuming that's how esea will do their changes for next season) and the teams that do poorly will get dropped. Our esea seasons go by pretty quick so next season will happen faster than you think. At least you guys didn't have to put up with the teams list we had in na but that's because it was a new game and esea didn't have to pick and kinda guess what teams should be there where most people know pretty much all the top teams in Europe now since the game been out for a bit..sit back boys give esea a chance and I promise you that you guys will appreciate it

2012-11-18 19:03

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Yea, seriously. NA invite was a mess this season. Like half of the teams died

2012-11-18 19:06

gl Virtus.pro

2012-11-18 19:09

wrtt please wanna see them destroyed

2012-11-18 19:12

1 reply

2012-11-18 19:12

ESEA doing a great job

2012-11-18 19:23

Where's 3DMAX and Copenhagen Wolves? This must be a joke, fnatic are all baddies in this game except Rytter ;-)

2012-11-18 19:24

OMG Fnatic?!??!?! dude are you serious? they only play for a month and blablablablablaba, there is so many better teams like WRTT cmon they raped ESC and NIP, why on earth are they not invited?!?q but seriously give the 1.6 veterans some time and next year we will see who is boss!

2012-11-18 19:25

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Cause apparently they cheated...

2012-11-18 23:27

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didnt sence any sarcasm in my comment?

2012-11-19 00:34

ASES, 3DMAX, and CPH Wolves all left out. Sad only one of them have a chance of making it in. I don't understand fnatic getting invited. They should have waited until after dreamhack IMO.

2012-11-18 21:32