fnatic FragOut league announced

23-1-2013 19:14

fnatic have announced their first online CS:GO tournament, called Fnatic FragOut CS:GO League, featuring $2,750 in cash prizes and some of the best teams in Europe.

The last edition of the fnatic PLAY League came to a close in June, with fnatic's own team, then represented by three Swedish and two Danish players, coming out on top after defeating Anexis in the final.

With fnatic's CS:1.6 division having switched to CS:GO, the organisation has now decided to put together a new online tournament, which will run from January 27th to February 10th, featuring the new game and eight teams.

The contestants will be divided into two groups of four teams, with the winner of each group automatically through to the semi-finals. The second and third-placed teams will then play a relegation phase to contest the last two places in the last-four stage.

Fnatic FragOut CS:GO League participants' list:

Ninjas in Pyjamas	Natus Vincere
VeryGames	fnatic
Lemondogs	mousesports
Virtus.pro	Anexis

The group draw will be done live on Thursday at 20:45 on ESPLanet.

"Thanks to Eizo, Xsplit and AverMedia, we are happy to announce the FragOut CS:GO League where the top 8 teams in Europe can compete against each other," fnatic General Manager Danijel "StreeT" Remus said.

"With ESPlanetTV and sL4M of StarLadder, we will try to bring high quality streaming content of all the matches in both English and Russian language.

"As you can see in the schedule, it's packed with action every day, and we will be doing raffles, give-aways for all of you on both streams.

"Hopefully this will be only the first season of FragOut CS:GO League and we will hopefully see many more seasons in the future. We hope you will enjoy every moment of it."

When compared to the $4,000 that were up for grabs in the last edition of the fnatic PLAY League, the prize purse has been reduced by $1,250, but it was still enough to convince the European elite to participate. Below you can find how the $2,750 will be distributed among the top three sides:

1. $1,500
2. $750
3. $500

The complete schedule of the tournament looks as follows:

Group A Match 1 - 27th January
Group B Match 1 - 28th January
Group A Match 2 - 29th January
Group B Match 2 - 30th January
Group A Match 3 - 31st January
Group B Match 3 - 01 February
Relegation stage - 3rd & 4th February
Semi-Finals - 6th & 7th February
Third place decider - 8th February
Grand-Final - 10th February

Stay tuned to HLTV.org for full coverage of the Fnatic FragOut CS:GO League, which will kick off on Sunday.

Really miss the 1.6 fnatic league..but this one is gonna be sick too..no ESC though :(

2013-01-23 19:18

3 replies

No absolute Legends, No ESC...

2013-01-23 20:47

1 reply

WT... wheres ESC? fear?

2013-01-23 20:54

no Imaginary also

2013-01-24 13:37

GOGOGO

2013-01-23 19:16

WOW impressive team list GJ fnatic

GOGO NaVi!!xD

2013-01-23 19:17

Rofl at groups, ofc fnatic sits on the easiest group lololol

2013-01-23 19:19

8 replies

they haven't even been drawn yet noob

2013-01-23 19:21

ahahah mybad :x

2013-01-23 19:36

The contestants will be divided into two groups of four teams

Nice fail ...

When i read the news wasnt as is now... didnt have this after the teams "The group draw will be done live on Thursday at 19:45 on ESPLanet." so I thought the groups were so.

2013-01-23 19:43

Hahaha :D no groups drawn yet but still NiP plays = NiP wins :( No matter the groups distribution :|

2013-01-23 19:37

haha =d

2013-01-23 20:42

so dumb

2013-01-23 20:45

why no ESC ? :[

Team list is really as perfect as u can get for competition & for viewers! Hell yeah, forgot about ESC :O

2013-01-23 19:22

Wonder what pings would the Americans and Brazilians get on European server 120 is playable for me..

I saw one American girl playing on ESEA european server and she had 150-250 ping. So i doubt they want to play on EU servers..

2013-01-23 19:25

East Coast players can get down to 90 ping on UK servers, West Coast you're looking at 200+.

2013-01-23 19:31

180+

2013-01-23 20:18

No esc/curse ?

1. NiP 2. Natus Vincere 3. fnatic esc???? :(

1. NIP 2.VP. 3.NAVI

2013-01-24 08:25

go markeloff! ;D Final standings: 1.NiP 2.VG 3.LD 4.VP 5.Natus V. 6.Anexis 7.fnatic 8.Mousesports

2013-01-23 19:23

4 replies

fnatic at least top5.

2013-01-23 21:02

No way dude ;)

2013-01-23 21:19

2 replies

You will see..

2013-01-23 21:23

dek1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1n1

2013-01-24 12:48

-lemondogs -anexis +ESC +Curse fuck logic fnatic!

Lemondogs are a top European team...

is aL better?

2013-01-23 19:26

No.

2013-01-23 19:56

2013-01-23 20:05

-mouz -anexis +esc +curse

2013-01-23 19:29

ESC and Curse were in fact invited initially, but they couldn't participate

2013-01-23 19:30

And imG?

2013-01-23 19:58

nah, they weren't invited, only ESC and Curse didn't accept

2013-01-23 20:30

-mouz +esc mouz is just terrible atm

navi and vp hoooot

2013-01-23 19:24

Good to see that this time and around they hired a caster.

2013-01-23 19:27

*this time around?

Yes.

2013-01-23 21:17

I don't know but I'm really excited about this tournament.! Never felt for any other tournaments even though I liked the game back then! I wonder how? :)

2013-01-23 19:28

can't wait to see navi playin'

"where the top 8 teams in Europe can compete against each other" are you kidding me? NaVi? :D

They trained a lot probably

so what, that does make them top 8...

2013-01-23 19:32

They didn't mention top 8 in CS: GO :P

WHERE IS GREATFRAG|RAHIM AND WHY IS HE NOT INCLUDED FOR STREAMING OMG

+1 the last fnatic league was streamed by him

2013-01-23 19:34

:(((( HE IS THE BEST

MISSING RAHIM!!!!!

2013-01-24 02:09

Na'Vi i missed uuu.....

mouz ? no way ...

2013-01-23 19:33

sad that ESC decided to not participate in such online tourney, gl VG & VP

-mouz +esc better

2013-01-23 19:35

Get ESC! Remove mouz.

2013-01-23 19:39

#31

2013-01-23 19:40

why not esc, and curse? ? ? someone know?

2013-01-23 19:41

2013-01-23 21:03

Nice of them, navi fix last.

2013-01-23 19:44

- mouz + ESC/Curse

where is ESC? :S

2013-01-23 19:45

dreamteam for this event??

2013-01-23 19:46

Could happen, stay tuned ;)

2013-01-23 19:48

Would be nice :)

2013-01-23 20:56

-aL -mouz +ESC +Curse and u can -Navi +4nothing/imaginary

2013-01-23 19:47

Looks promising, I'd love to see ESC there instead of mouz

2013-01-23 19:49

-Anexis +ESC And that event would be sick xD

2013-01-23 19:50

Anexis >>>> mouz,LD,navi imo

2013-01-23 19:51

anexis > no one

2013-01-23 19:55

Lemondogs ended 4th at Dreamhack, what did Anexis end as? I don't know, you tell me.

2013-01-23 20:24

who invite lemondogs they so overrated !

no esc? They are technically 3rd team in Europe now.

mouz. what a joke :P -mouz +ESC

2013-01-23 19:57

What is Anexis doing there? ESC didn't have time or what?

ESC > Natus Vincere, fnatic, Lemondogs, mousesports, Virtus.pro, Anexis but hey...

i don`t think they are so much better than LD

2013-01-23 21:33

lastest results says everything...esc, nip and vg are pretty much the same atm. maybe nip is a bit ahead, but not much. difference between these 3 teams and the rest is pretty big, and one or two map-losses won't change that.

2013-01-24 16:24

NAVI!

gl navi

-mouz -anexis +ESC +ASES :p

2013-01-23 19:59

Ases better than anexis? OKAY:D

2013-01-25 17:00

Sweet

2013-01-23 20:06

1.NiP 2.VG 3.fnatic 4.Lemondogs 5.Anexis 6. Virtus 7. Mousesports 8. Na'Vi

2013-01-23 20:07

no way anexis is better than vp

2013-01-23 20:22

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I think they can. :-)

2013-01-23 20:43

No they cant

2013-01-24 18:16

I think the can be, they have potential to beat them.

2013-01-24 19:22

Every team have potential to beat VP, cuz it's a new game, am I right?

2013-01-25 16:59

Yup you have!

2013-01-25 17:24

7. na`vi, i think

2013-01-23 21:34

Whos 8 then?

2013-01-24 13:16

They dont invite ESC, because fnatic cant be in 4-6 place in own league bueheh

Or ESC didn´t wan´t to be raped by Scream ;)

like the last time? 2-0 ?

2013-01-23 21:53

They did invite ESC, they just couldnt participate.

2013-01-24 11:11

Why not ESC? :( Verygames win

2013-01-23 20:19

Read post #31

2013-01-24 11:10

really nice tourney gl fnatic

2013-01-23 20:23

MOMOMOMOMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONSTER PRICE

2013-01-23 20:31

gogo na'vi get winning

Will be nice to see navi play

2013-01-23 20:35

Or being out played

2013-01-23 20:48

why are you guys actually so hating at navi i dont get it at all?

2013-01-23 21:49

cause they suck cock. check their results in csgo...3-16 most of the time.

2013-01-24 16:27

same was with esc at the beginning, lets see how they will be in shape when we see them play next some people here are just making fun of navi because they were the team who was hating the most at csgo and because they are known for 1.6 just pathetic

2013-01-24 16:37

Dont be stupid people 110% ESC declined the invitation for a reason that does not matter. Stop saying the tournament would be better with them

2013-01-23 20:36

are you retarded or smth?

2013-01-24 17:37

Why didn't ESC get invited? EDIT : See that they did

The tournament would be better with ESC.

group b is so easy

2013-01-23 20:49

no groups yet

2013-01-24 01:50

Im very interested of Na`vi's form.

2013-01-23 20:51

aL?

2013-01-23 20:52

ESC request... big fail.

2013-01-23 20:55

I think many other teams were invited and they just dont want or havent time to play this

for me anexis and mousesports shouldn't get an invite. mouz runs a nice Lose streak and anexis arent the team they were at the beginning of cs:go The should add Curse and ESC instead of them

2013-01-23 20:57

no Curse.eu ? this is a joke, Curse could beat 6 out of the 8 teams here.

2013-01-23 21:00

atm, i don`t think so

2013-01-23 21:36

read post #31

roflcopter

2013-01-24 17:38

easy money for NiP

only one question where is ESC ?

2013-01-23 21:04

pls read a few comments above once

2013-01-23 21:27

I urge people to think twice and understand that some teams were not able to participate, hence why they are not on the list.

2013-01-23 21:18

I really wanted Rahim streaming :'(

2013-01-23 21:22

The pistols feel retarded though

2013-01-23 21:32

Anexis out ESC in That could be better imo :/

2013-01-23 21:39

I hope navi will be in good shape go navi, show these saucers how to play cs!

2013-01-23 21:47

one can't show another how to play CS while they are playing CS:GO not 1.6

2013-01-23 23:26

Curse.EU should be included, imo.

2013-01-23 23:49

see #31

2013-01-24 11:09

happy to see NAVI is back on scene

2013-01-24 02:33

easy for navi .... :D :D

2013-01-24 02:53

I really like to see NiP and Verygames in 2 different groups, that way, probably will be NiP vs Verygames final and we can see how well ScreaM performs alongside with verygames at final.

2013-01-24 03:35

I'm definitely going to watch NaVi playing if they have improved a lot! Would love to see those Cups who are open for everyone! If I remember it right they had them back in the days from time to time..

2013-01-24 03:38