All teams participating in StarSeries & i-League Season 8 confirmed
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StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 8 has confirmed all the teams participating in the tournament with Na’Vi and North rounding-up the last of the direct invites, while Imperial e-Sports qualify through Campeonato Brasileiro de Counter-Strike Season 1, a local Brazilian tournament which acted as the South American regional qualifier.
The $500,000 mega event taking place from 21st - 27th October in Belek, Turkey will witness a total of sixteen participants, twelve of whom have been directly invited for the event while the remaining four made it through their respective regional qualifiers.
Teams | Status | Current Ranking (HLTV) | Most Played Map (Last 3 Months) |
AVANGAR | Direct Invite | 5 | Inferno - 26 |
Evil Geniuses | Direct Invite | 3 | Nuke - 13 |
Fnatic | Direct Invite | 4 | Dust 2 - 7 |
FURIA Esports | Direct Invite | 12 | Train - 14 |
G2 Esports | Direct Invite | 11 | Dust 2 - 15 |
MIBR | Direct Invite | 14 | Mirage - 12 |
Mousesports | Direct Invite | 7 | Dust 2 - 16 |
Natus Vincere | Direct Invite | 9 | Nuke - 6 |
Ninjas in Pyjamas | Direct Invite | 13 | Dust 2 - 9 |
North | Direct Invite | 16 | Inferno - 8 |
Renegades | Direct Invite | 10 | Mirage - 6 |
Team Vitality | Direct Invite | 6 | Dust 2 - 14 |
Heroic | EU Qualifier | 28 | Mirage - 10 |
5Power Gaming | Asian Qualifier | 87 | Dust 2 - 15 |
Invictus Gaming | Asian Qualifier | 55 | Train - 17 |
Imperial e-Sports | CBCS Season 1 | 63 | Nuke - 2 |
The event will be following the usual two-stage format, Group Stage followed by the Playoffs.
For the group stage, the sixteen teams will be split into two groups of eight teams each with both the groups following a double-elimination GSL format and all the matches being a three-game series.
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Top four teams from each group will qualify for the playoffs which will also be following a double-elimination format, the top two teams from each group will move on to the upper bracket while the other two will be placed in the lower bracket.
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This season of the StarSeries & i-League is going to be really competitive as twelve of the top sixteen teams in the world will be competing in the tournament.
In the absence of both Astralis and Liquid, let’s see if Fnatic are able to double up with another victory following their success at DreamHack Masters Malmo 2019 or will EG bounce back and claim another victory following their victory at ESL One: New York 2019.
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