SL i-League S3 invites revealed

Professeur

22-2-2017 17:01

All eight invited teams for SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 are now known as StarLadder announced that Gambit, Natus Vincere, FaZe and North will be attending the tournament in Kiev, Ukraine.

StarLadder has announced the final four teams to receive invites to the $300,000 tournament that will be held in Palace "Ukraine" this April.

s1mple had his debut for Na`Vi at SLi StarSeries S2

Joining the likes of Virtus.pro and SK are Gambit, Natus Vincere, FaZe and North, four teams that are currently in the top 10 of HLTV's team rankings.

The team list for SL i-League Starseries Season 3 is now as follows:

Astralis	Virtus.pro	Ninjas in Pyjamas	SK
Gambit	North	Natus Vincere	FaZe
qualifier	qualifier	qualifier	qualifier
qualifier	qualifier	qualifier	qualifier

The remaining eight spots will be filled out through the online qualification process, with teams such as G2, fnatic and Cloud9 looking to secure a spot at the LAN tournament.

Professeur writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

#GOGOVP

2017-02-22 17:01

3 replies

No NA teams.. finally a tournament organizer have come to their senses.

2017-02-22 18:50

1 reply

tbh that's kinda unfair, they should at least invite one NA team Optic would be a good invite. just found out that the there will be only 2 spots for NA from the qualifiers, 3 spots for EU, 2 For NA and 3 for China. damn, it seems like Starladder doesn't like NA.

2017-02-23 09:56

no!

2017-03-11 22:23

Go CIS!

2017-02-22 17:02

23 replies

how does NIP get a invite lmfao

2017-02-22 19:25

22 replies

you must be new smh. NiP are the defending champions of that event. Season 2..

2017-02-22 20:00

20 replies

Nip are also the defending champions of being below average

2017-02-22 20:08

19 replies

sure big events last year 2016 $200k+ or more prize pool SK\LG core - 2 (2 majors) Navi - 1 Astralis - 1 fnatic - 2 Envy - 1 G2- 1 NiP - 3

2017-02-22 20:09

17 replies

SK won 3 btw they also won Esl pl s3 and what did do nip in their other tournaments? 3 flukey events gz

2017-02-22 20:20

16 replies

3 events with top teams =/= fluke

2017-02-22 21:45

11 replies

went out in groups more often than they won also failed to qualify for a few tournaments lmfao nt tho

2017-02-23 00:47

10 replies

They can't NOT invite the current champions even though they're trash last few months, that's just how it is

2017-02-23 16:15

9 replies

with that reason aswell why not invite 2nd place of last event and 3th and 4th and 5-8th? exactly cuz its not smart u look at recent results to invite teams to have the best event, best competition

2017-02-23 23:28

8 replies

Look at it like football. If you win the Champions League you automatically go into it for the next year. The champions should always have the right to defend.

2017-03-09 13:49

7 replies

yeah but in football a team cant go from godtier to utter shit in 5 months

2017-03-10 00:11

6 replies

Oh they can. Look at Leicester.

2017-03-10 09:06

5 replies

U said champions League and still they got out of their group in the UCL and if they win 1-0 they'll go to quarters. Also less long break between champions leagues

2017-03-10 12:45

4 replies

It was an example, don't cry dude.

2017-03-10 13:21

Should've just used the Chelsea example when they won the ucl then next season 3rd in their group (did win Europa league but who cares about that)

2017-03-10 14:19

2 replies

So you see my point then?

2017-03-10 14:34

yeah stupid to invite teams even if they won the last tournament make them requalify by being good in their domestic leagues

2017-03-10 15:19

omg :D funny kidoss

2017-02-22 21:50

theyre making money and youre just a lil kid typing on your computer lmao.

2017-02-22 23:13

Wow if you are talking about money, nip won the 3 least important events........ They had 3 good events that's it. Didn't do much for the rest of the year.

2017-02-23 15:07

They won events with tougher competetion than most of the other big teams. 1.Majors and Eleague seasons 2.Epicenter,iem katowice,dh masters,iem oakland,star series events. 4. Esl proleague season finals and ecs s1 finals 5. Ecs s2 finals(worst competetion ever)

2017-02-25 03:06

Holy shit

2017-03-09 13:48

They won the last time, they are the first to get an invite you fucking newfag. Go back to reddit or something

2017-02-23 16:39

NICE

wheres fnatic??/ but ofc these shitters inv nip because if they dont get invited they wont qualify lmao pure joke

Maybe because they won the last season??

Nip was invite because they won last season, fnatic didn't win anything.. Stop whining

2017-02-22 17:03

rekted

2017-02-22 17:09

fnatic are top 12. top 8 = invite

2017-02-22 17:20

"Cloud9 looking to secure a spot at the LAN tournament." But cloud9 is not in the qualifier? Only top NA teams are IMT and Liquid

2017-02-22 17:04

hltv.org/news/19903-sl-i-league-s3-close.. Those were "open qualifiers" C9 has an invite.

2017-02-22 17:29

When I posted that the hltv page for the qualifier didn't have c9 or optic. Weird

2017-02-22 17:30

Hoping that Fnatic G2 envy/godsent/mouz make it through...and C9/liquid optic Immortals from NA...

2017-02-22 17:32

There's only two NA spots and three EU. Other three are China 4Head

Oh shit,Forgot. China doesnt need more than 1/2 slots at max. They get it because of the i league patnership...atleast the finals are in kiev for CSGO... The dota finals start tomorrow in shanghai..

2017-02-22 17:34

I actually don't disagree with giving china opportunities, but their very best team hasn't done more than the odd upset here or there. Three spots doesn't make much sense.

2017-02-22 17:35

ez for jumal allu god monster from finland!!!

wow, nice!

deserved

nice

Great

NiP LUL

rip nip :(

2017-03-10 13:22

no Superteam xD

Why do they still invite nip

Cuz they won Season 2..

Rip G2

Ez north

why nip xddddddddddd

They won last starladder. They are reigning champions, just like they where at dreamhack masters and at IEM (which is why they got Katowice invite).

2017-02-22 17:08

rip g2 :(

ez faze

why do these nip shitters get invited everywhere????????

im not talking about this event in particular, im talking about almost every other event where nip get invited even though they cant even qualify for major

They won last starladder. They are reigning champions, just like they where at dreamhack masters and at IEM (which is why they got Katowice invite) - RealEssin *2K17

2017-02-22 17:14

DH Las Vegas - reigning champs IEM Katowice - reigning champs (from Oakland, otherwise fnatic would've been invited) StarLadder - reigning champs

2017-02-22 17:15

But all the events so far this year except the major, NIP was the reigning champ. Dreamhack masters, starladder and IEM (they won last IEM at Oakland so they get invite for Katowice)

2017-02-22 17:17

No respect for G2 lol

haha so stupid ukrainian invited navi and didn`t invite g2

g2 is a pure joke and NV proved it beating them 2-0

2017-02-22 17:24

haha match after shuffle are u srly 50/50 match g2 ledendary team of legends and they will win 3rd major

2017-02-22 17:26

exactly, the team that hasn't proved shit yet doesn't deserve to be invited all their achievements is getting rekt by NV (also with a new lineup)

Navi might not be in the best form right now but inviting g2 would make even less sense.

2017-02-22 17:25

nip hahahaha

nip with invite XD

why not, they won the last one? reigning champs are almost always invited, no matter how shitty they are atm

2017-02-22 17:45

fnatic, g2, envy, godsent all need to qualify. The qualifiers will be awesome

it wont be easy either...hr,mouz,kinguin flipside playing the qualifiers as well..

2017-02-22 17:36

-faze +g2

g2 sucks it will be hard for them to even qualify without strats and pure aim based playstyle.

2017-02-22 17:06

G2 dosent sucks lol. Its just because FaZe has better results. I'll bet that G2 beats Faze all day long.

2017-02-22 17:37

I'll bet against that

2017-02-22 19:00

me too

2017-02-22 19:40

Lol, nt Niko>Shox Rain>Apex Kioshima>Nbk Kennys>Allu Karrigan=body

2017-02-22 20:28

looks like you just began to watch CS. First Shox >>> NiKo, if you think Niko is better you're retarted. And then, you can't compare the others, but in term of skills, all players of G2 except NbK are better.

2017-02-22 21:20

lol, if you think shox is better, than you are mentally retarded, salty cuz he left mousesports?? loool

2017-02-22 22:22

Shox is better than Niko in stats and in rankings (Shox 6th and Niko 11th on Hltv). Do you think i care if he left mouz ? Shox was better than him this year, thats it.

2017-02-22 22:24

no he is not better in stats, shox is 6th bc he won titles last year lol, niko had better stats overall retard

2017-02-22 22:26

Shox is a top 5 all-times player in CSGO.

2017-02-23 01:42

yeah so is olof, but what is he now? retard....

2017-02-23 13:10

G2 to lose another qualify

loool NiP

Hard 4 RiP, ez Sk Felps and Imt Fnx

-NiP pls why are people stil inviting them they suck major balls

why didn't they invite G2 then? they made the final but they only got an invite to the qual

2017-02-22 17:11

Because its not same lineup?

different team and they did not win? pretty obvious reasons

2017-02-22 17:46

Nice

What's the point of inviting NiP right now? I bet they wouldn't even made it through qualifier.

they won the last league it would be a joke not to invite the last winner

major top 8 teams invited, oh wait NiP didn't made, but still got the invitation over fnatic

I disagree with the fact that FNC should get invite over NIP however nip was top5 in 2016

2017-02-22 17:07

I didn't exactly said fnatic shoud have Been invited Over Nip, what I think is none of then should be invited, but ir you invite 7 major legends, why NiP that didn't even qualified, why nota any other team that actually was até the major.

maybe because nip performed good at the last sl event..

Oh that makes sense, sry

GO LANBIT

- NIP + Kinguin

Why is the concept of reigning champion so hard for the NIP haters to understand?

Because some people are brain dead

2017-02-22 18:06

2017-02-23 16:22

no fnatic or HOMESENT, LUL gl Gambit!

2017-02-22 17:16

#FaZeUP

Thank you for inviting stable lineups instead of completely new teams. Very good choice in my opinion :)

2 danish teams, 2 CIS teams, only team from sweden is NIP 4Head

2017-02-22 17:18

No G2?????

2017-02-22 17:23

N.I.P is a legendary organization in counter-strike. Respect the empire even if the young players are underperforming / have poor attitude.

2017-02-22 17:28

no fnatic?

- NIP + Fnatic

Starladder was the best tournament i have ever seen. The production was insane

Go Gambit

2017-02-22 17:56

#FaZeUp #GONINJAS <3

>2017 >inviting nip Vegan 16-2 NiP never forget

2017-02-22 18:11

ez for nip

2017-02-22 18:58

EZ FOR FAZE

2017-02-22 19:07

+G2 +fnatic NiP and Gambit to qualifiers, shit org

2017-02-22 19:19

those two teams hasn't proved anything yet, they'll certainly will but it's logical they aren't invited

what did gambit proved?

2017-02-22 19:57

more than g2 and fnatic that are new teams. Anyway you don't invite teams without knowing their roster

2017-02-22 20:05

Lul gambit is top 7 in the world right now and they also did it to the legends at the last major. And whats about G2 and fnatic? They havent shown anything special yet.

2017-02-22 21:18

they dont have to show, they are legends. Gambit not.

2017-02-23 02:54

nip invited...

2017-02-22 19:37

NiP invited :D:D:D:D:D:D:D AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

2017-02-22 19:42

they are the defending champions of that event, you must be new... smh.. just because they didnt make it to the major doesnt mean anything.

2017-02-22 20:02

Yes it does, it means they're slumping hard. But I do agree that they should have been invited as reigning champs.

2017-02-22 23:03

Major is just like any other tournaments except its a valve sponsored and bigger prize pool. The ones who made it to the major but didnt make it to the legend spot were the same as NiP. envy, godsent, g2, optic.. NiP won 3 big events $200k + prize pool in 2016 and the rest of top teams only 2 and 1. 1 major title and 5 straight major finals is not bad.

2017-02-22 23:07

It's also prepare for a lot harder by most teams. You can't disagree with me that NiP is slumping, that would be foolish. The point is if they don't show something at Starladder or IEM a change NEEDS to be made.

2017-02-22 23:20

8 qual spots left and only 3 from EU and 2 from NA will qualify?? 3 more teams will be invited or what?

2017-02-22 19:46

Awesome, the best teams (and NiP, with big fanbase) are there.

2017-02-22 19:59

2 biggest fanbases are there VP and NiP this is gonna be good

2017-02-22 20:03

2 most cancerous fanbases* fixed

2017-02-22 20:10

according to you which it doesnt matter, your opinion doesnt matter anyway *fixed

2017-02-22 20:13

NiP, lol they had to give them invite cuz they wouldn't qualify for it.

2017-02-22 20:32

you must be new to the scene lil kid. They are the defending champions and won 3 big events $200k+ prize pool 2016. Rest of top teams only won 2 and 1 each.

2017-02-22 23:08

Yeah they are defending champions so what? They are complete garbage right now. They will get rekt 16-3 on all of the maps. So fun to watch.

2017-02-22 23:36

#EZ4GAMBIT

2017-02-22 20:41

-NIP +Misfits

2017-02-22 21:39

3 China spots 2 NA spots ?????? NA CS 4HEAD memes aside, that's kinda silly

2017-02-22 22:09

lets go GMBT

2017-02-22 22:46

So that is basically top 8 from the Dreamhack Masters LV?

2017-02-22 23:14

2017-02-22 23:43

NaVi with NIP in gropus, ez rigged.

2017-02-23 00:26

Hallo NA - where are you!? RIP

2017-02-23 09:09

Fnatic > NiP but who cares, it's all avout the money as always

2017-02-23 09:31

At least their will be a huge crowd unlike in Dreamhack.

2017-02-23 12:33

lol gambit invited... that's great

2017-02-23 17:30

astralis/sk/vp

2017-03-06 14:35

Ez 4 immortals qualify. Lul NIP and Fnatic whores cry

2017-03-15 15:29