FACEIT reveals ECS Season 7 Pinnacle Cup invites

4/3/2019 - 18:00

FACEIT has revealed the list of teams who have been invited to compete in the Challenger Cups leading to season 7 of the Esports Championship Series (ECS).

The competition, which has been renamed the ECS Pinnacle Cup following a partnership with Pinnacle, a betting company that will support the ECS throughout 2019, will see 32 teams (16 invited and 16 qualified) across two regions battle it out over three days, March 5-7, in a best-of-three Swiss stage.

This tournament, the second stage in the newly-revamped ECS format after the open qualifiers, will create a ranking that will be used to fill any potential vacant spots in the ECS regular season tournaments, each one with $25,000 on the line. According to Roald van Buuren, Director of Esports at FACEIT, they will be third in line for Pinnacle Cup spots, after the top eight teams from ECS Season 6 and the two relegated sides from the league.

ENCE invited to compete in the ECS Pinnacle Cup

The winners of the first three regular season tournaments will earn direct entry into the ECS Season 7 Finals, while the fourth regional spot will go to the team that earned the most prize money over the course of the season.

IEM Katowice runners-up ENCE and French side Vitality headline the invite list for the European Pinnacle Cup. Across the Atlantic, FURIA, who were also in attendance at the recent Major, INTZ and Denial are some of the high-profile sides who have received invites to the tournament.

Below you can find the final team list for the ECS Pinnacle Cup:

Europe:

Qualified

Invited

North America:

Qualified

Invited

The match-ups for the first Swiss stage round, scheduled for March 5, are the following:

18:00 ENCE vs. Nemiga
18:00 AVANGAR vs. Epsilon
18:00 Spirit vs. Sprout
18:00 Winstrike vs. Movistar Riders
19:00 Vitality vs. Chaos
21:00 Heroic vs. Windigo
21:00 forZe vs. x6tence Galaxy
21:00 Valiance vs. x-kom

00:00 Party Astronauts vs. MASSIVEimpact
00:00 FURIA vs. Final Feature
00:00 INTZ vs. Old Guys Club
00:00 Denial vs. Infamous
03:00 TeamOne vs. iNTACT
03:00 Ghost vs. The Quest
03:00 Bad News Bears vs. Zone
03:00 Singularity vs. Mythic

GREAT! No BIG?

2019-03-04 18:00

60 replies

0-3 OMEGALUL

2019-03-04 18:01

52 replies

+1 m16r is indeed 0-3 against BIG head to head OMEGALUL

51 replies

rekt lol

2019-03-04 18:02

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EZ4ENCE

2019-03-04 18:13

+1 MIBR_NEVER_BEAT_BIG

2 replies

2019-03-04 18:06

Imagine being mibr and don't win against big lel

2019-03-04 23:20

Proof?

#23's name

2019-03-04 18:03

+1 OMEGALUL rekt

They never played bo3, cuz bug drops out early.

2019-03-04 18:10

38 replies

hltv.org/matches/2324399/mibr-vs-big-esl.. /rekt

2019-03-04 18:12

37 replies

Boltz and stew on the line up? Lol

2019-03-04 18:16

35 replies

CRY IS FREE BRA71L

2019-03-04 18:19

34 replies

No arguments?

2019-03-04 18:21

30 replies

Seems like you got no arguments LUL m16r vs. BIG 0-3 head to head check hltv

2019-03-04 18:22

29 replies

mibr has never played BIG in a bo3 with the new lineup, it's you who's making up stuff so you can somehow evade the fact that big went 0-3 at the major lol.

2019-03-04 18:24

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And you cant live with the fact that BIG rekt m16r 3 times LUL #CryIsFree #0-5InBlastPro

2019-03-04 18:25

5 replies

0/8.

2019-03-04 18:27

You rekted this Germanski. He is totally afected after your replies

2019-03-04 18:28

You rekted this favela LUL. He is totally afected after your replies

2019-03-04 18:29

2019-03-04 18:31

2019-03-04 18:30

Even with that MIBR top4 in Major and BIG 0-3. So, that´s the reason for no BUG clan.

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I cant live with that but bra71l will never be able to live with the fact that m16r never beat BIG LUL 7-1 cry is free hugo

20 replies

+1 rekt this noob

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#67

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MIBR_NEVER_BEAT_BIG cry more fan of trash team

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MIBR never beat BIG and I have no problem with that. I´m only explaining to you the reason why no BUG clan. Beat MIBR and left Major 0-3 is not a good thing. cya dumbkid

2019-03-04 18:32

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MIBR_NEVER_BEAT_BIG MIBR_NEVER_BEAT_ASTRALIS MIBR_0-5_IN_BLAST MIBR_LOST_TO_A_COACH and still talking? cry more

2019-03-04 18:34

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oh, expected from a danish kid. How old are u? under 12? If yes, it´s all right. Sorry for the rekt in you, little boy.

2019-03-04 18:35

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Last time i check mibr got rekt by astralis and BIG cry is free kid

2019-03-04 18:38

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Ok. Now go back to your milk, little kid.

cry is free no scener

2019-03-04 18:42

Kid don't remember when asstralis core was meme :D

2019-03-04 19:22

4 replies

remember when m16r core was a meme? oh right they are still a meme kkkkk

2019-03-04 19:44

3 replies

You so funny i can't be mad :) Have a nice day kiddo :)

2019-03-04 20:17

Yes

2019-03-04 21:27

2019-03-04 21:42

Never beat astralis? hltv.org/matches/2329221/astralis-vs-mib.. Rekt

2019-03-04 19:31

MIBR never beat BIG and I have no problem with that. I´m only explaining to you the reason why no BUG clan. Beat MIBR and left Major 0-3 is not a good thing.

yea and look at the core of MIBR and how many successes they have had, and then look at BIG and their successes lmao

2019-03-04 19:30

Indeed! +1

2019-03-05 18:18

+1 rekt

Didn't knew Germans are so full of complexes. They can't win major or even go to semis, so all can they do is "but you never won against us" blablabla. That BO3 is best example. Bug never won major (they haven't go further than 1/4) lololololol. They haven't even won anything serious. Even VP won more (and played better on majors) when they sucked ass in 2017. That's how bad bug is. Just cuz you won few games (not tournaments) means shit. Deal with that. /rekt

2019-03-04 19:20

+1111111

GERMWWIINY

2019-03-04 19:23

old rosters?

2019-03-04 19:28

REKT

2019-03-04 19:16

Starring Sprout as a new last german hope

Eze 4 avangar

2019-03-04 20:07

they prob declined. I don't think they ever participated in ECS.

2019-03-04 19:00

they play in alot - we came against them in IEM sydny qualifer and they spanked us, but realistically thats not saying much

I just checked and BIG actually never played in any ECS qualifier. They prob just don't like playing these random online games unless they have to.

2019-03-04 20:39

i was talking about sprout

2019-03-05 12:49

Unfortunately they declined the invite.

2019-03-04 22:02

nice

Oof

ez 4 sprout 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎👌👌👌👌👌

Dont think so

2019-03-04 19:55

Good

Ez for renamed Bravado

12th

>NA Invite >Old Guys Club R U fucking 4 real? This is just a mix for fun and nothing more.

Ya the invites preddy dumb

Who should they invite? All proper teams have already ECS spot. NA scene isn't very deep..

2019-03-04 18:08

Ghost? They made it from Qualifiers and they at least deserve this.

They did get invited though? edit: they had already qualified, actually

2019-03-04 18:14

Envy

2019-03-04 18:50

Ez for ogc

2019-03-04 19:13

Only trash teams in the NA competition :(

ISURUS ?????

noscene doesnt play :(((

brazil talking LOL

2019-03-05 01:28

What happened to all the T1 teams? Are they immediately qualified for the next stage, or did they just choose not to be in this season?

They are directly invited to the ECS regular season tournaments

And another question , how many slots there is in each ECS S7 region ? Because on the event page there is only 8 slots for EU, but 8 teams from ecs s6 EU are already invited + the teams qualified from the pinnacle cup so there is more than 8 slots ?

2019-03-04 18:15

Each regular season tournament will have eight slots. The teams who came from Season 6 and who are available for that week have priority. If there are any vacant slots, they will be filled by the teams from this Pinnacle Cup (ranking will determine the order).

2019-03-04 18:20

Ohhhh , ok thanks , it's a good format

first round wins: EU ENCE Vitality AVANGAR Sprout (spirit new roster) Winstrike Windigo forZe Valiance NA who FURIA who Denial who Ghost who who

2019-03-04 18:07

ahaha who who who

2019-03-04 18:57

ENCE xd

So easy for ence

Oh no lollipop21k (best name) will destroy ENCE

2019-03-04 18:09

lets go ence

Its going to be a while until I get the terminology for all these

2019-03-04 18:18

Let’s go ghost

Ez4Riders!

Nice

Where is vp? I mean they should play challenger cup because of the prev season.

2019-03-04 18:26

So fucking ez for FURIA.

Where is g2? they should be their because they got relegated in the prev season?

same with Virtus Pro

You can justify VP with saying that they dont have 3 out of the 5 anymore but G2 has, so?

2019-03-04 18:36

They are already qualified to the 1st week, so that's why they won't play the relegation

2019-03-04 21:09

forze failed to qualify in the 4 open qualifiers and they get an invite... totally undeserved

2 and 4 qual*. pog

2019-03-04 18:58

Where is VP and G2?

Like, wtf, they should be invited

yes lol, invite Winstrike but not G2 or VP 4 invites for CIS players / 8

2019-03-04 19:11

winstrike > g2 and vp

2019-03-04 19:33

lol Winstrike failed at Challengers Stage in 2-3 while G2 was qualified on 3-2 and lost 1-3 at the Legends Stage G2 >>>>> Winstrike >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VP

2019-03-04 19:56

One thing, why is ForZe here? They lost 0-2 against chaos at open qualifier and then they get invite ????????????