Playoff invites for Pinnacle Winter Series 2 announced

BIG, Entropiq, GODSENT and MIBR join the event for the playoff bracket.

The direct playoff invites for the Pinnacle Winter Series 2 were announced today, with a number of top 20 teams joining the fray; Entropiq, BIG, GODSENT and MIBR all come into the event fresh off competing at the IEM Katowice play-in, and are seeded into the quarter-finals.

Entropiq join as the top-ranked team.

The first round of the playoffs features the eight teams that made it through the best-of-three Swiss group stage, with K23 and Eternal Fire some of the bigger names involved.

Noticeably absent are runners up of the previous Pinnacle event Apeks and Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David's 00NATION, who both failed to make it through the Swiss portion.

Not only is the lion's share of a $68,000 prize pool on the line but also a spot at LAN Sweet LAN 2022, an offline event featuring a massive $250,000 prize pool that is set to take place August 15 in Belgrade, Serbia; top names like Virtus.pro, OG and MOUZ are already amongst the team list for said event.

The full team list for the Pinnacle Winter Series 2 playoffs is as follows:

Playoffs first round:

K23
SKADE
BLUEJAYS
Endpoint GamerLegion
Eternal Fire
FORZE
1WIN

Quarter-finals:

Entropiq
BIG GODSENT
MIBR OG #10 Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåNemanja 'nexa' IsakovićNikolaj 'niko' KristensenMateusz 'mantuu' WilczewskiShahar 'flameZ' Shushan Marcelo 'coldzera' David Age: 27 Team: 00NATION Rating 1.0: 1.15 Maps played: 1371 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.61 GamerLegion #24 Patrik 'Zero' ŽúdelAlfred 'RuStY' KarlssonMihai 'iM' IvanSean 'eraa' KnutssonIsak 'isak' Fahlén Eternal Fire #27 Ismailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınÖmer 'imoRR' KarataşEmrecan 'EMSTAR' Çalışkan Endpoint #37 Joey 'CRUC1AL' SteuselMax 'MiGHTYMAX' HeathKia 'Surreal' ManGuy 'NertZ' IluzMohammad 'BOROS' Malhas Entropiq #11 Aleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy 1WIN #36 Egor 'flamie' VasilyevAleksandr 'TRAVIS' TimkivAleksandr 'glowiing' MatsievichStanislav 'fostar' OstashevskiyDenis 'deko' Zhukov Virtus.pro #4 Timur 'buster' TulepovEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis Apeks #28 Martin 'STYKO' StykAsger 'AcilioN' LarsenJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadTim 'nawwk' JonassonHugo 'chawzyyy' Günther GODSENT #13 Epitacio 'TACO' de MeloJoão 'felps' VasconcellosEduardo 'dumau' WolkmerBruno 'b4rtiN' CâmaraBruno 'latto' Rebelatto MIBR #35 Marcelo 'chelo' CespedesRaphael 'exit' LacerdaAdriano 'WOOD7' CeratoMatheus 'Tuurtle' AnhaiaJhonatan 'JOTA' Willian BIG #12 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschFlorian 'syrsoN' RischeNils 'k1to' GruhneJosef 'faveN' Baumann 00NATION #66 Marcelo 'coldzera' DavidLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraMario 'malbsMd' SamayoaVinicius 'vsm' MoreiraSantino 'try' Rigal BLUEJAYS #41 Pavle 'stYleEeZ' StojanovskiDaniel 'dan1' GligorovAleksandar 'CacaNito' KjulukoskiDamjan 'kyxsan' StoilkovskiJane 'aidKiT' Apostoloski SKADE #33 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovSimeon 'dream3r' GanevGeorgi 'SHiPZ' GrigorovDenislav 'dennyslaw' DimitrovAleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov FORZE #25 Andrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoAleksandr 'shalfey' MarenovAleksandr 'KENSI' GurkinEvgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin K23 #16 Sanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanDaniil 'X5G7V' MaryshevPetr 'fame' Bolyshev MOUZ #19 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittChristopher 'dexter' NongDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýÁdám 'torzsi' TorzsásAurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras