Four additional teams have been invited to the European Champions Cup, the organisers have announced. The invited quartet of AVANGAR, NoChance, BIG and Windigo bring the team count to nine for the online event, with seven more invites to be revealed in the coming days. AVANGAR have attended numerous tournaments in the last two months, most notably the EMF CS:GO World Invitational, where they lost the best-of-five clash against FURIA, and the BLAST Pro Series Moscow CIS closed qualifier, securing one of the two spots in the Play-in stage.  Contrarily, NoChance have not made any appearances since their StarLadder Major qualifying run came to an end as they fell short in the Europe Minor despite some promising performances. BIG will look to ascend back up the rankings in the European Champions Cup following the return of Owen "smooya" Butterfield and Johannes "nex" Maget to the lineup, while Windigo are likely to debut their new line-up, featuring Buğra "Calyx" Arkın and Ali "hAdji" Haïnouss, in the tournament as the duo are unable to compete in the upcoming ESL Pro League Relegation. The European Champions Cup will feature a series of online stages between mid-September and November, with $60,000 and four spots at the LAN finals in Malta up for grabs. The participants' list for the event currently looks as follows:  CR4ZY Sprout Illuminar NoChance Windigo  HEROIC GamerLegion AVANGARBIG    Owen 'smooya' Butterfield  Age: 19 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 386 KPR: 0.80 DPR: 0.65 BIG #25 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' Maget Ismailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşOwen 'smooya' Butterfield   HEROIC #14 Adam 'friberg' FribergPatrick 'es3tag' HansenNiels Christian 'NaToSaphiX' SillassenMartin 'stavn' LundBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer  Windigo #24 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovBuğra 'Calyx' Arkın Ali 'hAdji' HaïnoussGeorgi 'SHiPZ' GrigorovValentin 'poizon' Vasilev  GamerLegion #22 Dennis 'dennis' Edman Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom Kevin 'HS' TarnHampus 'hampus' PoserTim 'nawwk' Jonasson  Sprout #32 Florian 'syrsoN' RischeTimo 'Spiidi' RichterSabit 'mirbit' CoktasarNils 'k1to' GruhneJosef 'faveN' Baumann   FURIA #9 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior  AVANGAR #26 Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev Sanjar 'SANJI' KulievTimur 'buster' TulepovAlexey 'Qikert' Golubev Dzhami 'Jame' Ali  NoChance #45 Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Jesse 'zehN' Linjala Martin 'STYKO' StykKevin 'kRYSTAL' AmendThomas 'Thomas' Utting Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss  Age: 23 Team: Windigo Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 571 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.66 Johannes 'nex' Maget  Age: 27 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 980 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.66  CR4ZY #17  Nemanja 'huNter-' KovačNestor 'LETN1' TanićNemanja 'nexa' IsakovićOtto 'ottoNd' Sihvo Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas  Illuminar #53 Paweł 'innocent' MocekPaweł 'reatz' JańczakOskar 'oskarish' StenborowskiMichał 'mono' GabszewiczDaniel 'STOMP' Płomiński Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın  Age: 21 Team: Windigo Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 711 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.63 |