Malta Vibes Knockout Series 2 teams announced

The $50,000 single elimination event will feature teams from around the world.

The participants for the next Malta Vibes Ultimate Knockout Series were announced today, with 32 teams participating in stage one, the top eight of which will advance to face the eight teams directly seeded into stage two. The event, which uses a single elimination best-of-three format, will take place September 13-23 and features a $50,000 prize pool.

Stage one features academy teams such as a MOUZ NXT and Young Ninjas fresh off their first and second place finishes respectively at the WePlay Academy League finals, Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquists' GORILLAZ team, Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen's new project South, and most notably the new Turkish super team Eternal Fire.

NickelBack and co. return after winning the last iteration of this event

Seeded straight into stage two are teams like ENCE, who as the announcement was made were kicking off their ESL Pro League playoffs campaign, Entropiq who won this event last time around, and 00NATION who will be making only their second appearance under their new banner.

The full team list can be found below:

Stage one:

hREDS
Oilers
Galaxy Racer
GORILLAZ
777
Young Ninjas
Lyngby Vikings
Tricked
INFINITE
cowana
Eternal Fire
D13
Astralis Talent
Spirit Academy
AGF
EC Kyiv BLINK
AaB
PACT
ONYX
NewBelarus
Trasko
NAVI Junior
Finest
Enterprise
B8
South
BIG Academy
MOUZ NXT
Levadia
bankaPEPSI
Unique

Stage two:

Entropiq
LDLC
1WIN
FURIA Endpoint
00NATION
SINNERS
ENCE NewBelarus #98 Kirill 'hitMouse' TsarevIgor 'dERZKIY' RadosavlevichSerge 'F1n3tw' ChernyavskyVladislav 'sakova' SakovichVladislav 'LavL' Lazarev Endpoint #26 Joey 'CRUC1AL' SteuselMax 'MiGHTYMAX' HeathKia 'Surreal' ManThomas 'Thomas' UttingMohammad 'BOROS' Malhas MOUZ NXT #37 Jon 'JDC' de CastroKamil 'siuhy' SzkaradekHubert 'szejn' ŚwiatłyÁdám 'torzsi' TorzsásDorian 'xertioN' Berman NAVI Junior #94 Eugene 'Aunkere' KaryatRodion 'fear' SmykIlya 'm0NESY' OsipovSergey 'pogor3lov' PogoryelovDanyyl 'synyx' Mazur BLINK #62 Rigon 'rigoN' GashiSener 'SENER1' MahmutiFlatron 'juanflatroo' HalimiDionis 'sinnopsyy' BudeciGenc 'gxx-' Kolgeci Trasko #72 Dmytro 'Templ' SryvkovYevhenii '7oX1C' MotsevyiStanislav 'fostar' OstashevskiyIhor 'w0nderful' ZhdanovVladislav 'D0NEKO' Sidorov Entropiq #18 Aleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy AGF #158 René 'cajunb' BorgMagnus 'Nodios' OlsenKristoffer 'Kristou' AamandMagnus 'Frøslev' FrøslevCasper 'Cabbi' Jensen Levadia #169 Kevin 'ViztA' KolomainenOliver 'Jesus' KruusamägiKevin 'zteeek' RohurandDenis 'swicher' BaranovJaanek 'zfx' Rits Spirit Academy #78 Pavel 'S1ren' OgloblinRobert 'Patsi' IsyanovAlexey 'znxxX' ZlotkovskiyMyroslav 'zont1x' PlakhotiaDanil 'donk' Kryshkovets AaB #112 Alexander 'alexsomfan' NielsenPatrick 'Patti' LarsenMathias 'scott' LibergrenOliver 'fakeZ' HoelstadChristian 'Buzz' Andersen BIG Academy #87 Alexander 'glaVed' PletzNiklas 'NIKZEj' BurmeisterNico 'Aqua' KembitzkyChristian 'LapeX' PreußLuca 'pr1metapz' Voigt Astralis Talent #176 Mads 'vester' VestergaardAlexander 'Altekz' GivskovAndreas 'Void' DietrichsenVictor 'vigg0' BisgaardMikkel 'MistR' Thomsen Eternal Fire #101 Ismailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınIssa 'ISSAA' MuradÖmer 'imoRR' Karataş PACT #67 Jacek 'MINISE' JeziakPaweł 'reatz' JańczakDawid 'lunAtic' CieślakKamil 'Sobol' SobolewskiBartosz 'bnox' Niebisz Young Ninjas #43 Anton 'Sapec' PalmgrenErik 'ztr' GustafssonLove 'phzy' SmidebrantTim 'Mann3n' IsakKalle 'Ro1f' Johansson EC Kyiv #139 Oleksandr 'Smash' TurchynYaroslav 'byr9' BuryakKyrylo 's4ltovsk1yy' LytvynovDenys 'amster' LiashenkoDmytro 'Wonderful_Y' Horkusha Tricked #114 Sebastian 'larsen' LarsenSebastian 'Basso' AagaardAndreas 'kiR' KirsteinOliver 'kwezz' RasmussenMathias 'PR1mE' Carlsen South #103 Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenJesper 'TENZKI' PlougmannPhilip 'aizy' AistrupJakob 'JUGi' HansenFrederik 'Fessor' Sørensen hREDS #157 Mikko 'xartE' VälimaaOlli 'oopee' PiispanenEetu 'eDi' AstikainenJoona 'Sm1llee' HolmströmTopi 'LYNXi' Kauppi Enterprise #89 Erik 'The eLiVe' SithRobert 'manguss' KasperDavid 'forsyy' BílýMatúš 'MATYS' ŠimkoAndrej 'ADEJIS' Kameništiak bankaPEPSI #81 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevNikolaj 'kalinka' RysakovBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovDmitriy 'ProbLeM' MartinovNikita 'JIaYm' Panyushkin cowana #77 Kevin 'kRYSTAL' AmendRobin 'ScrunK' RöpkeStefan 'stfN' SeierMax 'PANIX' HangebruchKarim 'Krimbo' Moussa 777 #54 Kristian 'akez' KornbakkHaris 'H4RR3' HadzicOle 'Marcelious' Kristian LanganMikael 'mikki' GaupJonatan 'ruyter' Ruyter GORILLAZ #118 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistMiikka 'suNny' KemppiKevin 'HS' TarnJere 'sergej' SaloRichard 'ritchiEE' Mestdagh ENCE #20 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferJoonas 'doto' ForssPaweł 'dycha' DychaOlek 'hades' MiskiewiczLotan 'Spinx' Giladi SINNERS #19 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýJindřich 'ZEDKO' ChybaSebastian 'beastik' DaňoMax 'SHOCK' KvapilAdam 'NEOFRAG' Zouhar Unique #48 Alikhan 'w1nt3r' KopzhanovAman 'ice' SeitkaliyevAlgat 'smiley' AbdulSuleımen 'dukefissura' OrazalyZhandarbek 'sorrow' Mamyrbek 1WIN #33 Vadim 'Polt' TsyrovAleksandr 'TRAVIS' TimkivAleksandr 'glowiing' MatsievichDenis 'deko' ZhukovDanil 'ravenlot' Bikvaidze Finest #84 Robin 'robiin' SjögrenRasmus 'kreaz' JohanssonGuy 'anarkez' TrachtmanMartin 'mar' KuyumdjievKristjan 'shokz' Jakobson Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist Age: 28 Team: GORILLAZ Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1791 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.65 LDLC #34 Christophe 'SIXER' XiaLambert 'Lambert' PrigentAli 'hAdji' HaïnoussBryan 'Maka' CandaNicolas 'Keoz' Dgus Oilers #135 Jesper 'Jimbo' KamsrudSigurd 'MV' Schmidt-HanssenEskil 'LaX' BjørnsenHåvard 'kfreq' YtrelandJohann 'Saasinho' Saasen B8 #100 Danylo 'nat1ve' BakinBohdan 'kr1vda' KryvdaMykhailo 'OWNER' LymarMykyta 'Hkta' RevaArtem 'r1nkle' Moroz 00NATION #45 Vito 'kNgV-' GiuseppeHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraVinicius 'vsm' Moreira Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen Age: 26 Team: South Rating 1.0: 0.92 Maps played: 1710 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.72 Lyngby Vikings #39 Dion 'FASHR' DerksenJakob 'Daffu' SchildtAdam 'WolfY' AnderssonThomas 'birdfromsky' Due-FrederiksenMarcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen FURIA #16 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoAndré 'drop' Abreu INFINITE #79 Valentin 'SEMINTE' BodeaBogdan 'CHANKY' ȘerbanGabriel-Cosmin 'zewts' LetcanuCosmin 'ragga' TeodorescuEduard 'Ed1m' Nelÿ Ichim ONYX #83 Vladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukDimitrije 'DiMKE' VeljkovićDavid 'Dav' MiljanićDmitriy 'jR' ChervakAleksa 'Impulse' Stankić D13 #182 Munkhtamir 'tamir' GanbaatarTelmen 'shinobi' BatzorigTuvshintugs 'Annihilation' NyamdorjYalalt 'yAmi' OyunbilegEnkhbat 'xerolte' Munkhtogtokh Galaxy Racer #53 Simon 'twist' EliassonJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunNiclas 'PlesseN' PlessenAdam 'dezon' WahlqvistHugo 'chawzyyy' Günther