{"id":8152,"date":"2019-09-13T01:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:04:08","slug":"gg-bet-beijing-invitational-team-list-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/gg-bet-beijing-invitational-team-list-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"GG.BET Beijing Invitational team list confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maincast and GG.BET have revealed the complete list of teams which will participate at the upcoming GG.BET Beijing Invitational event, which will serve as a qualifying tournament for IEM Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled for early November, IEM Beijing will feature eight of the <a href=\"\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO esports betting\">best CS:GO esports teams<\/a> in the world fighting for the lion&#8217;s share of a US $250,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>Two teams, Astralis and Team Liquid, are already confirmed for the event in Haidan, with three more invites to be handed out and another three spots reserved for qualifiers.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? We&#39;re back and bigger than ever! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamLiquid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamLiquid<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astralisgg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@astralisgg<\/a> will join us at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> Beijing-Haidian on November 9-10 as we bring the full ESL experience to China for the fist time.<\/p>\n<p>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yoQqfiCxgb\">https:\/\/t.co\/yoQqfiCxgb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQH6VY3Yhd\">pic.twitter.com\/rQH6VY3Yhd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Intel\u00aeExtremeMasters (@IEM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IEM\/status\/1164477390170591233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>One of those qualifying places will go to the winner of the GG.BET Beijing Invitational online tournament, which will run from Monday, September 16 to Friday, September 20.<\/p>\n<p>Just like previous GG.BET Invitational events, six teams will compete for a spot in the grand finals. The champions will get a ticket to IEM Beijing, whereas the runners-up will take home a $5,000 consolation prize.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of teams was confirmed on Sunday, September 8, when One More Time came through a 213-team field in open qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish outfit will now have a chance to compete alongside some of the biggest names in the CS:GO professional scene, including G2, mousesports and OpTic.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eight teams will face each other to fight for the slot in the capital of \u0421hina on 16-20th of September. French legends from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G2esports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@g2esports<\/a>, magic of Scandinavian CS by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpTicGaming?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OpTicGaming<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heroicgg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@heroicgg<\/a> and tactics mania by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mousesports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mousesports<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forzegg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@forZegg<\/a>. And don&#39;t forget about underdogs \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jg9oDZOFIR\">pic.twitter.com\/Jg9oDZOFIR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CS:GO Maincast ?? (@csgomcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/csgomcast\/status\/1172162957968457728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The GG.BET Beijing Invitational will start with a double-elimination group stage, featuring a best-of-one (Bo1) series in the opening round and best-of-three (Bo3) series after the first round of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>After the group stage ends, only the top two teams from each group will advance into the playoffs, where a single-elimination Bo3 format will be used.<\/p>\n<p>The eight teams that will fight for the IEM Beijing ticket are: ex-Epsilon Esports, forZe, G2 Esports, GamerLegion, Heroic, mousesports, OpTic Gaming and One More Time.<\/p>\n<p>The seeding of teams into two groups is yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" title=\"Latest esports news\">MORE COUNTER-STRIKE NEWS<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maincast and GG.BET have revealed the complete list of teams which will participate at the upcoming GG.BET Beijing Invitational event, which will serve as a qualifying tournament for IEM Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,508,626,4,770,751],"class_list":["post-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cn","tag-counter-strike","tag-cs-go","tag-featured","tag-gg-bet-beijing-invitational","tag-iem-beijing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14199,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/14199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}