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 Vangså

Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković

Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen

Mateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewski

Shahar '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' Žúdel

Alfred 'RuStY' Karlsson

Mihai 'iM' Ivan

Sean 'eraa' Knutsson

Isak 'isak' Fahlén


Eternal Fire #27


Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş

Özgür 'woxic' Eker

Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın

Ömer 'imoRR' Karataş

Emrecan 'EMSTAR' Çalışkan



Endpoint #37



Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel

Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath

Kia 'Surreal' Man

Guy 'NertZ' Iluz

Mohammad 'BOROS' Malhas


Entropiq #11


Aleksei 'NickelBack' Trofimov

Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko

Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev

Aleksei 'El1an' Gusev

Igor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy


1WIN #36


Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev

Aleksandr 'TRAVIS' Timkiv

Aleksandr 'glowiing' Matsievich

Stanislav 'fostar' Ostashevskiy

Denis 'deko' Zhukov


Virtus.pro #4


Timur 'buster' Tulepov

Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev

Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev

Dzhami 'Jame' Ali

Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis



Apeks #28



Martin 'STYKO' Styk

Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen

Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad

Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson

Hugo 'chawzyyy' Günther


GODSENT #13


Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo

João 'felps' Vasconcellos

Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer

Bruno 'b4rtiN' Câmara

Bruno 'latto' Rebelatto



MIBR #35



Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes

Raphael 'exit' Lacerda

Adriano 'WOOD7' Cerato

Matheus 'Tuurtle' Anhaia

Jhonatan 'JOTA' Willian



BIG #12



Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz

Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch

Florian 'syrsoN' Rische

Nils 'k1to' Gruhne

Josef 'faveN' Baumann


00NATION #66


Marcelo 'coldzera' David

Leonardo 'leo_drk' Oliveira

Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa

Vinicius 'vsm' Moreira

Santino 'try' Rigal


BLUEJAYS #41


Pavle 'stYleEeZ' Stojanovski

Daniel 'dan1' Gligorov

Aleksandar 'CacaNito' Kjulukoski

Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski

Jane 'aidKiT' Apostoloski


SKADE #33


Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov

Simeon 'dream3r' Ganev

Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov

Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov

Aleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov


FORZE #25


Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov

Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko

Aleksandr 'shalfey' Marenov

Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin

Evgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin



K23 #16



Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov

Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikov

David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan

Daniil 'X5G7V' Maryshev

Petr 'fame' Bolyshev


MOUZ #19


Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt

Christopher 'dexter' Nong

David 'frozen' Čerňanský

Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás

Aurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras
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