Imperial confirmed at Games Clash Masters

Imperial have been invited to compete at Games Clash Masters, the event's organisers have announced.

The Lithuanian side are the fourth and final invitee for the tournament, joining HellRaisers, HEROIC and Red Reserve, who were all previously invited.

Currently ranked 25th in the world, Imperial made headlines at the start of the month, when they replaced Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend and Jesper "⁠TENZKI⁠" Plougmann with Ali "⁠hAdji⁠" Haïnouss and Eimantas "⁠pounh⁠" Lazickas.

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This will be the second of three international events that are coming up for Imperial, who will also attend DreamHack Open Montreal, from September 7-9, and StarSeries i-League Season 6, from October 7-14.

Games Clash Masters will take place from September 28-30 in Gdynia, Poland, where eight teams will duke it out for $90,000 in prize money.

AGO, Kinguin and Sprout have all earned spots at the event via closed qualifiers. The last qualifier, scheduled for this weekend, will see x-kom, Izako Boars, PACT and PRIDE Academy vie for the final spot in the main tournament.

The team list for the event currently looks as follows:

HEROIC
HellRaisers
Sprout
Imperial AGO
Kinguin
Red Reserve
Qualifier #4x-kom #87 Wiktor 'mynio' KrukKrzysztof 'stark' LewandrowskiDaniel 'STOMP' PłomińskiPatryk 'Patitek' FabrowskiKrzysztof 'Goofy' Górski PRIDE Academy #167 Łukasz 'splawik' JahnsHubert 'Raves' MuszyńskiAdrian 'Zorineq' KołodziejskiAdrian 'SAYN' Łączyński Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann Age: 24 Team: ImperialB Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 844 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.65 Eimantas 'pounh' Lazickas Age: 21 Team: Imperial Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 262 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.69 Red Reserve #24 Simon 'twist' EliassonJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunFredrik 'freddieb' BuöHampus 'hampus' PoserLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin Kinguin #34 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasJacek 'MINISE' JeziakKarol 'rallen' RodowiczPaweł 'reatz' JańczakMikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski Kevin 'kRYSTAL' Amend Age: 25 Team: Ghost Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 1148 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.67 PACT #100 Michał 'MOLSI' ŁąckiDawid 'lunAtic' CieślakKacper 'darko' ŚcieraKonrad 'koyot' HadałaArek 'Vegi' Nawojski Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss Age: 22 Team: Imperial Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 335 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.68 AGO #23 Grzegorz 'SZPERO' DziamałekDamian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiMateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiTomasz 'phr' Wójcik Imperial #25 Nemanja 'nexa' IsakovićAli 'hAdji' HaïnoussEimantas 'pounh' LazickasRokas 'EspiranTo' MilasauskasŽygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas Sprout #26 Martin 'PERCY' WesselTimo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' HowellNiels Christian 'NaToSaphiX' SillassenDennis 'sycrone' Nielsen HEROIC #30 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhAdam 'friberg' FribergAsger 'AcilioN' LarsenPatrick 'es3tag' HansenDaniel 'mertz' Mertz HellRaisers #16 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBence 'DeadFox' BöröczIssa 'ISSAA' Murad Izako Boars #105 Mateusz 'matty' KołodziejczykKarol 'tecek' KapczyńskiDawid 'xype' LachMichal 'RETO' SilskiPiotr 'nawrot' Nawrocki