SKADE secure Elisa Invitational Winter title

The Bulgarian side has clinched their first international trophy with the new lineup featuring former Fiend duo Kamen "⁠bubble⁠" Kostadinov and Simeon "⁠dream3r⁠" Ganev.

SKADE came out victorious at the Elisa Invitational Winter on Sunday. After being directly invited to the quarter-finals, the Bulgarian side plowed through the opposition over the last three days, beating Eternal Fire, Copenhagen Flames, and HEET without losing a map across the three series.

Currently ranked 27th in the world, the Bulgarians were only the eighth-highest-ranked team in attendance but managed to surpass the favored opposition, finishing ahead of teams such as Entropiq and ENCE.

The SKADE-Fiend shuffle has borne fruit

The victory, which sees bubble and company come away with the $50,000 grand prize, came as a big boost while the Bulgarian team competed in several other tournaments without success, most importantly in open qualifiers for the PGL Major Antwerp European RMR event.

SKADE will hope to carry on that form in their last attempt to make it to the all-important RMR event, which will determine all European and CIS representatives taking part in the Major.

They are set to face ONYX in the round of 16 of the fourth and final open qualifier at 16:00 , less than two hours following their victory at Elisa Invitational Winter.

The final standings of Elisa Invitational Winter 2021:

1. SKADE - $50,000
2. HEET - $14,000
3-4. ENCE - $6,000
3-4. Copenhagen Flames - $6,000
5-8. Entropiq - $4,000
5-8. Eternal Fire - $4,000
5-8. Dignitas - $4,000
5-8. HAVU - $4,000
9-12. ex-AGF - $2,000
9-12. Savage - $2,000
9-12. ECSTATIC - $2,000
9-12. Sprout - $2,000
13-15. Looking For Org
13-15. fnatic Rising
13-15. Finest
16-18. 777
16-18. AGO
16-18. BLINK (withdrew)
19-20. Lynn Vision
19-20. Enterprise

Savage #51 Simon 'twist' EliassonWilliam 'draken' SundinNiclas 'PlesseN' PlessenDenis 'grux' GutajAdam 'dezon' Wahlqvist Enterprise #81 Raul 'Blytz' GligorErik 'The eLiVe' SithRobert 'manguss' KasperMatúš 'MATYS' ŠimkoVille 'myltsi' Vilkman Finest #85 Rasmus 'kreaz' JohanssonGuy 'anarkez' TrachtmanKristjan 'shokz' Jakobson ECSTATIC #22 Dion 'FASHR' DerksenJakob 'Daffu' SchildtAdam 'WolfY' AnderssonThomas 'birdfromsky' Due-FrederiksenMarcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen Fiend Entropiq #11 Aleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy BLINK Kujtim 'gulito' Durmishi HEET #21 Alexandre 'bodyy' PianaroLucas 'Lucky' ChastangThomas 'Djoko' PavoniPierre 'Ex3rcice' BulingeAurélien 'afro' Drapier Looking For Org #83 Mike 'ap0c' AliferisEuan 'sterling' MooreJared 'hazr' O'BreeBenson 'Liki' NiuilaJames 'SaVage' Savage Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov Age: 30 Team: SKADE Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 2095 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.65 Lynn Vision #93 Heng 'expro' YangZhe 'Westmelon' NiuSike 'z4kr' ZhangPeng 'Roninbaby' XuLizhi 'Starry' Ye AGO #96 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiEryk 'leman' KocębaDenis 'Grashog' HristovMaciej 'F1KU' MiklasSzymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek ex-AGF #78 René 'cajunb' BorgMagnus 'Nodios' OlsenCasper 'Cabbi' Jensen Eternal Fire #33 Ismailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınMuhammed 'mini' SalmanÖmer 'imoRR' Karataş Dignitas #26 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergAdam 'friberg' FribergJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonHåkon 'hallzerk' FjærliLudvig 'HEAP' Alonso SKADE #29 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovSimeon 'dream3r' GanevGeorgi 'SHiPZ' GrigorovDenislav 'dennyslaw' DimitrovAleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov ENCE #15 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferPavle 'Maden' BoškovićPaweł 'dycha' DychaOlek 'hades' MiskiewiczLotan 'Spinx' Giladi fnatic Rising #88 Kevin 'Kevve' BohlinPeppe 'Peppzor' BorakFrancisco 'kst' FragosoMatias 'Banjo' Kivistö HAVU #58 Jani 'Aerial' JussilaSami 'xseveN' LaasanenOlli 'sLowi' PitkänenOtto 'ottoNd' SihvoJoona 'Sm1llee' Holmström Time is adjusted to your selected timezone ONYX Patrik 'bodito' BodaAndrás 'coolio' FercsákNorbert 'msN' TörökHenrich 'sl3nd' HevesiJurus 'Kamion' Zsolt 777 #64 Kristian 'akez' KornbakkHaris 'H4RR3' HadzicMikael 'mikki' GaupSander 'Grus' IversenJonatan 'ruyter' Ruyter Simeon 'dream3r' Ganev Age: 25 Team: SKADE Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 1159 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.62 Copenhagen Flames #17 Rasmus 'HooXi' NielsenNico 'nicoodoz' TamjidiFredrik 'roeJ' JørgensenJakob 'jabbi' NygaardRasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss Sprout #25 Rasmus 'raalz' SteensborgTimo 'Spiidi' RichterFritz 'slaxz-' DietrichMax 'Marix' KugenerVictor 'Staehr' Staehr