PGL Masters Bucharest teams, format, schedule, prizes, talent, fantasy
Teams and format The $1.25 million event will feature a stacked field as 12 of the 13 highest-ranked teams per the July 6 VRS accepted invites.
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This includes teams like Spirit , Vitality , Thunderpick World Championship winners FURIA and the reigning PGL Masters Bucharest champions Aurora .
The only exception was Falcons , who turned down a place at the event, leaving them with no further opportunities to earn VRS points before the November 2 cut-off for Singapore Major invites.
jL will play for Vitality again, this time replacing apEX The 12 invited teams will be joined by the winners of regional qualifiers held in Europe ( Nemiga ), North America ( Liquid ), South America ( DENDELE ) and Asia ( TYLOO ).
The tournament will utilize a best-of-three Swiss stage to send eight teams to a single-elimination playoff bracket, which will culminate in a best-of-five grand final.
Read more FUT confirm SunPayus signing PGL Masters Bucharest will mark Álvaro "SunPayus" García 's debut for FUT after he was brought in to replace Nikita "cmtry" Samolotov on the AWP.
Teams Spirit Vitality FURIA MOUZ Aurora Legacy G2 BETBOOM FUT Natus Vincere 9z The MongolZ Nemiga Liquid TYLOO DENDELE Things to note This game will only include the group stage. The playoff game will start once round 5 is concluded and five teams are known.
Players whose teams finish 3-0 get two padding rounds; teams that go through 3-1 get one round of padding. Player prices & pick stats jL stands in for apEX at this event and was assigned the price of $190,000.
This offering was fairly popular among players, making the Lithuanian the most-picked player in the game with nearly half the teams featuring the stand-in. donk is the most popular “golden card” in this game despite the barely affordable price tag of $250,000.
Serious compromises are required to afford the Russian star, but it might be worth it in case of a confident group stage run with up to two rounds of padding available.
Prizes Users can count on Season points and skin prizes sponsored by Hellcase as follows. Shadow Daggers | Tiger Tooth (Factory New) 2.
The event will also see Justinas "jL" Lekavicius again play for Vitality as a stand-in, this time as a replacement for Dan "apEX" Madesclaire .
Opinion
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Team Spirit still has to answer for this: "This includes teams like Spirit , Vitality , Thunderpick World Championship winners FURIA and the reigning PGL Masters Bucharest champions Aurora ." That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
Mara Voss · pessimist
FURIA can stand on this line: "This includes teams like Spirit , Vitality , Thunderpick World Championship winners FURIA and the reigning PGL Masters Bucharest champions Aurora ." It is already on the card, so the case does not need a streak or a roster rumor.
Leo Hart · optimist
CS2Team VitalityMOUZFalcons EsportsAuroraNatus VincereG2 EsportsTeam LiquidFURIAThe MongolzTeam SpiritSunPayusdonkapEX



