G2 invited to DreamHack Masters Malmö

G2 will compete at DreamHack Masters Malmö after accepting a direct invitation from the organizers.

The French side will be joining a stacked competition in Malmö, becoming the seventh top-ten team confirmed at the tournament, featuring the likes of Liquid, Vitality, Astralis, and ENCE thus far.

G2 have risen up the ranks in the last two months, placing fifth-sixth at the last DreamHack Masters stop in Dallas and picking up an impressive runners-up finish at ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals, although most recently they went out in groups at IEM Chicago.

G2 will make their second DreamHack Masters appearance in a row

Before the Swedish tournament comes along, Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon & co. will also compete at the StarLadder Major and at ESL One New York, with the latter event ending just two days before the kick-off of DreamHack Masters Malmö.

The team list for the $250,000 event taking place on October 1-6 currently features the following 10 teams, with two more spots being reserved for invites and the rest filled via qualifiers:

OpTic
fnatic
Vitality
NRG
ENCE
TBA
TBA
TBAAstralis
Liquid
Ninjas in Pyjamas
FURIA
G2
TBA
TBA
TBANRG #5 Peter 'stanislaw' JarguzTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Ninjas in Pyjamas #11 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonFredrik 'REZ' SternerNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora G2 #8 Audric 'JACKZ' JugRichard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayLucas 'Lucky' Chastang FURIA #9 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior Liquid #1 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken OpTic #19 Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeNikolaj 'niko' KristensenIsmail 'refrezh' AliRené 'TeSeS' Madsen Astralis #3 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Richard 'shox' Papillon Age: 27 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 1515 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.66 fnatic #13 Richard 'Xizt' LandströmJesper 'JW' WecksellSimon 'twist' EliassonFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin Vitality #2 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlex 'ALEX' McMeekinMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ENCE #4 Aleksi 'allu' JalliJani 'Aerial' JussilaSami 'xseveN' LaasanenAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenJere 'sergej' Salo