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Natus Vincere have received an invite to participate at ESL One: New York held at the Barclays Center this October.
Natus Vincere, a CIS representative that was topping headlines recently in light of their roster changes have received a direct invite to ESL One: New York, a $250,000 prize pool event held in New York, United States at the Barclays Center over October 1st-2nd. The team will join seven other opponents in a battle for part of the money pot.
So far five of eight teams have been announced:
G2 Esports | Team Liquid |
Natus Vincere | SK Gaming |
Virtus.Pro | TBA |
TBA | TBA |
As previously mentioned, the team had gone through a roster shuffle, where we saw the addition of controversial superstar Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev replace veteran Na'Vi player and team captain, Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko. In recent times the team has expressed that the results were not up to par with their expectations, forcing these changes in the roster. This will be one of the first large events that Natus Vincere will play at with this new roster, it will indefinitely be intriguing to see how the new squad gets on.
Na'Vi will be repping the following CS:GO roster at ESL One: New York 2016:
Ioann "Edward" Sukhariev
Denis "seized" Kostin
Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovacs
Yegor "flamie" Vasiliev
Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev