Bad News Eagles, Movistar Riders, Eternal Fire, and TYLOO have received invites to participate in the playoffs of Pinnacle Cup IV, which has reached its bracket stage after a month of play that reduced an initial pool of 28 teams down to eight.
The four teams invited to the playoffs will begin their Pinnacle Cup campaigns in the quarter-finals, where they currently await the winners of the opening round, an eight-team initial bracket that was set via the Swiss group stage.
Bad News Eagles will play the winner of Apeks versus ECSTATIC The team that clearly headlines the first round of matches in the playoffs is Spirit, who went through the Swiss stage with a 3-0 record and come in hot from their 3-4th place showing at PGL Major Antwerp, making themselves clear favorites to run away with a victory in this cup.
Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov's side are set to face Finest for their first match, and should they advance, would then take on TYLOO, who have been bootcamping in Europe since early May.
The other team that went 3-0 in the Swiss stage, GamerLegion, will face SKADE, who are looking to defend their title having claimed victory in the previous Pinnacle Cup with wins over Copenhagen Flames and Vitality. Meanwhile, Apeks will take on ECSTATIC — with the winner facing Bad News Eagles — and Isurus will battle against K23.
The opening round of matches can be found below:
Playoffs round 1:
Spirit vs.
Finest
K23 vs.
Isurus
GamerLegion vs.
SKADE
Apeks vs.
ECSTATIC
Quarter-finals:
TYLOO vs.
Spirit /
Finest
Movistar Riders vs.
K23 /
Isurus
Eternal Fire vs.
GamerLegion /
SKADE
Bad News Eagles vs.
Apeks /
ECSTATIC

GamerLegion #47 
Patrik 'Zero' Žúdel
Alfred 'RuStY' Karlsson
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Sean 'eraa' Knutsson
Isak 'isak' Fahlén 

Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov
Age: 25 Team: Spirit Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 1087 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.67 

Bad News Eagles #19 

Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi
Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti
Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi
Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci
Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci 

Apeks #41 

Martin 'STYKO' Styk
Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad
Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson
Hugo 'chawzyyy' Günther 
Vitality #10 
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen
Emil 'Magisk' Reif
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier 
TYLOO #62 
YuLun 'Summer' Cai
Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand
YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng
Kelun 'SLOWLY' Sun
Zhenghao 'DANK1NG' Lv 
Eternal Fire #25 
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş
Özgür 'woxic' Eker
Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın
Ömer 'imoRR' Karataş
Yasin 'xfl0ud' Koç 
Isurus #53 
Nicolás 'Noktse' Dávila
Lucas 'destiny' Bullo
Alexandre 'ALLE' Santos
Marcos 'deco' Amato
Victor 'gafolo' Andrade 
Movistar Riders #18 
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano
Raúl 'DeathZz' Jordán Nieto
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García
David 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo 
ECSTATIC #38 
Adrian 'XELLOW' Guță
Dion 'FASHR' Derksen
Jakob 'Daffu' Schildt
Thomas 'birdfromsky' Due-Frederiksen
Marcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen 
SKADE #30 
Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov
Simeon 'dream3r' Ganev
Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov
Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov
Aleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov 

Finest #66 

Simon 'twist' Eliasson
Niclas 'PlesseN' Plessen
Rasmus 'kreaz' Johansson
Guy 'anarkez' Trachtman
Kristjan 'shokz' Jakobson 

K23 #32 

Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov
Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikov
David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan
Daniil 'X5G7V' Maryshev
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev 
Copenhagen Flames #11 
Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen
Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi
Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen
Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard
Rasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss 

Spirit #6 

Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov
Abdul 'degster' Gasanov
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev
Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin
Robert 'Patsi' Isyanov