ECS Pinnacle Cup first matchups revealed

The first round of ECS Pinnacle Cup matches has been revealed by the tournament organizer.

ECS's Pinnacle Cups are ready to get underway as 32 teams in Europe and North America will be fighting to get the best possible seeding in their respective regions to get invited to ECS Season 8's weekly cups.

The tournaments, one in North America and one in Europe, will a feature Swiss stages with all matches played to the best of three maps. The games will be open to being broadcasted by the community on Caffeine, where ECS will broadcast their Community Caster Challenge.

Heroic will play their first match against Windigo

The Pinnacle Cups will start on September 11th and last three days, running through the 13th, with the matches in Europe starting at 18:00 and the North American matches starting at 00:00 .

Some of the most interesting openers in Europe will feature HEROIC going up against Windigo or Heretics facing off against Sprout, with other teams in contention being the likes of CR4ZY, GamerLegion, or BIG.

The first-round matchups in Europe are:

CR4ZY vs. m1x
HEROIC vs. Windigo
Tricked vs. BLUEJAYS
GamerLegion vs. Se7en
FORZE vs. Ambush
BIG vs. Espada
Spirit vs. Japaleno
Heretics vs. Sprout

Sharks will be rolling out their new lineup in North America, with Argentine duo Ignacio "⁠meyern⁠" Meyer and Luca "⁠Luken⁠" Nadotti, when they face off against Mythic in their opener. ATK will also be sporting a new roster with Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou and coach Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen spearheading the project with an American roster featuring Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery, Ian "⁠motm⁠" Hardy, and Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm, who will face off against RBG in their first match.

The North American Pinnacle Cup openers are:

Sharks vs. Mythic
Swole Patrol vs. OCG
ATK vs. RBG
Riot Squad vs. Divine
New Identity vs. Party Astronauts
TeamOne vs. Rap Gang
Peeker's Advantage vs. The Quest
Big Frames vs. LiViD

Espada #48 Artem 'RAiLWAY' GradovichVadim 'h1glaiN' TanasiukVladislav 'FinigaN' UsovAbdul 'degster' GasanovBoris 'magixx' Vorobiev Josh 'oSee' Ohm Age: 20 Team: ATK Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 473 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.65 The Quest #87 Jack 'xCeeD' HolimanLogan 'Voltage' LongRyan 'Snakes' AmannMichael 'Grim' WinceGabe 'Spongey' Greiner New Identity #55 Sebastian 'seb' BuckiSkyler 'Relyks' WeaverCollin 'wrath' McSweeganWill 'dazzLe' LoafmanMichael 'dapr' Gulino ATK #287 Johnny 'JT' TheodosiouRicky 'floppy' KemeryIan 'motm' HardyJosh 'oSee' Ohm BIG #24 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' MagetIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşOwen 'smooya' Butterfield Party Astronauts #149 Abdo 'c4Lypso' AghaBrenden 'stellar' McGrathRobert 'robby' BrownJosh 'PwnAlone' PigueMalick 'dangle' Abid m1x Flatron 'juanflatroo' HalimiRigon 'rigoN' GashiDionis 'sinnopsyy' BudeciFilip 'tudsoN' TudevGuy 'anarkez' Trachtman Ignacio 'meyern' Meyer Age: 17 Team: Sharks Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 181 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.67 Spirit #40 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoPavel 'COLDYY1' VeklenkoViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov Heretics #28 David 'Davidp' PrinsLogan 'LOGAN' CortiBryan 'Maka' CandaGaëtan 'JiNKZ' JaminJérémy 'jeyN' Nguyen BLUEJAYS #56 Dimitrije 'DiMKE' VeljkovićMiloš 'dEE' MarčetaFilip 'aVN' BelojicaLuka 'c0llins' ŽivanovićNemanja 'sarenii' Šarenac Swole Patrol #43 Braxton 'swag' PierceJaccob 'yay' WhiteakerYassine 'Subroza' TaoufikJordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro Ambush #57 Danny 'BERRY' KrügerRasmus 'raalz' SteensborgThomas 'Ryxxo' NielsenMathias 'PR1mE' Carlsen Sprout #33 Florian 'syrsoN' RischeTimo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' HowellNils 'k1to' GruhneJosef 'faveN' Baumann Windigo #227 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAli 'hAdji' HaïnoussValentin 'poizon' Vasilev Riot Squad #47 Pujan 'FNS' MehtaPeter 'ptr' GurneyMitch 'mitch' SemagoJonathan 'Jonji' CareyAustin 'crashies' Roberts FORZE #20 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov Big Frames #92 Andy 'devastation' ParrJimmy 'Nurfed' McFaddenJacob 'L0NER' WebsterRyan 'Church' ChurchLiam 'Welshy' Newhouse OCG #77 Michael 'miLLe' St-PierreCedric 'Melio' PerraultDavid 'J0LZ' JolinYannick 'KOLER' BlanchetteGabriel 'TENSKEE' Rodrigue Ricky 'floppy' Kemery Age: 19 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 357 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.67 Luca 'Luken' Nadotti Age: 22 Team: Sharks Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 117 KPR: 0.81 DPR: 0.64 Sharks #35 Raphael 'exit' LacerdaLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraJhonatan 'jnt' SilvaIgnacio 'meyern' MeyerLuca 'Luken' Nadotti GamerLegion #34 Dennis 'dennis' EdmanAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomKevin 'HS' TarnHampus 'hampus' PoserTim 'nawwk' Jonasson LiViD #112 Loic 'effys' SauvageauMathieu 'INCRED' BergeronAnthony 'gMd' GuimondDanny 'huynh' HuynhMichael 'MkaeL' De Luca Se7en #60 Nurbol 'hpp' DyussembayevViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAlikhan 'w1nt3r' KopzhanovAlgat 'smiley' AbdulIldar 'kinder' Sadykov RBG #99 Colby 'Walco' WalshJerric 'wiz' JiangAustin 'gmanchew' VieiraJadan 'HexT' PostmaJosh 'pwny' VanGorder Ian 'motm' Hardy Age: 19 Team: ATK Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 379 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67 Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou Age: 20 Team: ATK Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 446 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.67 Tricked #25 Nicolai 'HUNDEN' PetersenLucas 'Bubzkji' AndersenFrederik 'acoR' GyldstrandRasmus 'sjuush' BeckFredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen TeamOne #67 Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda LimaPedro 'Maluk3' CamposVictor 'iDk' TorracaAlencar 'trk' RossatoBruno 'b4rtiN' Câmara Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Divine #108 Alexander 'zanz' DiazJoshua 'Hunter' MadoreTyler 'tweiss' WeissDavid 'cynic' PolsterErik 'penny' Penny Peeker's Advantage #69 Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerTaylor 'Drone' JohnsonChad 'Oderus' MillerJason 'neptune' TranNoah 'ULTRA' Giesbrecht Mythic #278 James 'hazed' CobbErik 'fl0m' FlomSamuel 'SileNt' PortilloCorbin 'C0M' LeeKaitlin 'Keiti' Boop CR4ZY #12 Nemanja 'huNter-' KovačNestor 'LETN1' TanićNemanja 'nexa' IsakovićOtto 'ottoNd' SihvoRokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas Rap Gang #90 Erick 'Xeppaa' BachBilal 'SPAMMER' AliKevin '4pack' PrzypasniakBrendan 'Bwills' WilliamsJustin 'FaNg' Coakley HEROIC #17 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferPatrick 'es3tag' HansenJohannes 'b0RUP' BorupMartin 'stavn' LundBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer Tiaan 'T.c' Coertzen Age: 27 Team: ATKC Japaleno #68 Fredrik 'FREDDyFROG' GustafssonJoakim 'Relaxa' GustafssonDaniel 'djL' Narancic