ELEAGUE CS:GO Invitational initial match

ELEAGUE have announced the first match-ups for their invitational tournament set to take place on January 25-27.

The four-team event will be played at the ELEAGUE Studios in Atlanta, Georgia with a $150,000 prize pool. The competition will feature a double elimination, best-of-three format.

NiKo & co. will take on Cloud9 in their first game

One of the initial upper bracket matches will be between FaZe and Cloud9 who both took part in iBUYPOWER Masters last weekend where both of them placed 5-6th.

Complexity and BIG will square it off in the other game which will be Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş's first ever match with his new team.

The first match-ups of the event can be found below:

FaZe vs. Cloud9
BIG vs. Complexity

BIG #12 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşOwen 'smooya' Butterfield Complexity #30 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanRory 'dephh' JacksonPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzRicardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş Age: 23 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.23 Maps played: 877 KPR: 0.87 DPR: 0.70 Cloud9 #15 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistFabien 'kioShiMa' FieyWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTimothy 'autimatic' TaJordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro FaZe #7 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard