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.  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:
   BIG #12 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş Owen 'smooya' Butterfield    Complexity #30  Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanRory 'dephh' Jackson Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz Ricardo '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' Rönnquist Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieyWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTimothy 'autimatic' TaJordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro   FaZe #7  Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevOlof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač Håvard 'rain' Nygaard |
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