Entropiq, Sprout, HAVU and Eternal Fire are among the nine invited teams.

The 16 contestants for the Elisa Invitational Winter's Main Swiss Stage have been announced, with nine teams invited and seven having punched their tickets through qualifiers.

Running on January 17-February 13, the Main Swiss stage will see the top eight teams play a single round of playoffs after which the top 4 will qualify for the Elisa Invitational Winter's main event, where they will be joined by four invited teams on March 3-5 in Tampere, Finland.

Entropiq were handed an invited to the Main Swiss Stage

The teams that made it through Regionals, the qualifying stage, are Savage, 777, Finest, fnatic Rising, Lynn Vision, GORILLAZ, Enterprise and AGF, while the likes of KOVA, Young Ninjas, Apeks Rebels and Nexus were left behind.

The invited teams rounding out the Main Swiss Stage include Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov's Entropiq at the helm with other notable squads in Sprout, HAVU, Eternal Fire, Dignitas, AGO, BLINK, ECSTATIC and the Australians of Looking For Org.

The Elisa Invitational Winter 2021 Main Swiss Stage teams are:

HAVU
ECSTATIC
Entropiq
Eternal Fire
AGO
BLINK
Dignitas
Looking For Org Sprout
Finest
Enterprise
Savage
Lynn Vision
777
fnatic Rising
AGF Enterprise #39 Erik 'The eLiVe' SithRobert 'manguss' KasperDavid 'forsyy' BílýMatúš 'MATYS' ŠimkoAndrej 'ADEJIS' Kameništiak Savage #46 Simon 'twist' EliassonNiclas 'PlesseN' PlessenDenis 'grux' GutajAdam 'dezon' Wahlqvist Finest #40 Rasmus 'kreaz' JohanssonGuy 'anarkez' TrachtmanMartin 'mar' KuyumdjievKristjan 'shokz' Jakobson ECSTATIC #20 Dion 'FASHR' DerksenJakob 'Daffu' SchildtAdam 'WolfY' AnderssonThomas 'birdfromsky' Due-FrederiksenMarcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen BLINK #23 Rigon 'rigoN' GashiSener 'SENER1' MahmutiFlatron 'juanflatroo' HalimiDionis 'sinnopsyy' BudeciGenc 'gxx-' Kolgeci Nexus #97 Cătălin-Ionuț 'BTN' StănescuAdrian 'XELLOW' GuțăCosmin 'ragga' TeodorescuLaurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea Entropiq #9 Aleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy Apeks Rebels #124 Steffen 'SLY' AmundsenTobias 'shyyne' SætherÅdne 'sense' FredriksenEven 'H0land' HolandPreben 'Trax' Martinsen KOVA #83 Samu 'uli' LeirilaaksoSamuli 'Twixie' HerralaJarkko 'spargo' RahjaAleksi 'zks' NissinenJussi 'Airax' Airaksinen HAVU #73 Jani 'Aerial' JussilaSami 'xseveN' LaasanenOlli 'sLowi' Pitkänen Looking For Org #65 Mike 'ap0c' AliferisEuan 'sterling' MooreJared 'hazr' O'BreeBenson 'Liki' NiuilaJames 'SaVage' Savage Lynn Vision #64 Heng 'expro' YangZhe 'Westmelon' NiuSike 'z4kr' ZhangPeng 'Roninbaby' XuLizhi 'Starry' Ye AGO #42 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiEryk 'leman' KocębaDenis 'Grashog' HristovMaciej 'F1KU' MiklasSzymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek Eternal Fire #24 Ismailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınÖmer 'imoRR' KarataşYasin 'xfl0ud' Koç Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov Age: 34 Team: EntropiqC Young Ninjas #94 Anton 'Sapec' PalmgrenErik 'ztr' GustafssonLove 'phzy' SmidebrantLinus 'LNZ' HoltängKalle 'Ro1f' Johansson AGF #226 Kenni 'wezx' HolmbergAndreas 'Void' DietrichsenEmil 'fez' KristensenAllan 'Speedy' SørensenEmil 'mad0' Funke Nielsen GORILLAZ #87 Miikka 'suNny' KemppiJere 'sergej' SaloAnton 'supra' Tšernobai Dignitas #31 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergAdam 'friberg' FribergJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonHåkon 'hallzerk' FjærliLudvig 'HEAP' Alonso fnatic Rising #88 Kevin 'Kevve' BohlinPeppe 'Peppzor' BorakFrancisco 'kst' FragosoIulian 'regali' HarjăuMatias 'Banjo' Kivistö 777 #90 Kristian 'akez' KornbakkHaris 'H4RR3' HadzicMikael 'mikki' GaupSander 'Grus' IversenJonatan 'ruyter' Ruyter Sprout #25 Rasmus 'raalz' SteensborgTimo 'Spiidi' RichterFritz 'slaxz-' DietrichMax 'Marix' KugenerVictor 'Staehr' Staehr