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ECSTATIC have secured a spot at ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 after beating BIG 2-0 in the closed qualifier final. Marcus "?maNkz?" Kjeldsen and company defeated HOTU, GODSENT, and Movistar Riders on their way to qualification for the summer event.
They will join teams such as ENCE, Virtus.pro, and FORZE in Katowice, Poland between June 9-11 as eight teams battle it out for a $100,000 prize pool and a spot at ESL Pro League Season 18. The Danish side was initially intended to be in the qualifiers, but successfully navigated through the bracket without losing a match.
ECSTATIC were directly invited to the closed stage alongside GODSENT as replacements for Monte and GamerLegion, who continued their surprise journey at the Paris Major. They rode the upper bracket all the way to the final against BIG who had to recover from an opening loss to HOTU in the first round.
BIG claimed victories over Movistar Riders, DomiNation, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and GODSENT on the way to the final, but struggled against the Danes. Johannes "?tabseN?" Wodarz's men failed to close out a 14-8 lead on Anubis (14-16) before ECSTATIC closed the math on Overpasss (16-11).
Read more Invites announced for ESL Challenger Katowice Europe closed qualifier ECSTATIC are currently the fifth highest-ranked team scheduled to attend the event as they chase the organization's first LAN trophy in CS:GO. The last time the Danish side qualified for an offline event was ESL Challenger Melbourne, where they finished in 3-4th place behind eventual winners Movistar Riders.
The complete team list for ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 is:
ENCE
ECSTATIC
Virtus.proFORZE 
Party Astronauts
9z
paiN
Bravado 
FORZE #22 Vladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoAndrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoAleksandr 'shalfey' MarenovEvgeny 'r3salt' Frolov Artem 'Fierce' Ivanov 
Monte #10 Viktor 'sdy' OrudzhevVolodymyr 'Woro2k' VeletniukSergiy 'DemQQ' Demchenko
Mohammad 'BOROS' Malhas
Szymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek Sergey 'lmbt' Bezhanov 
BIG #16 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzNils 'k1to' GruhneJosef 'faveN' BaumannKarim 'Krimbo' MoussaMarcel 'hyped' K?hn Fatih 'gob b' Dayik Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz 
Age: 28 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 2120 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.70 
DomiNation #71 Patrik 'bodito' Bodaáron 'Aaron' HomokiAndrás 'coolio' FercsákNorbert 'msN' T?r?kJurus 'Kamion' Zsolt 
ECSTATIC #39 Magnus 'Nodios' OlsenJonas 'Queenix' DideriksenMarcus 'maNkz' KjeldsenTobias 'kraghen' Kragh JensenJason 'salazar' Salazar Teis 'tmL' L?wenstein 
GamerLegion #7 Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Nicolas 'Keoz' DgusKamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Isak 'isak' Fahlén 
Ashley 'ash' Battye 
Movistar Riders #28 Alejandro 'alex' MasanetAlejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo CanoPere 'sausol' Solsona SaumellDavid 'dav1g' Granado BermudoAntonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez Galder 'bladE' Barcena 
9z #40 
Maximiliano 'max' GonzalezFranco 'dgt' Garcia
David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado
Santino 'try' RigalNicolás 'buda' Kramer Gustavo 'tge' Motta 
HOTU #62 Nikita 'nitzie' ProkhorovDmitry 'mizu' KondratevErkhan 'gokushima' BagynanovNurgun 'swiftsteel' AvvakumovAleksandr 'casE' Kornilov 
paiN #23 Gabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoWesley 'hardzao' LopesRodrigo 'biguzera' BittencourtFelipe 'skullz' MedeirosRomeu 'zevy' Rocco Henrique 'rikz' Waku 
Virtus.pro #19 Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev
Alexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliPetr 'fame' Bolyshev Dastan 'dastan' Akbayev 
GODSENT #48 William 'draken' SundinAlfred 'RuStY' KarlssonNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez ZamoraErik 'ztr' GustafssonJoel 'joel' Holmlund Maikil 'Golden' Selim Marcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen 
Age: 25 Team: ECSTATIC Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 928 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.68 
Bravado #123 Aaron 'SloWye' van der WaltMarchahn 'march' SmithWiljahne 'wilj' SmithJohnathan 'Doru' FoxKian 'Triton' Gibson 
Felix 'Fr?g' Bergeron 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #13 Kristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeFredrik 'REZ' Sterner
Aleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenLudvig 'Brollan' BrolinDaniil 'headtr1ck' Valitov Daniel 'djL' Narancic 
ENCE #11 Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Pavle 'Maden' Bo?kovi?Pawe? 'dycha' Dychaálvaro 'SunPayus' García Eetu 'sAw' Saha 
Party Astronauts #56 Ben 'ben1337' SmithJosh 'PwnAlone' PigueDanny 'Cxzi' StrzelczykWesley 'viz' HarrisConnor 'chop' Sullivan