The Siege Summer Series will see 8 invited teams from right across Europe play in a knockout tournament this coming weekend in the first tournament of its kind ran by the Ubisoft BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) admins
Meet the Teams Competing
Team Vitality
Roster - ZephiR, BiBoo, RaFaLe, Spark, BriD and BiOs (their coach)
Coming in as one of the favourites, the French team will be hoping to take the title after a series of 2nd place finishes at both the Coupe de France and DreamHack Valencia. Previously this season Vitality has yet to win against any of the other Pro League teams competing at this tournament and so will be hoping to make a show here as they come towards the Paris Major in 2 weeks time.
OrgLess
Roster - AceeZ, ripz, Vale, KS and Lazzo (their coach/sub)
Following a major fallout within the team which saw both PARAA and Hungry leave the team, OrgLess will be hoping to use this competition as a rare chance to practice with their new lineup outside of scrims before they compete in the dreaded “group of death” at the Paris Major. They do, however, have one thing going for them in the form of AceeZ who has managed to drop over ten kills in their last 4 Pro League games with a 2.2k/d across them.
Chaos
Roster - Secretly, REDGROOVE, sno0ken, Renuilz, Kripps and Syred (their coach)
Overall the Swedish roster of Chaos has had a disappointing year so far as they have won just two games in Pro League and have been knocked out in the first playoff round of both DreamHack tournaments. The team has however beaten some of the big guys during the OGA Pit tournament and, as they are the highest ranked team at this tournament that will not be attending the Paris Major, they will not be needing to “strat save” allowing them to play to the best of their ability to get the title.
DEUS Esport
Roster - JLn, Qujuqt, StrkR, Babuu, Slasher and Snaky
DEUS, this last weekend, competed at the Six Lounge Series #6 LAN Finals in Düsseldorf where they lost in straight maps against the Pro League team of OrgLess. We spoke to Qujuqt to discuss this game as well as their upcoming games at the Summer Series:
Can you tell us a bit about your team, for instance how the players came together and what your current roles are?
In the Final of the SLS will be against the Pro League team of OrgLess, the same team which you lost against during the last season of the SLS; how have you prepared for this game?
Your first game is against Team Vitality, the likely favourites to win the competition, how have you prepared for the competition?
Finally, what are your predictions for this as a whole?
T3H eSports
Roster - Oraghon, PrydzZ, aRanioN, SirBoss and Kivvi (their coach)
Following the departure of pannari stating he “just needs a break” T3H are currently down a player and so a replacement can be expected to be revealed in the next few days. Furthermore, considering the German roster of OrgLess just lost two players and T3H contains two of the best German players in R6, Oraghon and aRanioN, the future of this team could be seen as in doubt. However at the moment the team stands as one of the top Challenger League teams in Europe and so will be aiming to show that the current roster can compete and beat some of the best teams in Pro League.
Trust Gaming
Roster - Craxan, Snuf, Leonski, Avaiche, Aizy, Deapek, oVie and Anthony (their 2 coaches)
Hailing from the BeNeLux region itself, Trust Gaming is a majority Dutch team which won the BeNeLux League Season 1 fairly confidently before also winning the BYOC qualifier at DreamHack Valencia to make it to the main event. Here they drew an incredibly difficult group, which involved them playing against PENTA Sports on the main stage, which they ultimately came last in. They will be going in as an underdog team with a significant fan following that will hopefully spur them on to an eventual victory.
EnD Gaming
Roster - Alation, Peak, Torok, Hunter, Fratelli and Boroz (their coach)
The full Italian team recently won the ESL Italia Summer Championship dropping just 2 maps across the entire 3 month long tournament and almost made it to the knockouts of the DreamHack Valencia event before losing 2-0 against PENTA Sports. Last season EnD competed in the Challenger League in which they were also just one victory away from playoffs. As another team with so many close results they'll be hoping that this is their chance to make it all the way in a Europe wide competition.
Sous-Marin
Roster - BadTrak, PrimaL, Quaal, Undead and Eaqz
As a relatively unknown French roster the team has in the last month achieved quite allot; firstly they qualified for the main event at DreamHack Valencia beating the two Spanish teams of G-Lab Addicts and Wild Gaming to come joint 3rd in the BYOC qualifier before beating the like of Moti On Gaming and PlanetKey Dynamics to qualify for Season 8 of Challenger League just a week later. The team will be hoping to add this tournament onto their list of upsets as they play OrgLess in the first round.
Who will they play?
The teams have been seeded and the following knockout bracket produced:
The tournament will, with 3 Pro League teams, 2 Challenger League teams and 3 up-and-coming teams representing 5 separate countries, meet a scale not seen by Ubisoft in Europe outside of Pro and Challenger League tournaments and so we spoke to Esports and Brand manager of Ubisoft BeNeLux, “MainstreamMilan” to discuss this as well as to get his predictions for the tournament:
To start, can you introduce yourself to the readers?
Previously you have just run tournaments for the BeNeLux region, what made you decide to do a Europe wide tournament this time?
How did you decide on which teams to invite?
What are your predictions for the event?
Finally, can you share any plans for future events?
Where can you watch the games?
The tournament will take place on the 4th and 5th of August from 2PM CEST streamed straight from the rainbow6bnl Twitch account and casted in English by Stijn “Hap” Hapers and Thiadrik “Toldersma” Oldersma.