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London-headquartered esports organisation Fnatic are one of four main invited teams set to compete in the Counter-Strike $1m Thunderpick World Championship 2024.
The others are Heroic, M80 and Falcons, who will take part in the live two-day event in Berlin on November 2nd, hosted in partnership with LVL.
There are also the following six teams who will play in an online group stage from October 21st to 25th: Bestia, BIG Clan, Bleed, Cloud9, Imperial and Team Legacy.
These teams progressed from six qualifier rounds across three global regions – Europe, North America and South America. Update: The full list of teams can be found further in this article.
Fnatic will surely be grateful to be taking part, given they were knocked out in the first round of the European Series #2 a few weeks ago, a 2-1 loss to Ecstatic.
In terms of UK talent in the tournament, Fnatic have UK coach Keita, M80 have UK coach dephh, and Bleed have UK talent Cypher, one of the players who made the legendary run with UK org Into the Breach at the Paris Major last year.
Thunderpick is a global bookmaker that has a Curacao gambling license. It’s technically not accessible from the UK and doesn’t have a UK-specific gambling license.
Kelly Sanders, Head of Strategy for Thunderpick, said:
“The Thunderpick World Championship 2024 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting tournaments of the year. With the caliber of teams and record-setting prize pool, we can expect intense competition and high-quality gameplay that will captivate fans and players around the world.”
Kelly Sanders, Thunderpick
Organisers have also announced data platform Grid as the official esports services provider and data partner of the Thunderpick World Championship. Thunderpick said in a press release that Grid will ‘enhance the integrity security, and commercial potential of the Thunderpick World Championship 2024’.
This is the second year of the bookmaker’s Thunderpick World Championship. In 2023, the total prize pool was $600,000 and FaZe Clan won the Grand Final. The total prize pool for the CS2 tournament this year is $1m.
Thunderpick has struck partnerships with the likes of Heroic, TheGameHers, CooperTV, Flickflops, Jake Lucky, N0thing, Thorin and others.
Update: Broadcast talent for Thunderpick World Championship 2024 LAN stage announced
- Desk Host: Tres “stunna” Saranthus
- Analyst: Janko “YNk” Paunović
- Analyst: Sudhen “Bleh” Wahengbam
- Caster: Hugo “Hugo” Byron
- Caster: Adam “Dinko” Hawthorne
- Interviewer: Edona “Dona Spock” Musliu
Full list of teams taking part in the Thunderpick World Championship 2024
Group A
Virtus Pro
Falcons
3DMAX
UNPAID (formerly Bleed)
Group B
The MongolZ
9z
fnatic
Cloud9
Group C
HEROIC
Imperial
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Legacy
Group D
M80
BIG
Aurora
BESTIA
Tickets to the Thunderpick World Championship 2024 can be found here
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
