BIG and Copenhagen Flames are the final two teams to receive an invitation to the 2022 Pinnacle Cup Championship. The event will take place June 8-11 in Sweden, with a prize pool of $250,000. Both teams received confirmation of their participation in the Pinnacle Cup Championship just ahead of their first matches at PGL Major Antwerp, where they begin competing from the Legends stage.
The highest-rated teams at the Pinnacle Cup will be Heroic (5th place in the world ranking) and Astralis (9th place), which have faced each other many times before. Thus, Copenhagen Flames will become the third Danish team in the championship.
Among other invited participants — American Evil Geniuses, Brazilian MIBR and Imperial, and fnatic, which is currently played by players from different European countries. Unlike Astralis and MIBR, Evil Geniuses failed to qualify for the major, losing to 9z. As a result, for the American team, the Pinnacle Cup Championship will be the only major event at which they will perform in the coming months.
The competition will take place in Lund at the Sparbanken Skane Arena stadium, which seats 3,000 spectators. This is the first time in history that the Pinnacle Cup Championship is held in an offline format.
