StarLadder has announced that FaZe, ENCE and North have accepted invitations to compete at the upcoming StarSeries Season 7 event.

ENCE will return to StarSeries as reigning champions after winning the Season 6 event, where North were sent packing in the quarter-finals by NRG.

As for FaZe, this will be their first StarSeries event since the Season 4 tournament, where they placed top four. Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's side already have a StarSeries trophy in their cabinet, having won the Season 3 event, when Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli and Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey were still on the roster.

FaZe invited to StarSeries Season 7

The announcement comes at a particularly difficult time for the European mixture, who failed to qualify for the ESL Pro League and the ECS Finals, with BLAST Pro Series Lisbon being their only offline tournament left before the end of the year.

The trio join the six previously invited sides as well as Wild, who earned a spot at the event after winning GAMECON Brasília 2018. Three more teams will receive invites to the tournament, while the remaining three spots will be determined by online qualifiers in Europe, North America and Asia.

StarSeries i-League Season 7 will take place from March 30 to April 7 in Shanghai, with $500,000 - a record fee in the history of the competition - on the line. The team list for the event currently looks as follows: