Days after it was revealed that ESL Pro League would be cutting its league down to 24 teams from 48, it’s still unclear who will end up where. This news comes as the confirmed but not yet named “B Site” league has yet to officially state its team list either.

As of now we only know who ESL sent an invitation to and informed about the first six teams to sign with B Site based on a report from ESPN which includes four of the teams previously mentioned in a report from DBLTAP.

The list presented by ESL included:

Evil Geniuses

FNATIC

Astralis

Team Liquid

G2 Esports

Natus Vincere

FaZe Clan

CompLexity

Mousesports

Ninjas in Pyjamas

ENCE

100 Thieves

Team Vitality

OG

GODSENT

North

Heroic

TyLoo

Sharks

Renegades

forZe

INTZ

FURIA

Virtus.pro

The report from ESPN claims that Cloud9, Gen.G, Dignitas, MIBR, MAD Lions, and the ex-CR4ZY lineup have chosen to compete in the newly formed league. This would remove those teams from even the opportunity of competing in ESL Pro League given the two leagues have a schedule overlap. On the flipside, Ninjas in Pyjamas confirmed in a tweet that they will be competing in ESL Pro League.

ESL stated in the official announcement regarding the format change that both Cloud9 and MIBR had received invites to the league but declined or did not respond.

As of now, it is unclear how this will shake out although should ESL get most of the teams they’ve invited, B Site is looking to be on the light side in terms of tier 1 talent. As of now, none of the teams in the top 10 of the HLTV rankings are set to compete in B Site while all have received an invite to participate in ESL Pro League.

Fans are still in the dark and unsure about where they will be watching their favorite teams compete and against who. BLAST seems to have escaped this turmoil and will be running its BLAST Premier Spring Series 2020 event in London starting this weekend on January 31st and running through February 16th.

B Site is set to start in March and so fans shouldn’t have to wait too much longer for some of this to be set in stone.

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