The final team for the Elisa Masters Espoo 2022 will be Bad News Eagles, the tournament organiser announced on Twitter. They join a raft of other Major-attendees at the event.
Running from November 16-20 in Espoo, Finland, the $200,000 tournament will feature 12 teams doing battle, first through a best-of-one round-robin group stage. Then a single elimination best-of-three playoff bracket will take over, with the top team from each group advancing straight to the semi-finals. A place at the IEM Katowice 2023 Play-In awaits the winner of the event.
Bad News Eagles recently eliminated world No. 1 FaZe from the Major Bad News Eagles will arrive in Finland fresh from their IEM Rio Major campaign, where the Kosovars once again turned heads with their aggressive, free-flowing Counter-Strike. Not only did they march through the Challengers Stage confidently with a 3-0 record, but they also eliminated FaZe from the Legends Stage, before being eliminated themselves at the hands of Natus Vincere.
They will likely be one of the favourites to win the event, considering only ENCE, BIG and fnatic are ranked higher in the HLTV rankings right now, and they recently bested BIG at the Major. Victory may well require overcoming ENCE however, who confidently brushed them aside 7-16 in the Challengers Stage on one of Bad News Eagles' best maps, Ancient.
The full team list is as follows:
Astralis
BIG
HEET
HAVU
500
Sprout
ENCE
fnatic
GamerLegion
Complexity
SAW
Bad News Eagles 
Astralis #18 
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Kristoffer 'Kristou' Aamand
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer
Mikkel 'MistR' Thomsen 
FaZe #2 
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants 

Complexity #19 

Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou
Ricky 'floppy' Kemery
Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli
Michael 'Grim' Wince
Justin 'FaNg' Coakley 

BIG #14 

Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz
Florian 'syrsoN' Rische
Nils 'k1to' Gruhne
Karim 'Krimbo' Moussa
Elias 's1n' Stein 

Bad News Eagles #17 

Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi
Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti
Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi
Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci
Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci 
ENCE #11 
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså
Pavle 'Maden' Bošković
Paweł 'dycha' Dycha
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García 
Sprout #26 
Ismail 'refrezh' Ali
Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich
Rasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss
Victor 'Staehr' Staehr
Laurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea 
500 #51 
Nikolay 'niki1' Pantaleev
Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov
Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov
Ivan 'Patrick' Ivanov
Aleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov 
Natus Vincere #4 
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev
Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy 
HAVU #65 
Jesse 'zehN' Linjala
Jani 'Aerial' Jussila
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen
Joonas 'doto' Forss
Jarkko 'spargo' Rahja 
SAW #37 
Christopher 'MUTiRiS' Fernandes
Ricardo 'roman' Oliveira
Tiago 'JUST' Moura
João 'story' Vieira
Michel 'ewjerkz' Pinto 
fnatic #16 
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson
Dion 'FASHR' Derksen
Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi
Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen
William 'mezii' Merriman 
GamerLegion #24 
Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Isak 'isak' Fahlén 
HEET #30 
Audric 'JACKZ' Jug
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro
Thomas 'Djoko' Pavoni
Pierre 'Ex3rcice' Bulinge
Aurélien 'afro' Drapier