The Champions of Champions Tour has announced the list of invited teams for the CCT Central Europe Series 8 playoffs. Among the eight teams is a participant of the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 playoffs.

As usual, 16 teams will play in the last stage of the regular CCT Central Europe tournament, half of which receive direct invitations and another eight, go through the group stage. This time, there are quite famous teams among the invitees that attend major LAN tournaments.

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In particular, Apeks and BetBoom, who played at IEM Sydney 2023, the first big Counter-Strike 2 event, will play at CCT Central Europe Season 8. In addition, the latter reached the playoffs, where they lost to Complexity in the first round.

The full list of invited teams looks like this:

• Into the Breach
• Bad News Eagles
  
• OG
  
• ECSTATIC
  
• Apeks
  
• 1WIN
  
• BetBoom
  
• Aurora

The group stage of CCT Central Europe Season 8 has already started, but, so far, only B8 managed to guarantee their participation in the next stage. The winner of the event with a $50,000 prize pool will be determined on 9 November.