MIBR finalize BLAST Pro Series Istanbul teams
The final team attending the first BLAST Pro Series event of 2018 in Istanbul has been announced. The Brazilian-American team MIBR have been announced as the sixth team headed to the Bosphorus strait for the two day event in September.
The announcement, delivered in Portuguese, Turkish and then finally English announced the team headed to the event. Tarik "tarik" Celik, who is of Turkish origin, had previously cited his heritage when his former team Cloud9 opted to attend the event over the conflicting ESL One: New York. A later tweet, posted from the BLAST Pro Series Twitter account, clarified his reasonings for wanting to attend.
MIBR are currently attending the ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2018 in Atlanta, where are set to face Cloud9 in the Lower Bracket match of their group tomorrow, after falling 2-0 to Liquid on Saturday.
The full team list for the September event in Turkey is as follows:
 Astralis |
 Cloud9 |
 MIBR |
 Ninjas in Pyjamas |
 Space Soldiers |
 Virtus.pro |
