Leslie Jack "Jacky" Peters Harry "JustHarry" Russell Lauren "Pansy" Scott Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett Analyst Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill Observers Alex "Rushly" Rush Patricia von Halle Standings The European final standings are shown below. The top six teams go to Dallas to play in the finals and are invited to next season's EPL. Teams that placed seventh through eleventh did not qualify to the finals but are still invited to next seasons EPL. The bottom three teams need to go through various qualifiers in order to qualify for next season's EPL. The teams' in-game leaders are shown first for each roster. The world's number one team and defending major champions, Astralis, and world's number two team, FaZe Clan, failed to qualify for the playoffs, placing eighth and seventh, respectively. Both teams lost the tiebreaker to Natus Vincere and Team EnVyUs. In addition, the runners-up of the last major, Virtus.pro is not automatically invited to next season's EPL after placing 13th. Last season's #2 seed Ninjas in Pyjamas did not qualify for the finals after a rough start to the season. During the season, several changes took place. The Danish Team Dignitas roster and then organization mutually parted ways and the roster signed with Danish football (soccer) club F.C. Copenhagen and Danish film company Nordisk Film. The team was called North. North then released Ruben "Rubino" Villarroel at the request of the Norwegian and signed FaZe Clan's Philip "aizy" Aistrup. FaZe Clan brought in its former player Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad after aizy left for North as a temporary replacement to play at DreamHack Las Vegas 2017. FaZe then announced the signing of mousesports's star Bosnian player Nikola "NiKo" Kovač after the Vegas tournament. then brought back Chris "chrisJ" de Jong after the Dutch player was benched to replace NiKo. mousesports then bench Timo "Spiidi" Richter, citing a lack of motivation after the ELEAGUE Major 2017, and sign the young Estonian Robin "ropz" Kool. Perhaps the biggest change was the "French shuffle," which was led by Nathan "NBK-" Schmitt and . NBK-. Kenny "kennyS" Schrub and, Dan "apEX" Madesclaire left Team EnVyUs for G2 Esport to join shox and ; in addition, former G2 AWPer Édouard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux moved to the coaching position. The remaining two G2 players, Cédric "RpK" Guipouy and Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom, left the team. Rpk joined Vincent "Happy" Cervoni and Christophe "SIXER" Xia on EnVyUs and EnVyUs signed Alexandre "xms"