Eight of the world's best teams have been invited to this year's edition of ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier, which will take place on July 21-29.

CS:GO returns to Atlanta and ELEAGUE's arena in the Turner Studios this July. ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2018 will close out the first part of the year with eight elite teams competing for a $1,000,000 prize pool.

FaZe will return to Atlanta after winning last year's tournament

Astralis, FaZe, Natus Vincere and MOUZ have been confirmed for the tournament, with the all of the eight competing teams currently amongst the top 10 places of our rankings.

The team list is as follows:

Astralis
Cloud9
FaZe
Liquid Natus Vincere
SK
fnatic
MOUZ

ELEAGUE has also revealed the on-air broadcast team for the tournament. Slotting into the host position this time around will be Alex "Machine" Richardson, with Sue "Smix" Lee returning as the reporter. The casting and analysis will be done by renowned names such Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole and Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović.

The full lineup for the broadcast team is available below:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Host
Sue "Smix" Lee - Reporter

James Bardolph - Caster / Analyst
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia - Caster / Analyst
Anders Blume - Caster / Analyst
Jason "moses" O'Toole - Caster / Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunovic - Analyst

Liquid #5 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Janko 'YNk' Paunović Age: 25 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 108 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.70 MOUZ #4 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' StykRobin 'ropz' Kool Jason 'moses' O'Toole Age: 31 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 16 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.69 Natus Vincere #3 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov SK #6 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassJake 'Stewie2K' YipMarcelo 'coldzera' David Cloud9 #10 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' Ta Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif fnatic #9 Richard 'Xizt' LandströmRobin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonWilliam 'draken' Sundin FaZe #2 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' NygaardJorgen 'cromen' Robertsen Natus Vincere #3 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov