Natus Vincere's Denis "seized" Kostin and Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev are the latest players confirmed for the HTC 2v2 Invitational.

The Na`Vi duo join G2's Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon and Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub, and Team Secret's Julia "⁠juliano⁠" Kiran and Zainab "⁠zAAz⁠" Turkie in the list of participants for the $50,000 tournament, which will be held from May 13-14 inside PGL's studio, in Bucharest.

Five more duos will be announced by PGL in the coming days. The competition will feature a double-elimination bracket in both the group stage and the playoffs, with the matches being played on two retake maps and one aim map.

s1mple and seized team up for the 2v2 Invitational 

Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin took part in last year's 1v1 Invitational, reaching the semi-finals before losing out to eventual champion shox.

Below you can find a provisional list of participants for the tournament:

• Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon & Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub
• Zainab "⁠zAAz⁠" Turkie & Julia "⁠juliano⁠" Kiran
• Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev & Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin

Denis 'seized' Kostin Age: 22 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 912 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.66 Julia 'juliano' Kiran Age: 23 Team: Secret fe Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 141 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.69 Richard 'shox' Papillon Age: 24 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 1055 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.66 Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Age: 19 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 552 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.70 Zainab 'zAAz' Turkie Age: 25 Team: Secret fe Rating 1.0: 1.21 Maps played: 117 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.67 Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub Age: 21 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 1012 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.62