MLG Aspen qualifier information *

8-12-2014 16:23

CEVO have announced that they will be hosting the MLG X Games Aspen online qualifiers, held from December 14-21 for both North America and Europe.

* UPDATE #2: The first European qualifier, bracket two, has been moved up by one day to avoid conflict with ESEC LAN Finals.

* UPDATE: Schedule of the tournament has been changed, the second stages of the first NA and EU qualifiers will be played over the course of four days.

Three teams have already been invited for MLG X Games taking place in Aspen, Colorado from January 23-25, those being fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Cloud9.

Five more slots will be handed out via five online qualifiers in three regions. Two teams from each North America and Europe and one team from Brazil will be joining the teams above to fight for a share of the $50,000 prizepot.

Skadoodle's iBUYPOWER will be the favourites to qualify from NA

Two open 128-team double-elimination best-of-one qualifiers will be held for both North America and Europe on December 14th and 20th, with eight best teams qualifying for bracket two.

In bracket two those eight teams will join eight invited ones in a 16-team single-elimination bracket, played in a best-of-three, with the winning team getting a spot for the finals in Aspen.

Here is the schedule of the qualifiers (full schedule can be found here). Keep in mind that the individual schedules for each bracket are very tight:

December 14th: NA & EU Qualifier #1, Bracket #1
December 15th-18th: NA Qualifier #1, Bracket #2
December 17th-19th: EU Qualifier #1, Bracket #2
Saturday, December 20th: NA & EU Qualifier #2, Bracket #1
Sunday, December 21st: NA & EU Qualifier #2, Bracket #2

Sign-ups for both North American and European qualifiers are already open, teams interested can register here.

we will see pasha and taz skiing ?

2014-12-08 16:24

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Polish skiing lol

2014-12-08 16:31

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y u lol

2014-12-08 16:38

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Because they cant skii, just like you english people cant either

2014-12-08 16:45

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racist confirmed

2014-12-08 16:47

why can't English people ski? I can

2014-12-08 16:48

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Ofcourse people in these countries can ski but the majority cant because its not really in your culture.

2014-12-08 17:07

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Well I can ski and so can most of my friends..

2014-12-08 17:16

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so what if you and your friends can, he's talking about the big picture

2014-12-08 17:43

talking professional level here. austria/norway masterrace, a british guy skiing will win about as much as an indian guy or a jaimaican guy skiing.

2014-12-08 17:54

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xDD

2014-12-08 17:57

No one cares about skiing though, Austria is a shit country that provides nothing to the world.

2014-12-08 19:26

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they provided hitler and conchita wurst :D

2014-12-08 19:39

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provided hitler srsly?

2014-12-08 21:17

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I believe the consensus among historians is near absolute on this matter.

2014-12-08 21:49

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Tbh, I wouldn't know what's worse... Conchita or Hitler. It's a close call.

2014-12-09 00:37

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Conchita is obviously the wurst. Heyooo

2014-12-09 06:24

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topkek

2014-12-09 19:12

Hitler was Austrian, bro. Austria (who was allied with Germany at the time) also initiated WW1 by placing an ultimatum on Serbians, who were allied with Russians.

2014-12-09 09:00

2014-12-08 22:55

You have no idea what you're talking about.

2014-12-08 20:08

watches, chocolate and private banks :D

2014-12-09 01:48

Austria =/= Switzerland

2014-12-09 02:52

oh shit you're right I'm an idiot, then I shouldve said joddling

2014-12-09 03:16

youtu.be/Jpdg5XOZZDY?t=26s

2014-12-09 01:21

Yeah but we fucking rock at Curling...so there! (also we did win 1 medal at sochi on snow I think, in Slopestyle)

2014-12-09 11:58

you dont have any facts to make your fact true.

2014-12-08 19:00

HA a swede telling other people that they cant ski, only norway has that power!

Dude alot of people go skiing alot in the winter. You don't know what your taking about.

2014-12-09 00:50

Lack of snow

2014-12-10 22:08

U swedes arent the best skiiers either

2014-12-08 16:51

Real swedish men skis

2014-12-08 16:53

reported.

2014-12-08 17:01

pls no I dont want to get ip banned

2014-12-08 17:05

And you norwegians sucks at everything but skiing :)

2014-12-08 16:54

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we're pretty good at finding oil, xd

2014-12-08 17:03

#shotsfired

2014-12-08 17:48

get VACced you dirty oil wallhacking cheaters

2014-12-08 17:51

At stealing oil*

2014-12-08 18:28

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proof? xd

2014-12-08 19:18

Denmark and Sweden has the world record for most amount of wars fought between them, most of those wars were about owning norway, you were trying to steal OUR oil

2014-12-08 20:10

Idk know any of those countries have ever even been in a war. That's like two chihuahua's biting eachothers ankles. You guys have a military?

2014-12-09 00:54

Stop trying to sound fun in a matter you know nothing about ^_^

2014-12-09 09:35

So much ignorant. Read a little before writing something that will make you look stupid.

2014-12-08 17:24

Read what?

2014-12-08 21:39

That's what I thought. Brainless.

2014-12-09 08:34

Yeah them ski-jumping Polish champions and Kowalczyk winning the women's ski race. Definitely can't ski with all these mountains in the South of Poland.

2014-12-08 19:49

True that.

2014-12-09 08:35

yeah, justyna kowalczyk beating whole norway, same with adam malysz and stoch :)

2014-12-08 22:44

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympi.. 11. Poland 14. Sweden suppp

2014-12-08 17:25

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15 Sweden 6 Poland lrn to diagram

2014-12-08 17:59

lol, quality>quantity :)

2014-12-08 18:37

Exactly, and silver or bronze > nothing. Sweden wins.

2014-12-08 19:42

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4 gold>2 gold => Poland wins :)

2014-12-08 21:53

Delta silver + delta bronze > delta gold

2014-12-09 11:55

In dreams maybe...

2014-12-09 12:18

6 silver and 5 bronze isn't better than 2 gold?

2014-12-09 12:42

Gold beats everything, that's how this world works my friend :)

2014-12-09 12:54

muh 2nd places

2014-12-09 09:02

Lol this swede said English prime doing know how to ski. Murica #4.

2014-12-09 00:56

good luck

2014-12-08 16:23

TITAN!

seems cool event

Indeed. Get ready for surf_ski_2 all the time.

2014-12-08 16:30

Brazil?

Yep, CSGO scene in Brazil is bigger than in Czech Republic.

2014-12-08 16:25

that's bullshit man, just sayin esportsearnings.com/games/245-counter-st..

2014-12-08 21:23

Brazilian csgo scene started with KaBuM this year. And now we have KaBuM, GFX, Dexterity in the same level. (remember KaBuM won 9 rounds vs. KQLY's Titan while we don't have any kind of support). We have 3 potential teams to be tier2 and tier1 but we don't have support or a good scene to train. Czech Republic is right in the middle of Europe, but still doesn't have any potential teams.

2014-12-08 23:38

2014-12-09 17:16

why not? it's a huge community waiting to gain more experience abroad due to the lack of support/funds :)

I hate online qualifiers

They invited c9 but not iBP? I think now we need to invite teams based on lan results no just invite them like that, in DHW that was the case too.

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I think the invite was planned before the actual ESEA.

2014-12-08 16:27

Before ESEA iBP had better results, c9 failed to get out of groups in 3 tournaments, iBP went to the final of one of them.

2014-12-08 16:28

The invites were handed out prior to those events and at the time iBP did look shaky since they cut steel and DaZeD. Doesn't really matter they'll qualify.

2014-12-08 21:19

and yet IBP has gone home in groups every single major.

2014-12-08 21:24

The invites were handed out before dreamhack after iBP had already cut Dazed and steel. The MLG guys said they would have invited iBP if they kept their roster together. c9 was the best NA team at teh time with a stable roster.

2014-12-08 16:35

The core is still there, 3 players so they should have invited iBP, 3 iBP > 5 c9 players anyways.

2014-12-08 16:37

the core? DaZeD and steel was the core PENTA>this core

2014-12-08 16:49

AZK and Skadoodle are the core + swag now. And ofc Penta>iBP thats why iBP were 3rd in ESEA with a stand in and c9 couldnt even beat Denial, iBP beat Denial 2-0.

it doesnt really matter anyways- its an NA qualifier. ibp is nuts online on home soil and should easily beat any of the NA teams. if they cant get through the online qualifier, should they really be there anyways? they probably need the experience also. especially if they play with desi instead of adren

2014-12-08 17:02

Online qualifiers are stupid, you can clearly see that on ESEA regular season in EU, mouz actually made it and lan teams like HR, NaVi, VP didnt (VP got invited because Dignitas couldnt attend).

Denial op tho But again it made sense at the time to invite c9, you cant just cut half your team and expect get credit for past accomplishments. Im sure if they did the invites today they would invite iBP.

I am looking forward to this. I am less than 500 miles from Aspen so I'm going to try and attend as a spectator :D

NA: Torqued/IBP Europe: LDLC/VP Brazil: Who cares

Replace Torqued with Denial then yes.

2014-12-08 16:33

LOL

2014-12-08 16:39

Who cares, right? hltv.org/?pageid=28&demoid=17625&ref=fro.. hltv.org/?pageid=28&ref=frontpageBox&dem.. Pathetic even playing against euros all the time. HAHAHA Give us opportunity then you know the result.

2014-12-08 21:37

Decided maps with cobblestone etc? well that's a disaster for teams that don't practice all maps

Good. Lazy teams deserve to lose against teams that practice all maps.

2014-12-08 16:43

I doubt any team practice all maps

fnatic does now i think we the exception of cobblestone because it fucking sucks and shouldnt exist

C9 had literally no one good to scrim or practice with after Cologne quals were over. iBP was in EU and everyone else in NA had absolutely no reason to play or practice cobblestone. At all. Taking NiP down to a few rounds is surely a sign they'd have plowed NiP under on another map or with a reasonable amount of time to work on cobblestone. Phone decided to reply to something I didn't click on. Cool.

2014-12-08 22:30

ibp and c9 dont scrim lol u new to the scene bro

2014-12-09 17:47

Are you? They have had to for Cologne. Cold War doesn't allow them to do well overseas

2014-12-09 21:01

you forget that cbble and overpass are not in esea league

2014-12-09 12:22

Any questions or concerns, contact CEVO support ;) Good luck to all those who sign up!

2014-12-08 16:32

2014-12-08 16:40

MLG invited teams base on team's fanbase,not their result. So fucking joke if LDLC cant get a spot by some Godlike onliner teams :) I dont think this event is good. Just 4 slots for 1x good team from EU. How can Denial,elevate,iBP,Torqued...compare to VP,Titan,Navi,LDLC,Dicknitas,HR... ? 3 Slots for NA is fucking waste. I think it will be better if 5 slots for EU (2 invite),2 NA (1 invite) and last spot will be choose by 1 team from NA vs 1 team from Brazil.

Dicknitas? LOL

2014-12-08 17:38

"Dicknitas" too stronk ^^ xD

2014-12-08 18:32

It's an NA event what do you expect? EU events have more EU teams, yes there skill level is higher and there are more teams. Titan can compared to iBP since they lost to them at ESEA, Dicknitas isn't that good right now either. Its a NA event, there going to have a 3rd NA team, this is a good thing so that NA teams can grow and try to catch up to EU. NA CS will benefit which is needed right now. Still 4 EU teams, 3 NA. Quit your whining.

2014-12-08 21:30

this will be very much of the weed at the lan

420 faze klan noscope sw4g blaze it

this screams cheats and disputes.

2014-12-08 16:59

lel will OpTic gaming be there? they'll rek dem fnatic scrubz. OpTic FTW. I gotta go get my Mtn Dews and Doritos for this.

JW said Fnatic will take a break from CS untill at least januari.

2014-12-08 17:10

They are invited already.

2014-12-08 19:54

that means we are gonna see one of Denial, Mouzespaz or Torqued in MLG Aspen

2014-12-08 18:24

1. Fuck off Brazil and 1 US slot, add another 2 spots for Europe. 2. LDLC and VP pls qualify

I am just wondering, why they are not putting Australia to the qualifier, instead of Brazil, I know that Brazil have good teams, but I just think it could be a bit more interesting to see Australian teams again, it's so long ago we have seen a team like Vox Eminor, on a big scene, last time was at ESL Cologne if I am not wrong, they are talented, but just too long away from everyone else to get a chance.

2014-12-08 18:31

2014-12-08 18:55

Because MLG and MLG Brazil have partnership

2014-12-08 20:29

Oooh, I havent really thought about that, but I would still rather wanna see australian teams.

2014-12-09 12:32

+1 I think braizilian teams are much weaker also

2014-12-08 21:21

It's probably way more expensive to send an australian team to Aspen than a brazillian team. Also, I assume a brazillian team would bring more views. Such is the world, $$$ is almost always a priority over skill and fun (I'm not really saying one is worse than the other, just pointing to the way this matter should be seen).

2014-12-10 03:44

Hmmm yeah, it's just the fact that Team Vox Eminor, without doubt would have pretty decent chances to go through the qualifier and beat at least team like Cph. Wolves. Yeah, but Brazil teams would without doubt get a lot more viewers than Australia, mainly because Brazil is such a big country in sample of Australia.

2014-12-10 14:29

gl Brasil!

2014-12-08 18:34

eu, why?, go kabum br

2014-12-08 18:40

Nice!!! Would love to go there. Play some games, smoke quality weed and go skiing.

HLTV.org - News MLG Aspen qualifiers information

2014-12-08 19:10

cool

2014-12-08 19:23

Why is there a star in the heading?

2014-12-08 20:16

Schedule has been changed, added an update to the post

2014-12-08 20:33

Thanks! Didn't see that update till now.

2014-12-08 21:06

That's because it wasn't there ^^

2014-12-08 21:10

Please next year let Argentina compete in a qualy together with Brazil!!!!!!

2014-12-08 20:54

lol

2014-12-08 21:27

2014-12-08 22:06

rofl

2014-12-09 19:17

CEVO's a great service

2014-12-08 20:55

Is adreN staying with iBP or will they bring back desi, IMO they should stick with adreN since he has loads of international experience and amazing game sense, which will greatly benefit AZK since he is new to the IGL role.

2014-12-08 23:25