Acer Predator Masters powered by Intel Qualifier

GPlay, KILLERFISH qualify for APM

26-4-2015 00:15

The Bulgarian GPlay and the mainly-German KILLERFISH have become the two teams to qualify for the Acer Predator Masters powered by Intel league, joining ten other teams for the regular season.

The Acer Predator Masters tournament is hosted by TaKeTV together with Acer and Intel and will feature a total of twelve European teams competing from April 23 to August 2 for the league's $40,000 prize purse.

The league features all twelve participants facing off against each other in head-to-head matches featuring a best-of-three round robin format. The top eight sides will then travel to Krefeld, Germany for the offline season finals taking place from July 30-August 2.

In a massive bracket that saw as many as 256 teams competing, illustrious teams such as Atlantis, CPLAY, INSHOCK and others fought for the two qualifying slots.

In the end, on one end of the bracket, the Potuguese k1ck (notably playing without Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco) squared off against the German team KILLERFISH, who have suffered some setbacks of notoriety this year but continue to grow as a team.

GPlay secure themselves a spot in the Acer Predator Masters

Despite a closely contested series at first, the third map of de_mirage (ending 16:2) saw the series easily go KILLERFISH's way and freed up the first qualification slot for the team.

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k1ck

Matchpage

25th April 2015

KILLERFISH

Dust2

Cache

Mirage

On the other side of the bracket, GPlay (who have been winning a steady trickle of online tournaments and building their reputations likewise) contended with the Russian USSR (who recently finished in 5th-6th place at the CIS LAN Championship).

In the end, despite both maps being strongly contested by USSR, it was the Bulgarians who powered through to victory and the second place in the Acer Predator Masters league.

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GPlay

Matchpage

25th April 2015

USSR

Inferno

Dust2

As a result, the final list of twelve teams is as follows:

PENTA Sports	mousesports
Team Acer	Copenhagen Wolves
TSM	LGB
Null element HellRaisers	ex-3DMAX
dignitas	Gamers2
GPlay	KILLERFISH

The $40,000 Acer Predator Masters League will presumably be under way shortly as we are already under the original time frame of the league's beginning; hot matches will be added as they arise.

German teams challening :D

2015-04-26 00:15

1 reply

The orgas are german, the players on the other hand... not so german

2015-04-26 11:22

tsm ez

RIP K1CK

2015-04-26 00:17

and LGB, no rain XD

2015-04-26 00:27

TSM and a bunch of tier2 teams DansGame

2 replies

TSM, Penta and Mouz.

2015-04-26 10:44

penta and Mouz still tier2, high tier2 but still tier2 same with dignitas

2015-04-26 14:33

How is it that TSM manage to participate in seemingly every tournament there is, yet they are the ones that have to focus most on school and other things?

2015-04-26 00:18

6 replies

I believe that most of them will finish at least a part of their educations this summer. I at least recall hearing something like that. In general they seem to participate in a lot more tournaments after FeTiSh's departure.

2015-04-26 03:00

4 replies

And yet teams like NiP and fnatic only have time for a select few.

2015-04-26 05:46

3 replies

Cause TSM are more motivated to win, they want every opportunity they want

2015-04-26 06:00

NIP takes more vacation than the time spent at tournaments. Fnatic participates in almost every tournament there is,apart from a rare few that they dont play in.

2015-04-26 09:17

Well that's up to the teams themselves. I think that a lot of tournaments is a good thing for TSM, as I think they loosen up a bit during playoff games, as there'll be a tournament next week they could win as well. Dunno, but I think the pressure they put on themselves are higher if they only attend 5 tournaments a years, instead of like 20.

2015-04-26 11:08

This year,they are participating in a lot of events...last year ,they dodged so many events due to school and stuff.THey even qualified for ESEA lan final and did not go.

2015-04-26 09:16

finally a tournament without a huge amount of tier1 teams, gotta see them underdogs compete

2015-04-26 00:19

hahah portugal losing to a tier 20 team L0L

2015-04-26 00:21

tier 9000

did that one hurt :D?

2015-04-26 14:25

just like your shitty killerfish team xD

2015-06-02 04:10

No Fox, no party. Lets have a minute of silence for k1ck

2015-04-26 00:28

aren't they the team who couldn't attend offline quals coz they are a thieving bunch of throwers?

2015-04-26 00:29

5 replies

jes

2015-04-26 00:33

also heard they are cheating, gl to them nonetheless

2015-04-26 00:36

also i heard that dreamer have vac, oh wait, he was hacked...

2015-04-26 00:40

Keepo

2015-04-26 00:44

it was his dog Kappa

2015-04-26 14:19

TSM players looking at participants - youtube.com/watch?v=FWq5T9t5ZRY

2015-04-26 00:32

OK vactor

2015-04-26 00:42

9 replies

bro dont and i say DONT spit on best gipsy esport clan ever!!!

2015-04-26 00:47

8 replies

Bulgarian aren't gipsy Kapa

2015-04-26 00:53

Sorry to dissapoint, but we're not.

2015-04-26 02:39

That's what i said.

2015-04-26 11:13

Kappa means sarcasm.

2015-04-26 12:00

unfortunately for you,bulgarians are like 90% of the countries population,the rest are russians,gypsies and turkish people,HOW UNFORTUNATE,right baguette?

2015-04-26 11:11

Gypsies are 4% and they're half black while 50% of Sweden population is African black and the other 50% is JW while <3

2015-04-26 03:20

Nothing wrong with that

2015-04-26 11:15

you try to be smart or i missed something? like a lot ppl here we support gipsy team, and we try to equal diferents because ppl hate you for some reason...so dont try to be smart anymore just proving others here how stupid you guys can be...enjoy my gipsy friend :)

2015-04-26 11:21