Keyd Stars on ESL ESEA League list

30-4-2015 17:40

The list of participants for the American division of the ESL ESEA Pro League has been revealed, with Keyd Stars being one of the teams announced.

Earlier this week, ESL and ESEA joined forces to put together the biggest league in the history of Counter-Strike, with $500,000 up for grabs in both seasons to be held throughout the year.

Initially, it was announced that the two professional regions would be locked to North American and European teams, which baffled Brazilian side Keyd Stars, who had recently finished 5th-8th at ESL One Katowice.

The Brazilian team will be moving to North America

In a statement to HLTV.org, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo called on ESL and ESEA to invite his team to compete in the league and revealed that the players would be open to relocating to North America to lock horns with the continent's strongest teams.

ESL and ESEA have now decided to rebrand the North American division as American division and invite Keyd Stars, stating that the Brazilian team "has gathered many fans and proven themselves as one of the strongest teams in the Americas."

Below you can find the full list of participants for the American ESL ESEA Pro League, which is scheduled to start on May 4:

ACE Gaming	Cloud9
CLG	eLevate
Fenix GG	Keyd Stars
Team Liquid	Luminosity
mouseSpaz	Nihilum
SYNRGY Gaming	Tempo Storm

nice

2015-04-30 17:41

LOL

2015-04-30 17:41

nice

2015-04-30 17:41

good for them!

2015-04-30 17:41

keyd to murica confirmed

2015-04-30 17:41

5 replies

where's 3v gaming?they deserve a slot

2015-04-30 18:01

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agreed, way better of a chance to actually have impact than, say, mSpaz

2015-05-01 01:28

ermmh... what team does mousespaz have atm?

2015-04-30 18:22

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slip, sobo, and lucky, I think. doubLe left them some time ago. I'm pretty sure they don't have a full roster.

2015-04-30 19:24

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sry, it's actually: impsta dmize FGB zecK fruit look at hltv.org/match/2295473-mousespaz-vvv-cs-..

2015-04-30 19:27

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

2015-04-30 17:41

xdd

2015-04-30 17:41

noice

2015-04-30 17:41

Good! Keyd really deserved that spot! I can count them top2 from NA region

2015-04-30 17:42

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Top 1 when C9 fail groups at katowice Keep in mind Keyd dont have many practice oppurtunities just 2-3 BR teams

2015-04-30 18:11

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Hard to say. Yes KeyD made it but only by beating CLG and HR. However c9 lost to TSM and VP to not make it out of groups. Plus the new lineup hasn't been seen yet so it's hard to say. That being said, KeyD are definitely among the top 2 to 4 NA. New lineups make it hard to know though,

2015-04-30 18:22

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You're absolutely right, the Keyd may have defeated the C9 in a championship and the next have advanced from the group stage, but this is too little even to draw conclusions, for all that Cloud9 has already proven internationally, for now I prefer to believe that they are two teams at the same level and there is no favorite.

2015-04-30 18:28

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Yea thats y i said top2! C9 or KeyD either way u say it!

2015-04-30 18:41

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as I am a Brazilian fan! #LETSGOKEYD haha my friend

2015-04-30 18:52

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I aint brazilian nor do i know about brazil much! All i know is my top 3 fav teams look like this 1. nV 2.TSM 3.KeyD :)

2015-04-30 22:24

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Really appreciate that!

2015-05-01 09:46

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:')

2015-05-01 11:30

agree!

2015-04-30 19:56

Ez Money for Tier 3 teams

2015-04-30 17:42

4 replies

keyd tier 2

2015-04-30 17:56

3 replies

2015-04-30 18:11

2 replies

2015-04-30 18:23

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Tier 1 good but not best, 69 best

2015-05-01 20:27

gl boyz

2015-04-30 17:42

RIP SKDC.

2015-04-30 17:42

No SK, confirmed it probably won't happen and rain is back to LGB.

2015-04-30 17:42

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it's happening rain fanboy..

2015-04-30 17:42

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hard to justify putting so much money into a team when it won't be in the almost only worthwhile league now ;)

2015-04-30 17:43

time to put their money where their mouth is.

2015-04-30 17:42

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2015-04-30 17:43

I have no clue who half of these teams are. Why not have a 8 team league in na?

2015-04-30 17:42

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Because there's a 12 team league. Pretty clearly.

2015-04-30 17:43

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Make it a 8 team league with teams who don't suck dick and will get stomped Who wants to watch teams who won't get 8 rounds versus teams who're already bad

2015-04-30 18:05

4 replies

Upsets happen. Especially between P and I level NA teams. There's very little between the NA T2 and T3 teams (or pugs). And there isn't much more between the top 5 and the rest, either.

2015-04-30 18:06

This isnt a tournament its a league, also wtf are you saying, just because you dont know teams doesnt mean there bad. Besides its good to have teams that do good on open and main leagues try there luck against invite teams. Helps ensure the growth of the scene.

2015-04-30 20:10

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"just because you dont know teams doesnt mean there bad." it's american teams, even your best teams are bad

2015-04-30 20:47

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Ok fine wtf do you want then since na teams cant play on na league now according to you

2015-04-30 23:26

In America,anyone can lose to anyone on a given day,the skill gap isnt wide,nor are the strats extraordinary.

2015-04-30 20:20

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this guy gets it

2015-04-30 22:39

nice :)

2015-04-30 17:42

Ace doesn't even have 5, I thought.

2015-04-30 17:42

lol rip NA

2015-04-30 17:42

They literally cried them into this league, but from the other hands its great news. Thanks to them, the whole NA league will be more competitive which is always fun to spectate.

2015-04-30 17:42

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well, it was a smart move by FalleN, crying just gave them a spot in the ESL ESEA league haha

2015-04-30 22:40

niceeee

2015-04-30 17:42

Crying seems to work.

2015-04-30 17:42

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Like having Keyd isnt also good for the league itself... Keyd is one of the best teams in the list (if not the best) and its presence also helps to grab the attention of brazilian / south american crowd.

2015-04-30 20:04

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Yeah. I'm glad for KeyD's inclusion. Hopefully, it will inspire more central and south american players to get involved and help expand the quality of gaming. It wouldn't have been right to exclude them.

2015-04-30 20:15

Keyd win expected Keepo

2015-04-30 17:43

NICE!!! I didn't actualy think its gonna happen, nice it did

2015-04-30 17:43

Brasil #1

2015-04-30 17:43

NA teams are going to get sooo much money playing an average top level of csgo. Really is going to be between Keyd,C9,CLG,and Hiko's team. 500k prize money for that haha.

2015-04-30 17:44

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nope not 500k prize 500k prize per SEASON. 2 seasons a year with global finals with the 500k prize

2015-04-30 17:48

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my mistake, looks like fuck all money for NA teams now haha

2015-04-30 19:53

ITS GLOBAL FINALS, learn to fucking read lmao

2015-04-30 18:38

Hiko's team is Nihilum now

2015-04-30 18:56

niiice

2015-04-30 17:44

Brazil > NA ez

2015-04-30 17:44

NICE!!!!

2015-04-30 17:44

Why was vVv left out? :(

2015-04-30 17:44

glllllll

2015-04-30 17:44

great for them! boa sorte irmaos!

2015-04-30 17:44

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é nóis boludo :D

2015-04-30 18:10

KeyD top2 NA, LEL

2015-04-30 17:45

rip VOX

2015-04-30 17:45

ez for keyd

2015-04-30 17:45

expected

2015-04-30 17:46

Nice!!! gl hf

2015-04-30 17:46

Funny how tier 3, 4 and 5 teams get to compete for 500k. Lets take 300k from this and put it towards the real teams, this just doesn't make sense.

2015-04-30 17:47

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Event is in America, and obviously ESL/ESEA whoever hosts this event wants every American team to this event. Fuck top tier teams when we can have some good silver action! :)

2015-04-30 17:52

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wtf are you blabbering about. So only European teams should get to play in american esl pro league, and get to play in EU pro league? gtfo

2015-04-30 20:13

And how is this a bad thing you fucking toolbag? Oh, I see, you want to give all the money to the big rich organizations

2015-04-30 17:59

3 replies

Go play outside kid.

2015-04-30 19:49

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you got rekt.

2015-04-30 20:51

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Why don't you go join your little friend outside? Grown ups are talking here.

2015-04-30 20:57

There's no "tier 3, 4, and 5 teams" competing for $500k. When you say "real" teams, where do you mean. 12 teams are from Europe, so the other 12 should be from outside Europe but not NA? So, you're saying 12 better teams than all of NA exist outside NA and EU? Really? Where? Australia has a couple of good teams, but VOX is their best. Keyd is already in the America's side going for $500k, so they wouldn't be included in the other 12. You're making no sense.

2015-04-30 18:10

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What are you talking about? Where do I say anything about there being teams better then the european teams? Talk about making no sense man.. wow. The NA teams are competing for 500k, those are tier 3 and 4 teams at best, learn to read dude, for real. I said take money from the NA tourney and put it towards the best teams, aka the EU tournament. It's really not that hard to understand.

2015-04-30 19:52

Bots had a ch'ship with big prizemoney, so, why not ? :D

2015-04-30 18:25

Read several last posts again, they compete for finals... And finals will be with both Na and Eu..

2015-04-30 18:45

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Both the NA league and the EU league will have 500k up for grabs each. "Two ESL ESEA Pro League seasons will be held in 2015, with $500,000 up for grabs in each one of them, making it a combined $1 million purse for this year."

2015-04-30 19:53

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twitter.com/ESEA/status/5930841896894423..

2015-04-30 19:55

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Oh ok, I stand corrected then. This makes a lot more sense yeah.

2015-04-30 19:57

rip VOX, could've got a spot if they moved. Guess the $$$ wasn't there

2015-04-30 17:47

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their tweet was just a troll:/

2015-04-30 18:55

kind of hard for full-time workers to move just for CS :/ Vox could be a great team with a little more support.

2015-04-30 21:17

YES!! GL <3

2015-04-30 17:47

BR = NA Simple

2015-04-30 17:47

oh yea babe

2015-04-30 17:47

Hell yeah baby! Muricans gonna suffer

2015-04-30 17:48

500k peize in american teams.. waste of money :/

2015-04-30 17:48

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And how many Spanish teams should get a piece of the action instead? Oh yeah. There's ZERO Spanish teams that made the 12 team EU side.

2015-04-30 18:12

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LMAO, x6tence would be easy top3 in NA division.

2015-04-30 18:58

what? spain and cs on same sentence? on spain de cs skill is 0 dude dont be mad, now NA skill with that shi shuffles is very low :/

2015-04-30 19:16

500k is for both eu and na finals.. its GLOBAL finals

2015-04-30 18:39

[*] NA Teams haha..

2015-04-30 17:48

OMG!!!! SO SICK!!! AMAZING!!!

2015-04-30 17:50

good luck Keyd

2015-04-30 17:50

gogo Keyd! what's up nowwwwwwww muricas

2015-04-30 17:50

now THATS is a deal

2015-04-30 17:51

ez for keyd

2015-04-30 17:51

gogo Keyd!

2015-04-30 17:51

NO IBP? THIS IS BULLSHIT!!

2015-04-30 17:52

South America best America

2015-04-30 17:53

200 ping inc

2015-04-30 17:54

2 replies

they are moving to NA

2015-04-30 17:55

they are moving to NA... Kappa

2015-04-30 17:56

KEYD KEYD KEYD <333

2015-04-30 17:55

mouseSpaz ?

2015-04-30 17:56

3 replies

mouseSpaz line up? WHO ARE THEY?

2015-04-30 17:58

2 replies

hltv.org/match/2295473-mousespaz-vvv-cs-..

2015-04-30 17:58

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WHO ARE THEY? Kappa

2015-04-30 17:59

Nice

2015-04-30 17:56

Keyd Stars BEST NA TEAM

2015-04-30 17:58

GoKeyd

2015-04-30 17:58

top1 easy

2015-04-30 17:58

GL HF

2015-04-30 18:00

top1 NA

2015-04-30 18:01

noice

2015-04-30 18:01

nice <3

2015-04-30 18:01

Which team is Moe's?

2015-04-30 18:03

2 replies

Moe is on the A51 roster atm, which isn't on the list

2015-04-30 18:09

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omg,what a shame :/

2015-04-30 18:13

#1 team NA

2015-04-30 18:04

Keyd top 1 NA hltv confirmed. BR EZ

2015-04-30 18:04

Come on Brazil! Win this now so we can laugh at NA some more :)

2015-04-30 18:04

ez keyd XDDD

2015-04-30 18:04

go BRAZIL!

2015-04-30 18:05

I love This Brazial Team . Bcz they dont Have any Support but ...

2015-04-30 18:05

7-1 gonna get rekt

2015-04-30 18:06

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Don't be rude nedved

2015-04-30 18:08

As they should be, Good luck! :)

2015-04-30 18:06

In the story of CS(1.6 and global) Brazil team never lost 1 md3 for team NA hahahahahaha GL to all!

2015-04-30 18:06

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md3 for non brazilians is 'bo3'

2015-05-01 00:16

OMG GO KEYD

2015-04-30 18:07

Yes!!

2015-04-30 18:07

It'l be fun when they'll shit on C9,Nihilum (sry kungen)

2015-04-30 18:08

LIQUID CANADA, WOOOO

2015-04-30 18:10

I don't think this is going to be that easy for KeyD as people think,but,i'm happy to see them in the list. Good luck KeyD.

2015-04-30 18:11

GG KEYD! BRAZIL COME BACK TO TOP OF THE WORLD!

2015-04-30 18:13

7 or 8 spots whould have been enough, honestly i think you can find better teams in maybe china or more teams from SA

2015-04-30 18:13

nice

2015-04-30 18:13

easy

2015-04-30 18:14

Fallen posted on his fb page that will be moving to USA in the next week and will probably be there till july. facebook.com/FalleNcs?fref=nf

2015-04-30 18:17

I wanna see C9 vs Keyd with this new roster.

2015-04-30 18:18

confia no verdadeiro que e sucesso.

2015-04-30 18:23

Time to see Americans grow up on Counter-Strike Global Offensive hehe. Good for muricans and for us :) bs fer :*

2015-04-30 18:25

Keyd top 1 NA

2015-04-30 18:25

Good to see. Now I just hope for them that they will not fail. We have not seen that many official matches with them, so its impossible to tell how they stand up against the other Americans.

2015-04-30 18:28

easy

2015-04-30 18:28

nice !

2015-04-30 18:28

Keyd Top 1 NA

2015-04-30 18:30

Insane!!!

2015-04-30 18:32

IM KEYD! GO KEYD!!!!!!!!!!

2015-04-30 18:32

fucking they say will make the scene bigger ! bullshit when you not invite any asian / oceanic team how do you even expect to make go bigger ? :3

2015-04-30 18:36

This move is advantage for all, even to NA teams.

2015-04-30 18:37

wow n1 :D

2015-04-30 18:39

go go Keyd! For Brazil, for BRICS!

2015-04-30 18:39

Ez money for Keyd, they are The best of Americas xD

2015-04-30 18:40

Many people are saying that the league should not have such a high award to the level of the participating teams, strongly disagree, teams not to blame, who missed ESL was not to give the job to other teams in the continent. Surely Argentina and Chile have one strong team enough to be in that league, in Brazil DeX could also be there. We found a high level in Europe because they are different countries are facing, let's use the example of Sweden country where the CS is more developed, even there we could not make a strong league with eight teams, so maybe here in this scenario should end the monopoly US / CAN and begin searching both teams in South America and Latin countries. #GLKEYD

2015-04-30 18:41

Wut?

2015-04-30 18:41

HYPE!!! Thats fucking nice ESL/ESEA the next move is a pro league in SA.

2015-04-30 18:44

haha go brazil

2015-04-30 18:44

Brazil need some bacon to improve skill!

2015-04-30 18:46

Hurray KeyD! But wow, they really struggled to get 12 NA teams to compete in the league, huh.

2015-04-30 18:52

All my support from Chile to KEYD, LETS GO GUYS!

2015-04-30 18:52

i like it

2015-04-30 18:54

Fallen cry river 4 this

2015-04-30 18:58

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Like you xD

2015-04-30 19:03

Deserved

2015-04-30 18:58

Go KeydStars! Go Brazil! Thanks ESL and ESEA!

2015-04-30 19:00

easy for keyd...

2015-04-30 19:02

This gonna be good. GL Keyd. Fallen is the man of CS GO Brazil.

2015-04-30 19:04

inb4 Keyd Stars win this and new NA shuffle incoming.

2015-04-30 19:04

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I'm not confident about KeyD winning it, but NA shuffle inc again for sure topkek XD

2015-04-30 19:12

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noone in na can beat keyd. Only way for keyd to loose a match would be going no brain full rush like they sometimes do.

2015-04-30 20:18

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keyd awper is in a bad phase not impossible

2015-04-30 21:53

Gonna be good

2015-04-30 19:07

Nice. They gonna win

2015-04-30 19:08

SA going to dominate NA! GL KeyD!

2015-04-30 19:09

how is this even fair? KeyD stars are legit 10x better than any NA team IMO

2015-04-30 19:10

i can see so much piroca for this muricas

2015-04-30 19:16

Nice! Good luck!

2015-04-30 19:17

easy for KeyD. top1 Americas.

2015-04-30 19:21

Why no vVv???

2015-04-30 19:28

soon it will be steel best player NA again :DDD

2015-04-30 19:28

awesome, best of luck boyz, atleast top2 na inc :)

2015-04-30 19:29

Nice, the charity case have cried their way into the league.

2015-04-30 19:42

Man I soo happy for Fallen, this guy deserve only the best! Gl hf Keyd Stars!

2015-04-30 19:44

Team flags are kinda fucked up, but I guess you just copied them from ESL/ESEA.

2015-04-30 19:53

I'm very glad to see it. More interesting games... New C9, CLG, Nihilum, Luminosity and eLevate.

2015-04-30 19:56

Amazing news! New North America tier 1 team.

2015-04-30 20:04

ez win ez life -zqkone

2015-04-30 20:11

Nice!!! KeyD is my favorite Team since Katowice ;) .

2015-04-30 20:17

Keyd to top this league ez.

2015-04-30 20:17

Omg! Nice KeyD, GO BR!

2015-04-30 20:38

OMGOMGOMGOMG NICE <3

2015-04-30 20:50

so they're going to move NA or what?

2015-04-30 20:55

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yeah , to LA

2015-04-30 20:58

they're going to NA next week, and I'll be there for 3 months, I think...

2015-04-30 22:30

Is this the ACE gaming the article mentions? play.esea.net/teams/39365 If so, I hope they're not paying to get into this league.

2015-04-30 21:25

fallen/zqk are not doing good after awp update :v, a new awper would be good..

2015-04-30 21:47

This is so stupid. There should be like 2 teams qualified from the Americas and the rest (10?) from eu. If the NA/EU split is 50/50 then it's so unfair. Way better EU teams will be robbed of a spot because of artificial rules aimed at carrying scrub muricans.

2015-04-30 21:57

Nice

2015-04-30 22:15

Would be cool to see Dexterity in there too,they are proving to be a really good team,giving KeyD some really tough matches (keyd got stomped by them on Inferno last night),they are better than some NA teams in the list and their org is really decent aswell.

2015-04-30 22:22

That's really nice for brazilian squad!

2015-04-30 22:28

Nice, here we go boys :D

2015-04-30 22:40

Really good to see a brazilian team there. But South America need to be into this world scene with championships too, we need world qualifys here. In Brazil we have a lot of good teams, like rK, DeX, GG and others. GL Keyd, you got this!

2015-04-30 22:41

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MIBR lives

2015-05-01 08:26