Kinguin win PGL Season 1 Qual. #1

13-8-2015 05:02

Superstar conglomerate Kinguin continue to ring up impressive online finishes, qualifying for PGL's $110,000 Season 1 by defeating mousesports 3-0 (16-5 on de_cache, 16-7 on de_dust2, and 16-13 on de_train).

PGL's Season 1 promises $110,000 over the course of its duration, including offline finals that will feature three European teams and one North American team.

The qualifier for Group A in the European League—a group which is already stacked with invited teams TSM, Na`Vi, and Virtus.pro—saw mousesports and Kinguin facing off in the final, after having defeated Torpedo and HellRaisers respectively.

Kinguin go 3-0 over mousesports in the PGL European Qualifier #1

The best-of-five grand final was no contest at first, with Kinguin sweeping the German mouz team 16-5 on de_cache and 16-7 on de_dust2. Things began to heat up on de_train however, with Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom suffering from DDOS issues which forced Kinguin to bring in Andreas "⁠znajder⁠" Lindberg as a stand-in.

Despite going down 4-11 at the half however, Kinguin strung together 12 rounds on their CT train side to take the final map 16-13, making them the team to qualify for PGL Season 1.

PGL Season 1 EU QualifiersBest of 5

MOUZ

Matchpage

12th August 2015

Kinguin

Cache

Dust2

Train

Perhaps less noticed by some viewers as well was the completion of the PGL Season 1 North American qualifier two days before, which saw Method take down SKDC 3-2 in a far more contested best-of-five series (including double overtime on the final map, de_train).

PGL Season 1 NA QualifierBest of 5

Method

Matchpage

11th August 2015

SKDC

Cache

Dust2

Mirage

Inferno

Train

As a result, the current participants in PGL's first season appear as follows:

Europe		North America
Group A	Group B
Team SoloMid	fnatic	Luminosity
Null element Natus Vincere	EnVyUs	CLG
Virtus.pro	Titan	Team Liquid
Kinguin	Qualifier Team #2	Method

The final European team to join the list will begin to be decided tomorrow when the second European qualifier kicks off with its semifinal action.

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2015-08-13 05:02

yay

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Oh yea BABY! ~~

2015-08-13 05:12

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shake that ass

2015-08-13 16:14

2015-08-13 05:03

I thought this was season 2?

The season before that was technically labeled the CCS Kick-Off Season, though I guess it's literally a "second season"

2015-08-13 05:04

Oh, I see! Thanks :)

2015-08-13 05:05

Kinguin, is showing off alot of strats which they MIGHT have made for cologne, in this matches, which is quite interesting.

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So you're implying that these days teams need to prepare complex strats to beat Mouz?! I aren't think that.

2015-08-13 05:09

Not complex strats to beat Mouz, but in one week time they are attending a Major, that what i meant.

2015-08-13 06:00

a lot of strats? What.. owning a shit team like mouz that everyone thinks are good because they beat shit teams like NiP lel.

2015-08-13 05:17

But some teams might read what they are doing in this TYPE of 'lel' matches and counter, that what i meant, nothing else.

2015-08-13 06:01

Mouz never beat NiP...

2015-08-13 12:21

this was an online tournament right? during cologne they are going to have legija coach and igl for them so these probably dont show what they have for cologne

cool

2015-08-13 06:07

why c9 is out?

Not wanting in it I guess, can't see any other reason they'd be left out.

2015-08-13 05:13

But Kinguin only won cause Mouz didn't care about 110k tournament stacked with top pro CS:GO teams...KappaPride.

2015-08-13 05:11

EZ FOR THE 2ND BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD #KINGUIN

2015-08-13 05:16

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2nd? rofl you mean 1st

2015-08-13 05:38

fnatic is 1st for like a year now and there is no clear 2nd so may as well chuck kinguin in that spot.

2015-08-13 06:28

KINGUIN HYPEEEEEE

2015-08-13 10:43

pretty impressive. Well done kinguin. Shame no c9.

2015-08-13 08:40

stfu 3rd worlder

2015-08-13 09:00

n1 Sick groups

2015-08-13 08:48

another BO-many and again germans sucked so hard :D:D:D

2015-08-13 08:51

That throw from mouz was too obvious...

2015-08-13 09:14

yeah

2015-08-13 09:18

Kinguin and VP in the same group.. No chance my friend.

2015-08-13 09:36

rip vp Keepo

2015-08-13 10:41

Cant wait for nV versus Titan :O

2015-08-13 10:48

ez pz

2015-08-13 10:49

congrats but what's the deal with C9 not being in the NA pot? I'm tired of seeing Liquid who are terrible and I don't even know who Method are. Makes no sense to have those two over C9.

2015-08-13 11:35

C9 didn't want to be in the league you pleb

2015-08-13 14:20

expected

2015-08-13 11:43

Kinguin project is coming along nicely.

2015-08-13 11:54

Expected.

2015-08-13 12:03

faceit.com/tournaments/55fcbc90-627b-4e6.. what about their loss here?

2015-08-13 12:09

They didn't lose that, both UNLEASHED (now Torpedo) and Kinguin qualified for the closed qualifier after winning their semi-final match. Grand final wasn't played.

2015-08-13 12:14