EEPL S2 Relegation concludes

17-12-2015 07:06

The Relegation stage for ESL ESEA Pro League Season 3 has concluded with three teams involved retaining their spots and one team ascending to the Pro League.

Due to changes in the ESL ESEA Pro League Relegation system, the winners of both the North American and European divisions of ESEA Premier (Denial and FlipSid3 respectively) did not automatically replace the bottom finishing team in Season 2 of the Pro League.

Instead, both Premier division winners had to play in the relegation matches (as well as the Premier League division runner-up in each region) against the 10th and 11th ranked teams from the previous season.

Xp3 achieved 37 kills on the final map of Winterfox's Relegation match (including a final round 1 vs. 2)

The first two games to conclude took place in Europe and we first saw a revamped SK lineup that were able to hold onto their Pro League spot against Publiclir.se with a solid 2-0 scoreline.

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Matchpage

16th December 2015

Publiclir.se

Train

Overpass

The second European match actually saw HellRaisers lose their much-vaunted Pro League spot to ESEA Premier winners FlipSid3, who were using a stand-in in the form of Vadim "⁠DavCost⁠" Vasilyev (who himself signed for Team YP) for Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev who remains ESL banned for approximately two more months.

The game saw Yegor "⁠markeloff⁠" Markelov and co. defeat their CIS-region rivals fairly smoothly, 16-8 on de_mirage and 16-11 on de_overpass.

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HellRaisers

Matchpage

16th December 2015

FlipSid3

Mirage

Overpass

The first North American relegation game saw Method utilise Connor "⁠streboR⁠" Roberts for perhaps his last competitive game ever to defeat the challengers that were Peter "⁠ptr⁠" Gurney's SPLYCE team, 16-10 on de_cache and 16-11 on de_mirage.

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Method

Matchpage

17th December 2015

Splyce

Cache

Mirage

And the last Relegation game was perhaps the most exciting as ESEA NA Premier winners Denial took Winterfox the final mile in a three map series, with the first two maps going 16-13 and 16-10 for Winterfox and Denial respectively.

It was only on the third map where David "⁠Xp3⁠" Garrido put in a true carry performance, clocking in 37 kills and winning a one-versus-two clutch in the final round of the game to give his team the 16-14 win on de_overpass.

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Winterfox

Matchpage

17th December 2015

Denial

Cache

Mirage

Overpass

The teams list for ESL ESEA Pro League Season 3 therefore looks like:

Europe	North America
fnatic	Luminosity
Null element Na`Vi	Liquid
EnVyUs	CLG
?	Conquest
Titan	compLexity
dignitas	Cloud9
NiP	Dogmen (ex-3sUP)
mousesports	Enemy
Virtus.pro	SKDC
SK	Method
FlipSid3	Winterfox
TBA	TBA

Furthermore, it is widely rumoured that the wildcard teams likely to be chosen are G2 for Europe and Renegades for North America, although nothing is definitive as of the current moment.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

ayy

2015-12-17 07:06

8 replies

NiP in season 3? Arent they supposed to disband?

2015-12-17 07:12

4 replies

Yes I hope they will.

2015-12-17 08:51

2 replies

nt Per Lilliefelth

2015-12-17 09:05

1 reply

loled

2015-12-17 16:39

nope. git fukd

2015-12-17 14:01

How the fuck is sk in this league

2015-12-17 10:01

Did your parent's not let you read growing up? The third paragraph in the article says how SK are in the league. "The first two games to conclude took place in Europe and we first saw a revamped SK lineup that were able to hold onto their Pro League spot against Publiclir.se with a solid 2-0 scoreline."

2015-12-17 13:43

well idk what language ur parents "let" u read but it probably isnt english :DDDD and not understanding a question like that and expecting a person with a japanese flag to grow up reading english just truly brings out the murica in u but anyways nt fagot

2015-12-17 21:22

NA Scene :D:D:D:D

7 replies

Mustafa kebaps scene :D :D :D :D

2015-12-17 08:32

6 replies

Vodka blyat scene .ddd

2015-12-17 09:15

5 replies

Still better then yours,anyway lmao

2015-12-17 09:31

LOL? tell me a russian team better than ss

2015-12-17 13:05

3 replies

2015-12-17 13:09

Half of the russian teams are better than SS, Xantares is a shit player who farms stats off tier 3 teams. Seized/Flamie/Dosia/Worldedit > All of turkish scene

2015-12-17 14:28

Teams =/= Players Oh btw :) hltv.org/match/2298069-russia-turkey-wor..

2015-12-17 17:41

first

2015-12-17 07:07

kewl

2015-12-17 07:08

ez g2 last eu team pls

2015-12-17 07:10

Wtf

2015-12-17 07:09

gl LG

"wildcard team" idea is really stupid, a team didnt even play in the league and gets automatically bump into pro league

It isn't stupid, but it is implemented very poorly

2015-12-17 07:13

it's not implemented poorly at all, it is slightly unfair yes but it is too much to expect of an organisation-supported pro team to fight through open and premier to get one year into the EEPL. That's 2-3 seasons while on salary with an org. Not money that can be wasted playing Premier.

2015-12-17 07:18

at least let them play a qualifier? because right now its not much more of a "who pays the most money for the spot" bullshit.. and i cant understand people who are actually support such "rules".. because this is shady as fuck..

2015-12-17 07:39

+1 several teams are relegated to prem, but even winner of prem isn't promoted? That is bullshit.

2015-12-17 10:51

The only reason that this system was implemented was for NEW teams coming into the arena that have not previously been in the league system they are being inserted in. If the winner of premier DESERVES to be in the EEPL they will beat the relegated side they are chosen to face. The wildcard slot will most likely rarely be used for an actual wildcard, or it'll be entirely removed after this season when G2 and Renegades (supposedly) are added into the EEPL.

2015-12-17 14:46

yeah I am not so good at english, I was meaning a wild card team shouldnt have a higher priority to get the auto spot then a team who won the premier. having some wildcard teams is not stupid indeed.

2015-12-17 07:21

pls renegades

2015-12-17 08:49

So basically ESL admins could be payed now to choose a certain team for the pro league

2015-12-17 07:15

Those spots are for G2 and RNG.

2015-12-17 07:22

Could be? They ARE paid. Just nobody will say that officialy.

2015-12-17 10:50

Sad but true, they should've sticked to the old rules for advancing in league

2015-12-17 11:13

hellraisers has fallen off a cliff. i cant believe that org still salaries that team lol. worst drop from any top team i think

Sucks for Denial who won Premier but still didnt' make it to Pro League because Renegades is taking their spot.

2015-12-17 07:24

Yeah man, I feel bad for them, they put the work in.

2015-12-17 08:50

g2 eu tba plsss

2015-12-17 07:30

Xp3 beast mode, wp

RIP HR [*]

2015-12-17 07:31

Denial should be in. Bullshit favoritism from ESEA and ESL.

2015-12-17 07:35

TBA = GA

2015-12-17 07:52

tba=mTw

2015-12-17 08:08

G2 inc. Insane if not.

2015-12-17 08:16

G2 and Renegades for those wildcard spots.

2015-12-17 09:02

You know who else is going to get relegated? Chelsea.

2015-12-17 10:25

fnatic wins again gg wp

2015-12-17 10:29

it must suck to be number 1 in premier and not be guaranteed a position in professional. It would be much harder to come out #1 in premier than come last in pro league.

2015-12-17 10:53

Teams are relegated, but can't get promoted #logic #justgirlythings

2015-12-17 10:56

i agree, it's not hard to make 1st of premier gets promoted AND last of professional gets relegated automaticaly :/ then the 2nd ones fight it out, and 3rd battles with a wildcard or something.

2015-12-17 11:52

I agree this is how it should be

2015-12-17 12:05

+1 that's how it MUST have been!

2015-12-17 13:41

It's ridiculous that denial is not in pro league right now. xp3 had to carry winter fox to stay in pro and denial should have been moved up anyway. Thanks esl :(((

2015-12-17 14:38

yeah the rules are clearly not really fair.. especially for upcoming teams that are showing good promises :/

2015-12-17 20:52

so penta had no relegation match and are automatically out because they placed 12. 2 times in a row?

2015-12-17 11:04

Because two more slots are open for grabs in each region, and since the winner of Premier did not automatically move up, it is apparent that these slots will be filled by "a wildcard team chosen by the Administration to replace the auto-relegated team," to quote ESL. Shittiest rule ever invented. What's the point in playing a league and win in, while you don't even have a chance to automaticly get rewarded for your good season.

2015-12-17 11:05

soo, nothing changes?

2015-12-17 11:25

-hr +f3 for the next season

2015-12-17 12:13

RiP Renegads and Games Academy

2015-12-17 11:41

angel is the shittest igl and at the same time he nerf his great aim angel and kucher to hr.red (ex explosive) XANTARES +1 in hr.black xD

2015-12-17 12:12

Winterfox? lol wtf are they doing there? They are like EU LE/LEMs playing. Remember them @iBP or @RNG Cup? In 2/3 games they don't even won 10 rounds in every single game combined. They are the worst pro team and yet their player get FPL Pass + ESEA...

obv they are better than k1ck, or any other portuguese team/player ;D

2015-12-17 12:38

k1ck is a solid team now with mutt and rmn, they got rekt by MIXCAT and they beat Publiclir before playing MIXCAT. All in all they are better than them, so is MIXCAT and some tier7 EU Teams.

2015-12-17 12:44

even RCTIC is better than k1ck lmaoo

2015-12-17 12:59

A Dead cat plays is better than k1ck

2015-12-17 17:59

G2 pls :D

2015-12-17 12:51

Best part is NA slot doesn't even go to an NA team.

2015-12-17 13:14

In a sudden twist of events G2 to take NA TBA spot.

"FlipSid3, who were using a stand-in in the form of Vadim "DavCost" Vasilyev (who himself signed for Team YP) for Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev who remains ESL banned for approximately two more months." s1mple is back in F3? Or is the author just living in the past?