ESL Barcelona CS:GO Invitational presented by Mobile World Congress

ESL Barcelona qualifiers conclude

19-1-2016 23:55

Qualifiers for ESL Barcelona have concluded and four more teams that will participate in the tournament have now been decided.

Earlier this month, ESL announced that esports was returning to Barcelona, Spain with an event that would feature €75,000 in cash prizes. After inviting fnatic and EnVyUs, it was revealed that two spots each would be given out via a European qualifier and a Spanish qualifier.

The Spanish series had a closed stage after having two open tournaments. In the open stage, Epsilon (arguably Spain's best team) lost to a mix team called MixFTW and they were shockingly eliminated.

The closed stage hosted four teams and had a double-elimination format. gBots secured their spot in ESL Expo Barcelona by beating x6tence in a humiliating fashion in the winner bracket finals (16-3 on de_overpass, 16-2 on de_dust2).

x6tence managed to get over that loss and won 2-1 against yokSE, which meant they would be the second team to attend from Spain. MixFTW didn't upset more teams as they lost both of their matches and were knocked out.

Mixwell & co will play in front of their home crowd

The European contest started out with 44 teams with best-of-one matches and ended up with two semi-finals that decided the qualified teams.

In the qualification game between dignitas and CSGL, the first map was de_mirage and dignitas had a successful T-side (10-5). The Danish side started the second half very strong as well, with Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel getting an ace in the eighteenth round and clutching in a 1v2 situation in the twenty-fifth round. Dignitas won thirteen of the last fourteen rounds and got the first map victory (16-5).

The story in the second map, which was de_cbble, seemed to be similar to the first one as Dignitas started 10-5, again on the T-side. In the second half, the Polish team got their hopes up but weren't able to push the Danes much. Therefore, Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen & co ensured their travel to Barcelona.

ESL Barcelona European QualifierBest of 3

Dignitas

Matchpage

19th January 2016

CSGL

Mirage

Cobblestone

Dignitas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel RUBINO	56 - 22	+34	-	-	1.90
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	44 - 25	+19	-	-	1.50
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	35 - 27	+8	-	-	1.19
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	30 - 36	-6	-	-	0.92
Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann TENZKI	24 - 26	-2	-	-	0.87

CSGL	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek SZPERO	34 - 38	-4	-	-	0.99
Paweł 'innocent' Mocek innocent	29 - 38	-9	-	-	0.79
Michał 'MICHU' Müller MICHU	26 - 36	-10	-	-	0.75
Oskar 'oskarish' Stenborowski oskarish	24 - 38	-14	-	-	0.63
Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski mouz	22 - 39	-17	-	-	0.56

The second match was between Vexed from Poland and RCTIC from Finland. Vexed eliminated another Finnish team ENCE to get to the semis.

On de_dust2, Vexed kept winning in after-plant situations and got an early 9-1 lead. Despite this, they had to eco after losing another round and the Finns had the chance to put togeter a few rounds consecutively. Vexed didn't let that happen, though, and finished the first half 12-3 ahead. RCTIC looked better in the second half and picked up the first six rounds but the Poles managed to take the map (16-11).

de_cbble was the second map and it opened with RCTIC winning the pistol round but after that, Vexed dominated their opponents as they led 13-2 at the halftime. The Finnish squad won ten rounds out of the first eleven in second half but Vexed closed it out and earned the last qualifier spot (16-11).

ESL Barcelona European QualifierBest of 3

RCTIC

Matchpage

19th January 2016

Vexed

Dust2

Cobblestone

RCTIC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Saku 'SAGGERTON' Jokinen SAGGERTON	45 - 39	+6	-	-	1.11
Eetu 'sAw' Saha sAw	44 - 41	+3	-	-	1.07
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen xseveN	39 - 38	+1	-	-	0.93
Lasse 'ZOREE' Uronen ZOREE	34 - 37	-3	-	-	0.85
Slaava 'Twista' Räsänen Twista	30 - 37	-7	-	-	0.82

Vexed	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski Furlan	44 - 37	+7	-	-	1.19
Bartosz 'Hyper' Wolny Hyper	37 - 33	+4	-	-	1.05
Dominik 'GruBy' Swiderski GruBy	40 - 41	-1	-	-	1.02
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz rallen	37 - 42	-5	-	-	0.88
Karol 'repo' Cybulski repo	34 - 39	-5	-	-	0.87

ESL Expo Barcelona teams:

fnatic	EnVyUs	dignitas	Vexed
gBots	x6tence	Invite Spot	Invite Spot

With these series of tournaments coming to an end, there are two international spots still available and they will be handed out to two teams decided by ESL at a later date.

rubino 2 stronk

2016-01-19 23:57

3 replies

ez for Messi

2016-01-20 00:53

1 reply

Rubino fatfuck

2016-01-20 08:14

everyone knows that spain has second place at cheating so nt. mixwall and dragunov wallhackgaming

2016-01-20 17:14

fnatic ez

lesgo fnatic

Good luck gBots! It's Spain's chance to finally get to play against the best teams, even if it's just to gain experience :D

7 replies

Portuguese teams should be invited to the qualifier.

2016-01-20 00:01

5 replies

lol

2016-01-20 00:42

There is none noteable

2016-01-20 01:03

2 replies

Well they are better than spanish teams

2016-01-20 08:55

N I C E T R Y

2016-01-20 14:59

god fox to carry some portugese mix team, make it happen Kappa no chance my friend

2016-01-20 12:27

gbots is the worst team ever

2016-01-20 08:15

Cool

Thug life trygve

2016-01-20 08:16

invite luminosity and navi and place them in one group

2016-01-19 23:58

+1 hahahahaha

2016-01-19 23:59

+rep

2016-01-20 01:57

rubino 56-22 o m f g

k0fing MVP

go go go rubono :3 H2K forever! T_T

2016-01-20 00:00

rubono XD

56-22 LOL gj Rubino

+Luminosity +NaVi

+NiP +ex-Titan

2016-01-20 00:04

>NiP, ex-Titan, tier 745241 team

2016-01-20 00:28

x6tence JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

Flipin vs Olofmeister Kappa

2016-01-20 00:08

that will be embarrassing as fuck

2016-01-20 00:09

and why is that ? flipin have talent aswell, unfortunaly he don't got a team to keep up with him

2016-01-21 22:06

They might be bad and a new team, but they legitimately won in the qualifiers

how the fuck epsilon managed to lose?

2016-01-20 00:11

trasgo.net/noticias-esports/csgo/la-esl-..

online qual? now i understand and this mix lose to all team they next day? omg wtf are esl doing

2016-01-20 00:14

RCTIC #pelitalo :D

2016-01-20 00:05

x6tence HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NICE ONE

9 replies

same thought

2016-01-20 00:12

I would laugh in the same as you only if they haven't won legitimatly their qualifier :D

2016-01-20 00:32

If they played against gBots right now they will get de_stroyed. Even if they played against KIYF Logitech...

2016-01-20 19:53

6 replies

They won against summa.gg twice in the same day in a bo1 and a bo3. And summa.gg's players are fairly better than kiyf's players. They lost to gBots, but that's nothing surprising, any team in Spain would lose so bad against gBots in 90% of the times at this moment, not only x6tence. u sound more like a butthurt kid honestly.

2016-01-20 21:19

Ayrr, im 21 ayy lmao. You are a butthurt filete

2016-01-20 21:39

4 replies

There you go, that excalated quickly. Im not a fan of x6tence, I talk objectively. You are the one being biased mentioning kyif and referring to your god v1nchenso. The #vo7ando potatos are retards as much as the blind stupid biased superfieles. Only a few has actually some brightness. Ps: your age isn't relevant, u sound more like a kid as I said.

2016-01-20 21:47

You just proved you are a butthurt filete that knows x6 is getting rekt in Barcelona expo

2016-01-21 21:17

Yeah, great comeback. Your arguments worth the read indeed. Keep proving that your IQ equals 10 lmfao. Vas #vo7ando, right?

2016-01-21 21:25

Yes voy #vo7ando, which is better to go to the charcutería everyday. Btw my IQ is 143, i didnt make 1st ESO because im very Smart lmao

2016-01-21 22:00

Spanish people are afraid to have k1ck in their qualifier :)))))))

shit vs shit = shit anyway

2016-01-20 00:17

Just 2 invite spots :( Would like to see NaVi, LG, NiP and Astralis.

2016-01-20 00:10

EPSILON HAHAHAHHAHAH

wtf rubino went huge?

Not bad rubino

2016-01-20 00:13

Messi?

2016-01-20 00:19

ez neymar

2016-01-20 00:22

rubino dropping 50 bomb oh god... its real?

2016-01-20 00:23

ofer too mepps?

2016-01-20 03:02

2 Spanish teams as adornment

2016-01-20 00:29

I feel like LG will take one of the remaining invite spots. gl gbots, gl x6. This gonna be easy money for the big ones.

2016-01-20 00:33

Barcelona>>>Real Madrid

2016-01-20 00:44

Rubino<3 kompisen t lars <3 <3

2016-01-20 00:55

I hope it: 1º- Fnatic 2º- Envy 3º-4º: Gbots + Invite TBA 5º-8º: X6tence, Dignitas, Vexed, Invited TBA

2016-01-20 01:00

u ranked invite TBA 3-4 and u don't even know who they are facepalm dawg

2016-01-20 02:21

Ayrr, sea quien sea van a quedar asi xD

2016-01-20 21:18

Lee el comentario #78 que hay por debajo. Los de Astralis parece que estarán, estos pueden quedar por encima del 3-4º xD

2016-01-20 21:27

+astralis +LG/VP/na'vi and the event will be great.

2016-01-20 01:10

Pronax :(

2016-01-20 01:11

+LuminositY and NaVi

2016-01-20 01:58

when does it start

2016-01-20 02:07

Do you need a scene to get invited? Invite ntn. Oh, wait...

2016-01-20 02:52

Invite to Luminosity the dream!

2016-01-20 03:10

ez rctic

2016-01-20 05:33

Rubino and k0nfig carrying Dignitas as usual

2016-01-20 07:58

Who

2016-01-20 08:08

rip rctic xDD

2016-01-20 09:11

Fnatic gonna roll everyone over :) Will be interesting to see how much money they make, if they keep their winning tournament streak on!

2016-01-20 09:57

Gl gbots

2016-01-20 10:08

BOT twista, expected.

2016-01-20 10:28

ez for Fnatic unless Astralis/VP gets invited

2016-01-20 10:32

Astralis will be there: Byskov: In February we have GameShow Finals and ESL Barcelona. In March we have ESL Katowice, CounterPit in Croatia and then the MLG major. We’re also going to play different online leagues while we got a few PR events coming up. All in all it’s a tight schedule together with a lot of practice. astralis.gg/byskov-ive-been-working-on-t..

2016-01-20 17:41