MLG Columbus 2016 Last Chance NA pre-qualifier

CEVO to host Last Chance MLG quals.

21-1-2016 04:48

This weekend will see CEVO host an online Last Chance pre-qualifier for the MLG Columbus LAN qualifier in February, with notable teams such as SPLYCE, OpTic, and TSM taking part.

While teams will continue to vie for spots at the official MLG Columbus Main qualifier—which will run from February 26-28 at the MLG Arena in Columbus—at the remaining three Minors over the next weeks, there will also be two regional Last Chance qualifiers to give those teams who fell short at a Minor or did not attend a chance to qualify.

The first pre-qualifier will be for the North American region and run this weekend from January 23-24; one spot to the MLG Columbus Main qualifier will be up for grabs.

CEVO have now announced that they will host both upcoming online pre-qualifiers via their tournament organisation platform, as well as providing details on invited teams for the North American pre-qualifier.

seang@res will play with Torqued in the Last Chance pre-qualifier

Second to fourth place finishers at the MLG Americas Minor received automatic invites to the last chance qualifier, whereas four other teams were invited to take part. One of these which may raise eyebrows is Torqued, a team featuring known players in the North American scene such as Mohamad "⁠mOE⁠" Assad, Ronnie "⁠ryx⁠" Bylicki, and ex-Cloud9 IGL Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares.

The seven teams to take part in the Last Chance pre-qualifier are:

SPLYCE	Winterfox
OpTic Gaming	Torqued
Games Academy	NRG
TSM

The format for the pre-qualifier is a single elimination, best-of-three bracket. Because SPLYCE finished second place at the MLG Americas Minor, Arya "⁠arya⁠" Hekmat's team automatically advance to the semifinal and await the winner of Torqued and Games Academy. The full bracket can be seen here.

The tentative schedule for the pre-qualifier is:

Saturday, January 23rd
OpTic Gaming	vs. NRG	19:00
Torqued	vs. Games Academy	21:30
Winterfox	vs. TSM	00:00
Sunday, January 24th
Semifinal #1		19:30
Semifinal #2		21:30
Grand Final		00:30

A CIS/Europe Last Chance pre-qualifier will also be run by CEVO and take place from February 2-7, it will give out two spots to the MLG Columbus Main qualifier.

All the action for the North American Last Chance pre-qualifier can be caught over at MLG.tv/playCEVO when the games kick off.

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

GO GA!

2016-01-21 04:49

1 reply

OpTic got dis

2016-01-22 16:32

GOD MOE

not, sorry

2016-01-21 15:55

GO GA

RIP TSM

2016-01-21 04:50

No steel and no monte = no Torqued.

3 replies

They probably won't be playing as Torqued ;)

2016-01-21 04:59

they're org is actually echofox(rick fox's thing)

2016-01-21 05:06

no monte = potential to not suck dick

2016-01-21 07:54

Torqued to win!

2016-01-21 04:56

2 ez for m0e

ezgares

2016-01-21 05:03

lol ez GA and torqued

2016-01-21 05:04

single elim only one of them wins :(

2016-01-21 05:08

2 replies

i know

2016-01-21 05:09

it's really sad

So weird to see TSM in Last chance qualifier

2016-01-21 05:05

ezz moe

Anyone know who the other 2 are on torqued

2016-01-21 05:07

4 replies

a2z and tck

Fuck. Was hoping maybe torqued could surprise but tck and a2z suck

"a2z is the greatest player to ever touch Counter Strike" - a2z

2016-01-21 05:10

a2z is is a pretty decent fragger. He really needs to find a niche on a team tho.

2016-01-21 06:39

NoName lineup?

2016-01-21 05:12

I think it's ex-Method: Ptr, GobB, Legija, Silent, and Justin. Don't quote me on that though.

2016-01-21 05:20

Is gob_b moving to USA? Without even an organization to back his team??

2016-01-21 05:22

Isn't he already in the US? Him and Legija were playing FPL today. Besides they'll pick up an org soon, they've probably gotten offers already.

2016-01-21 14:12

ez for mOE top2 NA already

2016-01-21 05:16

ez for GA

This tournament seem very redundant. There have been so many different quals already to the minor, and the minor has been played. And all these quals kinda showed that these teams aren't good enough to qualify. Why do they get a "last chance"? So stupid lol.

2016-01-21 05:21

because there are more spots still available shithead. Every region gets a last chance quali, if not they get 2 spots.

2016-01-21 06:07

The minor was for players that weren't in the major. So this gives the teams that had players in the major to qualify.

EZ FOR GA. BOT MOE 4Head

No c9?

2016-01-21 05:42

C9 is already in the qualifier as they were in the last major, the winners of these minors and last chance qualifiers still have to attend and get top 8 in the actual qualifiers against the bottom 8 of the last major to attend the next major.

2016-01-21 06:02

idiot

silver?

2016-01-21 06:27

2016-01-21 05:53

ez torqued

2016-01-21 06:01

Shame that new TSM is going up against WFX so early I'd like to see WFX play some more but I also want to see how new TSM will fare against other teams in BO3 formats.

2016-01-21 06:09

no renegades?

8 replies

they'll play asia minor

2016-01-21 06:28

7 replies

shit though this was just some random mlg tournament they annouce not a minor. tl;dr sorry and thank you, didnt read the whole thing

2016-01-21 06:58

i doubt it seeing as they are in the US at their gaming house in Los vegas...ping from US to Asia would be crazy high..

2016-01-21 07:51

5 replies

They are already invited to the Lan.

2016-01-21 08:10

Are airplanes not a thing in kangaroo land?

2016-01-21 10:39

No renegades took a boat to travel to vegas

2016-01-21 12:07

Damn

2016-01-21 14:10

Fukin retard, they hopped in one bound with their roided up kangaroos

2016-01-22 01:33

LETS GO TORQUED

2016-01-21 06:17

lol this will be ez for GA or optic

Ez optic and tourqued

2016-01-21 06:36

TORQUED STICKERS

2016-01-21 06:41

Torq full lineup??

2016-01-21 07:16

Moe Ryx A2z Tck Seagares

2016-01-21 07:34

source?

2016-01-21 10:25

No, CS:GO

2016-01-21 10:40

lol!

2016-01-21 14:30

ryx in torqued? damn theyre gonna win ez

2016-01-21 07:19

GA or OpTic will take this

2016-01-21 07:35

pls beat GA. bad team -_-

2016-01-21 08:05

Sean is going to get tilted, I know for sure.

2016-01-21 08:33

2016-01-21 09:03

gl Torqued, really interested to see what mOE and sean can do with a2z and tck... Maybe replace ryx before the major qualis tho. Here's a quote I found about a2z: "a2z is the best IGL,Lurk,rifler,awper,support of all of 1.6, source and GO" - a2z

2016-01-21 09:25