MLG Regional Minor Championship Americas

BigGods win MLG Minor SA qualifier

27-4-2016 06:46

BigGods have won the MLG Regional Minor South America Qualifier, defeating INTZ 2-1 (16-5 on Cache, 10-16 on Cobblestone, and 16-5 on Dust2) and have thus qualified for the Americas Minor.

The South American Qualifier to the MLG Americas Minor was hosted by CEVO and featured eight Brazilian teams (somewhat defeating the intention of the term "South American"), including the likes of Keyd Stars, g3x, and INTZ.

Following the quarter-finals, the first semifinal was a face-off between favourites Keyd Stars, a team who finished second at the MAX5 Invitational and including Luminosity's former coach Renato "⁠nak⁠" Nakano, and BigGods, a relatively unknown team who had recently won the grand final of the Liga PRO - Games Academy tournament over Santos.DeX in unexpected fashion.

cogu's INTZ fell short against the dark horse that was "bigodes"

However it was the BigGods (whose name is apparently a mondegreen for the Portuguese word bigode which means moustache) that pulled off an upset defeat in stunning fashion, as the likes of Dener "⁠KHTEX⁠" Barchfield, Denis "⁠dzt⁠" Fischer, and last but not least Gabriel "⁠BIEL THE MAGICIAN⁠" Romais powered their way to a 2-0 win over Keyd.

On the other side of the bracket, it was Raphael "⁠cogu⁠" Camargo's INTZ (many still remember cogu playing for ProGaming.TD at ESWC 2012 and DreamHack Winter 2012) who took down Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes's CNB in a fairly convincing 2-0 defeat and advanced to the grand final.

In the grand final, BigGods yet again proved they were a force to be reckoned with and defeated the more experienced INTZ lineup 2-1, once again displaying dominant performances on Cache and Dust2 (the two maps on which they had defeated Keyd Stars as well).

As a result, the team have advanced to the MLG Americas Minor and will now have to rush to sort out visa issues and avoid the sort of fate that befell their Brazilian brethren at the last Americas Minor.

*Update: The issue to secure visas is all the more vital as four out of the five of the current BigGods team were part of the Operation Kino team who failed to acquire visa clearance towards attending the Americas Minor back in January.

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BigGods	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dener 'KHTEX' Barchfield KHTEX	67 - 42	+25	105.3	79.4%	1.52
Gabriel 'BIEL THE MAGICIAN' Romais BIEL THE MAGICIAN	50 - 39	+11	80.1	83.8%	1.26
Gabriel 'gaabxx' Rodrigues gaabxx	43 - 38	+5	70.8	69.1%	1.15
Denis 'dzt' Fischer dzt	52 - 50	+2	78.4	69.1%	1.13
Alef 'tatazin' Pereira tatazin	43 - 38	+5	67.6	72.1%	1.06

INTZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Augusto 'gut0' Bertora gut0	48 - 51	-3	81.6	69.1%	1.04
Nathan 'fv' Mendes fv	41 - 52	-11	73.6	73.5%	0.90
Raphael 'cogu' Camargo cogu	39 - 47	-8	59.7	64.7%	0.85
Lorenzo 'lrz' Araújo lrz	41 - 51	-10	62.1	61.8%	0.85
Caike 'caike' Costa caike	38 - 54	-16	71.5	61.8%	0.82

The list of teams competing at the MLG Americas Minor from May 19-22 is:

Tempo Storm	OpTic	Selfless	NRG
BigGods	NA qualifier	NA qualifier	NA qualifier

The North American qualifier will meanwhile kick off in the near future and begin with a massive 128-team bracket and then move into a more narrow Championship bracket on May 8, offering up three spots to the Minor.

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

Hope to see great results from them. GL

2016-04-27 06:49

11 replies

[*] keydstars :(

2016-04-27 06:47

3 replies

ez for AUSTRALIAS

2016-04-27 06:52

1 reply

Easy for ENCE

2016-04-27 07:48

KHTEX rekt Keyd khtex soon to luminosiy or tempo... ...or to VACation :>

2016-04-27 14:56

They wont get visas :>

2016-04-27 06:58

6 replies

Splyce to replace them

2016-04-27 07:23

5 replies

Splyce to qualify

2016-04-27 11:38

4 replies

splyce to get rekt again

2016-04-27 13:39

Spruce should have won Columbus

2016-04-27 14:29

You're just salty that splyce let an underdog lie Fnatic to go through their group so easily

2016-04-27 15:02

lol I'm not salty tho, it was a fact xD I meant they qualified to get rekt in groups... thats what we should call a "wast of spot/time"

2016-04-27 15:07

Ez for Ence

2016-04-27 06:46

btw cogu looks like shit

3rd best team in the BR region?

Probably not, it's a pretty big upset that they even got to the final.

2016-04-27 06:53

they were the eighth seed for this qualify, literally almost didnt get invited LOL. Im happy for them but they will prolly get stomped seeds btw: gamesacademy.com.br/?p=15180

2016-04-27 06:56

no, they will win the tournament

2016-04-27 20:28

3rd/4th keyd and alientech 5th/6th ex-santos.dex and g3x then we have intz, innova, cnb and big gods

2016-04-27 17:52

no just hacks lololol it was so obvious

2016-05-07 22:53

ez for.... BIEL THE MAGICIAN :O

2 replies

Biel the magician best player world

2016-04-27 06:48

Nt Biel

2016-04-27 08:27

who

blyat

BIEL THE MAGICIAN POGCHAMP ABSOLUTELY NO KAPPA

7 replies

wasnt biel so great?

damn stich you cant get first at your own articles Kappa

We're advised to try to not to be so petty, but I can't help commenting about that fabulous name.

fun fact: 4 of the 5 players in biggods were also in Op.Kino, one of the teams who was denied a visa back in the first minor.

2016-04-27 06:50

thanks my brother, added to the story

"In the grand final, BigGods yet agian proved they were a force to be reckoned with"

2016-04-27 13:27

STICH THE MAGICIAN

2016-04-27 20:45

Bigodes

thought I was the only one who noticed it

2016-04-27 08:59

khTEX GOD without visa! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL!

NO VISA...NO USA MingLee COGU > ALL

Looking at the teams I'd say optic and tempo would be favorites

biggods best underdog, wait and see.

2016-04-27 06:54

keyd and alientech will try to qualify through na

2016-04-27 06:51

plz ... big cheat .. in lan this guys not kill 1

4 of them are experienced lan players, stop with this bullshit

2016-04-27 06:59

Maybe experienced at playing like shit on lan lol.

2016-04-27 12:42

you know nothing, scream

2016-04-27 20:27

I hope they go without any issues with visas

COGU O G U

Congratz! hard work very deserved, happy for you guys

2016-04-27 06:57

khtex is tier 1 player

2016-04-27 07:02

sad for keyd, but biggods played better gl guys <3 now keyd win na minors and we have 3 brazilian teams to qualify :3

2016-04-27 07:05

One thing has to be said: BigGods owns a gaming house in Sao Paulo, biggest Brazil city. In the GC, ALL players representing the team (including CSGO and LoL rosters) live and work (play) in the house. This is awesome and crucial, because we all know how better the team becomes with more time pass together. And trust me, BigGods is really a good team and will surprise the NA Scene just as TempoStorm. Sorry for my english. Peace!

2016-04-27 07:07

It sucks these guys will have their visa's rejected. Deserve to play imo

2016-04-27 07:12

You mean, Brazil Qualifiers, not South America :)

2016-04-27 07:34

8 replies

+111111111111111111111111

2016-04-27 10:00

Cry, brasil have scene

2016-04-27 10:11

Well the mods at GamersClub and GamesAcademy kinda gave an explanation and it makes sense. They contacted MLG right after it was announced that they would host the minor and quals for it, but MLG was kinda in denial since the last time both teams couldn't get their visas right even with a lot of time to do them, so the mods from GC/GA insisted and they gave 1 spot, but it had to be played soon because they gave a time limit for the winners to give the documentaion, but they will pay everything while they are in USA. Btw, because they wanted it to be really soon, they tried to push it to the last weekend (23,24/04) but the e-frag tourn. was going on and they had to accept to give some more time, but as they still wanted it as earlier as possible, they antes GA to give only 8 teams for 1 spot, and GA had just made a top 10 at their leagues (their leagues have SA teams, but the only team that made to the pro league was 2Kill before they got picked up, so the other teams need to step up to get in there, and they almost got invited, but they had changed 2 players some days before so it would be really skeptical, so it has nothing to do with a BR only qual.) tl;dr - The invitations were given on a hurry so MLG could give the most help, and the GA pro league top 8 were invited.

2016-04-27 10:32

Haha that's it! Ur english sucks mano! Hahahaha! That was! Chileans arg Argentinians teams stil don't match BRazilians Pro's.

2016-04-27 15:46

REAL. 2kill the hipothetic most powerful arg team has the level of top5/6 br.

2016-04-27 20:30

if you wanted a invite you should at least have a team in the Pro League.

2016-04-27 10:38

rekt

2016-04-27 17:54

chile sucks get real m8 stop cryin

2016-04-27 17:53

No visa 4 sure

2016-04-27 07:35

GL with visas

2016-04-27 07:46

I just hope they aren't a bunch of onliners. But they looked quite good. They probably won't go to the other qualifier but maybe they can put a fight against teams and even surprise teams like Selfless.

2016-04-27 07:47

BigGods win MLG Minor Brazil qualifier*

'+2

GL GUYS!

2016-04-27 07:52

Damn I wanted to see cogu play

2016-04-27 08:20

nice update... important info...

2016-04-27 08:54

biggods will get 16-0'd at major

2016-04-27 09:07

TEAM ACTIMEL > TEAM ASIS > SA > OCEANIA > NA

2016-04-27 09:15

EZ 4 ENCE

2016-04-27 11:42

TEAM ISIS > WORLD

2016-04-27 13:45

i think not gonna happend, they always fail to get visa.

2016-04-27 10:33

rip my skins

2016-04-27 10:50

pure upset, bigodes guys are not that good, i really dont understand how they won that shit

2016-04-27 11:03

becoming good from nowhere?

2016-04-27 13:43

lmao

2016-04-27 11:06

nice they played rlly good yday against keyd stars gl for this guys in the future :)

2016-04-27 11:37

Haha, great team name. I'll be sure to support them.

deu bigode

2016-04-27 11:41

Cogu was playing pretty good, im not saying he's back, but he is not like failpan or frod, he looks promising

2016-04-27 11:45

Frod still hurts every time

2016-04-27 15:30

Back to retiring cogu

2016-04-27 12:02

GG bigodes!!!! <3 stichhh

2016-04-27 12:11

BIEL THE MAGICIAN EZ

2016-04-27 13:38

congratz BigGods well deserved win

2016-04-27 14:02

LG_Dead is gonna help them bootcamp in his house for a week dzt said it in the interview. Our community is really toxic sometimes but its still good to see that the majority are willing to help for a bigger goal.

2016-04-27 14:46

INB4 Cogu retiring again and coming back one more time in 2018.

2016-04-27 14:47

They did pretty well and I think they are very satisfied with this result. I thought they would lose against CNB to be honest. This lineup has 2 days together after cogu being away by 3 months waiting for mibr reply. FV said in a interview that they have a lot to do yet, they were playing without any tactics, only basic stuff.

2016-04-27 14:54

what happens with mibr? cuando es seu lanzamento?

2016-04-27 20:31

they canceled mibr returns due no sponsors and no money to buy the best players in brazil

2016-04-27 20:41

damn, this is definitive? o just suspended? so sad news. thanks mano

2016-05-07 22:49

suspended so far... but no one knows when they will bring mibr back... I was so hyped, it was cold water on me... =/

2016-05-08 01:35

true dat, mibr was mi fav team of all times. I still remember ESWC 2006. Hope they comeback. Brigado mano, tem un bom día.

2016-05-08 17:19

brigado boludo pra tu tambem

2016-05-08 17:22

seriously??? noo seriously??

2016-04-27 15:13

wtf keyd :/

2016-04-27 16:05

rip keyd stars

2016-04-27 18:44

they will still try to qualify through the na qualifiers, them and AT(zqk's team) there's a chance

2016-04-27 22:55

2016-04-27 21:33

BIEL THE MAGICIAN has made this my favorite team.

2016-04-28 00:12

kkkkk br é foda

2016-04-29 06:36

well another favela lucky and bad team that will 'celebrate' like monkeys and think they're the best and that they should be invited to every fucking tournament on the earth.

2016-05-07 22:52