ESEA Premier Season 21 North America Finals

Tempo Storm win ESEA Premier S21

16-5-2016 06:09

Tempo Storm win the ESEA Premier Season 21 North American finals 2-0 over Ze Pug Godz (16-14 on Cache and 16-3 on Cobblestone) and have now qualified for Season 4 of the ESL Pro League.

Similar to the ESEA Premier Season 21 Europe finals which took place last weekend, the one-day ESEA Premier Season 21 North America finals featured four teams competing in a single elimination bracket for $20,000 and an entry into Season 4 of the ESL Pro League.

Taking place in the ESL studios in Burbank, California, the tournament kicked off with a match between Ze Pug Godz and Kaliber, with the latter team having signed to a new home the day before.

Despite a 16-3 demolition derby on Mirage for Kaliber, the heavily favoured team (and ECS Season 1 contender) found themselves having to deal with Complexity's Bradley "⁠ANDROID⁠" Fodor (who was playing for Ze Pug Godz due to ESEA roster-lock rules) and the rest of ZPG across two maps which went the underdog's way in the end (22-18 on Cache and 16-10 on Train).

ESEA Premier Season 21 North America FinalsBest of 3

Ze Pug Godz

Matchpage

15th May 2016

Kaliber

Mirage

Cache

Train

Ze Pug Godz	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor ANDROID	73 - 56	+17	88.3	71.8%	1.31
Jimmy 'Marved' Nguyen Marved	68 - 62	+6	80.0	72.9%	1.11
Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones cJ dA K1nG	53 - 68	-15	80.0	64.7%	0.95
Belal 'FGB' Ahmad FGB	57 - 71	-14	73.8	61.2%	0.85
Thomas 'cannonchow' Molinari cannonchow	39 - 58	-19	54.9	64.7%	0.75

Kaliber	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Brehze	82 - 62	+20	111.4	78.8%	1.49
Matthew 'no_one' Congdon no_one	66 - 62	+4	86.9	77.6%	1.20
Terry 'dsr' Rioux dsr	61 - 52	+9	73.1	78.8%	1.18
Cory 'APE' Bate APE	54 - 56	-2	72.9	71.8%	0.99
Sebastian 'seb' Bucki seb	52 - 58	-6	68.3	70.6%	0.95

The second semifinal of the tournament saw the favourites Tempo Storm match up against Vault. Train at first looked as if a huge upset were in the making as Vault pulled ahead to a substantial lead after a 9-6 first half, but the Brazilian team eventually grinded the map out and took it 16-13.

The second map was a complete stomp as Tempo Storm took Cobblestone 16-1 and advanced to the grand final.

ESEA Premier Season 21 North America FinalsBest of 3

Tempo Storm

Matchpage

16th May 2016

Vault

Train

Cobblestone

Tempo Storm	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	52 - 33	+19	121.8	69.6%	1.73
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	45 - 21	+24	102.3	80.4%	1.59
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles HEN1	27 - 21	+6	61.1	76.1%	1.13
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles LUCAS1	29 - 30	-1	64.0	76.1%	1.05
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves SHOOWTiME	28 - 26	+2	68.7	73.9%	1.05

Vault	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Joel 'jcrueL' Cruel jcrueL	39 - 33	+6	91.2	73.9%	1.25
Paul 'Nerdy' Gill Nerdy	26 - 36	-10	69.3	54.3%	0.74
Ray 'Rarkar' Xu Rarkar	24 - 38	-14	57.0	54.3%	0.68
Loic 'effys' Sauvageau effys	21 - 36	-15	56.6	52.2%	0.62
Ryan 'GRAMPZ' Baber GRAMPZ	21 - 38	-17	54.7	54.3%	0.61

The grand final yet again saw Tempo Storm struggle to develop an early lead on the first map of a series as Ze Pug Godz finished their T-side on Cache with a 9-6 score and even took the scoreline as far as 13-6 in their favour.

However, discipline and fortitude always show, as the saying goes, and the Brazilian team simply proved they were the more versatile as they eventually began to snatch together round-after-round and ultimately won Cache 16-14.

felps and the rest of Tempo Storm have made it to the Pro League

Much like their semifinal battle against Vault, Tempo Storm then had an easy time of it on Cobblestone and defenstrated the pug gods 16-3 on the map; this map win included Lucas "⁠LUCAS1⁠" Teles hitting an astounding shot on a jumping Christopher "⁠cJ dA K1nG⁠" Jones on the second pistolround in an afterplant situation.

As a result, Tempo Storm have automatically advanced to the North American division of the ESL Pro League whereas Ze Pug Godz will play a Relegation match against KKona in the near future.

ESEA Premier Season 21 North America FinalsBest of 3

Ze Pug Godz

Matchpage

16th May 2016

Tempo Storm

Cache

Cobblestone

Tempo Storm	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles LUCAS1	45 - 27	+18	106.0	79.6%	1.55
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	47 - 37	+10	99.8	77.6%	1.53
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	45 - 27	+18	96.0	77.6%	1.44
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves SHOOWTiME	32 - 25	+7	66.7	71.4%	1.10
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles HEN1	25 - 24	+1	52.1	71.4%	0.98

Ze Pug Godz	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Belal 'FGB' Ahmad FGB	34 - 36	-2	79.9	77.6%	1.03
Jimmy 'Marved' Nguyen Marved	36 - 37	-1	79.0	69.4%	1.01
Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones cJ dA K1nG	31 - 40	-9	70.5	53.1%	0.82
Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor ANDROID	20 - 42	-22	53.4	55.1%	0.57
Thomas 'cannonchow' Molinari cannonchow	18 - 39	-21	46.4	44.9%	0.50

ESEA Premier Season 21 North America Finals final standings:

1. Tempo Storm - $10,000 + ESL Pro League Season 4 spot
2. Ze Pug Godz - $5,000 + ESL Pro League Season 3 Relegation
3-4. Kaliber - $2,500
3-4. Vault - $2,500

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2016-05-16 06:09

1 reply

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2016-05-16 06:11

2 replies

2016-05-16 13:40

kakakaka noisss vietao s2

2016-05-16 23:05

chea

expected

Looking foward for the next season of ESL pro league. Tempo Storm will be a pain for the NA scenary, that's for sure. GGWP TS and gogo guys! TS/LG FTW!

5 replies

beware, g2 is coming to take ur throne ! :D

2016-05-16 09:30

4 replies

inb4 g2 out in groups next tourney

2016-05-16 11:55

3 replies

possible xd if not, we will meet again at final !

2016-05-16 12:18

g2 looking stronk. Shox and scream inspiring fear in everyone

2016-05-16 14:39

coldzera in this form is even scarier

2016-05-16 16:09

usp kreygasm

2016-05-16 06:10

brazil domination both in cs and the comments

expected really. they should've been invited directly to give a chance to this other teams :<

2016-05-16 06:16

KKona

Hey FGB what's your name?

too strong.

Super EZ

RIP now 2 br teams in esl pleague NA

we no need to shit orgs give us invite, we try hard, and we can pick a spot, go suck dicks ECS, and make a qualif.

we? are you part of tempo storm?

2016-05-16 13:09

take it easy faze|fox

2016-05-16 14:14

ez money I think they are playing against b0ts

GA/TempoStorm pretty much ran through Premier and Main. Sucks that they didn't get an invite to EPL earlier.

2016-05-16 06:12

NTC

2016-05-16 06:13

rip kaliber :(

2016-05-16 06:14

Brazil to take control over USA

What is pro league season 3 relegation? Isn't that a bad thing

6 replies

Ze pug will play vs complexity now who wins gets a spot in the pro league

2016-05-16 06:31

Thank you. But isn't androidx23 contracted to complexity but played for Godz because of rules? Incoming throw?

2016-05-16 06:40

Holy shit just realized now probably

2016-05-16 06:46

You mean KKona, since they are dead last.

2016-05-16 08:47

So which team from the pro league gets automatic relegation due to a team coming up every year, unless they expand every year

2016-05-16 14:57

From what I'm understanding there is no more removal just cause, second place Premier will play the bottom "pro" team and whoever wins gets to go to next season pro.

2016-05-16 18:51

Brazil zil zil zil!!! We are the champions BOYS!!! Congratz #TSWIN!

when does the next pro season start?

2016-05-16 06:15

Brazil Win again??? Omg brazilians CS is so good

flair is wrong

2016-05-16 06:19

ez congrats

2016-05-16 06:20

Wp TS congrats on a perfect season!

2016-05-16 06:21

sucks that roster locks boned ZpG and TKs chances, but not ESEA's fault. grats to TS

Sure does. Didn't watch the game but looking at the stats TK seems to have had a better series actually. ZpG just got carried by a player from coL :(

2016-05-16 10:05

ZpG got carried by a player from ZpG. ESEA has always used roster locks for postseason and android definitely knew that, so its his fault if he didnt think of that before hopping over to coL

2016-05-16 12:14

Well true. Not saying it's anyones fault but android but I still wouldn't count him as a ZpG player just because one site has a roster lock. Never understood why they got a roster lock to begin with. Either there is a "league wide" roster lock or none. So situations like this doesn't happen. That's for another discussion though of course.

2016-05-19 21:22

roster locks are league-wide. situations like this only happen because of uncommon occurances, eg. premier players being picked up by invite teams. better that than the inverse situation, invite players being picked up by premier teams for playoffs

2016-05-19 21:34

Ah I wrote it wrong I meant that a roster lock for all leagues, not just one. But yeah you are right would be very wrong if the situation was inverse.

2016-05-20 21:10

ez. WP

good shit.

2016-05-16 06:34

Ez 4 Henrique

TS vs this garbage much like LG vs top NA

2016-05-16 07:17

tempo are wasted in Premier..

2016-05-16 07:20

2016-05-16 07:22

Grats to Tempo. GJ making the rest of the competition look like... well... NA CS tbh

2016-05-16 07:23

we smart we loyal we friendly we major champions we CEVO champions we DH Austin champions we ESL champions we ESEA champions we are from BRAZIL!

2016-05-16 07:33

cJ on LAN 4Head

2016-05-16 08:45

I don't understand how organisers even let Brehze play on LAN without even investigating him in the slightest... the guy's clips are weird as fuck.

2016-05-16 09:04

That team kaliber got invited to ECS and lost to ZE PUG GODZ, while TS aren't invited for nothing, need to ran through ESEA MAIN AND PREMIER, and still won international events.

2016-05-16 09:14

could you guys stop whining about ts and ecs invit just deal with it. they cant have 3 favelas in their league that would cause world war 3

2016-05-16 11:25

TS <3

2016-05-16 11:10

na scene lol

2016-05-16 11:46

ez br na scene gg

2016-05-16 12:08

Brazil CS top 1 scene. :)

2016-05-16 12:27

2016-05-16 13:45

CG :)

2016-05-16 14:04

won't be surprise if the NA teams create a syndicate to make a law that calls "The NA Qualifiers can just be played by american organizations with american players in it rosters". inb4 trump wins.

2016-05-16 14:20