ECS S1 finalists determined

27-5-2016 23:24

All eight participating teams at the offline finals of the first season of the Esports Championship Series have been determined following the end of the online playoffs in Europe and North America.

With Astralis, G2, Luminosity Gaming and Cloud9 already through to the ECS finals after finishing top-two in their respective regions, the teams who placed third to sixth were placed in double-elimination brackets to determine the last four sides booking spots at the event in London.

After barely making it to this stage, fnatic proved their critics wrong and topped the European bracket with back-to-back 2-0 wins over Ninjas in Pyjamas and mousesports. The last regional spot ended up going to Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström's side, who won the Consolidation Final after beating mousesports on two maps.

fnatic qualify for ECS finals

Over in North America, Team Liquid, who struggled for form in ELEAGUE, were the third team to secure a spot at the ECS finals after picking up 2-1 and 2-0 wins over OpTic Gaming and CLG, respectively. The holder of the final NA spot is none other than TSM, who bravely survived two elimination matches to finish second in the bracket.

The following eight teams will compete at the ECS Season 1 finals, from June 24-26 in London:

Europe	North America
Astralis	Luminosity
G2	Cloud9
fnatic	Liquid
Ninjas in Pyjamas	TSM

2016-05-27 23:23

9 replies

GONINJAS

2016-05-28 00:32

7 replies

TSM WASTE OF SPOT

2016-05-28 01:34

6 replies

It's like they didn't actually beat CLG and company to qualify!

2016-05-28 02:28

3 replies

But it's a weakened CLG...

2016-05-28 02:34

2 replies

CLG may have been weakened but 16-4 and 16-7, even if CLG had a 5th they still would have lost

2016-05-28 03:15

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But it's that team effort that can make a big difference. Pita may not be as much of a team player as FugLy was. When they had FugLy they were pretty good even though he usually didn't frag very high. So, he was helping in the team effort sort of way.

2016-05-28 19:06

should be optic

2016-05-30 10:32

They are all almost the same.

2016-06-21 07:23

why the fuck 4 spots to na should have been 2 na 6 eu mouz can beat all of na teams soo annoying and boring lol fuck

2016-05-29 00:21

yes

youtu.be/lnbHZZKxLnU?t=501

ez for one taps

2016-05-27 23:24

nice! rip tsm tho

n1... another failure in the books, another L in my life

noice

best that coulda have been

TSM, interesting how well they played to qualify for ECS S1 Finals

NA 4 spots again? TSM... maybe I'll kill myself

-tsm +optic plz

Not the way optic played when they faced in the playoffs. Jesus do they make a lot of ridiculous and dumb decisions

2016-05-28 00:48

Let's go BRAZIL! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL!

ez for Stew9

2016-05-27 23:25

rip mouz hope you rise again :'(

olofmeister???

2016-05-27 23:26

ez for lg

2016-05-27 23:27

ez LG

2016-05-27 23:29

G2 vs LG final again :=).

Will be interesting to see if G2s run at EPL finals was the beginning of their rise or not.

All I see here... (EU vs LG) Go astralis!

2016-05-27 23:33

Not fair to discount Cloud9. They are the dark horse in this event imo

2016-05-27 23:38

2016-05-27 23:49

if it was tempo instead of liquid then it be the best of na and eu

Tempo not in ECS

2016-05-27 23:37

i know why is said if.Im saying tempo becuase they are much better then liquid

2016-05-28 00:05

ez 4 olof

Basically same teams as Esl season 3, but now we have TSM instead of Optic. Again, I don't think any NA team gonna pass group stage this time as well, literally 3 wasted slots. All eyes on Astralis, they are going to play their first lan event with Kjaerbye, maybe time for danish CS has come, maybe this is the moment when Astralis stop the choke streak and finally win something big. I hope Olof will recover from his injury for this event and Fnatic start playing at their full potential again. It's not like Wenton is a bad replacement, it's just Olof is too good.