OpTic, Immortals to SL i-League S2

23-8-2016 05:09

OpTic and Immortals have secured the two Americas qualifier spots (beating Cloud 2-1 and Renegades 2-0, respectively) to the SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 Finals, taking place from September 7-11 in Nanjing, China.

The $300,000 SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 Finals, taking place in Nanjing, China from September 7-11, represent a $100,000 increase from the previous season whose finals in Minsk, Belarus in January of this year saw fnatic emerge victorious over Natus Vincere.

With the China qualifiers having already concluded, and the European qualifiers concluding only hours before (with Envy securing the final European spot), the North American evening saw the Americas qualifier bracket come to its apex, with both semifinals offering up spots to the $300,000 finals and no third place decider match unlike in the European qualifier.

tarik helped OpTic secure the first semifinal over Cloud9

The first semifinal was a North American face-off (with some Spanish seasoning thrown in) as Cloud9 took on OpTic, with both teams having recently effected roster changes as the former team brought in Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta from TSM and the latter team signed Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik.

Despite Cloud9 having won both of their recent ESL Pro League Season 4 matches against OpTic the night before, Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert & co.'s map pick of Cache did not go according to plan as a neck and neck game eventually saw OpTic grind out the first map with a 16-14 score.

Cloud9 then demolished OpTic on their own map pick with a 16-6 scoreline but OpTic completed the upset by taking the decider map of Cobblestone 16-11 and thus became the second North American team to qualify for the SL i-League StarSeries S2 Finals (after Liquid who are an invitee).

SL i-League S2 Americas QualifierBest of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

23rd August 2016

OpTic

Cache

Mirage

Cobblestone

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	62 - 50	+12	86.7	78.5%	1.21
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	59 - 50	+9	81.1	73.4%	1.14
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	55 - 52	+3	77.6	65.8%	1.09
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	49 - 49	0	79.6	73.4%	1.00
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	45 - 44	+1	60.6	73.4%	0.97

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	61 - 53	+8	79.3	68.4%	1.13
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	57 - 55	+2	76.8	60.8%	1.10
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	50 - 48	+2	68.3	60.8%	0.99
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	47 - 57	-10	66.2	62.0%	0.93
Damian 'daps' Steele daps	30 - 57	-27	54.8	65.8%	0.71

The second semifinal was between two teams not from North America, as the Brazilians of Immortals and the Australians of Renegades competed for the second North American spot.

felps and the Immortals had no problem brushing aside Renegades in the second semifinal

Unlike the first semifinal however, the Immortals flattened Renegades on their map pick of Overpass with a 16-6 score and then ground out Cobblestone with a 16-10 win, with Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage & co. only beginning to come alive towards the late end of the game.

SL i-League S2 Americas QualifierBest of 3

Immortals

Matchpage

23rd August 2016

Renegades

Overpass

Cobblestone

Immortals	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles HEN1	36 - 21	+15	79.0	77.1%	1.32
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles LUCAS1	38 - 25	+13	82.8	81.2%	1.31
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	38 - 36	+2	95.5	60.4%	1.14
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	31 - 24	+7	75.8	72.9%	1.12
Wilton 'zews' Prado zews	35 - 31	+4	74.2	70.8%	1.08

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	36 - 37	-1	94.5	66.7%	1.19
Yaman 'yam' Ergenekon yam	26 - 31	-5	63.5	66.7%	0.92
Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac USTILO	27 - 40	-13	71.7	58.3%	0.82
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	20 - 33	-13	51.6	64.6%	0.72
Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Rickeh	28 - 37	-9	47.5	60.4%	0.72

The list of teams who will attend the SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 Finals is therefore:

fnatic	G2	Natus Vincere	Liquid
Astralis	Virtus.pro	Ninjas in Pyjamas	TBA *
VG.CyberZen	TYLOO	MVP Project	Dignitas
X	Envy	OpTic	Immortals

*The remaining team to be announced for the SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 Finals is SK's replacement, as the Brazilian team had to withdraw due to fer's health issues, and this final team has not been announced yet.

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No C9 no fun

2016-08-23 05:09

10 replies

ez for korea btw last team will be GODSENT for sure

2016-08-23 05:10

6 replies

why you think is godsent? any source or good guess?

2016-08-23 05:15

3 replies

ayee_lmao1 said that on his irc chat

2016-08-23 05:16

2 replies

when will they announce? tmrrw?

2016-08-23 05:21

1 reply

dunno, but soon

2016-08-23 05:22

yeah probably

2016-08-23 11:11

Fnatic not invited, godsent is Proof starladder.com/en/event/csgostarseries/c..

2016-08-23 13:38

i hate you rn.

:P N/A has got slow net bruh, it is 5:10 AM in Spain and i was waiting for this!

what a god. haha <3

2016-08-23 05:11

niiice

2016-08-23 05:18

DA VI TUT CHE BL9D SYTKAMI SIDITE ?!

Ahahaha bl9

2016-08-23 06:32

hahhaha

2016-08-23 12:26

ez Brazil <3

EZ FOR BRAZIL

jesus christ its jason bourne

thank you HLTV, we appreciate that! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL!

Nice! At least one BR team there!

I'm not seeing stats for either match currently guys, they'll probably be added in the EU morning :)

tks stich

ok, ty!

2016-08-23 06:02

I bet C9 will take SK's spot in the League.

4 replies

c9 lmao its going to godsent

2016-08-23 05:17

I personally dont think so, but we'll see

Can they give to TSM ?!

2016-08-23 11:51

Godsent already invited

2016-08-24 14:29

c9 to be TBA

C9 will get SK's spot 100%

7 replies

SK don't want to play close events until fer get back.. But I'm sure this event didn't invite anyone yet trying to bring them to play

5 replies

I think SK already made it clear that they didnt want to play any big lans without Fer. Im sure StarLadder will announce the last team either today or tomorrow.

2016-08-23 05:13

I hope for someone from NA.. 6 direct invites for EU teams. Will not be fair one more

If it is someone from NA, Its probably going to be C9 because they have a large fanbase and would bring in a lot of viewers.

a lot of times they get a invite whitout deserve that spot.. but actually they're playing pretty good, would be good

I think they should invite godsent In terms of spot, yeah NA deservers one more but besides that, why should they invite c9? :/

2016-08-23 14:34

They'll do a C9 x RNG match, and who wins take the spot.

They didn't invite anyone for this TBA bcuz they really want SK to play in this event.. and they don't want to play whitout Fer and lose their stats as 1st of the world

9 replies

godsent

2016-08-23 05:12

8 replies

too much direct spots for EU teams.. this one will be from NA

ehh, who else could they invite from NA? cloud9 lost in the qualifier so not them and liquid is not that hot atm. dunno

good point.. maybe g3x from BR. You guys would surprime urselves. They didn't lose a single map a LOONNNGGG time

2016-08-23 05:20

of course just a dream

Liquid was invited already, so it's definatly not them. Guess it wasn't obvious with them being on the list and all.....

2016-08-23 08:20

I dont think so because didnt Godsent decline the invitation to Northern Arena because they wanted more time to practice or something?

2016-08-23 05:14

noope. flusha said on his stream they declined it because they think the tier of the tournament is too low for them

Ahh ok that makes sense, then maybe godsent will get the last spot

"the Brazilians of Immortals and the Australians of Renegades competed for the second North American spot." NA CS 4Head

Dicks out for Hen1rambe

boa, favela caralho

This is gonna be a hell of a tournament! Except for mouz, every Tier 1 team is present, and a lot of good teams from other scenes! Great games are coming, and lot of upsets too!

2016-08-23 05:19

gr8 b8 but nobody yes door

2016-08-23 05:57

nobody yes door LUL old but gold

2016-08-23 14:35

>tier1 >EnVy >Especially without NBK

2016-08-23 08:44

why n0 NBK?

2016-08-23 10:40

He said on a tweet that he will be attending his brother's wedding.

2016-08-23 12:19

Ez 4 X, Valdemar will go ham.

GJ Immportals, GJ Optik, tarik is happy!

2016-08-23 05:31

Invite FaZe please.

2016-08-23 05:48

+Godsent plz

2016-08-23 05:56

Should be RNG vs Cloud9

2016-08-23 06:00

TBA = GODSENT please

2016-08-23 06:25

Easy for fnatic I gess...oh wait!!! =D

2016-08-23 06:33

No C9, no watch.

2016-08-23 06:43

There is still a chance that they get SK's spot

2016-08-23 06:44

Good CS fan. Go to reddit.

2016-08-23 08:45

3 slot for china,3 slot for eu,2 slot for na well, TBA will be na #3 which win decide match?

2016-08-23 08:04

C9 [*]

2016-08-23 10:23

last spot = Gambit

2016-08-23 10:27

Why no stats anymore on hltv?

2016-08-23 10:39

The location where the Finals will be hold has changed from Nanjing,China to Kiev,Ukraine. Im so so sad about this. Fxxk.

2016-08-23 10:55

At least you still have 2 Asian and 1 Korean team playing :/ but yeah it sucks

2016-08-23 13:10

Final will change from Nanjin to Kiev

2016-08-23 11:08

The SL i-League S2 will not be held in Nanking, China. Because of the G20 meeting, they decline all visa application for people have visted SIC area in the last 3 years. Fucken Communist bandit

2016-08-23 11:14