ELEAGUE S2 NA teams found

16-9-2016 03:36

ELEAGUE's Season 2 team list is now complete with the addition of Immortals, SK, Echo Fox, and OpTic from the North America Closed Qualifier.

This evening saw the conclusion of the ELEAGUE Season 2 North America Closed Qualifier with four teams advancing to the $1.4 million season season: Immortals, SK, Echo Fox, and OpTic.

The gears for ELEAGUE Season 2 went into motion in late August with an official announcement which made several changes to the league, such as trimming the teams list from 24 teams to 16 teams and also changing the group stages to a double elimination format rather than the two-stage seeding system.

The second season also ushered in a series of open qualifiers in both Europe and North America, with an eventual lead-up to closed qualifiers to determine four spots for each region (in addition to the top eight finishing teams from the first season).

With the European region finishing its closed qualifer last week, the North America qualifier kicked off soon afterwards and the round-of-sixteen quickly saw participating teams from Season 1 get knocked out such as compLexity, CLG, and Selfless.

Echo Fox claimed the ELEAGUE Season 2 spot from Liquid

With the round-of-eight in effect determining the four teams to advance to ELEAGUE Season 2, the first series saw Immortals grind out TSM 2-0 across two rather closely contested maps (16-14 on Mirage and 16-10 on Cobblestone).

The match-up between the world's best team SK and NRG was meanwhile a blowout with the Brazilian superteam waltzing to a comfortable 2-0 victory (16-8 on Dust2 and 16-7 on Overpass).

Those looking for a close series finally received a treat when Echo Fox took on Liquid as, following a 16-11 victory for Liquid on Mirage and a 16-9 sweep for Echo Fox on Nuke, the decider map of Dust2 saw Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin & co. let slip an eight round lead (12-4) as a Shahzeb "⁠ShahZaM⁠" Khan-powered Echo Fox took the final map 16-13.

The final series between OpTic and Renegades featured two close maps, with Cache seeing OpTic (using Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz instead of Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele in what is presumably a long term change) nearly squander a 13-2 first half but ultimately close out the map 16-13. Despite a 10-5 halftime lead on Dust2, Renegades also fell on their map pick with OpTic claiming another 16-13 win and becoming the final qualifying team.

The full team list for ELEAGUE Season 2 is:

Virtus.pro	fnatic	MOUZ	Natus Vincere
Envy	Astralis	Cloud9	Ninjas in Pyjamas
G2	FaZe	Dignitas	ALTERNATE aTTaX
Immortals	SK	Echo Fox	OpTic

ELEAGUE Season 2 kicks off on October 21 and runs up until December 3 with $1.4 million in prize money on the line.

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3 NA teams and 2 BR teams.. Is not far the day where NA camps will have more BR teams than NA

2016-09-16 03:39

11 replies

If BR had more players I would agree, but they only have 2 up-and-coming teams in GeX and Luminosity.

2016-09-16 03:40

8 replies

but some others pretty interesting and potential players to show up And paiN

2016-09-16 03:42

6 replies

they still have trouble dealing with teams that are in the 15-20 range in NA (at least gex and paiN). Brazil has quality for certain, but not much quantity.

2016-09-16 03:48

5 replies

g3x Played with NA teams? o.O

2016-09-16 03:59

4 replies

I was wrong, g3x hasn't played any NA teams, however they have faced Crowns and MK. They went 16 - 12 (cache) and 6 - 16 (train) against MK, and 13-16 (cache) against Crowns.

2016-09-16 04:06

3 replies

Mk = tier 1 NA

2016-09-16 11:31

2 replies

Yeah, but it was 1 map and it was the first time g3x had played outside of Brazil, so it was going to be hard for them. Similar to how Tyloo beat Luminosity (now SK) and Na'Vi. I doubt anyone would put Tyloo as a top 10 team in the world, never-mind first. Same thing applies to g3x.

2016-09-16 16:45

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as you said "first time g3x had played outside of Brazil". That said, I expect a lot more from them once they are more experienced.

2016-09-16 19:21

Only team that's up and coming is paiN, g3x and LG suck.

2016-09-16 05:12

stupid favela, brazil is going no where fast. Brazil has two good teams relax, and the others are even with the rest of the worlds tier shit teams

2016-09-16 14:06

2016-09-16 14:46

Ez OpTic

2016-09-16 03:37

They didn't invite godsent and heroic, but they invited alternate attax, optic and echo fox? gj

2016-09-16 03:43

7 replies

they qualified , alternate attax won 2-1 against godsent

jesus..

2016-09-16 03:52

and echo fox 2-1 against liquid ...

2016-09-16 03:53

haha ;) godsent sucks m8

2016-09-16 04:39

Next time don't insulting alternate, it's not their fault FeelsBaMan Overly agressive FeelsBadMan

2016-09-16 14:58

Homesent lol

2016-09-16 07:14

u dont even follow the scene and bitching about teams attax well deserved their spot lolz

2016-09-16 04:07

Oooo, this season looks pretty interesting.

2016-09-16 03:38

BIG IF TRUE

go sk

rip Liquid

Lol at echo fox

nice C group, all the bests of the world there

those aren't groups D:

some people, lawl... Nice articles though man. Keep up the good work.

2016-09-16 04:11

Hi fake singapore :]

2016-09-16 09:20

Hi fake indonesia

2016-09-16 09:55

worst xD

go SK

RIP GODSENT

RIP Liquid and GODSENT

Liquid and GODSENT fucked up this event. Would've been 100% perfect if they just fucking won their qualifier.

Apologizes, if you dont deliver you dont qualify. Tournament is stacked anyway, will be a joy to follow from home ;D

2016-09-16 03:58

pimp confirmed throw Kappa

2016-09-16 04:08

Sorry about the result Pimp. You played well though and I know you guys will become stronger for ESL and IEM. Must be hard trying to step into the shoes of s1mple. :/

lol they won't. Not p1mps fault tho, Liquid just sucks

2016-09-16 06:11

I was just trying to be nice. :(

2016-09-16 16:42

Did I just get a reply from Pimp LMFAO okayyyyy.......... dude wasssssssup?! lol Anyway, yea you're right, will undoubtedly be entertaining and fun to follow... Just a shame :( Well good luck in the rest of your leagues Pimp!

2016-09-16 05:03

It's not like any of those NA teams will last a second there anyway. Echo Fox and Cloud9 in particular. I think stan will bring something new to the table for OpTic and I think TSM have a nice addition in Relyks. They need a proper AWPer though as sEMPHIs isnt cutting it. #TLWIN #TLGO

2016-09-16 09:36

alternante attax fucking alternate attax for fuck sake just disqualify them and get godsent

2016-09-16 03:44

Alternate attax won fair and square. Everyone complains about the whole "virtus premier" getting into EPL thing, and now Godsent loses to Attax and everyone thinks Godsent should just get a free ride.

2016-09-16 04:10

i know they won fair and square, but you have to agree with me that seeing godsent would me way more entertaining attax will just sit on the bottom of their group, godsent could actually do damage

I know it would have been better story-wise for Godsent to be in there, but what is there to say that Attax can't be competitive. Sure I doubt they are going to tear up the league, but they could potentially take a few maps off people in the league, similar to what Penta has done in EPL.

2016-09-16 04:18

not exactly, imagine if keyd stars were just kicked from events bc they were unknown...

2016-09-16 06:32

+99 gotta give small teams a chance especially if they fairly qualified themselves

2016-09-16 10:53

keyd stars never played any online games or big lans when they were in brazil which means that nobody knew what they could achieve. We saw already enough of ALTERNATE aTTaX to know what they can do from online games and lans. Your comparison doesnt work.

2016-09-16 11:27

What a great idea for a scene that tries to get more professional

2016-09-16 09:59

Where's renegades?

2016-09-16 03:45

where did you find them ? in the woods ?

2016-09-16 03:50

2016-09-16 03:57

I swear to fucking god do you people read. These are not groups.

2016-09-16 03:54

Notifications to the app should be / may be 1 minute later, i.e. after the newsblog being posted.

2016-09-16 06:43

ahaahahahaha

Why not put Eleague 1 representative Asiatic?maybe TyLoo or mongolz

2016-09-16 03:51

How the hell did Godsent lose to A. Attax? Geez

Germans online you know (: also godsent needs time im starting to think that flusha is toxic

2016-09-16 04:09

Lol godsent got rekt the next day on lan as well,its not like they were performing like gods on that day.

2016-09-16 09:21

did anyone say that godsent is good? they raped dignitas but that was just lucky i guess good lineup on paper but they need a bootcamp or smth

2016-09-16 15:57

Stop saying shit about aTTaX, they beat all the teams on the online qualifier to be there, yeah including the damn swedes. They are the best tier 3 team along with SS, they deserve some credit due to the teams they already beat.

2016-09-16 04:16

online yea, immortals lost to tier 6 na team :D

2016-09-16 04:33

GODSENT showed very low level on lan... whats your point!? Alternate was the best team and won.

2016-09-16 05:01

Godsent is a new team they need time

Wasnt SS = German? Oh wait Space soldiers K then

2016-09-16 15:03

EZ4ATTAX!

Rip tyloo

2016-09-16 04:35

LUL where them Liquid fanboys at now?

2016-09-16 05:28

Classic Liquid choke omfg Shouldn't have signed a Dane, maybe a Swede instead since Swedes loves to make comebacks and usually don't choke

2016-09-16 07:06

i have faith that one day, RNG will actually go through a closed qualifier

2016-09-16 07:10

So they should get tournament free.. Who gives fuck where they played... Maybe time will get them tier5 in 2 years.. Godsent is horrible now..old squad was far more better..Godsent never gonna get big tournaments if not invited.

2016-09-16 07:39

RIP Líquid theo don't deserve stay out!

2016-09-16 07:46

But at least we have IMMORTALS, echo fox, c9, optic and SK. They are NA teams. Look at title. Hltv confirmed. RIP Brazil

2016-09-16 16:47

- repeated

2016-09-16 09:37

no godsent, no liquid, no rene, no heroic FeelsBadMan

2016-09-16 10:33

EU CS LUL LIQUID DA BEST LULULUL S1MPLE ISNT CARRYING ITS ELIGE LULUL HIKO THE BEST LULULUL NA CS > EU CS BECUZ WE GOT INTO A FINAL Ayyyy lulmao Sry evoking strong emotions

2016-09-16 15:06