PGL Regional Minor Championship Europe - ELEAGUE Major 2017 - Qualifier 1

Epsilon & ENCE qualify for EU Minor

20-10-2016 01:12

The first qualifier for the PGL Regional Minor Championship has finished, with Epsilon eSports and ENCE securing spots for the LAN in November.

After 11 European teams unsuccessfully protested the direct invites for the Minor earlier this week, two new teams for the PGL-hosted event have been found through the online qualifier.

In the last day of the first qualifier, the Swedes of Epsilon cruised past iNation before meeting Tricked in the deciding match.

Epsilon will feature on another Minor - the third for REZ and draken

Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen and Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen had solid games over the three-map affair, but Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen's team wasn't able to get more than one map in the series. After losing Train 16-9, William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin and co. won their map pick - Mirage (16-9) and closed the deal on Cobblestone (16-7).

PGL Regional Minor Championship Europe - ELEAGUE Major 2017 - Qualifier 1Best of 3

Tricked

Matchpage

19th October 2016

Epsilon

Train

Mirage

Cobblestone

Epsilon	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'draken' Sundin draken	62 - 47	+15	83.4	67.6%	1.23
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	61 - 52	+9	84.0	79.7%	1.20
Fredrik 'freddieb' Buö freddieb	53 - 47	+6	82.6	66.2%	1.18
Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun disco doplan	47 - 43	+4	68.4	78.4%	1.07
André 'BARBARR' Möller BARBARR	48 - 49	-1	74.3	70.3%	1.03

Tricked	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen JUGi	64 - 50	+14	90.9	70.3%	1.28
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen niko	56 - 51	+5	73.7	67.6%	1.06
Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen es3tag	47 - 53	-6	72.5	60.8%	0.94
Lasse 'maeVe' Elgaard maeVe	42 - 56	-14	68.2	62.2%	0.81
Nicolai 'HUNDEN' Petersen HUNDEN	29 - 62	-33	56.0	51.4%	0.60

On the other side of the bracket, ENCE eliminated Kévin "⁠Ex6TenZ⁠" Droolans's LDLC, who had connectivity issues, before moving on to Bpro that featured Emiliyan "⁠spyleadeR⁠" Dimitrov and Nikolay "⁠nkl⁠" Krastev.

The Finns took down the Bulgarian team 2-0, starting with a 16-13 win on Train and ending with an 21-16 overtime game on Mirage.

PGL Regional Minor Championship Europe - ELEAGUE Major 2017 - Qualifier 1Best of 3

Bpro

Matchpage

19th October 2016

ENCE

Train

Mirage

ENCE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tony 'arvid' Niemelä arvid	50 - 41	+9	81.5	77.3%	1.22
Juho 'juho' Lampinen juho	56 - 46	+10	87.9	81.8%	1.22
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi suNny	53 - 42	+11	85.4	68.2%	1.16
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Aleksib	42 - 40	+2	73.8	59.1%	1.03
Niko 'naSu' Kovanen naSu	39 - 45	-6	66.4	75.8%	0.87

Bpro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikolay 'niki1' Pantaleev niki1	53 - 47	+6	96.9	65.2%	1.28
Nikola 'NK4Y' Radushev NK4Y	45 - 48	-3	79.7	68.2%	1.03
Nikolay 'nkl' Krastev nkl	39 - 47	-8	66.6	63.6%	0.88
Emiliyan 'spyleadeR' Dimitrov spyleadeR	39 - 49	-10	63.7	59.1%	0.85
Teodor 'psycho' Dimov psycho	38 - 50	-12	65.5	62.1%	0.80

With these results, following teams will be in Bucharest this November for the European Minor:

fnatic	HEROIC	HellRaisers	Space Soldiers
Epsilon	ENCE	Qualifier #2	Qualifier #2

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gj ence

2016-10-20 01:12

2 replies

#EZForENCEeSportsFromTheNordicCountryFinland

2016-10-20 12:37

wtf is wrong with Ex6tenZ ? This guy is so unlucky :/

2016-10-23 11:33

EZ 4 ENCE

ez4ence

GOD HUNDEN

1 reply

2016-10-20 16:52

nice

2016-10-20 01:13

EZ 4 ence

ez 4 juho to rip cornholios

2016-10-20 03:37

Expected because ez 4 ence. Sad for lord hunden, but it only happened because he is a merciful god and wants the others to have the chance to play

gl ence

what happened to attax ? they didnt play against tricked and I didnt see the match on hltv

2016-10-20 01:14

4 replies

They lost their match against singularity and went out, singularity went out because they were missing a small part of their demos when attax accused them of cheating.

2016-10-20 01:18

aTTaX lost the game - so they were out. Singularity were disqualified because of the demo issue - so they were also out. Tricked recieved a default win against attax/singularity since both teams "lost". Doesn't make much sense, but that is how FACEIT Cups work.

2016-10-20 01:20

hmm thanks I thought attax play against tricked since singularity disqualified cuz I saw this on match page thats why I asked ""** Singularity forfeit the match due to not recording POV demos, ALTERNATE aTTaX advance to the quarter-finals""

2016-10-20 01:44

wow that is interesting, thanks for explaining

2016-10-20 03:00

2016-10-20 01:21

Authentic shitposting straight from the source.

2016-10-20 01:36

Hopefully you crush those free-riders in minor now :)

2016-10-20 14:27

I think scoreboard for tricked is upside down.

2016-10-20 01:25

ez4fnatic

2016-10-20 01:27

So many posts reported for comment hunting. Gl hf

2016-10-20 01:29

Dont see lurrpis spilling salt all over the place. +1 Edit: Just saw it -1

2016-10-20 01:30

they shouldnt have invites to a minor...

NaSu last on scoreboard. I guess it's a family thing. Just banter pls no ban just enjoying the night. :D

seeing fnatic on a minor qualifier makes me elegiggle

2016-10-20 01:50

wp Epsilon, go get em

2016-10-20 02:02

tRICKED has some serious potential, but it would help if they dtopped our lord and savior HUNDEN.

2016-10-20 02:13

How come Niko could play this qualifier anyways? hltv.org/forum/1284544-niko-dk-vac-banne.. steamcommunity.com/id/Kristensen1337 steamcommunity.com/profiles/765611980555..

2016-10-20 02:19

Check post on your main thread

2016-10-20 13:52

too easy for ence (mad fragger Xarte) also, lol at seeing fnatic in a minor :DD

2016-10-20 02:41

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2016-10-20 05:42

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2016-10-20 06:40

Omg hunden strikes again.

2016-10-20 07:08

Nicolai 'HUNDEN' Petersen as always MVP!

2016-10-20 08:01

Haha good that all the shit teams boycott the event. I dont want to see fucking kinguin or penta in minor anyway

2016-10-20 08:12

boycott?

2016-10-20 12:43

3 replies

hltv.org/news/18942-european-teams-prote.. yes basically 11 teams have file a protest against the invitation of fnatic,heroic,hellraisers and space soldier and left only 4 slots for qualifer and they threaten to not participate if the organizer do not change the decision.

2016-10-20 12:48

hows that a boycott? 2 of the listed teams literally won the qualifier

2016-10-20 13:06

yeah i know. not all teams boycott but some like kinguin and penta did.

2016-10-20 13:09

ENCE WITH NO ALLU IS NOT ENCE. ITS FAKEENCE

2016-10-20 09:41

epsilon deserves a major

2016-10-20 10:15

When will tricked wake up and change HUNDEN?

2016-10-20 10:17

Why change the best player in Denmark?

2016-10-20 11:22

U propably meant to write: "When will Astralis wake up and pick HUNDEN" =)

2016-10-20 13:04

Sorry yes, I'm just confused and amazed by HUNDEN, mvp, every single time! ;-)

2016-10-20 13:42

Congrats Epsilon! Right when the goin gets a bit tough

2016-10-20 10:19

LDLC should be qualified. Shame on Face it and their stupid rules. You can't play with a standin and have to play 4v5 when one of your players suffer from electricity shutdown, wtf is that ?

2016-10-20 13:05

That's not the faceit fault, they're just there for apply the PGL's rules. Blame on you PGL and hope LDLC will have better chance on the second qualifier!!

2016-10-20 13:15

Why is this Minorsohyped? The winner of the Minor qualifies to Major or...?

2016-10-20 13:11

top 2 of minor gets to qualifier for major, from which u have decent chance to qualify if you are a good team.

2016-10-20 13:24

Ok ty. When a tournament/qualifier ends, It would be nice have a summ up of what the winner teams get by winning the tournament in the news text.

2016-10-20 14:52

Yea it is pretty tough to know sometimes unless you happen to have read about it. Personally I usually use liquidpedia to find info about events. They have different categories there from premier tournaments down to just random small ones etc. :) (link forwards to premier tournaments page) wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/Premie..

2016-10-20 15:11