EL Major Main Qualifier viewer's guide

14-12-2016 23:30

With the ELEAGUE Major Main Qualifier set to start tomorrow, we bring you a detailed viewer's guide to lead you through the action that will take place in Atlanta this week.

The ELEAGUE Major Main Qualifier will take place at the ELEAGUE Studios from December 15-18, using the Swiss System to decide which eight teams will make it through to the ELEAGUE Major in January.

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Sixteen attending teams have been split up into four seeding pools, depending on their placings at the Cologne Major or at their regional Minors. Teams from the same pool will not be drawn to play each other, except the matchup is unavoidable.

The seeding pools are as follows:

Seeding pool 1	Seeding pool 2	Seeding pool 3	Seeding pool 4
Dignitas	CLG	Vega Squadron	Spirit
Ninjas in Pyjamas	OpTic	TYLOO	Renegades
MOUZ	Envy	GODSENT	HellRaisers
FaZe	G2	Immortals	Cloud9

For a detailed explanation of the system and a deeper look at the attending teams, check out Milan "Striker" Švejda's ELEAGUE Main Qualifier Preview.

The first day of competition will feature the following matchups:

16:00	Dignitas	vs. Spirit	BO1
17:15	Envy	vs. Immortals	BO1
18:30	FaZe	vs. Cloud9	BO1
19:45	CLG	vs. Vega Squadron	BO1
21:00	Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs. Renegades	BO1
22:15	OpTic	vs. TYLOO	BO1
23:30	MOUZ	vs. HellRaisers	BO1
00:45	G2	vs. GODSENT	BO1

The schedules and exact matchups for the following days will be revealed as the tournament moves on.

All matches will be played as best-of-ones, featuring the veto system we've seen at previous ELEAGUE events. The system has one team banning three maps, the other team banning two and the map to be played getting decided by a random generator.

To bring us coverage of the tournament, ELEAGUE has brought together a strong talent lineup featuring the ELEAGUE Season 2 analyst trio of Richard Lewis, Duncan "Thorin" Shields and Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole, the three most popular CS:GO casting pairs and Sue "Smix" Lee to fill in the host role.

The following talent will be present at the ELEAGUE Major Main Qualifier:

Sue "Smix" Lee – Host

Richard Lewis – Analyst
Duncan "Thorin" Shields - Analyst
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole – Analyst

Anders Blume – Commentator
Auguste "Semmler" Masonnat – Commentator
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia – Commentator
James Bardolph – Commentator
Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer – Commentator
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett – Commentator

The winner is only 1 guys, im faster than Keiran Lee Now i will give you free tips: Dignitas will win but not ez, Spirit can get 6+ rounds Imm to win but Envy will take at least 1 pistol round Faze vs C9 - 50/50, just going for the underdog, Faze to win first pistol round CLG vs Vega - skip or bet on CLG -3,5 just for fun to watch subroza getting banned on lan NIP vs RNG - RNG to win 6 or more rounds ez Optic vs Tyloo - Tyloo 6 or more rounds ez, they can even win this mouz vs hr - mouz after bootcamp, but shit odds, i belive in HR G2 vs Godsent - in BO3 G2, but bo1... Underdog all the way, swedish bois are going to the major anyway

2016-12-14 23:34

7 replies

Flusha 10 majors in a row? I arent think that

2016-12-14 23:37

4 replies

Even if they lose this match, they will still qualify. For me - Dignitas, NIP, C9, Imm, Godsent, Optic, faze, mouz/g2/envy

2016-12-14 23:45

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I Go for; Dignitas Nip FaZe OpTic Godsent EnVy G2 C9 But i would love to see Tyloo in the major!

2016-12-15 01:15

2 replies

-EnVy +Immortals -G2/GodSent +Tyloo

2016-12-15 05:57

1 reply

Only if hen1 performs. But I doubt that

2016-12-15 06:16

man what is this 6 rounds tips? wich site?

2016-12-15 07:39

dont know, just saying that these teams can ez get 6 rounds, check fanobet maybe

2016-12-15 13:46

nice

2016-12-14 23:30

Easy for RNG

2016-12-14 23:31

nicwe

YEAH COOL

thank mr hltv

Nixe

SK ?

2016-12-14 23:38

SK is already in the major with Astralis, Fl1pside, Gambit, Liquid, Fnatic, NaVi, and VP

2016-12-15 01:18

2016-12-15 07:16

We're almost in 2017 and retards are still hunting top comment :DDD

2016-12-14 23:39

It will happen in next years too for sure

2016-12-14 23:55

Why c9 is seed4?

they qualified via America's minor. Last major bottom 8 get seed groups 1 and 2. Seed groups 3 and 4 are from minors.

2016-12-15 01:51

It just means they came from NA

2016-12-15 02:31

Dignitas Immortals Cloud9 CLG NIP Optic Mousesports G2

2016-12-14 23:56

Im from the future screencap this Cloud9, Optic and G2 wont qualify! The teams that will qualify are -Mousesports 3-0 -Dignitas 3-0 -Envyus 3-1 -Nip 3-1 -Faze 3-2 -Renegades 3-2 -Immortals 3-2 -Godsent 3-2

2016-12-15 00:05

Must be bait.... Mouse, Envy, Renegades, Immortals, and Godsent over Optic? Worst shit i've read today

2016-12-15 01:19

Mouz-(0-5)-sports xD what year are you from? oh wait it doesn't matter

2016-12-15 02:32

CLG vs vega squadron game of the century.

2016-12-15 00:06

wish they would play 2 matches at once

2016-12-15 00:25

So fucking stacked

2016-12-15 00:33

Ikr CLG Vega Squadron Spirit TyLoo RNG Hellraisers Cloud9 OpTic EZ MAJOR edit - can't believe i will get those vega stickers!

2016-12-15 00:44

Pumped for the tyloo stickers :) Vega is gonna be sweet too :) kms :) Pity stickers

2016-12-15 01:55

2 spots for cis minor is the biggest joke ever

2016-12-15 00:55

tyloo plz

2016-12-15 01:22

EZ FOR GODSENT =)

2016-12-15 01:47

godsent top #1 team soon

2016-12-15 01:48

Dig Immortals FaZe Vega Squad NiP Optic Hellraisers G2 You heard it here first

2016-12-15 02:15

clg will qual

2016-12-15 02:27

nt cowboy

2016-12-15 12:36

seeding pool 1 and 2 are so fucking lucky...so smart to put the strongest teams in 1 seed so they don't have to play against each other...fucking retards who made this seeding

2016-12-15 03:30

6 replies

dude pool 1 and 2 are the teams that were in the last major so of course they're going to get a better seeding

2016-12-15 03:35

5 replies

still stupid all this "advantage" bs should stop...everyone should get a fair chance and not bs like that...they just want the same fucking teams because of the fan bases

2016-12-15 03:36

Well.. If the teams in pool 3 and 4 can't win over 1 and 2, maybe they shouldn't be in the major?

2016-12-15 04:12

2016-12-15 07:19

rofl doesn't even make sense.. if the seeding was fair you could easily say that the many teams in seeding 1 and 2 wouldn't make it. use your fucking brain pls

2016-12-15 14:26

yeah. would be so cool, if a tier3 team could make it to the major, get rekt 16-0 in 2 BO1s there, and come home, just bcuz they played with t3 teams in the qualifier.

2016-12-15 16:29