ESL Pro League Season 4 North America Relegation

Luminosity & Rush qualify for EPL S5

19-1-2017 10:31

The last two teams for the North American division of ESL Pro League Season 5 have been decided as Luminosity and Rush won the relegation matches.

When the North American version of ESL Pro League Season 5 starts on February 7th, it will be with 14 teams battling it out for the much-coveted spots at the LAN finals.

12 of the 14 teams were already decided but the two relegation matches were going to send two more teams into the EPL and two teams into ESEA Premier Season 24.

In the first relegation match Luminosity were going to try to steal away Selfless' spot in EPL. The Brazilians achieved success in this particular goal as they won the series without any problems. Especially Gustavo "⁠yel⁠" Knittel showed up in the game as he ended with a rating of 1.69.

ESL Pro League Season 4 North America RelegationBest of 3

Selfless

Matchpage

18th January 2017

Luminosity

Train

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Selfless	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Matthew 'no_one' Congdon no_one	39 - 39	0	83.8	67.3%	1.06
Terry 'dsr' Rioux dsr	29 - 42	-13	76.6	51.0%	0.84
Alec 'Slemmy' White Slemmy	27 - 40	-13	61.0	57.1%	0.75
Noah 'Nifty' Francis Nifty	19 - 38	-19	50.0	61.2%	0.66
Jake 'kaboose' McDonald kaboose	22 - 40	-18	60.1	51.0%	0.60

Luminosity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Gustavo 'yel' Knittel yel	49 - 21	+28	93.4	77.6%	1.54
Lucas 'destiny' Bullo destiny	44 - 35	+9	99.4	79.6%	1.42
Bruno 'shz' Martinelli shz	35 - 27	+8	74.1	77.6%	1.23
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves SHOOWTiME	35 - 30	+5	85.9	77.6%	1.22
Vinicios 'PKL' Coelho PKL	34 - 24	+10	71.1	79.6%	1.17

The last relegation match was set between Splyce and Rush and this was going to be a close match. Splyce started out best in the series as they won Mirage 16-13, but they couldn't keep up their strong play on the second map, Cobblestone, which they lost 13-16.

LILMAN had a great game versus Splyce.

The decider for the match was Overpass, where especially Derrick "⁠LILMAN⁠" Boyne had a great day. Rush managed to take the lead in the match and they didn't let that go, winning 16-10 to clinch the spot in ESL Pro League Season 5.

ESL Pro League Season 4 North America RelegationBest of 3

Splyce

Matchpage

19th January 2017

Rush

Mirage

Cobblestone

Overpass

Splyce	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel CRUC1AL	67 - 56	+11	80.3	81.5%	1.29
Taylor 'Drone' Johnson Drone	59 - 55	+4	71.8	75.3%	1.12
Ronnie 'ryx' Bylicki ryx	57 - 54	+3	85.3	76.5%	1.08
Arya 'arya' Hekmat arya	50 - 56	-6	73.2	70.4%	1.05
Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen AcilioN	50 - 53	-3	68.5	77.8%	0.98

Rush	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Derrick 'LILMAN' Boyne LILMAN	58 - 59	-1	84.2	74.1%	1.15
Matt 'Pollo' Wilson Pollo	59 - 59	0	88.0	72.8%	1.10
Kyuhyun 'blade' William Uhm blade	57 - 56	+1	68.3	70.4%	1.04
David 'Toy' Han Toy	50 - 51	-1	67.0	66.7%	0.97
Daniel 'virtus' Carrillo virtus	48 - 58	-10	66.6	66.7%	0.92

This means that the two teams from ESEA Premier S23 qualify for the next season in ESL Pro League while Selfless and Splyce will be demoted to ESEA Premier S24.

The following teams will compete in the North American division of ESL Pro League Season 5:

NRG	OpTic
CLG	Complexity
Liquid	Renegades
Misfits	Winterfox
Cloud9	SK
Rush	Immortals
Echo Fox*	Luminosity

*Echo Fox still hold the spot, but they haven't announced any team yet.

RUSH ???

2017-01-19 10:33

2 replies

Rip splyce

2017-01-19 10:32

1 reply

bad line-up

2017-01-19 10:39

terrible teams

+1 :D

LET'S GO #LGLOYAL! Thank you, HLTV, we appreciate that! Will be awesome with 3 brazilians on ESLPROLEAGUE5 We smart, we FORBES, we AWARD Champions, We TOP1 and TOP2 HLTV 2016, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

28 replies

friendly? i arent think that

2017-01-19 10:50

Yeah, great to have a team which will likely lose every single match.

2017-01-19 11:08

19 replies

Salty tears com a hater :(

2017-01-19 11:40

16 replies

I am not hating them. Did you see them playing? OMG HE SAID SOMETHING BAD ABOUT A (bad) TEAM I LIKE HE HAS TO BE A HATER I hate those people, go away.

2017-01-19 11:43

15 replies

Why do u pretend that I dont know you? lul stay mad hater

2017-01-19 11:51

14 replies

If you know me thrn you wouldnt say shit like that. lul stay delusional hater

2017-01-19 11:59

13 replies

I know.who.are you, in every post that have relation with SK, you.go.and start to.talk shit.

2017-01-19 15:25

12 replies

Show me one example of me talking shit about SK. I try to be as unbiased and realistic as possible.

2017-01-19 15:27

11 replies

Show me one example of you talking good thing about SK. Hahaha Hard I know

2017-01-19 16:26

9 replies

...why should I?

2017-01-19 16:28

8 replies

You lost.

2017-01-19 16:30

No I didnt but you just lost the ability to get a reply from me.

2017-01-19 16:32

Even a baby can argue with a a SK hater

2017-01-19 16:35

If you can't say good things of Brazilians or Sk, it means that you just talk bad things about SK or BR's

4 replies

wrong. he can still dont talk anything about SK or BR's. BR logics LOL

2017-01-19 17:07

He can still dont...nice englando dumb

2017-01-19 20:52

thanks for showing how retard you are. > no arguments > talk shit about others english xDDDDD typical brazilian subhuman

2017-01-20 04:53

fucking dumb

2017-01-19 19:00

HAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA

2017-01-19 16:27

Lose every match..wait, they won against Selfless, whadup now?

2017-01-19 15:22

gyazo.com/80661bd7ed881f4e6bc55c79619448.. ???

2017-01-19 15:23

2017-01-19 11:12

+1 Brazil=Best

2017-01-19 15:19

Enjoy the moment cuz this year sk wont be even top5

2017-01-19 20:00

same as bulgarian teams has nothing? sorry, don't hate us if ur country r nothing dude, accept your really it's better to you! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we FORBES, we AWARD CHAMPIONS, we TOP 1 and TOP 2 HLTV 2016, we are from BRAZIL!

2017-01-19 20:16

3 replies

Yes, you are very loyal kicking fnx after 1bad tournament

sorry if dreamer was kicked from mk too! LUL u haven't argument dude, please, stay tune my team playing major again <3 thank you, we appreciate that!

2017-01-19 20:54

Dreamer was not allowed to play at most of valves tournament, cuz he was vacced in another profile.. its so different.. They will play the major after that they could be a great tier2 team with god fox

2017-01-19 20:59

great

Nice a NA team with 2 european players in premier

splyce lost to that shit team lmfao

Was wondering when this was going to be posted :P aboot time! Surprising from rush.

2017-01-19 10:35

With Machinegun it would have been easy

great! 2 new fresh teams with young talent ready to prove themselves in the top league. good stuff

2017-01-19 10:51

ryx has let me down wow

2017-01-19 10:53

yel'em all

2017-01-19 11:07

Final prediction: SK x Optic

2017-01-19 11:20

lmao splyce is garbage

2017-01-19 12:03

Pretty sad for Splyce. I dont think that lineup is just meant to be. Weird that Acilion and Cruc1al have been there for such a long time for that...

2017-01-19 12:07

Congrats

2017-01-19 12:26

yel is definitely a good player. he has been doing great for a long time. has potential to achieve a better stage in his carreer. shz and destiny are also outstanding players. despite being improving over the last months, they haven't racked their peak out yet. as both are young, they still have a large room to boost their games. we should keep watching them. lastly, showtime and pkl are just run-of-the-mill. unfortunately, i can't see any1 of them reaching something more than LG.

2017-01-19 12:38

Yel has potential to move to a better team. I don't see him playing on IMM neither SK though since he is mainly an alper

2017-01-19 12:54

Ez Brasil #RunSk #RunIMT #RunLG 25% of NA Qualifiers are Brazilian. We are smart, we are loyal, we are Friendly, we are from Brasil <3

2017-01-19 13:34

Kinda wish ESL would have more teams in NA battle for relegation. The level of CS for EU relegation matches was far superior to the level of CS for NA matches. Maybe Trumponian competition will help. Although, whoever called that Overpass for Splyce really did their team a disservice... Default into a 4-1, then have a single flash destroy an entire execute. Never really adapting to what Rush was doing.

2017-01-19 14:06

Splyce is really bad the recent player change did nothing. They are playing this way for quit some time now. If i was Splyce i would search a new team these guys are simply collecting money.

2017-01-19 15:33

Splyce create a lot of unique strats, and it's always been that way. It's just every iteration of this roster since they originally made it to invite have been known to lose some qualification matches to teams in ESEA-Main or worse. Speaking for the Americans... Drone is a good up-and-comer, Ryx goes missing in big matches and tends to chase frags, and I don't think Arya in-game has been anything special for a long-ass time now.

2017-01-19 15:40