MVP, 5POWER, TyLoo qualify for SLi S3

2-3-2017 15:33

MVP Project, 5POWER and TyLoo managed to secure spots at the upcoming $300,000 SL i-League StarSeries LAN that will be held this April in Kiev.

The Asian SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 qualifiers have been held today, with teams battling in a best-of-three single elimination bracket.

XigN and MVP will return to Kiev

The first Asian team to qualify for SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 LAN finals was 5POWER who took down EDG before facing TYLOO, the team that held the title of the best squad in China for quite some time. However, Ke "⁠captainMo⁠" Liu and co. have not been on the same level since the roster change that saw YuLun "⁠Summer⁠" Cai leave the team, and we saw that in this match as well.

TYLOO opened the series with a win on Cobblestone, but couldn't win on Mirage or Cache as ZhiHai "⁠QKA⁠" Fu proved to be the main man for 5POWER as they defeated their Chinese rivals.

SL i-League Season 3 China QualifierBest of 3

5POWER

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2nd March 2017

TYLOO

Cobblestone

Mirage

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5POWER	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
ZhiHai 'QKA' Fu QKA	66 - 46	+20	83.2	81.6%	1.34
Lei 'forget' Li forget	56 - 53	+3	82.9	73.7%	1.28
Wei 'shuadapai' Wang shuadapai	62 - 50	+12	81.6	76.3%	1.27
HongGuang 'Stevie' Li Stevie	57 - 49	+8	85.8	71.1%	1.16
ZhenDong 'Not7' Mo Not7	44 - 46	-2	65.4	77.6%	1.00

TYLOO	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Zhen 'HZ' Huang HZ	47 - 55	-8	72.3	69.7%	0.96
Ke 'captainMo' Liu captainMo	50 - 54	-4	69.3	67.1%	0.95
YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng Attacker	48 - 57	-9	73.1	68.4%	0.95
HaoWen 'somebody' Xu somebody	52 - 60	-8	77.8	65.8%	0.93
Hui 'DD' Wu DD	47 - 59	-12	74.7	57.9%	0.90

The Koreans of MVP Project started the qualifier with a 2-1 win over New4, but had an easy time against ViCi, another big Chinese name that has fallen off recently. MVP Project defeated the Chinese team them 2-0, 16-6 on Mirage and 16-10 on Cache. Most of the ViCi players struggled in the series, while it was the usual suspect Hyun-Pyo "⁠XigN⁠" Lee leading the scoreboard for MVP Project.

SL i-League Season 3 China QualifierBest of 3

ViCi

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2nd March 2017

MVP Project

Mirage

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ViCi	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong zhokiNg	38 - 36	+2	89.6	75.0%	1.22
ZhiHong 'aumaN' Liu aumaN	33 - 37	-4	82.1	58.3%	1.01
ZhiShen 'amtV' Zhang amtV	28 - 37	-9	65.5	68.8%	0.86
KunHua 'LOVEYY' Bai LOVEYY	27 - 39	-12	72.9	60.4%	0.85
Zhuo 'advent' Liang advent	27 - 38	-11	63.0	72.9%	0.80

MVP Project	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee XigN	48 - 27	+21	96.3	79.2%	1.56
Hae-Sung 'HSK' Kim HSK	40 - 28	+12	86.2	77.1%	1.27
Soon-Woo 'Argency' Kwon Argency	33 - 31	+2	84.9	75.0%	1.17
Soo-Yong 'kAyle' Jung kAyle	38 - 34	+4	77.3	70.8%	1.07
Jung-Hyeon 'rindA' Jeon rindA	28 - 33	-5	69.8	77.1%	1.00

The third place decider was played to determine the final Asian team at SL i-League StarSeries Season 3, and it came down to a battle between ViCi and TYLOO—the two teams that used to be above and beyond the rest of the competition in Asia.

TYLOO started the series by destroying their opponents from the Terrorist side of Overpass, finishing the half 12-3 before closing out the map 16-4. TYLOO had a tougher task on their own map pick, Cobblestone, as ViCi put up a solid 7-8 first half, but HaoWen "⁠somebody⁠" Xu's team managed to close it out 16-13 in the end to get the last slot for SL i-League StarSeries Season 3.

SL i-League Season 3 China QualifierBest of 3

ViCi

Matchpage

2nd March 2017

TYLOO

Overpass

Cobblestone

The team list for SL i-League Starseries Season 3 is now as follows, with only five slots left to be filled:

Astralis	Virtus.pro	Ninjas in Pyjamas	SK
Gambit	North	Natus Vincere	FaZe
MVP Project	5POWER	TYLOO	qualifier
qualifier	qualifier	qualifier	qualifier

Professeur writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

Rip Vici....

2017-03-02 15:33

1 reply

Tylul

2017-03-02 15:41

cool

nice

5POWER hype

2017-03-02 15:34

wut

This event is gonna be T H I C C

Hope MVP Project bootcamps 2 weeks in Europe and suprises with good results at the tournament. Need korean scene.

2017-03-02 15:36

5power new china top 1

At least one team won't get the visa. Quote me later xd

2017-03-02 15:37

2017-03-02 15:40

For a sec thought it sayd IBuyPower :(

2017-03-02 15:42

Where is solo's team? Did they even participate?

2017-03-02 15:44

3 replies

ya they played but lost to born of fire i think and didnt qualify

2017-03-02 16:01

Oh! What a shame...Thanks for info, bro!

2017-03-02 16:07

They did participate,and got smashed almost every game they played. Sadly they aint upto the mark in csgo.

2017-03-02 16:14

Why does Asia get 3 spots and na only gets 2? Lmao

2017-03-02 15:49

4 replies

And EU gets 3 as well, LUL to this event. Also no CIS qualifier with 1 spot for an event in Kiev, kek. Should be like this: 4 EU 2 NA 1 CIS 1 SEA & China. Much better. Maybe 3 spots NA, as we have IMM, C9 and TL, but then the event is in Kiev, they should have a "local qualifier".

2017-03-02 15:58

they already invited all relevant CIS teams Navi and Gambit. No need for an extra CIS qualifier.

2017-03-02 16:09

You could say the same about EPICENTER, but that didn't happen. I really feel the need for a local qualifier/invite when the event is in CIS, SEA & China, SA etc. I believe this stimulates team to compete and in some way encourage local teams. Guess it all has to do with sponsors, like #32 said

2017-03-02 17:05