SL i-League Season 3 North America Qualifier

CLG through to SL i-League S3

21-3-2017 12:00

CLG are the second team to secure a spot at SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 Finals via the North American qualifiers after defeating Renegades 2-0 (16-8 on Train and 16-9 on Overpass).

With Immortals already through to the StarLadder event in Kiev after edging past Liquid in a three-map series, the battle for the final North American qualifying spot was contested between CLG and Renegades - two teams desperate for success.

The first map of the series, Train, was a complete blowout, with CLG cruising to a 13-2 lead on the Terrorist side. A trio of kills by Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage in the pistol round gave Renegades a lifeline, but despite winning six of the first seven rounds of the second half, the Australians were unable to pull off a miraculous comeback, eventually losing the map 8-16.

Rickeh powered CLG to beat his former team

The second map followed the same pattern as the first as CLG took a whopping 11 rounds on the Terrorist side. After losing the pistol round, Renegades hit back on a force buy, and that was the start of a great run from the Australian side, who cut the gap to just three rounds. However, an ace from Ricardo "⁠Rickeh⁠" Mulholland in a force-buy attempt brought Renegades' streak to an end and powered CLG to lock down the map, 16-9.

SL i-League Season 3 North America QualifierBest of 3

Renegades

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21st March 2017

CLG

Train

Overpass

CLG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen koosta	42 - 26	+16	86.8	89.8%	1.57
Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Rickeh	42 - 22	+20	91.3	83.7%	1.52
Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler reltuC	47 - 27	+20	94.2	87.8%	1.50
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold Ethan	39 - 30	+9	91.7	75.5%	1.41
Pujan 'FNS' Mehta FNS	26 - 31	-5	55.6	79.6%	1.00

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	35 - 34	+1	76.3	61.2%	0.93
Yaman 'yam' Ergenekon yam	29 - 36	-7	70.4	57.1%	0.81
Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac USTILO	26 - 44	-18	63.3	57.1%	0.70
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	24 - 43	-19	62.4	63.3%	0.66
Simon 'atter' Atterstam atter	22 - 39	-17	49.9	55.1%	0.64

The list of participants for the $300,000 competition, taking place from April 4-9, now looks as follows:

SK	Virtus.pro	North	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Astralis	FaZe	Natus Vincere	Gambit
MVP Project	TYLOO	5POWER	Immortals
G2	fnatic	CLG	EU qualifier

The final spot in the competition will be determined by the third-place match of the European qualifier, pitting HellRaisers against EnVyUs.

Nice, gl to them!! n1

2017-03-21 12:26

13 replies

Lol wasted spot

2017-03-21 12:32

12 replies

lol no, CLG really improve'd with rickeh.

2017-03-21 13:02

7 replies

improve'd

2017-03-21 13:05

6 replies

I mean i'm improvED, just shortly

2017-03-21 13:06

5 replies

improved - 8 symbols improve'd - 9 wtf

2017-03-21 13:07

4 replies

xexexexe

2017-03-21 13:11

Hahahahah +1

2017-03-21 13:15

Damn veri G00dEnglando yes?

2017-03-21 13:50

1 reply

Yes Fatih

2017-03-21 14:07

"Lol wasted spot" Where are you now?

2017-04-08 20:36

3 replies

Its still wasted spot? Its not like they deserves to be in playoffs

2017-04-08 20:38

2 replies

Beat Gambit on their best map. Even FaZe won't play Gambit on Cobblestone. Karrigan pointed it out himself on twitter.

2017-04-08 20:47

Gambit? lul so what?

2017-04-08 21:36

ez CLG

gg clg

izi

would've liked to see rng there :\

Then maybe they shouldn't have benched Rickeh!

2017-03-21 12:38

yeah clearly haha

2017-03-21 12:41

revenge

free money ty clg

richek on gear

how the fuck did they pull this off lol

2017-03-21 12:27

Renegades played like trash lol

2017-03-22 06:39

nah I meant how they managed to get this far and qualify

2017-03-22 10:46

Played easy teams

2017-03-23 08:50

Wut? Clg>rng Wut??? GoHR

2017-03-21 12:28

Rickeh was the problem

2017-03-21 12:31

ez cloud9

rickeh on the gear bois

2017-03-21 12:33

Ez for HR>Envy

rickeh revange PogChamp

Rickeh top fragging and an ace to get his revenge.

Cutler top fragged. Rickeh tied in terms of frags with koosta.

2017-03-21 17:24

RIP Renegades again... We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-03-21 12:45

GLHF, a bit of recovery time for CLG right now

2017-03-21 12:46

who did more awping koosta or richkeh?

2017-03-21 12:48

koosta rickeh is secondary

2017-03-21 15:15

kid urself if u think koosta would let that rat awp

2017-03-21 17:26

The Revenge Of Rickeh

There is no way this Renegades core stays together if they bomb out of groups at IEM Sydney (which is looking most likely). When Rickeh is able to destroy you on RIFLES something is wrong.

2017-03-21 12:50

Word tbh

2017-03-21 13:03

reky by rickeh

2017-03-21 12:55

We have 4 wasted spots now yay

2017-03-21 13:01

would have been wasted either way, its not like rng would do any better

c l o u d 9

2017-03-21 16:00

still wasted tbh

2017-03-21 17:15

badb8

2017-03-21 18:09

And this is what happens when you get rid of potentially the best AU AWPER and replace him with some tier 2/3 Swedish player that played for lele's meme team.

The Renegades players are so much better than the sum of their parts. It is time for them to move on. jks and azr are wasted talent on Renegades and would do great work in NA Teams. It is time for other AU teams to get the chance (also wtf is Winterfox doing with not even a top 5 AU team?)

Back in 2014, the core of this team used to be #15 in the rankings, so it's pretty sad to see them under-performing this badly. Shitty thing about the Pro League is that the organisation keeps the spot in the league and instead of giving the spot to ex-Winterfox (Denial), Winterfox kept the spot and signed admittedly 2nd tier AU/NZ players who admittedly should be performing better than this. A lot of people think that jks would be a good fit for C9 and azr being a good fit for Liquid.

2017-03-21 13:10

HELL YEAH

2017-03-21 13:04

noice

na cs has got to rock botton

2017-03-21 13:20

Rickeh was the problem.

2017-03-21 13:42

hahaa, karma is bitch you know.

2017-03-21 13:45

why did the asian qualifier get 3 teams in and NA only get 2, dont tell me C9 wouldnt have been better at this event then 5power or mvp project

2017-03-21 13:47

dumb fucking event, don't waste your time just watch the majors

2017-03-21 13:59

This event is fucking retarded

2017-03-21 18:52

Actually it makes sense. I guess the third spot was meant for AU or greater ocenia.

2017-03-22 08:31

Quite a story. GL to them

2017-03-21 14:00

deserved

2017-03-21 14:12

Renegades are just a joke team will never do damage outside pacific and asia

2017-03-21 14:17

rickeh was the problem

2017-03-21 14:20

Ez eickeh

2017-03-21 14:23

RICKEH WAS THE PROBLEM

2017-03-21 14:40

fucking LOL

2017-03-21 14:55

booyakah boomerangggg! :)

2017-03-21 15:14

Who saw both of Rickeh's zeus kills on Train? I bet that was more gratifying for him than any of his other kills.

2017-03-21 15:30

i saw both, on the b site? close to lower? :)

2017-03-21 15:46

This is perfect. Average players from Renegades with absolutely pathetic work ethic, discipline and drive getting schooled by Rickeh who is an average player but with the best work ethic, discipline and drive out of them. Very telling, and good to see. Back to the bin Renegades, you are an embarrassment.

2017-03-21 15:42

Renegades arrived in NA at almost the same time as Keyd Stars (fallen & co). While Fallen got to the top, renegades just got worst :/

2017-03-21 16:23

LOL - and Renegades said Rickeh was the problem. Revenge is great :)

2017-03-21 16:55

He was removed because of his attitude within the team...

2017-03-23 08:53

Lmfao Renegades Rickeh was the solution!

2017-03-21 16:58

Grats to them, but sadly CLG will get utterly destroyed at the LAN finals. Sad, but true

2017-03-21 18:18

hopefully clg will have some impact :) btw i could be $20 richer :(

2017-03-21 18:35

Rickeh the traitor, hope he gets destroyed at the LAN as karma, would be funny.

2017-03-21 18:58

Did they give IGL role to FNS and give Cutler back his old role?

2017-03-21 19:07

I think there was conflict with rickeh and the team.. either igl or awp.. he used to call from time to time for immunity i think.. good on him showing his potential in clg, hes no dog, the team dogged him and he was benched.. im sure anyone else wud have done the same, he needs a income.. Renegades -yam +hiko (igl) If renegades were to pay him enough for his interest, salary wise.. then replace atter with a free agent later when they become available.. Or cloud9 option -shroud (stream team) +jks Hes wasted talent in rng.. hes 21.. and has so much potential and stil developing.. same with ustilo.. good org renegades is.. just gotta get there team right.. look at the flaws.. obv rickeh could see them.. Or who goves a fuck.. they aint gonna change shit.. just keep losing..

2017-03-22 02:30