Chiefs secure IEM Sydney spot

10-4-2017 13:58

With a 2-0 win over Tainted Minds in the grand final, Chiefs managed to win the ANZ closed qualifier to secure a spot at IEM Sydney.

The IEM Sydney 2017 ANZ Closed Qualifier has just concluded as Chiefs won the deciding match versus Tainted Minds which secures them a spot at IEM Sydney.

Both teams went through upper bracket with clean 2-0 wins but when they faced each other in the upper bracket final, Chiefs clinched the victory. Tainted Minds weren't done yet, and they managed to make it to the grand final where they had to win two best-of-three series.

malta had a great match versus Tainted Minds

Due to coming from the upper bracket, Chiefs only had to win one best-of-three series, and they did that convincingly. The first map was Cobblestone which Tainted Minds picked, but Chiefs had a great run on the CT side and even though the opponents were close to make a comeback, Chiefs managed to secure the map 16-12.

The second map was Nuke and Chiefs looked very promising on their own pick. Tainted Minds couldn't do much versus Peter "⁠pecks⁠" Nguyen and co. as Chiefs won 16-5.

IEM Sydney 2017 ANZ Closed QualifierBest of 3

Chiefs

Matchpage

10th April 2017

Tainted Minds

Cobblestone

Nuke

Chiefs	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Liam 'malta' Schembri malta	52 - 30	+22	106.4	73.5%	1.60
Peter 'pecks' Nguyen pecks	42 - 28	+14	90.0	69.4%	1.33
Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston aliStair	31 - 29	+2	70.4	77.6%	1.10
Joshua 'INS' Potter INS	32 - 33	-1	73.0	67.3%	1.01
Tyler 'tucks' Reilly tucks	26 - 30	-4	57.7	65.3%	0.96

Tainted Minds	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jesse 'InfrequeNt' Barker InfrequeNt	38 - 40	-2	84.9	51.0%	1.06
Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas Liazz	36 - 33	+3	84.6	69.4%	1.03
Christopher 'dexter' Nong dexter	35 - 36	-1	84.7	63.3%	0.99
Stuart 'sonic' Rayner sonic	24 - 36	-12	49.8	53.1%	0.65
Connor 'chuch' Morgan chuch	17 - 40	-23	45.6	69.4%	0.62

Chiefs will be the last team among the attendees at IEM Sydney which is set to take place from May 3-7 when the following eight teams will battle it out for ~$200,000:

SK	Renegades
OpTic	North
Astralis	FaZe
ViCi	Chiefs

The organizers have also announced the first four matchups in the swiss format where Chiefs will face Astralis while Renegades have been drawn against the SL i-League StarSeries S3 champions, FaZe.

Astralis	vs.	Chiefs
SK	vs.	ViCi
FaZe	vs.	Renegades
North	vs.	OpTic

EXPECTED

2017-04-10 14:00

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ripnegades

2017-04-10 14:03

shame that such an impressive tournament has such bad teams.

11 replies

4 top10 teams. And 2 bedt teams in the world atm.

2017-04-10 14:17

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The other 4 teams are garbage though.

2017-04-10 14:47

yes thats bad considering its an iem tournament in sydney with a 200k prize pool. You would expect 8 top 10 teams not only half of the teams being top 10 teams and three of the teams being teams who have 0% chance of making it out of groups

2017-04-10 15:35

8 replies

yup, pretty unfortunate

2017-04-11 02:40

7 replies

They're obviously going to include aus/nz teams in the first international tournament in aus since crown a couple of years back. Gotta give the home crowd someone to cheer for right? Not sure why they felt the need to include a chinese team tho. Pretty pointless

2017-04-11 11:20

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I'm okay with two aus teams, I disagree with optic and vici though.

2017-04-11 15:43

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At the time OpTic were invited, they still had stan and looked really good.

2017-04-11 16:31

4 replies

I don't remember them being really good when they were invited :/

2017-04-11 17:00

3 replies

Wasn't it right after they won ELEAGUE?

2017-04-11 17:01

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I'm pretty sure this was just when things started turning south. just after their first few disappointing results if I remember correctly.

2017-04-11 18:36

Ah.

very good

nice one

2017-04-10 13:59

gla1ve acolyte face

grand final FZ vs AS again EZ FZ

Cant wait to see Jason on lan with optic

Well rip everyone on the right side of the bracket :s

2017-04-10 14:01

+1 I really only see optic having a chance, but even then its very slim.

2017-04-10 15:11

FaZe ERA

8-team Swiss sytem... ESL don't learn do they

RIP Aussie teams, those brackets tho.

They're gonna get destroyed

2017-04-10 15:10

Only 8 teams ?

2017-04-10 14:04

:/ I did not like it, I wanted 2 NA Qualifier and 2 EU Qualifier = 10 Teams :/

2017-04-10 14:34

Top 2 teams in the world at least going also, they should've done GSL groups

2017-04-10 14:20

Good to see a VAC Banned player like Tucks playing, i think I might cheat and get away with it!

2017-04-10 14:22

stfu

2017-04-10 15:03

Just bought CVision! LETS GO!

2017-04-11 01:31

2017-04-11 09:42

>Chiefs managed to win the ANZ closed qualifier >Chiefs will face Astralis when life is fucking you in every hole you've got

2017-04-10 14:42

swiss system again??? Damn it.

2017-04-10 17:24

RIP TM? Who is more expected TM or Chiefs? We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-04-10 18:00

When tainted minds were athletico I'd say they are way better but once the joined a new org they became dog shit. So chiefs

2017-04-11 02:44

RIP the interstate LAN qualifiers. Theres still no money in CS. Less money on a stage and fancy confetti and lets have some national qualifiers. I know its scary but rocking up to a net cafe isn't THAT hard?

2017-04-11 01:18

I feel bad for the organizers getting Optic, who knew that Stanis would leave like that and leave a broken lineup behind. So much potential there, potentially the best NA team in CS GO history and he had to go fuck it up lol.

2017-04-11 03:02