ESL Pro League NA reaches end

12-5-2017 08:47

All 12 participating teams for the ESL Pro League Season 5 finals have been determined following the end of the North American regular season.

Albeit not quite exciting as in Europe, where the last two spots at the finals were decided by head-to-head record in a four-way tie, the final week of the North American Pro League division saw several teams fight tooth and nail for a top-six finish.

SK Gaming finished at the summit of the table with an 18-6 record, with two of those defeats coming on the very last matchday of the season, when there was nothing at stake for them anymore.

SK topped the North American Pro League division

Immortals and Team Liquid ended the season level on points, but it was the North Americans who placed second due to having a better head-to-head record. Renegades, who were recently in action at IEM Sydney, finished just outside of the top six, along with Luminosity and CLG.

ESL Pro League Season 5 North America final standings:

1. SK - spot at Pro League finals

2. Liquid - spot at Pro League finals

3. Immortals - spot at Pro League finals

4. NRG - spot at Pro League finals

5. Cloud9 - spot at Pro League finals

6. OpTic - spot at Pro League finals

7. Luminosity - $27,000

8. CLG - $23,000

9. Renegades - $19,000

10. Misfits - $17,500

11. Complexity - $15,000

12. Rush - $11,500 (Relegation stage)

13. The Foundation - $8,000 (Relegation stage)

14. Animal Squad - Disqualified

Animal Squad have been disqualified from the ESL Pro League after forfeiting their spot in the league, and will not even get demoted to the Premier division.

Rush and The Foundation will fight for survival in the league in the relegation stage, in which they will be joined by the second and third-placed Premier teams, Enigma6 and Ghost, respectively. Splyce are the 12th team confirmed for Season 6 of the ESL Pro League after winning the Premier division.

The Season 5 offline finals will run from May 31 to June 4 at the Verizon Theatre, in Dallas. The following 12 teams will fight for the lion's share of a $750,000 prize pool:

North	SK
G2	Liquid
MOUZ	Immortals
fnatic	NRG
Natus Vincere	Cloud9
Envy	OpTic

Not quite eu

2017-05-12 08:47

6 replies

yes

2017-05-12 08:48

4 replies

without VP, astralis and Faze, EU squad just looks like NA!

2017-05-12 13:32

1 reply

ahahahah, at least you tried

2017-05-12 16:33

What are the average viewership numbers for NA region and for EU region? I'm guessing NA numbers are much lower, except for maybe the SK/C9/OG matches.

2017-05-12 15:56

eh I wouldn't be surprised if they are pretty high. Sometimes when I bet on garbage quality NA games I am shocked by how many viewers there are.

2017-05-12 17:51

so fast, ma frend

Sick

gg sk top 1

Finally

Nice

Lil

2017-05-12 08:49

gl envyus

2017-05-12 08:54

misfits not rng

2017-05-12 08:55

2 replies

what?

2017-05-12 13:47

There was written like : 'Renegades failed to qualify despite a good run at DH tours 'eventually misfits had a God run there,while Renegades played purely at Iem

2017-05-12 14:17

would've much rather seen CLG in top 6 over NRG or OpTic the groups in playoffs are probably gonna be fucking retarded with one stacked group and one shit group. joke NA biased tournament

2017-05-12 08:57

1 million prize pool now, not 750,000

2017-05-12 09:14

250,000 for the online stage (for teams which didn't qualify) and 750,000 for the lan final, so it's technically right

2017-05-12 09:21

Ohh my bad

2017-05-28 07:52

Ez for oskarsports

2017-05-12 09:17

So glad misfits didnt make it.

2017-05-12 09:19

NRG LOPOOOOL

2017-05-12 09:32

The best NA teams actually got the spots. Damn.

2017-05-12 09:34

EU Relegation : VP / HR NA Relegation : Rush / ex-Selfless lul nice level pals

2017-05-12 09:35

3 replies

+1 and both continents have the same amount of spots wtf

2017-05-12 10:03

well with astralis, faze and HR out of the european spots , EU = NA in these very EPL finals but indeed there are too much "only online" teams in NA so it easier for teams like NRG to get a spot

2017-05-12 10:48

EU=NA only teams here that didn't go out in groups everytime are SK and IMT while EU has g2, north (1 bad event), navi (1 bad event), fnatic ??? dk they've gotten better but I mean atleast they made it out of groups once with this roster unlike C9 liquid nrg and optic (lets be honest they got shat on by good teams at sydney lucky north fucked themselves NA logic 2 teams make it out of groups sometimes is just as good as 4 teams making playoffs

2017-05-12 17:01

NA 4head

2017-05-12 09:58

NRG AND ENVY LMAO

2017-05-12 10:26

$750k. This is quite the tournament.

2017-05-12 10:39

ez for NA again

2017-05-12 10:45

NRG at the LAN, not FaZe or Astralis. Good job ESL

2017-05-12 10:59

8 replies

I think you mean good job faze and astralis.

2017-05-12 11:19

7 replies

Only SK would qualify in EU EPL

2017-05-12 11:20

That is why the last final had zero teams from the EU side right?

2017-05-12 11:21

5 replies

Cloud9 had the tournament of their lives, autimatic even admitted it. Back to being shit since then. Plus, all EU teams are much stronger now

2017-05-12 11:22

Cloud9, Optic, and immortals are stronger than half the teams that qualified from EU. Liquid is at least as good as a few of them.

2017-05-12 11:25

thats really funny man

They're all probably better than envyus but id put any other EU team that's qualified over NA (-Sk and maybe immortals)

2017-05-12 13:08

I'd put any EU team that is qualified equal to or under most of the NA teams except G2. I don't think even G2 is a huge favorite against Optic or C9, but they are definitely a favorite. The rest could easily lose to NA teams. Astralis, Faze, G2 and probably even VP though they haven't played well in a while are better than NA teams for sure, but the rest of EU could easily lose to any decent NA team.

2017-05-12 16:31

So, FaZe, Astralis and NiP are out, while NRG will play in the finals along with Na`Vi and mousesports, lol.

2017-05-12 11:04

Hellraisers is much better than nip atm...

2017-05-12 11:07

Nip isn't even near to be at the finals,m8.

2017-05-12 14:06

navi isn't that bad made it out of groups of every big event they attended this year

2017-05-12 15:06

and once they meet more or less strong team, they lose to it...

yeah lost to astralis 3 times and SK which most teams would lose... its a lot better than optic, liquid, c9, NRG, NV who haven't done shit this year. optic sure top 4 iem playing non salaried team twice got destroyed by the good teams... their summit sure w.e but again really bad teams NRG got destroyed by tricked at Copenhagen games... liquid slowly getting better but last place at Austin (mostly NA competition in their group) and top 6 at summit losing to mixwell C9 went out in groups twice at DH and iem, 4th at summit (Brax fill in and played the best for them) and went out in groups at DH austin NV 1 win on lan in 9 maps fnatic there are some ??? about them but it looks like they've been getting better mouz sure 1 lan only but did get top 4 got destroyed by G2 tho (beat them on one of their better maps tho) IMT? up and down so saying a fucking Navi is at this lan so it sucks isn't fair when they've had better performances than most of the teams there. Also guess who has the same performances as navi? NORTH top 8 top 4 top 6 top 8 nobody ain't sad that they made it right even tho they had the same achievements in 2017

2017-05-12 16:50

to compare navi to NA shitbags - seriously? i compare navi to T1 teams and navi hasn't done shit yet, while astralis and faze have done at least something worth mentioning in the last months. NA should have no direct spots at finals at all

2017-05-13 13:25

ESL Pro League NA should only have max 4 spots

2017-05-12 11:05

2017-05-12 11:06

if you wanna be the best, beat the rest. whats the point giving EU 6+ slots if they cant capitalize on it? let the 6 best of each continent slug it out, seem fair no?

2017-05-12 11:26

Let's have all teams play a combined league, you already who ends up in top 12

2017-05-12 11:51

I guess that wouldn't work bcuz of the timezones.

2017-05-12 14:09

Ping would be shit, too.

2017-05-12 15:48

Liquid, NRG, Immortals and C9 instead of Astralis, Faze, VP and Hellraisers. ROFL

Na'Vi, Envy, Mouz instead of Astralis, Faze, VP, and Gambit ROFL

Mouz actually better than all na teams excluding sk

2017-05-12 12:12

Yeap... Navi is pure dogshit atm.

2017-05-12 12:48

Navi has had good performances in 2017 tho if u say navi u should also say north (literally same placings), fnatic, mouz, g2

2017-05-12 16:52

it's not NA's fault if faze, vp and astralis are dogshit and can't beat nV, mouz and na'vi.

2017-05-12 18:03

Well Liquid looks good after the acquisition of Twistzz. I know who i'm gonna cheer for after the likes of Faze and Astralis sitting home watching the tournament on Twitch :/.

2017-05-12 11:18

Astralis and Faze lul

2017-05-12 11:27

Ez 1. Lan win for mouz!

2017-05-12 12:11

No faze not hard for sk

2017-05-12 12:18

I would be surprised if SK doesn't win this, without FaZe & Astralis being there. Only team I see that can challenge them is G2, and that's if they play their hearts out. Also, I have this strange feeling fnatic will do some serious damage this tournament, let's see...

2017-05-12 12:57

why you think SK so good? they did lost Renegades yesterday, G2 show very good CS last time, special aim,amazing performance. Fnatic was very good in last games, for Navi this tournament will be very important, special for players, I think they will be tryhard too

2017-05-12 16:11

6 spots for EU and Faze/Astralis can't even make it through over NV. Salty EU fanboys complaining one of the very few tournaments where NA teams get equal slots. Given the history of esea in NA I think it should be equal.

2017-05-12 13:28

2017-05-12 13:33

Final G2 x SK

Wow that's going to be the shittest EPL so far. Should be 4 NA spots and 6 EU.

2017-05-12 14:45

NA will win

2017-05-12 14:51

Will be easy for the brazilian teams

2017-05-12 14:55

Too bad clg didn't make it, they look promising.

2017-05-12 15:04

People say "Eu 8 spots Na 4" but C9 won the last season...

2017-05-12 15:12

damn eu teams are so shit these days NA takeover continues

2017-05-12 15:26

Well done! Sad for LG, but Let's go BRAZIL, we can do it my boys!!! We are the champions! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-05-12 15:34

"7. Luminosity - $27,000 8. CLG - $23,000 9. Renegades - $19,000" But CLG and Renegades have more points than LG, haven't they?

2017-05-12 15:35

No, they finished the season below them in the rankings. ESL bases ties off the matchups against each other, so if you went back and looked at the head to head matchups, CLG probably lost to LG and RNG the same.

2017-05-12 15:52

According to this page hltv.org/?pageid=216&eventid=2639 CLG and RNG have more victories (points) than LG. It is not a tie.

2017-05-12 16:06

Well I don't know what to tell you then, because on the ESL website, on the broadcast, and on the Liquipedia website, they're all tied. So I guess HLTV got it wrong?

Yeah, I guess thats it. I think they removed Animal Squad matches (and that would be the reason why ESL website shows only 24 matches for each team, and not 26). So them end up tied.

2017-05-12 16:17

where is FaZe,Astralis ? wtf easy for Sk maybe xD

2017-05-12 15:59

Why did NA have spots like EU? Na haven't many good team like EU,NA have 4 good team?, - Sk, Imortal, Liquid and Optic, 4 spot will be ok for NA

Because if there were 4 spots for NA, Optic and C9 wouldn't have made this LAN final, and NRG would have anyway.

C9 it's will not be big lost, because they did played disgusting last time, I think teams like Faze,Astralis, HR,VP most better than Cloud9,NRG,Optic,Immortals

c9 are the current champions of esl pro league and are definitely better than mouz and nv so stfu

2017-05-12 18:10

Cloud9 had 1 tournament, after they didn't show something good, they play like NIP now or worse

2017-05-12 23:26

so ez for sk HAHAHAHAHA

2017-05-12 16:12

SK will win this and consolidate their 2.0 era.

2017-05-12 16:29

Only the Major can really solidify their 2.0 era. If they win, I cry. xd

2017-05-12 16:45

LG fucked themselves. Literally had the spot won, but couldnt finish it off.. GG

2017-05-12 16:43

NA CS >EU CS WITHOUT VP FAZE ASTRALIS

2017-05-12 17:56

>OpTic and NRG over CLG

2017-05-12 18:16

they should only have 4 spots not fckn 6

2017-05-12 18:18

EZ SK

2017-05-13 07:05

FNATIC will destroy them all!

2017-05-13 11:20

Moneyball; all the same orgs at the top . we need a new statistic perhaps a low-tier team that excels with certain personalities no one ever thinks of this come on animal squad; you can be the next athletic a's

2017-05-14 01:18