ESL Pro League Season 5 Europe Relegation

BIG qualify for ESL Pro League S6

18-5-2017 19:33

The German side BIG has earned a promotion to ESL Pro League by beating PENTA in the deciding match of the relegation playoffs 2-0 (16-8 Inferno, 19-17 Cobblestone).

In the EPL Relegation playoffs, both BIG and PENTA lost to HellRaisers, which dropped them to the lower bracket. Yesterday, the European mixture PENTA managed to overcome the legendary Polish side Virtus.pro to send them into ESEA Premier and keep their own Pro League dream alive.

tabseN was the driving force behind BIG's promotion

Today, the two German based organizations played a rematch of the ESEA Global Challenge LAN finals, where PENTA took the 2-0 victory and the title. PENTA's map pick stayed the same for this series, while BIG picked Cobblestone instead of Cache, which they lost in Leicester.

The series started with PENTA getting a solid 7-round Terrorist side on Inferno, but we once again saw how deadly the combination of Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz's fragging and Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik's calling is on that map when BIG took switched to the offensive side. Dropping only one round in the second half, BIG secured the first map with a 16-8 scoreline.

On Cobblestone, BIG's CT sides were exposed, as a 11-4 first half lead wasn't enough for the Germans to close out the map without going to overtime. In the end, it was a team effort that got BIG the win on the second map, making it 2-0 and securing their Pro League promotion.

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PENTA

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18th May 2017

BIG

Inferno

Cobblestone

PENTA	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kevin 'HS' Tarn HS	44 - 47	-3	74.5	61.7%	1.00
Jesse 'zehN' Linjala zehN	36 - 41	-5	68.0	75.0%	1.00
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi suNny	41 - 43	-2	74.8	65.0%	0.96
Paweł 'innocent' Mocek innocent	37 - 46	-9	75.2	60.0%	0.89
Kevin 'kRYSTAL' Amend kRYSTAL	24 - 43	-19	59.1	65.0%	0.74

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	55 - 36	+19	106.1	76.7%	1.46
Johannes 'nex' Maget nex	42 - 37	+5	82.0	80.0%	1.20
Kevin 'keev' Bartholomäus keev	38 - 34	+4	64.7	78.3%	1.10
Fatih 'gob b' Dayik gob b	43 - 34	+9	66.5	75.0%	1.10
Nikola 'LEGIJA' Ninić LEGIJA	42 - 42	0	75.4	68.3%	1.05

With this result, the team list for ESL Pro League has been finalized. The following teams will play in the European division of EPL Season 6:

North	G2
Null element MOUZ	fnatic
Natus Vincere	Envy
FaZe	Astralis
HEROIC	Ninjas in Pyjamas
LDLC	HellRaisers
GODSENT	BIG

SO EZ

2017-05-18 19:33

8 replies

yes German cs is back

2017-05-18 19:34

6 replies

DESERVED!! GOD tabseN <33

2017-05-18 19:35

3 replies

Ez gambit

2017-05-18 19:41

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiier yeah

2017-05-18 20:33

yeeeeee

2017-05-18 21:59

Germany will back when solek will back :D

2017-05-18 20:55

1 reply

Solek is medkit

2017-05-18 22:51

tabsen <3 german pride

2017-05-18 19:39

Big

expected

n16

Poland ?

2 replies

dead ><

2017-05-18 21:13

RIP in Peace :/

2017-05-18 21:21

#goBIG

#lesgo

GOD B

now we have a german team

The relegation deciders are bullshit

2017-05-18 19:36

why?

5 replies

because the first of league 2 (premier) should qualifay directly for pro league while the last one of the pro league should be sent to premier directly. just like it is in football or in any other real sport. #BIGwin

2017-05-18 19:53

4 replies

they last one of pro league does get directly relegated (Kinguin). i agree with the other part tho that the first of premier should get directly into pro league. the relegation could consist of the #13 & #12 of pro aswell as #2 and #3 or premier or just the #13 and #2 of each.

2017-05-18 19:59

2017-05-18 21:01

But this is already the case. For instance this season Kinguin got instantly relegated while Godsent was promoted after winning their respective play-offs.

2017-05-18 21:22

BIG should instantly have been promoted instead of Godsent because they became first in the league with 13-3 maps. The other 2 spots should have been decided in a playoff with VP and Hellraisers from EPL.

2017-05-18 21:55

No polish teams.. Loool ?! JK polish csgo is dead

2017-05-18 19:37

VP dont like too much matches, they like offlines lans, inavtions.. etc

2017-05-18 20:53

2017-05-18 23:46

So happy about!

2017-05-18 19:40

well done, jungs. well done.

GL in ProLeague, BIG! And regarding PENTA, I think it is time to say goodbye to kRYSTAL performing so bad once again sadly.

*goes to Pentas statisitcs* Best player (Average rating): kRYSTAL (0.96)

2017-05-18 20:19

hltv.org/?pageid=181&statsfilter=5

no more jokes about german cs congratz but we can about uk cs lul

Wasted spot

2017-05-18 19:42

rip HS

german cs LUL

Why doesn't BIG have a german flag??????????

2017-05-18 19:45

if a news is about an event it shows the flag where the event takes place. EPL EU takes place online so EU flag is the best choice. afaik

2017-05-18 19:47

deserved! they won ESEA League, beat gambit, VP and took 1 map off HR! even tough they are not ready to compete against the Topteams, they will improve alot like they did the last few months!

2017-05-18 19:46

this! super important to play against tier1 teams every week. they can learn a lot from that. especially keev as he is the one with the least experience.

2017-05-18 19:49

guess hard work pays off. they are not there to compete for high placings in the next season but playing better competition will be a great opportunity for them. but i´m still on the -legija train

2017-05-18 19:50

Big can actually do some damage in the Pro League. Pretty sure they won't get relagated, but they should get a solid place mid-table

2017-05-18 19:55

Well played :) Nice to see!

2017-05-18 20:00

RIP Sunny NICE 4 BIG

2017-05-18 20:04

TabseN is playing unbelievable good last matches! Well deserved! RIP Penta, good luck next time! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-05-18 20:12

Wow this is BIG news!

2017-05-18 20:16

TabseN is a fkn monster he droped 100 bomb in 3 maps in the mdl qialifier to play in the religation and he sis not dissapoint here i remember him from few years ago and he was well good player but fkn HELL he has become a killing mashine !!! cant wait to see BIG in pro league GRATZ to them

2017-05-18 20:29

wasted spot

2017-05-18 20:31

Big Guys

2017-05-18 20:32

ez 4 godb. They can antistrat the shit out of some teams, so they might actually upset. (Still won't be a contender for the lan spots)

2017-05-18 20:35

god tabseN is my spirit animal

2017-05-18 20:44

make german CS great again

2017-05-18 21:02

without tabsen is big nothing #foreverPENTA

2017-05-18 21:03

TabseN is such an amazing player for BIG. Imagine if Mousesports were able to buyout TabseN and put him with Oskar,LoWel, and Ropz... Mousesports would definitely be a scary team afterwards!

2017-05-18 21:07

2017-05-18 21:17

its the combination of the team and the leading style of gob which makes tabsen so stronk.. he always was a good fragger but in this team hes just going nuts

2017-05-19 00:29

Just imagine if BOTLEGIJA was replaced by someone half decent... O.O

2017-05-19 03:14

but who should replace him?

2017-05-19 17:32

Ropz... Denis?

2017-05-19 19:58

Where's VP ? :O

2017-05-18 21:09

hltv.org/news/20501-hr-remain-in-epl-vp-..

2017-05-19 12:30

thanks mr. Jonathan.

2017-05-19 13:33

Rip Polski cs

2017-05-18 21:15

tabsen is 50% polak

2017-05-18 22:28

a half polish player in the league Polish cs is not dead xD !!1!1!1!

2017-05-18 23:48

tabsen is 10% polak, he has one parental part from poland thats all born in germany, raised in germany

2017-05-19 17:33

Haha Vp failure expected after last shitty weeks online. Btw guys will be EPL S6 in autumn this year ? tell me if im right. thx

Naisu!

2017-05-18 21:26

-keev +chrisJ

BIG vs Mousesports gonna be good.

2017-05-18 22:00

tabsen tier 1

2017-05-18 22:14

Congratulations to big. I would've liked to see PENTA in EPL but maybe after next season? The main thing is that VP is NANANANA NANANAANA HEEE-EEEY GOODBYE