ESL One Cologne 2017 - North America Closed Qualifier

Liquid qualify for ESL One Cologne

21-5-2017 13:00

Liquid earned a spot at ESL One Cologne after their 2-0 victory against CLG in the grand final of the North America Closed Qualifier (16-14 on Cobblestone and 16-8 on Inferno).

The qualification process in North America started with two open qualifiers whose winners advanced to the closed qualifier. The closed stage featured six teams, four of which were invited. CLG and Liquid started the qualifier in the semis while the other four teams had to play quarter-finals.

CLG and Liquid beat Renegades and Misfits in the semis, respectively, to reach the grand final. There the two teams had a close first map—Cobblestone—where Liquid emerged victorious with a 16-14 score.

Liquid are going to Cologne

Despite only getting eight rounds on the board as the CTs on Inferno, Liquid dominated on the T-side and won the map 16-8, and the series 2-0, qualifying for ESL One Cologne.

ESL One Cologne 2017 - North America Closed QualifierBest of 3

CLG

Matchpage

21st May 2017

Liquid

Cobblestone

Inferno

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	50 - 33	+17	88.8	87.0%	1.39
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	39 - 34	+5	87.7	72.2%	1.21
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	38 - 39	-1	73.1	75.9%	1.17
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	40 - 33	+7	69.9	83.3%	1.11
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	28 - 36	-8	70.0	74.1%	0.89

CLG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Rickeh	42 - 40	+2	100.8	70.4%	1.28
Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler reltuC	39 - 36	+3	71.5	74.1%	1.12
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold Ethan	38 - 38	0	66.0	68.5%	1.04
Pujan 'FNS' Mehta FNS	29 - 40	-11	59.6	66.7%	0.81
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen koosta	27 - 41	-14	60.4	61.1%	0.78

Here is the current team list for ESL One Cologne 2017:

North	Ninjas in Pyjamas	OpTic	SK
Virtus.pro	Natus Vincere	MOUZ	fnatic
FaZe	G2	Immortals	Cloud9
Liquid	Europe qual. slot	Europe qual. slot	China qual. slot

ESL One Cologne, where sixteen teams will duke it out from July 7-9 in Germany for a $250,000 prize pool, will be the last tournament before the PGL Krakow Major. Thirteen of the teams have been decided and two of the remaining spots will be handed out in the European qualifier. The Chinese qualifier will determine the sixteenth team.

solid performance

2017-05-21 13:00

2017-05-21 13:01

Nice

NIP?

4 replies

invited like a month ago

2017-05-21 13:04

3 replies

Or they shine here or they shouldnt be invited anymore

2017-05-21 13:07

2 replies

maybe they will show up with a new lineup

2017-05-21 13:09

1 reply

they will not pass the group again, wtf you talking =D

2017-05-21 15:08

Gud.

good

2017-05-21 13:03

EZ 4 NiP

2017-05-21 13:06

waste of spot... should invite gambit instead..

2017-05-21 13:12

I laughed

2017-05-21 17:25

Well there's a difference between a direct invite and qualifying :>

2017-05-21 18:48

*NiP was a waste of spot... should invite gambit instead.. FTFY

2017-05-22 00:06

nip wtf

2017-05-21 13:20

TEAM LIQUID IS THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD!

2017-05-21 13:31

Damn, if Simple wouldn't have quit, we'd still have T1 Liquid and Navi. (RIP GAMBIT tho)

2017-05-21 23:18

Realistically we dont know how well Liquid would do outside of the placements we know. Especially given how toxic s1mple is, and he doesnt respect Liquid at all like he does Na'Vi, so I wouldnt be surprised if he left Liquid cause theyre "shit"

2017-05-23 13:11