DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017 North America Closed Qualifier

Renegades secure last DreamHack Malmo spot

12-7-2017 11:51

Renegades have become the last team to secure a spot at DreamHack Masters Malmo after defeating Liquid 2-1 in the North American closed qualifier.

The North American qualifying process for DreamHack Masters Malmö came to an end on Sunday as 16 teams - half of whom invited - faced off in a single-elimination bracket for the chance to grab the last spot at at the Swedish event.

The Australian team fought their way through the 16-team single-elimination bracket , knocking out EZG, Denial and ex-paiN before reaching the final.

jks played a great final versus Liquid

Liquid started out strongly as they secured Renegades's pick, Mirage, by a 16-4 scoreline. Then, Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage stepped up and inspired Renegades to turn the series around with 19-17 and 16-12 wins on Cobblestone and Train, respectively.

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3

Liquid

Matchpage

12th July 2017

Renegades

Mirage

Cobblestone

Train

News tags:

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	75 - 51	+24	93.2	78.6%	1.36
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	74 - 56	+18	87.3	78.6%	1.31
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	60 - 60	0	74.8	73.8%	1.09
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	49 - 57	-8	64.2	58.3%	0.88
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	41 - 53	-12	62.9	59.5%	0.82

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	67 - 59	+8	87.7	82.1%	1.21
Noah 'Nifty' Francis Nifty	56 - 55	+1	67.6	63.1%	1.04
Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac USTILO	56 - 60	-4	75.5	65.5%	0.99
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	54 - 60	-6	74.7	69.0%	0.96
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	43 - 66	-23	70.9	59.5%	0.83

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3

Liquid

Matchpage

12th July 2017

Renegades

Mirage

Cobblestone

Train

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	75 - 51	+24	93.2	78.6%	1.36
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	74 - 56	+18	87.3	78.6%	1.31
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	60 - 60	0	74.8	73.8%	1.09
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	49 - 57	-8	64.2	58.3%	0.88
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	41 - 53	-12	62.9	59.5%	0.82

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	67 - 59	+8	87.7	82.1%	1.21
Noah 'Nifty' Francis Nifty	56 - 55	+1	67.6	63.1%	1.04
Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac USTILO	56 - 60	-4	75.5	65.5%	0.99
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	54 - 60	-6	74.7	69.0%	0.96
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	43 - 66	-23	70.9	59.5%	0.83

This means that Renegades will complete the team list for the Swedish event, which will run from August 30 to September 3, with a total of $250,000 on offer. The following teams will be in attendance at the event:

SK	Astralis
FaZe	G2
North	Natus Vincere
Virtus.pro	fnatic
OpTic	Immortals
Gambit	Ninjas in Pyjamas
BOOT-d[S]	MOUZ
Envy	Renegades

Well, they truly deserved.

2017-07-12 11:52

7 replies

Where thaaaa fuck is c9 man?

2017-07-12 12:01

3 replies

Home

2017-07-12 12:09

in europe xd

2017-07-12 13:06

My thoughts are they've had such a run they want to take a break after the major in August and early September.

2017-07-12 14:06

God jks as always

2017-07-12 12:08

2 replies

Yeah. If jks and REZ are in same team, they such a twins xdddd

2017-07-12 16:54

1 reply

so True lol

2017-07-13 04:52

nice

EZ RENEGADES

WTF

cool :D

Liquid so bad

2017-07-12 11:53

Yeah the boys. Big test for them. Hopefully they can make the playoffs.

Liquid why choking so hard at qualifiers

2017-07-12 11:54

It's a shame that the 2nd and deciding map are summarised as "jks" stepping up. The second map was OT and the final map was decided late on. A bit lazy Sander.

11 replies

Almost as if he didn't watch it because it was 6am

2017-07-12 11:55

Poor excuse, you can easily find out details online. Failing that get someone from NA to cover it.

2017-07-12 11:58

6 replies

Yeah the real solution is for HLTV to hire an NA writer

2017-07-12 12:04

5 replies

I was going to write it, but Sanders had already started on it. Yea, I agree HLTV need a few NA writers after stich stepped down.

2017-07-12 12:07

4 replies

god i miss stich

2017-07-12 12:34

What happened to stich?

2017-07-12 12:37

pursued a different full-time job. He is still around though.

2017-07-12 12:46

Ohh I thought hltv is more fun and lucrative to work. Nvm gl to stich.

2017-07-12 16:05

the information isn't supposed to be super in-depth, it's supposed to say who made it to malmo

2017-07-12 16:30

Title is there for a reason

2017-07-12 17:03

fair enough

2017-07-12 18:40

#FreeIBP

wat

2017-07-13 10:15

were optic invited, or qualified?

they were invited

2017-07-12 11:56

thank you, mr dontstopdontstopdontstopdontst

2017-07-12 12:19

Woody alien dont stop

2017-07-12 12:25

Believing

2017-07-12 16:47

Twistzz +24, nitro +18, on other side nexa -23 lul. How liquid lost it? xD

9 replies

Jks carried so hard and Elige was playing on a laptop

He actually was. Liquid also got 3 hrs of sleep traveling back from europe

2017-07-12 15:12

It's that way due to the 16-4 stomping on map 1 then 2 close maps that Renegades won.

2017-07-12 11:59

dont look too much at nexa's stats, i made the mistake of doing that but he has a lot of impact. not to mention the way he plays on t side, he's pretty much a support player. CT side he's a great anchor. at half time on train he had more kills than ustilo and azr, then went onto t side and barely got any kills yet they still dominated on t side.

2017-07-12 12:57

He's also so smart in clutches. Doesnt always win them all but you can see how intelligent he is. Give it a year and he'll be such a beast.

2017-07-12 13:20

Jks was solo b anchor? But i do agree with you Nexa is better than his stats show, He has really improved since originally joining Renegades and i think Renegades were wanting Nexa to be a work in progress thing but turn out good in the future

2017-07-12 14:14

jks usually rotates different sites though, i guess it depends on the map too and they probably are trying different things. but i remember seeing nexa be the anchor at times and hes very good at it, always gets a kill at least before dying.

2017-07-13 01:31

First map was basically stat padding for Liquid because there was no traction from RNG. Nexa had impact in the other two maps but not simply frag wise.

2017-07-12 17:51

I just want to see 'em on the big stage

2017-07-12 12:02

youtube.com/watch?v=Yb76AobIgcU

2017-07-12 13:23

LULquid

2017-07-12 12:15

there are some na talents like twistz who have no future in this game if they stay in na region

2017-07-12 12:23

Disband Liquid please...

2017-07-12 12:38

why is c9 not attending?

2017-07-12 12:36

Chose not to? This is the first tourney they took off so

2017-07-12 13:38

C9 is still in Europe

2017-07-12 13:48

couldn't ask for a better pick up than nifty, so many good tactical decisions on t side train

2017-07-12 12:41

+1 I was really worried when they kicked Rickeh but honestly i think Nifty is the better player for Renegades

2017-07-12 14:16

I think rickeh is a guy you can always rely on but nifty is a fucking playmaker pulls insane clutches and opens up rounds really well

2017-07-12 15:05

JUS TIN SA VAGE *clap clap clapclapclap*

2017-07-12 12:42

poor Twistzz he deserves better team

Like renegades? Kappa123 xD

2017-07-12 13:21

C9999?

XGod to playoffs

2017-07-12 13:01

gj, stan

2017-07-12 13:17

If only he still played for optic.

2017-07-12 13:25

What the fuck is bootsd xdeee

2017-07-12 13:26

hltv.org/news/19667-boot-acquire-dreamsc..

2017-07-12 14:01

Ez For BOOT DS A.K.A LORD BENKAI <3

2017-07-12 13:29

Twistzz went nuts and still didn't win O_O

2017-07-12 13:31

You would have said that about Jks if Renegades lost the bo3, It's life i suppose

2017-07-12 14:17

Curse of jks in the major qual

2017-07-12 15:03

LOL, Tyloo didn't even qualify this year for the single tournament they've impressed in.

2017-07-12 13:45

Mabrother Twistzz always destroying, but where´s Elige??? Rng sucks, bro!

2017-07-12 14:18

He was playing on a laptop

2017-07-12 15:41

B.O.O.T-d[S]?

2017-07-12 14:19

Liquid is like 10 times better than them

2017-07-12 15:26

NA Spot goes to Australia xD

2017-07-12 14:22

What the fuck is liquid doing.

2017-07-12 14:26

Stacked event, nice.

2017-07-12 14:40

C9 should have gone imo... good event but i guess 3 months in Europe is a lot

2017-07-12 15:00

remember when EliGe was the best player in na?

2017-07-12 15:10

Nope, i remember him having a really good major tourny and thorin wanked himself over him

2017-07-12 15:17

Remember when liquid tried to qualify for malmo on 3 hrs of sleep flying back from Europe and elige had to play on a laptop?

2017-07-12 15:42

thats not the only reason rng won though. they have beaten liquid a lot actually pretty sure rng have beaten liquid more then lequid have rng with the past core linups

2017-07-12 19:05

Sure but RNG being able to beat liquid in matches liquid isn't preparing for doesn't make them good or liquid trash

2017-07-12 21:02

ik, its not like RNG haven't just gotten back from Europe as well though, maybe a couple days earlier. and you cant say that 3 hours sleep is the only reason why they lost because RNG have been looking pretty good lately, i mean in the major qual all of there losses went the full 30 rounds or more.

2017-07-13 08:10

the boys!!!! :D

ez 4 B.O.O.T-d[S]

2017-07-12 15:28

c9 jks pls

2017-07-12 15:36

Twistzz is too good for liquid, he deserve a better team

2017-07-12 16:06

Renegades deserve their spot after defeating TL! Can't wait for them to go out in groups in 15-16th..

2017-07-12 16:12

nice teams list

2017-07-12 16:14

how does this team do it

2017-07-12 16:17

Savage R8 joke

2017-07-12 16:23

Yeah the fukn boys

Liquid just had black line on quals(on Colne they was pretty good)

2017-07-12 17:12

Stanislaw very bad man

2017-07-12 17:15

optic should pick up nifty and have mixwell rifle

2017-07-12 17:29

Still confused y optic and nip got the invite over c9 and liquidin the first place

2017-07-12 17:34

well nip cuz malmo, the 12 year old nip fans wouldnt attend if nip failed to qualify. optic well i've no idea

2017-07-12 17:39

Optic has call of duty fans

2017-07-13 18:39

Either that or they could of atleast scheduled the na qual so that na teams at the major could play. Cuz there is no way that c9 would lose to renegades for the spot

2017-07-12 17:41