ESL One New York 2017 North America Closed Qualifier

Cloud9 book ESL One New York spot

21-8-2017 06:00

Cloud9 have secured the final spot at ESL One New York after defeating Rise Nation 2-1 in the grand final of the North American qualifier.

Day of the qualifier began with Cloud9 moving past Complexity on two maps, with the team's newest members, Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik and William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba, both putting in big numbers. Rise Nation then pulled off quite the upset as they came from behind to beat CLG 2-1 after losing the opening map of the series.

The grand final kicked off on Cobblestone, where Rise Nation picked up two rounds either side of a massive 13-round streak from Cloud9. In the second half, a force buy from Rise Nation canceled out Cloud9's pistol round win, but Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip's men immediately regained control of the game, setting themselves up for an easy 16-3 win.

Cloud9 through to ESL One New York

Map two, Mirage, saw Rise Nation jump out to an impressive 9-0 lead on the CT side. A quad kill from Stewie2K then helped Cloud9 to finally break their opponents' streak, with the Terrorists still picking up three more rounds before the end of the half. After switching sides, Cloud9 secured five rounds in a row, bringing the deficit to 9-11, but then Rise Nation picked up the pace and won five rounds without response to take the series to a third map.

It all came down to Inferno, where Cloud9 took a whopping 13 rounds on the CT side after giving Rise Nation very little room to operate throughout the half. Upon switching to the Terrorist side, Cloud9 won three rounds straight to seal a 2-1 victory and advance to ESL One New York.

ESL One New York 2017 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

21st August 2017

Rise Nation

Cobblestone

Mirage

Inferno

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	62 - 34	+28	96.4	85.5%	1.56
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	59 - 36	+23	90.0	77.4%	1.45
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	48 - 35	+13	86.3	88.7%	1.32
Braxton 'swag' Pierce swag	43 - 35	+8	89.8	80.6%	1.22
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	42 - 44	-2	73.5	79.0%	1.10

Rise Nation	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey Jonji	42 - 50	-8	75.9	75.8%	1.03
Will 'dazzLe' Loafman dazzLe	44 - 53	-9	72.7	66.1%	0.94
Kaleb 'moose' Jayne moose	38 - 50	-12	69.4	62.9%	0.84
Brandon 'Ace' Winn Ace	28 - 49	-21	53.0	59.7%	0.70
Andy 'vSa' Xu vSa	32 - 53	-21	57.1	59.7%	0.63

Below you can find the final team list for the $250,000 ESL One New York event, taking place from September 14-17:

Astralis	FaZe
Liquid	Natus Vincere
SK	Virtus.pro
Envy	Cloud9

Nice

2017-08-21 06:04

22 replies

-tl and -envyus +who ? Im excited to see this tournament there is new super teams like faze, navi, c9 with best two teams in the world astralis, and sk and veterans vp

2017-08-21 06:16

21 replies

+ but it is na event so liquid must be there

2017-08-21 07:04

9 replies

Yes but they have no fifth player

2017-08-21 07:43

8 replies

What the hell are you talking about? We have 5 players.

2017-08-21 07:56

7 replies

No u dont elige left. He is still on the roster on hltv though.

2017-08-21 08:02

3 replies

lol no he didn't

2017-08-21 08:41

tweets went out days ago saying ELiGE was sticking with Team Liquid. Liquid definitely deserves to be at this event. They've been flying under the radar as every keeps paying attention to what Cloud9 is doing with their new team. I really think Liquid sticking with this squad is going to pay off a lot.

2017-08-21 08:42

1 reply

Liquids great but C9 > Liquid still at the end of the day. Still good to have two NA teams that can compete tho.

2017-08-21 09:34

Who is awper in liquid?

2017-08-21 09:00

2 replies

JDM, my friend

2017-08-21 09:16

thx bro

2017-08-21 16:21

Why -nv ? They qualified

2017-08-21 07:30

10 replies

EnVyUs qualified they deserve to be here HR g2 and gambit and only dropped one map LUL

2017-08-21 07:44

Yeah but they have no fans out there. Even frenchs dont like them.

I live in NJ and i'm a fan of envyus?? sad to not be in town when the tournament is going on but i'll always be rooting for my boys in blue.

2017-08-21 08:06

6 replies

I'm not judging or anything I'm just really interested on how you became an nV fan.

2017-08-21 08:43

To be honest, i'm french, and I'd rather be a fan of nv than g2, g2 is such an arrogant team, the way the shuffle was done was really bad, and i'm happy to see scream/rpk/happy having more succes than g2. Cause i'm pretty sure they will. G2 is just a team of super stars supposed to be insanely good, but they're not. They can't play csgo together, they're just good indivudually

2017-08-21 10:11

this is so true NBK's fault tbh, he is just here for the money

2017-08-21 11:44

nV have that underdog redemption story going for them which makes them easy to cheer for

2017-08-21 21:20

Told you there is no fans there. U were the only one but youre out of town

2017-08-21 11:08

NJ good state.

2017-08-21 16:45

And thats the problem?

2017-08-21 12:37

waste of spot na will go out in groups per usual

2017-08-21 06:05

Cloud 9 in top 4!

2017-08-21 06:25

sure thing!!

2017-08-21 06:47

Good luck to them!

1.Liquid 2.Cloud 9

5 replies

i lol'd

2017-08-21 06:07

in ur wet dreams

no fkn way

Kappa

2017-08-21 06:42

nt liquid tier 3 team

2017-08-21 09:37

Can't wait to see them there

2017-08-21 06:06

Easy

God tarik

Will they make it out of groups tho thats the real question

prob not but its nice to improve :)

2017-08-21 06:08

Maybe like a 30 percent chance

Now you know not to play Nuke and Mirage :)

They r gonna be so stong on thise maps in 3 weeks. They didnt practise those maps with overpass. They can play every map. Rush's overpass b side hold is da best.

2017-08-21 06:11

you think 2 player change nothing ?? bull shit nuke and mirage

2017-08-21 06:30

I dont understand what you mean

2017-08-21 06:32

They are a fresh team idiot

2017-08-21 07:32

Cloud9 had a good Mirage with Shroud, so I think C9 will improve on Mirage and make it a good one for them

2017-08-21 06:29

Idk what to say about that bro. On Nuke i fell like they weren't focusing, like they weren't in the game, they were potatoes on Nuke, maybe lack of practice on that map. And on Mirage, i really don't know wtf happened. They used to be one of the best teams on Mirage. Maybe because of n0thing, he was very good on Mirage and he had good strats, but I still can't tell myself how they lost Mirage.

2017-08-21 08:40

Lost a map to a random no namer team.

2017-08-21 06:09

lul? c9 was playing puggy style 2

2017-08-21 06:10

C9 is not some tactical team what do you mean playing puggy style? They are a pug team, even when Sean Gares was there they were a pug team but he had the ability to review demos and counter strat his opponent's. Anyway they are a pug fpl team so idk what your point is they just aren't that sick atm so random tier 4 no name team was able to get a map on them.

2017-08-21 06:13

He is trying to say that they have not yet got a strats. The team is just set up.

NiP lost to Vega Squadron

2017-08-21 07:07

Yes but vega squadron is a way better team...

2017-08-21 07:31

They lost 16-2 they were not that good at least

2017-08-21 07:47

OMEGALUL

2017-08-21 12:04

read what my bro munchentiger is writting doug

2017-08-21 18:20

to be expected considering they had 1 stand-in and 2 new teammates

2017-08-21 09:59

#FazeUp

expected but suprised

Expected this one too.

2017-08-21 06:14

GJ c9

Tough luck rise nation - but c9 were formidable

2017-08-21 06:15

Tarik played so well whole qualifier, I hope this team activates CLG tarik

2017-08-21 06:33

GL For them

2017-08-21 06:55

Even though they got stomped on the first and second map I'm happy Rise at least took one map off C9. I think they'll be good with some more practice.

4 replies

i feel the same. It is nice to see new teams rise to the top!

2017-08-21 07:51

+1 for pun

2017-08-21 10:00

totally intentional!!! "Kappa"

2017-08-21 16:42

Rise Nation actually surprised me. I'm really happy to see a bit of change. GJ to Rise Nation!

2017-08-21 12:06

FaZe baby

2017-08-21 07:41

Why is it showing the Canadian flag? C9 is all American

2017-08-21 07:55

Nice GLHF

2017-08-21 07:58

Well done ! GJ tarik

2017-08-21 09:23

NA very hard qualifier xD

2017-08-21 09:30

Everyone is talking about how big c9 r gonna be but they lost maps rise nation(who tf r they) and l4org (who tf r they sound like their 6) but nobody has seen liquid under the radar who could soon take title of best na team(that's actually in North America so not including the South American teams)

2017-08-21 10:14

nV had to beat Gambit for this spot, while C9 needed only a win against Rise Nation, a team no one has ever heard of.

2017-08-21 10:29

I woke up with good news I guess :)

2017-08-21 10:52

ez 4 swag

2017-08-21 11:13

Why was swag allowed to play in the qualifier but in the major automatic takes his place?

2017-08-21 11:46

Swag was merely standing in for him and autimatic is available during the time the major is held.

2017-08-21 11:49

This ^

2017-08-21 12:07

1. and 2. place to Astralis or SK The rest is really unclear. How will Faze and C9 play with their rosterchanges? Both teams had a short preparationtime and especially for c9 they have so much potential but u could see in the Qualifier that they strong individually without so much teamplay yet. Id like to see a strong VP but doubt it. maybe papa and his grandpas can surprise me. Navi with Zeus is also interesting. G2 and Liquid wont matter imo

2017-08-21 12:13

well g2 is not even here xd

2017-08-21 13:51

FaZe is bad

2017-08-21 17:52

WP C9, will be interesting to see if they start getting out of groups regularly now... A lot of work ahead of them, GL.

2017-08-21 12:20

2017-08-21 12:30

WHAT THEY LOST A MAP

2017-08-21 13:37

Valve should find a 'revolutionised' way how to make viewing a counter strike matches more interesting and less headache, rather than watching aiming skills all the way.

2017-08-21 14:28