GX round up ESL Pro League NA Relegation

17-11-2017 12:23

GX defeated Ghost Academy 2-1 (14-16 Mirage, 16-11 Train, 16-2 Cache) in the playoffs of ESEA MDL S26 to earn a spot in ESL Pro League North America Relegation.

The North American playofs for ESEA MDL saw Rise Nation and SoaR advance to the grand final, with the former defeating Mythic and GX and the latter taking down FRENCH CANADIANS and Ghost Academy.

With the top two teams found, the third-place match between GX and Ghost Academy was left to decide the team to join Immortals and Rogue in the ESL Pro League North America Relegation.

swag's team has a shot at making the next season of EPL

GX had a rough start to the game, going down 14-3 on their own map pick, Mirage. Shawn "⁠witmer⁠" Taylor and co. picked it up picked it up in the second half and managed to make it tight, but Ghost Academy took the map 16-14 in the end.

Train followed, where GX controlled the game right from the start. After a 10-5 first half, Keven "⁠AZK⁠" Lariviere's team won the T pistol and closed out the game 16-11. To decide the series, the two sides played Cache. Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce single handedly closed out the series there, going 30-5 (K-D) as GX won the map 16-2.

ESEA MDL Season 26 North AmericaBest of 3

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17th November 2017

Ghost Academy

Mirage

Train

Cache

GX	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Braxton 'swag' Pierce swag	76 - 37	+39	100.4	80.0%	1.62
Michael 'dapr' Gulino dapr	60 - 45	+15	80.2	81.3%	1.30
Shawn 'witmer' Taylor witmer	53 - 46	+7	77.2	78.7%	1.23
Matt 'Pollo' Wilson Pollo	42 - 52	-10	73.0	70.7%	1.00
Keven 'AZK' Lariviere AZK	49 - 50	-1	63.3	70.7%	0.99

Ghost Academy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Chad 'Oderus' Miller Oderus	53 - 52	+1	78.6	65.3%	1.08
Andrew 'ShoT_UP' Orlowski ShoT_UP	58 - 55	+3	81.1	66.7%	1.07
Jason 'neptune' Tran neptune	53 - 65	-12	77.6	62.7%	0.88
Jarod 'Douglas' Onorato Douglas	30 - 54	-24	50.6	65.3%	0.72
Bryan 'MAKKA' Drouillard MAKKA	36 - 54	-18	55.9	61.3%	0.71

With the ESEA MDL S26 third-place decider concluded, ESL Pro League Season 6 North America Relegation will feature the following teams:

Immortals	Rogue
GX	Loser of Rise Nation/ SoaR

With North America having four spots at the Global Challenge LAN this time around, all of the ESEA Season 26 Global Challenge teams, except the Australian representative, had been decided before this match:

AGO	eXtatus
Space Soldiers	Ghost Academy
GX	Rise Nation
SoaR	Australia Premier #1

MA BOOOY DAZED ....oh wait

2017-11-17 12:24

17 replies

Dazed thought that gx wouldn’t reach relegation lul

2017-11-17 13:19

15 replies

if they make it to epl witmer gets kicked and dazed will come back xDDD

2017-11-17 13:28

14 replies

I wouldnt even be surprised lul

2017-11-17 13:35

6 replies

Zero percent surprised.

2017-11-17 14:50

5 replies

Actually it would be very surprising considering DaZeD brings nothing positive to a team as he is currently...

2017-11-17 17:26

4 replies

he could coach at best, I love dazed but if he's going to be that petty about this team I don't want him playing.

2017-11-17 17:58

3 replies

Hes petty for retiring because he doesn't want to put the time in to compete anymore? Autism. Dazed even said they'd be better with witmer. Bunch of ugly idiots in this thread lol.

2017-11-17 18:49

2 replies

He's saying he's being critical of small things in his team in a negative manner, "petty for retiring" doesn't make much sense... stick to words you know especially when you try to be critical

2017-11-17 19:01

He was a scumbag on the team and treated dapr like shit, really negative asshole, I was really excited to see him play again too, this is coming from one of his subs on twitch. He didn't need to retire either, he retired because he's too fucking lazy to try as hard as he used to on IBP and he makes a hundred times more money streaming and making youtube videos than he does playing. So yeah even if I did mean "petty for retiring", it's pretty fucking dumb he just gave up after having such high expectations, disappointing literally everyone of his fans.

2017-11-18 07:52

2017-11-17 14:49

lol nope. dazed is done plus everyone else would want witmer trust me

2017-11-17 17:00

baited us for so long :( i wanna be pro again bla bla bla ...gets the chance now and INSTANT quit ...he didnt even try XD

2017-11-17 17:35

well he tried but couldnt get in the swing of things. and when that happens its hard to wanna play at the top level meaning the training and the traveling. i mean right now GX rarely practice at all. i mean seriously. if they had an org that could pick them up and actually let them train and get in the swing of things they would be much stronger. but just think about it.. GX was the only invited team to the MDL. they threw themselves together and already are in rtop 3 of MDL moving on. if they make EPL 1 of 2 things will happen.. 1. they will get picked up by an org and they will focus on all non sponsored valve everything and continue to play. 2. players will be picked by other teams. if brax ever gets an actual unban from valve then its on.. but i doubt that will ever happen.

2017-11-17 18:07

Didn't really feel like he tried. It seems his heart wasn't really in it from the start considering he had doubts from the beginning when he was offered more serious contracts which he declined... Truth was that he didn't really have that competitive drive anymore, I think deep down he knew it which is why he didn't commit in the beginning. Skill wise I think he is capable of bringing himself back to a solid level in NA, but mentality wise it's just not there. He is a poor influence on his team and is incapable of leading with his attitude, basically just a slightly above average fragger and his negatives already outweigh the positives. But to be honest I think he made a bad decision once again. This really was a great opportunity for him to gain a bigger audience and influence and he just threw it away. A lot of people respected his pro or former pro status and now he just seems washed up. He's already losing followers on twitch. He makes pretty stupid decisions for someone who tries to act smart...

2017-11-17 19:16

well think about it: GX lost to Gale Force with DaZeD, whipped them with witmer. ez decision

2017-11-17 21:20

1 reply

Lol that has nothjng to do with what we are talking about

2017-11-18 17:05

Ez for swag

2017-11-17 16:42

god dazed

2017-11-17 12:23

first

swaaaaag

There's the brax we all know and love.

2017-11-17 12:25

time to bring in steel since dazed and his ego are gone?

like steel has less ego xD Might be even a better player and could also igl but who wants to play with a toxic guy like that. I hardly doubt he can control himself in a team and if he acts like he does in rank S and pugs then good night team atmosphere

2017-11-17 12:27

youtube.com/watch?v=gMptWURAZnE

2017-11-17 13:01

Well, looks like a number of players want to play with him. Competed whenever he could with Torqued. Went to evert Fragadelphia since its formation. The guy isn't a quitter like a certain someone else, he actually wants to play, no matter how small the lan is.

2017-11-18 11:08

True. Steel looks like he wants to compete alot more than dazed looked past few months.

2017-11-18 18:29

2017-11-17 12:28

AzK -1

But the titan he is the French stars.

2017-11-17 13:00

What is this meme

2017-11-17 16:28

Ez Swag

witmer has put fire into this team, love that he's now playing instead of dazed. can't wait to see them in the next season of EPL EZ KATKA

2017-11-17 12:26

Ghost academy? Is this the worst team in the world?

apparently they are equal to the normal Ghost team lul.

2017-11-17 13:21

lmao there as good as regular ghost team (aka just of bunch of gold nova masters)

2017-11-17 13:49

They arent bad. They are just worse than other pros :p

2017-11-17 16:41

...Coming from the MG1 who is most definitely 100x worse than these guys when you're at your best lmao.

2017-11-18 11:10

NA 4 slots at global challenge eu 3 slots topkek

Wtf lol

2017-11-17 13:54

YES SWAG

2017-11-17 12:31

azk is so bad lmao he should go back to the overwatch

2017-11-17 12:35

No he’s been playing well, not these games though. Keep in mind he’s only been back for like a month too

2017-11-17 16:46

Space Soldiers vs Virtus Pro VS Gx vs Ghost Academy ...... lul

2017-11-17 12:36

8 replies

Swag would win 1 vs 5 16 times against VP and SS without problems.

2017-11-17 12:42

7 replies

joke of the year congratulations

2017-11-17 12:44

not really, but i can't wait to see him go up against higher tier teams!

2017-11-17 13:22

Stop being a delusional fangay Swag is not even close to ngin's level

2017-11-17 13:25

2017-11-17 13:31

0 / 8

2017-11-17 13:32

2017-11-17 16:33

smoke more opium i can tell your high as fuck

2017-11-17 17:02

Ez4MaBoiDazedSamMarine

-pollo -azk +n0thing +adreN

2017-11-17 12:48

+39 holy shit

2017-11-17 12:53

30-5 damn

" Shawn "witmer" Taylor and co. picked it up picked it up in the second half and managed to make it tight, " - HLTV, hire better editors. Picked it up is mentioned twice here.

2017-11-17 13:09

swag is a monster!! I hope to see him in the top level of CS.

2017-11-17 13:24

Dazed is the problem

hltv.org/events/3360/esl-pro-league-seas.. Nov 30th 1999 wow , 1999 LOL

2017-11-17 13:44

LOL

2017-11-17 13:56

yeah xd , is an error xd

dazed and confused

2017-11-17 13:55

Swag_mulcher

People mistake steels toxicity with dazed too much. Dazed is a toxic whiner. Steel is toxic because of his passion for the game. There's a clear difference in their motivation. Steel will reach EPL again and be at the top if he stays motivated

2017-11-17 14:15

Nice showings gl

gl boys! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-11-17 15:02

what do they get relegated down into? and why do they get relegated for winning? im confused...

2017-11-17 15:04

This season they played in MDL, they will now participate in the EPL relegation tournament, where they can qualify for the next EPL season

2017-11-17 15:08

thats what i assumed but why is it called a relegation tournament if the winner qualifies to get promoted into a higher league and not relegated into a lower league?

2017-11-17 15:10

The tournament is composed of MDL members trying to get into EPL and EPL members trying to not get relegated. I agree the name is confusing, but it is in fact a relegation tournament... for half of the teams.

2017-11-17 15:19

how do you make it to epl from the EPL relegation tourny?

2017-11-17 16:43

You place 1st or 2nd out of the 4 teams

2017-11-17 17:53

so basically u have 2 bo3s? to determine final 2 teams?

2017-11-17 18:36

I'm not sure of the format, would have to double check the page

2017-11-18 00:26

swag should have been picked up by some other better team at this point already.

2017-11-17 15:06

Haha only a matter of time before -witmer + Dazed xd

2017-11-17 16:39

steel will join them if they make it to pro league for pollo i believe witmer is the next skadoodle

2017-11-17 18:37

why is that worth a news?

Is this the same makka in Steels rage

2017-11-17 16:48

dazed left and the team just got better coincidence? hell na

2017-11-17 16:50

SS to win the global challenge. IMT to be demoted to Premier, and Rogue to make it.

2017-11-17 17:07

mah boi swag

2017-11-17 17:47

swag smurfing

2017-11-17 20:20

how ironic would it be if witmer on GX beat his former team rogue to be in EPL once again, and knock rogue out of EPL im honestly shocked that GX didnt try to get Hiko out of rogue

2017-11-17 21:21