EPICENTER 2018 North America Open Qualifier #1

FURIA defeat Swole Patrol; advance to EPICENTER closed qualifier

23-8-2018 08:21

FURIA triumphed over Swole Patrol 2-1 (16-5 on Mirage, 5-16 on Overpass, and 16-11 on Train) to be the first team confirmed in the North America closed qualifier.

The first of four qualifiers kicked off with eight teams battling in a single-elimination bracket, where the likes of CLG Red, Excelerate, Hysteria, and Truth saw the exit doors early in the initial best-of-one matches.

The Abadir brothers fall short to FURIA

Swole Patrol, Infamous, small meats and FURIA then duked it out in the remaining best-of-three deciders, where Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir's men and the Brazilians eventually ended up in the grand final.

The grand final kicked off on Mirage, where Vinicius "⁠VINI⁠" Figueiredo and co. wasted no time securing their map pick with a swift 16-5 map victory. On the flip side, Swole Patrol comfortably secured their Overpass pick with a 16-5 victory of their own to even the series, forcing the decider on Train.

Right from the start, the Brazilians took over as CTs, rounding out the first half on Train with a commanding 11-4 score at halftime. In the second half, freakazoid and his men snapped back on their CT-side, but were unable to take more than seven rounds from FURIA, who secured Train 16-11 to advance to the closed qualifier.

EPICENTER 2018 North America Open Qualifier #1Best of 3

FURIA

Matchpage

22nd August 2018

Swole Patrol

Mirage

Overpass

Train

FURIA	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato KSCERATO	55 - 43	+12	84.9	73.9%	1.27
Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo VINI	47 - 44	+3	81.9	72.5%	1.17
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos yuurih	47 - 43	+4	78.6	73.9%	1.10
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan arT	51 - 45	+6	70.8	63.8%	1.09
Guilherme 'spacca' Spacca spacca	32 - 44	-12	51.0	62.3%	0.77

Swole Patrol	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Braxton 'swag' Pierce swag	53 - 41	+12	83.4	68.1%	1.17
Austin 'Cooper' Abadir Cooper	52 - 47	+5	65.8	62.3%	0.95
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir freakazoid	35 - 46	-11	67.0	66.7%	0.86
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado MarKE	35 - 45	-10	65.0	66.7%	0.85
Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro Zellsis	43 - 54	-11	67.6	60.9%	0.83

For now, the team list for the North America closed qualifier looks as follows:

FURIA

Open Qual #3

Invite

Open Qual #2

Open Qual #4

Invite

expected

2018-08-23 08:22

1 reply

2018-08-23 16:46

Rip

rip

2018-08-23 08:23

Expected

2018-08-23 08:24

Furia need to kick spacca and get a better awper

9 replies

They have arT, he's an awper, isn't he?

2018-08-23 09:15

3 replies

Ye but not main

2018-08-23 09:59

He had always been primary, but changed to secondary as soon as he joined furia

2018-08-23 15:31

Art is the secondary awper

2018-08-23 14:06

-spacca +yel

2018-08-23 15:50

2 replies

2018-08-23 16:21

2018-08-23 16:48

-spacca +KNGV

2018-08-23 16:47

clearly you want this squad to disband if you want them to add kng. he destroys teams so badly he could teach FNS a thing or 2 about it.

2018-08-23 17:28

rip #1 NA team

2018-08-23 08:29

Still better than MIBRNA

2018-08-23 08:30

7 replies

i'm pretty sure they can actually beat MIBR

2018-08-23 14:56

5 replies

are you sober?

2018-08-23 15:21

Kscerato > coldzera Yuriih > fer VINI > stewie arT > tarik Spacca > FalleN

2018-08-23 15:24

kkkkkkkk nego tem problema!

2018-08-23 15:36

and then you wake and realize it was all a dream

2018-08-23 20:30

ksceraaaaaato

2018-08-23 16:37

2018-08-23 08:33

spacca or freakazoid who is worse

2018-08-23 08:35

freakazoid, muscle overcome his skill in cs.

2018-08-23 09:20

that amount of steroids have got to do some braindamage indeed.

2018-08-24 00:35

FURIA>MiBR

2018-08-23 08:38

10iq statement

2018-08-23 08:42

NIKOM >S1mple

2018-08-23 16:51

Makes me so happy to see them lose after the throw against infamous, deserved

2018-08-23 08:53

how much?

2018-08-23 16:11

Do you remember how freakezoid bullied Simple when he was in cloud9 ? Look at freakezoid now and compare it with what Simple achieved. youtube.com/watch?v=UP33KdvNEcc

2018-08-23 09:01

who did what?

2018-08-23 09:24

Silly season struck HLTV

2018-08-23 09:29

Classic freak: Been having FPS issues in cs go, just recently reformatted to Windows 10 pro (not sure if home is better) and it’s only when I get into gun fights and my mouse movement feels delayed. Appreciate any help

2018-08-23 09:50

Typical NA

2018-08-23 10:33

Windows 10 home sucks

well RiP

2018-08-23 10:01

Eh Abadir brothers..

2018-08-23 10:45

And this freak was toxic to simple back in the day, see where you are now freak, and where simple is

2018-08-23 11:13

it’s not like freak actually bullied him and it was 100% freaks fault. I think what happened was that simple was calling his esea mates out for playing like idiots for a while, them afterwards freak uses stewie’s mumble acc to join a server in a game he wasn’t even playing in to ‘reciprocate’. Obviously. not the right thing to do but if s1mple’s moments had been caught on stream i would assume freak’s punishment would have been a lot less severe. and yes freak kinda sucks that much is true

2018-08-23 11:17

Still freak was more mature than simple was, cmon, simple was some 17 year old reking pros on fpl and esea, anyways, swole better than c9 lelelelel

2018-08-23 13:44

3 more quals. Ez 4 swole

2018-08-23 11:50

2018-08-23 12:37

free brax

2018-08-23 13:11

spacca legend pls

2018-08-23 13:15

2018-08-23 13:18

KAAAAAAASCERAAAAAAAAAAATOOOO

2018-08-23 13:30

ksssssssssssssceeeeeeraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatoOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2018-08-23 16:57

-spacca +yeL tier 2 ez

2018-08-23 14:00

Why would yeL ever do that?

2018-08-23 14:45

if boltz replaces yeL in Lumino

2018-08-23 17:14

Yel is a key player in luminosity's side -spacca +boltz ArT main awper ez mdl/pro league side

2018-08-23 15:25

2018-08-23 16:54

Casserato the bratzilian coldzera

2018-08-23 14:25

Kscerato*

2018-08-23 15:51

ta tirando ne?

2018-08-23 17:50

ksceraaaaaaaaaaato goood

2018-08-23 16:55

- spacca + boltz with art being main awper. ez tier 2

2018-08-23 14:53

+1000000000000000

2018-08-23 16:56

Boltz, ksc, yuurih would be nuts.

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2018-08-23 16:16