IEM Chicago 2018 South America Closed Qualifier

Luminosity qualify for IEM Chicago over NoTag

1-9-2018 06:57

With a one-map advantage coming from the upper bracket, Luminosity swept NoTag 3-0 to qualify for IEM Chicago (16-4 on Overpass and 16-7 on Cache).

The best-of-five grand final kicked off on NoTag's map pick, Overpass, where Luminosity's Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles and co. got off to a smooth 3-0 start as CTs. João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos and his men stopped the streak with a win in the fourth round, but could not keep the pace on the T-side, as Luminosity secured ten out of eleven rounds to lead by 13-2 at halftime.

The second half saw NoTag come out swiftly to secure the CT pistol, but Luminosity fired back with two in a row, before trading rounds to eventually win the 16-4 map victory to take the series lead, 2-0.

steel and co. secure a slot in Chicago

The series then moved on to Cache, Luminosity's map pick, which saw NoTag win the pistol and the following anti-ecos for a clean 3-0 start. The streak ended when HEN1 and his men took the fourth round. The two sides the went back and forth, before Luminosity won nine in a row, ending the half with a 10-5 lead.

In the second half, NoTag got the better start by winning the pistol, but their parade quickly came down as the T side struck back with two rounds. In a blink of an eye, Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes and co. fired back to win their second of the half, but Luminosity wouldn't go down that easily and got their wits together on the T side to pick up four in a row, securing the series 3-0 for a spot at IEM Chicago 2018.

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Luminosity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles HEN1	38 - 20	+18	97.0	93.0%	1.63
Lucas 'steel' Lopes steel	42 - 24	+18	93.6	86.0%	1.47
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles LUCAS1	37 - 23	+14	97.2	83.7%	1.42
Gabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato NEKIZ	38 - 27	+11	88.6	90.7%	1.40
Gustavo 'yel' Knittel yel	34 - 25	+9	86.1	79.1%	1.27

NoTag	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Alexandre 'xand' Zizi xand	34 - 36	-2	86.6	67.4%	1.09
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes chelo	30 - 35	-5	78.3	58.1%	1.02
João 'horvy' Horvath horvy	31 - 36	-5	58.3	65.1%	0.86
Vito 'kNgV-' Giuseppe kNgV-	12 - 40	-28	41.9	46.5%	0.37
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	12 - 43	-31	49.6	44.2%	0.32

Below is the current team list for the $250,000 tournament taking place at the Wintrust Arena from November 6-11:

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2018-09-01 06:57

11 replies

i made it!! thanks god

2018-09-01 06:58

You know who's not first? Felps

2018-09-01 07:00

7 replies

HAHAAHHA he play so bad the series, they all did. The fact is that, this lineup only have one or two weeks of training, Luminosity line already have get it a final of dreamhack open (not that this is a tier one championship, but is a start) and easily pass from NoTag, congratz to Luminosity and GL at IEM Chigaco.

2018-09-01 07:04

4 replies

Good point

2018-09-01 07:05

I appreciate how not salty you are about the fact that they didn't qualify. Don't see it too often

2018-09-01 09:49

2 replies

2018-09-01 12:46

thnk u my friend

2018-09-01 19:39

prove it or...

2018-09-01 17:09

1 reply

What is this guy doing yet? KNG destroys all the teams he passes on!

2018-09-01 20:25

Last

2018-09-01 07:15

congrats to the #1 brazilian team

2018-09-01 17:08

not first

wow virgins ^^

no u

2018-09-01 08:18

lit

2018-09-01 06:59

luminosity +boltz +fnx make immortals great again

fnx is done LG have potential to be a decent top 15 team, if they can get some player better than yel then can aim to be even top 10 Edit: personally I would like to see felps on LG, he definetly desevers better (even if he played worse than me in this series, this guy is a very good player and has proven his worth against top teams)

2018-09-01 07:08

6 replies

+boltz +felps is pretty good as well

2018-09-01 07:21

3 replies

the only change they need is +kng -yel but no need to rush that

2018-09-01 10:42

-yel +boltz Also, horvy it's so fucking overrated, what people see in this guy? He is no tier1 player

2018-09-01 15:16

kng should be first in line. boltz would only be signed if nekiz heavily underperforms

2018-09-01 20:24

Omg why yel? He is on fire. Monster flick shots and a high player is not the best awper but is very good one. Sorry bad english.

2018-09-02 19:22

Nah, yel tier 7 player sorry.

2018-09-02 23:27

remember, the No-Tag needed to qualify to become the SK, as they lost, goodbye SK

2018-09-01 07:02

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2018-09-01 07:06

I assume he means that if NoTag were to qualify for this tournament they would have been signed by SK. As they failed to qualify they can kiss the signing deal goodbye.

2018-09-01 07:13