ECS Season 6 Challenger Cups set to start

25-9-2018 18:53

The ECS Season 6 Challenger Cups in Europe and North America are set to begin, with eight teams in each region about to battle for spots in the main league.

Both regions' Challenger Cup will be played in a double-elimination, best-of-three bracket, with the top two sides securing spots in their region's ECS Season 6 league.

The North American Challenger Cup will kick off on Tuesday, September 25, and will run until October 2. In Europe, the tournament will run from Thursday, September 27 to Sunday, September 30.

After transferring to another organization, MIBR will have to fight their way back into ECS in the upcoming Challenger Cup

As one of the bottom two teams from the previous season, Gambit will face four qualified teams, LDLC, Epsilon, HAVU, and Space Soldiers, as well as three invited teams (as EnVyUs forfeited their slot): HellRaisers, North, and OpTic.

In North America, Complexity will have to fight their way back into the league after placing last in the previous season, while OpTic's slot was given to an invited team as the lineup made a transfer to Europe.

Gorilla Gang, Bravado, AZIO, and lmfao advanced to the NA Challenger Cup via open qualifiers, while FURIA, MIBR, and TeamOne received direct invites.

The first-round matchups in each region are the following:

North America (Tuesday, September 25)
Complexity vs. lmfao
FURIA vs. Bravado
TeamOne vs. Gorilla Gang
MIBR vs. AZIO

Europe (Thursday, September 27)
Gambit vs. HAVU
HellRaisers vs. LDLC
North vs. Epsilon
OpTic vs. Space Soldiers

#GorillaGang

2018-09-25 18:54

3 replies

Nice

2 replies

Thanks

2018-09-25 18:59

1 reply

you're welcome

2018-09-25 19:00

Sick

2018-09-25 18:53

Yes

ence lul

Na'vi in EU challenger???

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Navi probably turned down the invite, they are in New York and is playing ESL One New York these dates. That is bad for the league itself.. All this schedule colliding nowadays is all over the place.. NA seems to have more dates for this qualifier, i guess mibr can attend because of that? They are playing Blast Istanbul 28-29.

2018-09-25 19:11

They wont play. Confirmed on twitter. Bad schedule lol

2018-09-26 03:15

Probably declined. NaVi never really showed interest in ECS.

2018-09-25 20:26

Yea, i was wondering why theres no navi last season.. maybe you know the reason??

2018-09-25 23:01

Well last season they just didn't qualify. hltv.org/matches/2320660/natus-vincere-v.. But before they actually didn't attend any season of it. Although they were invited to play in Season 1 but they withdrew from the league without having played a single game that's why I think Faceit might not like NaVi that much and wont invite them. hltv.org/news/17645/navi-withdraw-from-e..

2018-09-25 23:14

Thanks man! Never really noticed that, some really intresting info for me. I appreciate it!

2018-09-25 23:18

EZ mibr

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they will play with lag from Istanbul

2018-09-25 19:02

excuses

2018-09-25 20:12

Reported for being one of the most toxic and provocative users in this page.

2018-09-25 22:51

im not......

2018-09-25 23:03

2018-09-25 18:55

NICE FOR HAVU

hope LDLC goes far

Why is there no asian cup for ECS?

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who cares about trash teams that only care about throwing

2018-09-25 18:57

lol Tyloo god

2018-09-25 21:17

One team out of a 100 doesnt mean the region deserves a league

2018-09-25 21:20

yea, but this is how thoes teams grow lol, they will never be as good as EU or NA without the ability to go to these tourns etc

2018-09-26 03:38

American supporting a team not from ur own country.... you are a communist.....wait

2018-09-26 20:32

Wait isnt mibr in istanbul? How are they gonna play it?

120 ping dude.

2018-09-25 18:56

LOL it will be even worse. I live in istanbul and i get 100ms to german servers and our connection isnt trash like %80 rest of the country

2018-09-25 19:07

Dude I get 40ms to de servers from istanbul. Buy real internet

2018-09-26 09:43

ok 180 ping :p

2018-09-25 19:08

NAVI ?

2018-09-25 19:20

MiBR And Hellraisers Ez pickem

mibr vai jogar lagada de istambul

2018-09-25 19:04

This is a international site, please write your comments in English. Comments in another language will be deleted. Nt favela

2018-09-25 23:19

Foda-se

2018-09-26 03:29

Nice macaco

2018-09-26 13:49

Expected for M0onkey

2018-09-26 15:40

Now you’re making good my friend

2018-09-26 20:31

Wait what but mibr is in Turkey right now

lag =/

2018-09-25 19:54

Should be CoL and MIBR easily, and for EU i wanna say HR and SS but north and optic have chances as well

Haven't furia already beaten col?

2018-09-25 18:58

Liquid won against Astralis but still lost in semis:)

Yeah, on their very first week on the USA, but it was a huge fluke, after this they lost to several t4 teams... While coL turned into what looks like a t2 team. coL will probably rape FURIA now, unfortunatelly.

2018-09-25 19:14

you never know tho, anythings possible. Furia have had more time to prepare if they chose to do so, whereas CoL prob just got back from london a few days ago. All teams have chance to do well.

2018-09-25 20:21

But Furia is shit :(

2018-09-25 23:20

lmfao

2018-09-25 19:05

RIP Ghost

2018-09-25 19:06

FeelsBadMan I was hoping

2018-09-25 22:34

What about the SK spot?

So the spot belongs to the org and not to the players?? IN FUCKING 2018???

2018-09-25 19:12

It was always like that in ECS. Look when Dignitas played with that Norwegian lineup +fox, cause they had the ECS spot left from when they had North under contract.

2018-09-25 20:30

Which Team will come out number One

2018-09-25 19:13

This will be interesting. MiBR in Instanbul and there is one open slot in each division. SK´s spot in NA and Godsent´s spot in EU

2018-09-25 19:18

Godsent will probably go to Red Reserve. Otherwise I'm sure they would have been invited to the Challenger Cup (or at least tried to qualify for it). And I still think SK will get a new lineup cause they also kept their EPL spot.

2018-09-25 20:33

GODSENT disbanded.3 spot remaining for Season6 eu division.2 spot going to challenger cup,1 spot remaining.Is NAVI directly invite and replace to GODSENT ?

2018-09-25 19:27

Hopefully, and probably :)

2018-09-25 20:04

why navi?

2018-09-25 23:00

second best team in the world

2018-09-26 15:35

omegakek. and i think that navi doesnt care about ecs when playing epl s 8

2018-09-26 22:13

Mibr and SS

2018-09-25 19:34

HellRaisers or basically the worst pick for LDLC

2018-09-25 19:38

EZ4HAVU

2018-09-25 19:40

EZ4LMFAO

2018-09-25 19:49

mibr doesn't get sk spot lol

2018-09-25 19:52

ez LDLC

RIP ENCE

Lmfao

2018-09-25 19:53

Lmfao what a creative name .

2018-09-25 20:07

WAIT NO NAVI IN CHALLENGER CUP? XDDDDDDD

2018-09-25 20:20

lol nice name :D

2018-09-25 20:54

thanks i really apredesajd dad mibr is overated

2018-09-25 20:58

OMEGALUL

2018-09-25 22:13

>North America >Bravado Pick one

2018-09-25 20:48

Are you new to the scene? Teams don't necessarily have to be 100% of a region to compete in said region. This is not League of Legends where every region has its official championship. Valve doesn't care that much.

2018-09-25 21:54