AVANGAR qualify for EPICENTER Wild Card Qualifier

6-10-2018 23:12

AVANGAR have defeated Imperial 2-1 in the grand final of the EPICENTER CIS Closed Qualifier to book their place at the wild card qualifier.

A total of eight teams competed in the tournament, which offered a slot at the offline wild card qualifier for the Russian event. AVANGAR made their way through to the final after a series sweep over FORZE and easing past Spirit. On the other side of the bracket, Imperial topped their three-map series over HellRaisers and then punched their ticket to the final after taking down Monolith in two maps.

The grand final kicked off on Overpass, AVANGAR's map pick, but the first half would have suggested otherwise as Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas and his men gave no margin for error against the Kazakhstan side in the 13-2 T side half, before closing out the second half as CTs with a 16-2 map victory.

James' 1.47 rating helped AVANGAR secure the comeback on Cache

Mirage was next in the series, which saw a highly-contested first half result in Imperial barely claiming the 8-7 half advantage. EspiranTos' side marched into the second half winning the CT pistol and the subsequent anti-ecos, before Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali & company's stout offense struck back to lock down nine out of ten rounds, securing the 16-12 map victory to force the Cache decider.

Imperial came out in the decider winning five in a row right off the bat as AVANGAR struggled to hold off the Terrorists' dominant run, who claimed the 11-4 score at halftime. In the second half, AVANGAR managed to turn things around by winning five of their own before Imperial's defense ended the streak. From there, the two sides fought tooth and nail, until the Kazakhstan side finally put a nail in the coffin to secure the 16-14 map victory and a spot at the wild card qualifier.

EPICENTER 2018 CIS Closed QualifierBest of 3

AVANGAR

Matchpage

6th October 2018

Imperial

Overpass

Mirage

Cache

AVANGAR	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	66 - 42	+24	83.5	76.3%	1.37
Timur 'buster' Tulepov buster	50 - 50	0	59.7	59.2%	0.96
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	42 - 52	-10	63.5	61.8%	0.84
Aidyn 'KrizzeN' Turlybekov KrizzeN	39 - 57	-18	68.1	63.2%	0.82
Bektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov fitch	34 - 60	-26	72.5	63.2%	0.78

Imperial	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas EspiranTo	60 - 46	+14	86.6	69.7%	1.31
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	55 - 46	+9	73.0	78.9%	1.16
Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss hAdji	56 - 49	+7	74.3	72.4%	1.11
Žygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas nukkye	44 - 39	+5	68.9	68.4%	1.04
Eimantas 'pounh' Lazickas pounh	46 - 51	-5	71.3	67.1%	0.99

AVANGAR are the fifth and final team confirmed for the offline wild card qualifier — scheduled for October 22 — joining Virtus.pro, ENCE, Swole Patrol, and 5POWER.

On October 19, the team that is ranked highest in the HLTV ranking will receive a direct invitation and will not have to participate in the qualifier.

EPICENTER 2018 features a $300,000 prize pool and will kick off on October 23 with a three-day group stage, followed by the playoffs on October 27-28 at the Park of Legends Ice Palace, in Moscow.

unexpected tbh

2018-10-06 23:12

4 replies

Yes

Im watching how u edit ur comment

2018-10-06 23:13

1 reply

yes

2018-10-06 23:14

Best comeback ever

2018-10-06 23:36

5 muslims>1 muslim 2EZ

jame, hadji

2018-10-06 23:15

2 replies

both first name ali? coincidence????? I THINK NOT

2018-10-06 23:56

Wtf LOL

2018-10-07 12:46

they are not muslims

2018-10-06 23:19

bedperial gg

next top1 CIS expected

NICE

ez4Jame ez haha 1x9

2018-10-06 23:16

8 replies

without fitch jame is shit)

2018-10-06 23:18

7 replies

Bektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov 34 - 60 -26 72.5 0.78 expected

so fitch is kazak taco

2018-10-06 23:20

5 replies

this he motivated team

2018-10-06 23:31

3 replies

he does but opponent team

2018-10-07 09:10

lmfao

2018-10-07 09:13

+1 haha

2018-10-07 10:51

But unlike taco, fitch is actually good at the game.

2018-10-07 00:52

Ez comeback but wp espiranto u are god

2018-10-06 23:17

Ez so ez for RU and Kaz

"James' 1.47 rating helped AVANGAR secure the comeback on Cache" its not Jame's ?

2018-10-06 23:22

It is? hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/74974/..

2018-10-06 23:28

He’s talking about the grammar. It should have been jame’s rating instead of james’ rating.

2018-10-07 00:44

JESUS fkn CHRIST hold the phone, did they just make a TYPO? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND I ASSUME YOU WILL FIRE THE CULPRIT WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

2018-10-07 02:56

WHY IS JAME SO GOOD

2018-10-06 23:25

chokeperial

2 amazing comebacks from Avangar. GG

Rip Imperial flying all day and then had to win two bo3

2018-10-07 00:12

16 replies

sosi po fakty

2018-10-07 02:13

po fakty sosi

2018-10-07 03:07

They didnt fly all day, and they had an advantage cuz they were playing together.

2018-10-07 06:07

13 replies

haha dont joke m8. Also its funny how these russians think they are strong is CS but actually hide under CIS. Its only savage KAzaks doing work

2018-10-07 07:45

12 replies

lmao crying like babyragepiranto

2018-10-07 09:11

Jame , electronic , flamie not strong players? Wtf?

2018-10-07 09:47

Jame is literally the top fragger lol, and the real thing is how a lithuanian team is playing the cis qualifier

2018-10-07 09:57

9 replies

if they wanna create little CIS e-sports region in ex-ussr then why not, lmao Lithuania want this. So much easier qualifiers, maybe even Estonia and Latvia will do something

2018-10-07 10:19

That why they lost to avangar cuz it was too easy

2018-10-07 10:27

they were jsut tired why are u so mad

2018-10-07 11:06

it wasnt so easy but whatever Imp choked so they had balls to close it out thats only a good thing

2018-10-07 11:13

pounh tweeted: ''2.5 hours sleep and hot hotel room killed us, gg'' - No offense, but its their own fault if they cant get enough sleep, and I know that you can ask for fan in the room, so gg they just choked.

2018-10-07 11:28

ah man thats brutal, travelling is a bitch for some people too. For the Kazaks baushka was bringing sandwiches and tea in their little flats. But hey... Imperial need to keep grinding and thats all

2018-10-07 11:32

Yeah, understand. But, it's stupid that when a favorite lose they always have some excuses *sk khem khem SK* but yeah Imperial is one of my favorite teams, they beat HR in that qual, lets hope they beat the shit out of them today too.

2018-10-07 11:33

Yes they wake up today to a new day, they can still qualify for Chicago as well. It all has to start today we all know this team is 2015 meta, pure momentum team

2018-10-07 11:35

2018-10-07 12:50

"On October 19, the team that is ranked highest in the HLTV ranking will receive a direct invitation and will not have to participate in the qualifier." HLTV ranking = meta

2018-10-07 00:16