HellRaisers to attend EPICENTER Wild Card Qualifier; AVANGAR advance to group stage

15-10-2018 14:41

After MOUZ announced that they would be withdrawing from EPICENTER, the tournament organizer revealed that they will be replaced with a team from the CIS Qualifier, HellRaisers.

In the announcement post, EPICENTER revealed that MOUZ stated that "conflict within the team" was the reason they withdrew from the $300,000 tournament. With little time left to find a new team and for them to get visas for Russia, EPICENTER decided to invite HellRaisers to fill in the gap.

HellRaisers will have a chance to bounce back from a poor showing in Kiev next week in Moscow

EPICENTER explained that HellRaisers will be competing in the Wild Card qualifier on October 22 since they "were defeated in the CIS qualifier and are not eligible for entering the group stage based on their ranking". Instead, AVANGAR, the winner of the EPICENTER CIS Qualifier, will be moved up to the group stage directly.

As of now, the EPICENTER team list looks as follows:

Wild Card #1

Invite

Wild Card #2

The five teams that qualified for the Wild Card Qualifier will claim the remaining three spots at the tournament. The last invite will be handed to the team from that group (excluding HellRaisers) that has the highest HLTV.org ranking on October 19th, while the remaining four teams will battle for the last two spots in the double-elimination Wild Card LAN qualifier on October 22nd.

The following five teams earned a spot in the Wild Card qualifier:

HellRaisers is gonna destroy VP lol

2018-10-15 14:42

15 replies

lol

2018-10-15 14:43

Dont need : hr will be wild card ranking winner

2018-10-15 14:44

4 replies

Ence*

2018-10-16 09:20

3 replies

But u have a HR flair o.o

2018-10-16 17:56

1 reply

I'm an objective person. I'm trying to cheer HR but I know that they're weak after the major and they ofc will qualify on Epicenter but they won't get to playoffs

2018-10-16 18:18

F* damn it

2018-10-18 19:19

they will get invited as highest ranked team among wild carders

2018-10-15 14:55

7 replies

ence will get invited, hr need to play it. ence won starladded by rekking big(ranked as 7) , mouz ( ranked as 4) , optic vega etc etc so they will go up alot in ranking

2018-10-15 15:01

nope, i think ence is gonna past them

2018-10-15 15:08

5 replies

shitence

2018-10-15 15:17

y, won a tournament where hellraisers got placed 9-11th kkkkkkk

2018-10-15 15:21

ikr

2018-10-15 15:27

Chill out bro. This happened almost to every team ...

2018-10-15 15:46

What, winning an event where hellraisers placed 9-11th? I wouldn't be surprised if that was true.

2018-10-16 02:28

lol congrats avangar

2018-10-15 14:59

EZ4ENCE

fakeflagger spotted

2018-10-15 14:47

Respect HR

hr >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> avangar

2018-10-15 15:12

Just bad week for HR ...

2018-10-15 15:38

2 replies

It's not a bad week, just a drop in performance after a little vacation after the major. You can see a similar thing happening to NiP in both online leagues.

2018-10-15 15:48

Yah it happens...

also highest ranked wild card gets invited so yay ENCE!!!!

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Well, it is likely going to be Hellraisers. I doubt the ranking in few days will move ENCE (#18) past HR (#11).

2018-10-15 14:56

Hellraisers are not allowed, cause defeated in quals its gonna be ENCE 100%

2018-10-15 15:03

ence might also still just move past hr, since hr will prob lose some points for going out in groups and ence won a tournament, just a 60 point difference

2018-10-15 19:14

no I mean HR dont even contend for the invite\ "The replacement invite team is not eligible for the automatic Ranking Qualification due to failing to originally qualify from the CIS Qualifier. [2]" liquipedia.net/counterstrike/EPICENTER/2..

2018-10-15 19:19

ence clutch it out ez4ence

2018-10-15 20:42

nice if i cant cheer for my favorite team (mibr) at least i can cheer for my 2nd favorite

Mibr XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2018-10-15 17:01

Epicenter last year was VP's last good run

I believe

2018-10-15 15:40

why hr and not imperial rigged shit

14 replies

ranking maybe ?

2018-10-15 15:07

could be but imperial beat hr 2-0 in the qualifier so they deserve it more

what was the imperial's ranking on qual ?? if it was second , you are right then

yeah they were 2nd

CIS , Visa , time , also they won 2:1 and that doesn't mean imperial is better than HR ... Just a bad week...

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both hr and imperial have 0 cis players, and imperial made it further in the qualifier

HR has 0 cis ?? Lol ?

2018-10-15 15:49

yes? name at least one cis player then

2018-10-15 15:50

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Ukraine dropped early from cis ... They still count it in CS as CIS ... HR qualified to major via CIS come on dude

2018-10-15 15:52

actually ukraine was never cis, and in cs they count lithuania as cis too so technically imperial has 3 cis players if using that logic

2018-10-15 15:54

No they were... google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url..

2018-10-15 15:56

Logically Imperial deserve a chance . But for more competitive CS ... It's known HR>Imperial ...

2018-10-15 15:58

i agree with that

2018-10-15 16:25

Ty for understanding

2018-10-15 16:33

wtf

2018-10-15 14:45

"conflict within the team" Kappa123

O yea avangar

2018-10-15 14:48

Good news.

2018-10-15 14:49

EZ AVANGAR

2018-10-15 14:52

Imperial 2-0'd HR and finished 2nd in the qualifier, they're getting cucked hard

2018-10-15 14:57

twitter.com/hAdjiCSGO/status/10518170354.. Epicenter logic...

2018-10-15 15:02

Izi

2018-10-15 14:58

Why invite avangar lol

2018-10-15 15:00

cuz they won cis quals over Imperial

2018-10-15 15:28

Nice

I just finished talking to Sunny on the phone and i will let you in a secret if u promise not to tell anyone. Miika "Sunny" Kemppi will join to faze after mouz dispand, bcos conflict in a team considering a bot snax. Faze will kick hardCarrykang after Niko takes the IGL role.

EZ4AVG

2018-10-15 15:15

Ez for HR

ezzz

2018-10-15 15:16

WTF? they are noobs why not ence or vp?

2018-10-15 15:19

you know why not vp :)

2018-10-15 15:25

VP is already there. epicenter knows VP wouldnt qualify for wild card qualifier so they invited VP (the only team before this) to qualifier.

2018-10-15 19:10

ENCE will get direct invite for having highest rank in wild card qualifier (I doubt they will invite HR especially after ENCE's victory @ starladder) and VP will be playing wild card qualifier (the only team invited besides hellraisers now).

2018-10-15 19:13

2018-10-16 18:22

ez 4 inconsistentraisers

2018-10-15 15:20

ez4Jame

Best team in the qualifier, ez for HR

2018-10-15 15:43

ez 4 freakazoid

2018-10-15 16:08

wasted spot to shitrasers

2018-10-15 16:06

hr XD

2018-10-15 16:51

Lul

2018-10-15 17:51

Inviting avangar hahahhahaha

2018-10-15 17:00

Kazakstan 1 major Germany 0

2018-10-15 19:54

Yea did avangar win it? No. Shit bait

2018-10-15 20:03

2018-10-15 20:11

Kazakhstan 3/5 major

2018-10-15 20:14

Host qualifier, invites team through rankings ZXDD IDIOTS

2018-10-15 18:05

Imperial beat them like 2 times past week

2018-10-15 18:38

Lol

2018-10-15 18:41

Grybauskaite ruined this

2018-10-15 18:48

Putin doesnt like strong independent women

right

I remember Putin found out Merkel fears dogs so he brought a big dog during a meeting with Merkel. Maybe Grybauskaite fears Imperial not being invited?

2018-10-15 19:21

Her KGB diploma more likely

2018-10-15 19:23

I would be surprised if Epicenter wouldn't invite the current champions...

They won't, likely MIBR chose to skip event themselves however as pretty obvious they would get invite over NIP xd

2018-10-15 19:53

ok m8

2018-10-15 19:34

ez for swole

2018-10-16 07:26

>implying that HellRaisers is a CIS team

2018-10-16 09:56

Arent they equal parts CIS and Asia?

2018-10-16 17:57

They have only 2 CIS Players, 2 Asian players and an EU player, they should really be considered Europe, considering how SS used to play in the EU Minors with a turkish team

2018-10-16 18:05

seems fine to me for them to call themselves cis, cant blame em

2018-10-16 18:10

By the same Logic the new C9 with Flusha + Golden can play in EU qualifiers

2018-10-16 18:31

Why? Arent they 3 NA > 2 EU? so only na qual

2018-10-16 18:36

2 CIS in HR = CIS Qualifier So therefore 2 EU in C9 would mean EU qualifier by same logic

2018-10-16 18:57

no... if there is a majority you go with that, in c9's case that would be NA if there is no majority, as is the case with HR, you get to pick from either of the equal highest, which is CIS or ASIA, or if you count turkey as eu then CIS or EU

2018-10-16 19:08