Europe Minor Open Qualifier 1 - IEM Katowice 2019

Sprout, Fragsters advance to Europe Minor closed qualifier

23-10-2018 23:28

Sprout and Fragsters have come out on top of the first Europe Minor open qualifier to advance to the closed part, which will take place in mid-December.

The first open qualifier took place over the last two days, with various well-known teams battling for two spots in the closed part, where eight invited teams await.

The likes of LDLC, Red Reserve, Valiance, as well as a LeftOut mixteam featuring Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey, Alexandre "⁠xms⁠" Forté, Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom, Žygimantas "⁠nukkye⁠" Chmieliauskas, and Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill, could not make it far enough, as they all went out in the round of 16.

Sprout move on to the closed qualifier

Meanwhile, Sprout made it all the way to the top after beating AGO, Vitality, and 3DMAX in the last three rounds of the qualifier, securing a spot in the closed part in which they found success in the last Major cycle.

Fragsters will also make their second consecutive closed qualifier appearance, as they secured the second spot in the other half of the bracket after beating PRIDE, x6tence Galaxy, Endpoint, and Chaos en route to the grand final.

The Europe Minor closed qualifier team list currently looks as follows:

Open qual. #2

Open qual. #3

Open qual. #4

Open qual. #2

Open qual. #3

Open qual. #4

The next Europe Minor open qualifier will run on October 29-30, with signups still being open on ESEA's website.

Alga avangar

2018-10-23 23:28

12 replies

Honestly this was unexpected. I expected Vitality, LDLC, AGO, etc. to take this. I'm glad they proved they could do it great job to Fragsters and Sprout.

2018-10-23 23:34

11 replies

Happy for fragsters, this is Era of danish teams

2018-10-23 23:35

5 replies

You are saying that as if it is just started

2018-10-23 23:51

3 replies

I know that it started long before my comment.. But you know, its always nice to see young talents getting bigger and bigger.. Kinda sad that there are none from my country yet.

2018-10-23 23:52

2 replies

only star is in his 40s lol

2018-10-23 23:53

1 reply

2018-10-23 23:54

thank you from a dane, which loves pro CS

2018-10-24 16:44

Hope Vitality/Left Out will get a spot, even Valiance, I really want to see HunTer showing his potential.

2018-10-23 23:36

Im so sad for valiance they are in same level over so much times hopefully they will do that.

2018-10-24 07:17

Those teams except LDLC are pure trash. They cant do anything...LDLC is also mid-tier but still better than those two trash teams

2018-10-24 01:30

without god amanek ldlc would be useless

2018-10-24 07:08

These teams have got 3 other chances to qualify. Don’t worry, bo1s happen to be sometimes, quite random.

2018-10-24 01:49

ez for denmark

2018-10-23 23:29

13 replies

what a shame natosaphix has to play with bots denis n spiidi

2018-10-23 23:30

Yea, a guy with that much potential

2018-10-23 23:33

8 replies

I "are thinkz" that NiP should steal him from Denmark hehe he learn Swedish in 1 month -get right

7 replies

Who would awp? Cuz NiP has f0rest and Lekr0

6 replies

None of those are natural awpers. Nip would do good with a good, dedicated awper.

2018-10-24 08:02

Worked out for draken, right?

2018-10-24 08:37

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who cares about draken noob? He is right, NiP would be better with a dedicated awp right now, f0rest rez lekr0 and dennis awps, and no one is good. F0rest has good positionining on T side, but his reactions now are not good for awp ,

2018-10-24 10:44

I can agree on that, but is NiP willing to drop the Swedish only lineup since allu to improve?

2018-10-24 10:51

Didn't really comment about whether or not Nato would be good for NiP. I actually doubt it, but I honestly think they would be better off with a dedicated awp. About draken, he just showed that he didn't have the working mentality etc. for tier 1 proteams yet. I don't know enough about the Swedish amateur/semipro scene to say if there's any good future AWP-subjects for NiP, but the main problem for Sweden-teams right now is imo that there is no good tier 1 AWPer in their scene right now.

2018-10-24 11:24

Yeah, I can't think of a great awper from Swedish scene in quite a while

2018-10-24 13:19

nt mad swedish muslim denis was one of the best yesterday and the day befor

2018-10-24 07:01

lol salty German denis and spiidi and other Germans always carried by Niko, or chrisJ or other foreigner no natural talent for cs. it was a joke how bad denis were when niko was in mouz bot denis always

2018-10-24 10:43

didnt see a swedish star player either

2018-10-24 15:32

Where is superteam (Vitality)?

eliminated, they has 3 more attempts relax

2018-10-23 23:41

Quite the superteam, huh

2018-10-23 23:55

huh

2018-10-24 00:04

2018-10-24 08:20

ez for mousesports omegalul

Go Fragsters, Heroic, Optic, North and Sprout!!!

2018-10-23 23:38

You are not a fakeflagger as it seems :D

2018-10-23 23:42

so you root 40% for sprout, 60% for heroic and 80% for fragsters?

2018-10-23 23:44

I hope as many of them as possible make it to the major!

2018-10-23 23:49

Fragsters have 5 Danish players

ok if you say so

2018-10-23 23:50

nt racist

2018-10-24 12:14

Rip Vitality, Imprial, Windigo, Valiance, Red Reserve, LeftOut, LDLC and AGO

6 more spots left. 3dmax also playing

2018-10-23 23:46

I know They will lose to randoms, and I'm sure I forgot 1 or 2 big ones Maybe Temp Storm? Not really

besides those you mentioned. not sure if all of these are playing but potential upset teams (considering its bo1): 3dmax, alternate attax, movistar riders, tempo storm (new lineup with cromen, rubino i think), epsilon, tricked, bpro and some other random mixes.

Has tricked ever won any large tournaments? The only notable thing they've won was a dreamhack open game against g2 i think

2018-10-23 23:56

idk but they occasionally takes maps off decent MDL teams (ence, attax, red reserve - tho with standin). I dont think they have a chance to qualify but they could knock some team off

2018-10-23 23:58