ESL Pro League Season 9 Asia groups determined

26-3-2019 23:26

The ESL Pro League S9 Asia qualifiers have come to a close, with four teams advancing to the next stage.

The conclusion of the EPL Asia sub-region qualifiers saw MVP PK and 5POWER advance to the main qualifier through the Chinese qualifier, while BOOT-d[S], Alpha Red and Lucid Dream progressed from the Southeast Asia closed bracket.

MVP PK and 5POWER will be joining invited duo TYLOO and ViCi in the Chinese group, while BOOT-d[S] and the Thai pair will be competing against India Premiership winner Entity in the Southeast Asia group.

MVP PK through to the main Asia qualifier

The top two teams from both groups will face off against each other in a second group, with the winner securing entry into the ESL Pro League Finals, which will be held in Montpellier, France, from June 18-23.

Below you can find the two groups for the tournament:

Group A

Group B

Nice

2019-03-26 23:26

16 replies

These are stupid groups even if they are like that for a reason. Also, nice F5.

2019-03-26 23:30

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ez for kaze, freeman, djoxic, dav, xign

2019-03-27 08:52

What does f5 mean mens I use mobile

2019-03-27 13:25

Talking about those incoming lucid dream stickers right?

10 replies

Why would he be?

2019-03-26 23:31

7 replies

Because they are nice?

2019-03-26 23:32

6 replies

What stickers

2019-03-26 23:33

5 replies

#11

2019-03-26 23:34

4 replies

Why would they get stickers though?

2019-03-27 02:14

3 replies

They will lay low then qualify easily for berlin major. After that who knows but you dont get a sick logo like that without making it big time.

2019-03-27 02:17

Nah man teams with cool logos tend to be shit

2019-03-27 09:01

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Thats why u go 100 thieves and fake a visa issue

2019-03-27 15:32

Now that i saw it, lucid dream is my new favorite team until they get in at least a minor, so the sticker will be on the market

2019-03-27 00:23

Ez fir entity

2019-03-27 04:30

2019-03-27 06:52

2019-03-26 23:27

Why are the two invited teams in the same group?

noice

All of the teams here>MIBR

2019-03-27 11:09

2019-03-26 23:28

EZ4ENTITY

2019-03-26 23:29

Who is cheating this time ?

2019-03-27 12:40

psy maybe xD

2019-03-27 17:27

ur dad on your mom.

2019-03-27 18:03

my mom is dead

sorry.

2019-03-27 18:08

yeah. np. reported.

2019-03-27 18:17

2019-03-27 18:19

Shit groups

Yea, all of the teams in Group A are better than any team in Group B.

Cant help. Sorted according to region so no ping issue arises.

pretty sure BOOTdS would beat 5POWER

2019-03-27 05:11

EZ4VICI

2019-03-26 23:35

Let's go MVP <3

2019-03-27 00:03

2019-03-27 00:07

ok but where are EU and NA groups

2019-03-27 00:08

Most stacked groups i've even seen. Even more stupid than WESG. Any team from group A is better than any team in group B lol

2019-03-27 00:26

south east asia is group b and east asia (including china) is group a. SEA cs is far behind than eastern asia whichhh makes these groups some what fair instead of seeing chinese team dominate the groups :/

2019-03-27 01:22

+1 I think #19 is right though

what about playoffs? they have to play each other anyway

2019-03-27 03:55

Didn't realize that, ESL is just dumb I guess.

2019-03-27 03:56

It's separated to China and east asia

2019-03-27 03:03

LUL 5POWER got 16oed by VP on Train . I don't think that any Pro team can be worse than that .

2019-03-27 06:21

"pro" league

2019-03-27 00:46

Group A...

2019-03-27 01:21

2 invited team in the same group? are you kidding me?

2019-03-27 01:23

ez 4 kaze

2019-03-27 02:46

lets go entity <3

2019-03-27 04:06

Entity already lost to Lucid Dreams and Boot in bo3 so badly in IEM Sydney closed qualifiers.

2019-03-27 05:18

Not so badly against boot

2019-03-27 07:07

only in one map they played decent. But still they lost, even though they had a lead. I hope Signify will win the next season of ESL India Premiership and perform better in ESL Pro League, at least better than what Entity performs against Asian teams..

2019-03-27 07:19

Signify are in cobx masters chill

2019-03-27 07:27

Yes, but they would be at a diffrent level of preparation in that period than they would be now.

2019-03-27 12:35

Unless you play against these top tier asian teams regularly, maybe lose a few, they will never get used to their skills and rise up to their level. When you play top tiers for the first time or once in a while, you have nerves, you have tension, you have the fear. But when you start to play em regularly, you will get to their level one day or the other. At least, I hope they do.

2019-03-27 17:32

Terrible... why not mix teams? "Chinese group" WTF

2019-03-27 06:02

Chinese/East Asia CS >>>>>> SEA CS. They did a perfect job in sorting these teams out, to make sure these teams are not the only one to advance to next rounds.

2019-03-27 06:06

So you agree the WEAKEN the tournament in order to see WORSE teams advancing instead of the ones that deserve (the better ones)?

2019-03-27 06:07

You are correct in that sense. But the winner will obviously the one which is better. Also as some of the users said above, they might also have done so in order to reduce ping issues in the start of the tournament.

2019-03-27 06:09