Luminosity replace Rogue in ESL Pro League Americas

11-4-2019 19:45

Luminosity will fill the vacant spot left by Rogue in the first stage of ESL Pro League Americas, it has been announced.

The North American team had pulled out of the league after parting ways with their roster, leaving ESL on the lookout for a replacement.

Luminosity are the highest-ranked team in North America in ESL World Ranking who are not already in the Pro League, which, coupled with the fact that they "have proven to be a stable roster over the past months", made the Brazilians "the strongest candidate" to complete the team list for the tournament, according to ESL.

Luminosity have secured an invite to ESL Pro League Season 9

In a follow-up tweet, ESL explained that ESEA MDL champions FURIA were the first in line to replace Rogue but declined the invite due to a scheduling conflict.

Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes' side had been relegated to ESEA MDL after finishing last in ESL Pro League Season 8's North American division, with a 6-16 record. They will take Rogue's spot in Group C, in which they will face MIBR, Cloud9 and Envy, from April 19-21.

This means that Luminosity will have to pull out of DreamHack Open Rio as the team's Pro League group will overlap with the Brazilian event, where $100,000 will be on the line.

The ESL Pro League Americas will be the second LAN event of the year for Luminosity, who placed 7th-8th at iBUYPOWER Masters with Fillipe "⁠pancc⁠" Martins acting as a stand-in for Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass.

Rogue > LG sad!

2019-04-11 19:46

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Very stupid cuz Rogue were starting to show something really good on last tournament, so disband is kinda strange

2019-04-11 19:47

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EU players just go to NA when is no better offer in EU and back to there in the first opportunity, this caused the disband

2019-04-11 19:55

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EU players go to NA and realize that EU is just a so much better place in general so they come back after like 2 months LUL

2019-04-11 19:57

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2019-04-11 21:04

I know it's only one guy but CeRq?

2019-04-11 21:07

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NA > bulgaria

2019-04-11 21:08

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deppends on wich country u live. And wich city aswell.... and also deppends on ur food taste , drink taste and party taste. So many things... culture, friends, family... that shit really counts

2019-04-11 22:58

usa>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>eu because latinos and blacks>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>arabs and muslim blacks

2019-04-11 23:23

1 reply

Hahahahahaha

2019-04-12 02:39

There was mixwell at one point (he was in optic for a solid duration) Also theres jkaem in renegades (renegades is AU tho) s1mple was in liquid for quite a while too (they made it far in MLG columbus, they only choked unfortunately) There was also XP3 REASTEN was in a team with yay and android for 8 months or so markeloff also played in a team with hiko for 9 ish or so months in a pro league

2019-04-12 00:43

Rip Rouge they were playing good cs:/

2019-04-11 21:33

2019-04-11 19:51

GJ IKEA

2019-04-11 20:35

furia > lg

2019-04-11 20:02

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2019-04-11 20:07

2019-04-11 20:40

idiot

2019-04-11 21:15

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can you please elaborate

2019-04-11 23:33

Furia declined

2019-04-12 00:18

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yeah i just said they are better than LG directed at the #1 comment

2019-04-12 00:25

oh my bad i didnt see you were responding to someone else

2019-04-12 00:38

Not in QI, cause choose to play a 100k dreamhack instead of EPL... what a stupid decision.

2019-04-11 21:17

yes men)))))

2019-04-11 23:34

i think you mean iq

2019-04-11 23:40

ye, IQ is caused in portuguese we say QI. sorry

2019-04-12 01:49

LUL

2019-04-11 19:45

BRCSLUL

AUHSHASUHAHUSAS

yikes lmao

Lul lg

what a joke

FURIA robbed

yeah feels bad, I dont understand why they would decline this opportunity... they would actually have a good chance to move on to the finals :(

2019-04-12 00:31

nice!

FURIA ROBBED

Not robbed , Luminosity was in the last EPL season , FURIA wasn't

LG was in the MDL that just finished, same as FURIA, who actually won it. Even though I like most of the guys in LG, that is a questionable move from ESL.

2019-04-11 20:09

furia denied the invite, they have DHrio, but i dont know why Luminosity accept the invite, they have the same tournament

2019-04-11 20:23

Because their owner isn’t stupid. Pro league =exposure =sponcers =money

2019-04-12 02:41

LULMINOSITY

ez for steelega

LMAOOO

no FURIA lol

2019-04-11 20:43

Russian?

2019-04-11 21:26

FURIA?

2019-04-11 20:42

cmon we all know that FURIA > LG

what????

2019-04-12 02:55

read the post

2019-04-12 03:43

same date of dh rio?

yes...

2019-04-12 01:23

WHY???? FURIA WON MDL AND ????????????

2019-04-11 19:48

no promotion lol.

2019-04-11 19:54

They were invited first but they dont accepted due schedule conflicts...

2019-04-11 20:32

LUMIBOTSITY LUL

You can tease the players, but not the brand. They are fucking major winners. Respect.

2019-04-11 21:28

Furia robbed

2019-04-11 19:49

They were offered the spot and declined. Please read before commenting

2019-04-11 20:58

And SNG?

2019-04-11 20:59

They went by world ranking after and the fact that SNG has had 4 roster changes in 3 months

2019-04-11 21:00

Wtf wasted spot Give it to furia

2019-04-11 19:50

They were offered the spot and declined. Please read before commenting.

HAHAHAHAHA WHAT A FUCKING JOKE Instead of giving it to the team that went 20-0 in MDL, let's give it to the last place team on Pro League. Shitty decision, -rep for ESL.

2019-04-11 19:53

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Regarding the vacant NA spot in the #ESLProLeague: @furiagg were intially invited to participate, but scheduling conflicts prevented them from accepting.

2019-04-11 21:14

Shut up retard

lmao says the dud who cant read

I posted BEFORE you fucking dumb retard

2019-04-12 07:20

2019-04-12 00:33

Better buy your Rouge foilys while they're cheap

2019-04-11 19:52

Lucas and NEKIZ, shit players did not deserve this spot.

yea use your trash rankings where lg is higher than furia lol

Furia :(

Furia robbed, Furia won MDL, they should take this slot.

not only won but went 20-0, that was remarkable

2019-04-11 19:59

twitter.com/ESLCS/status/111640025778767..´

2019-04-11 20:33

fuck ESL FURIA >>>>>>> black hole >>>>>>> LG

LG should decline the spot, tell them to get FURIA instead. LG to Dreamhack Rio and Furia to esl. BR WIN WIN.

Well, that was awkward. Thanks for reading for me Mr. Prattatat.

2019-04-11 21:10

lol furia straight up robbed

too busy for that

2019-04-11 21:12

so you'd rather look like a complete and utter buffoon instead of taking 3 minutes to read in article? interesting choice

2019-04-11 21:56

yes :D

2019-04-12 15:21

Luminosity to Group C? So they'll play from Brazil? They will be attending to DH Rio right?

2019-04-11 20:06

nevermind, "This means that Luminosity will have to pull out of DreamHack Open Rio"

lmao Luminosity so trash team nowdays they losing to everyone in MDL invite FURIA dumbs.

Furia why would you rather go to a t3 event in Brazil over pro league

2019-04-11 20:08

Respect with their fans who bought tickets to Rio.

2019-04-11 21:50

Fan base

2019-04-12 06:00

Too bad FURIA decided play Dreamhack Rio instead ESL Finals...

2019-04-11 20:10

i guess because its brazil tourny

LUL apparently FURIA would rather go to DH Rio than Pro League... ? twitter.com/ESLCS/status/111640025778767..

2019-04-11 20:12

Well now that's better... It would be ridiculous if FURIA was not invited. Still very weird and shady to explain this... Did they actually chose DH Rio over Pro League!?

2019-04-11 20:15

Apparently yes, crazy. They are not even the favourites.

2019-04-11 20:18

They respected their fans who bought tickets to see them in RIO. It´s memorable. Nice attitude.

A true fan would understand how big of a opportunity it was, and would agree with their decision. Plastic fans would say shit on Twitter. FURIA made a huge mistake and I hope they don't regret it, because its a business and they should always be rational about every decision, not emotional.

2019-04-12 02:54

No, dude. They´re professional. It was a very professional choice. If they accept, it´ll be ok, too. The question isn´t all the fans, but their fans who bought tickets to see them, bought flight tickets, changed work´s days, etc. Nice attitude by FURIA. They´ll get EPL soon, they are very good. They already have DHM Dallas to play on May and after DH Rio they´ll have ECS Week 3 to try ECS Finals. No problem with their decision. I repeat, very nice decision. Totally professional. By the first time they could play in a good LAN in front of their fans. It´ll be a great pressure, very good for them in future.

2019-04-12 03:11

I disagree 100% with everything you said.

2019-04-12 07:23

No problem, hugo.

2019-04-12 18:57

Furia win ESEA MDL... shit ESL invite

2019-04-11 20:11

Read the following tweets.

2019-04-11 20:17

2019-04-11 20:47

Stop being an idiot, it's explained on the news, just read it

2019-04-11 20:56

LG are cheet.

Luminosity died in 2016...

2019-04-11 20:19

lulminoshitty losing to all star teams such as bad news bears

In this thread, a bunch of high iq, very intelligent people asking a question that was answered in the article. HLTV might as well skip writing the article part and just only write headlines

2019-04-11 20:26

Impressive... Isn't it?😄

2019-04-11 20:46

mostly brazillians they cant read

Well Singularity should've gotten the invite instead if Furia had scheduling issues.

2019-04-11 20:29

no, LG better team why would singulairty get it? na players are noob.

2019-04-11 21:30

Correct me if I’m wrong (didn’t pay too much to MDL) but Singularity was runner up in MDL behind FURIA.

2019-04-11 21:44

no that bad news bears

2019-04-11 21:48

Reminder to everyone that reads this that TenZ deserves a team.

2019-04-11 21:53

Brazil is largely getting fucked in NA outside of FURIA bro

2019-04-11 22:52

q merda essa furia ramelo

FURIA IS BETTER WTF ESL

2019-04-11 20:34

2019-04-11 21:01

Kreygasm

2019-04-11 20:52

ez4BOLTZ

Hmm

2019-04-11 21:19

Furia silly for not being able to go but LG best choice after . . . all NA teams are not as good as brazil. good chocie by esea.

2019-04-11 21:22

2019-04-11 21:45

RIP MIBR x FURIA :/ But big respect to FURIA. Good attitude.

2019-04-11 21:52

they're retarded for choosing DH Rio over fucking Pro League lmao

2019-04-12 01:17

No. They´re right. Respect with DH and, mainly, with the fans. With time, they´ll get Pro League, for sure.

2019-04-12 03:06

i hope they do, but that was a big chance that they wasted right now.

2019-04-12 04:56

They sold their spot for money. Sorry but its business.

2019-04-11 22:10

FURIA and Singularity both got finessed man

2019-04-11 22:56

I heard furia couldnt because they have a full schedule, they 100% deserved it. won mdl and 17-0 in the regular season. they only dropped 1 map in the playoffs. insane

2019-04-11 23:30

Looking at it, they likely chose DH Rio over EPL because they have a significantly better chance of making more money at DH. They got drawn in a pretty difficult group if they were to accept the EPL invite.

2019-04-12 00:30

they are going to be a punching bag...stable roster doesnt mean a good team....ajajajaj

Really good News!! Go LG

2019-04-12 00:10

Singularity deserved it more...

2019-04-12 01:16

Where is Singularity? What a wasted spot

2019-04-12 02:19

I come with facts: -Singularity should be the first option to replace Rogue as they played a relegation match against Rogue and lost it. -As Furia was invited (even if the MDL Season they won didn't promote for EPL) they shoud've accepted (they are the better team afterall) -LG deserves to play the next MDL season so maybe they can get their shit together, this invitation is a joke and will probably keep them on the same situation they've been facing recently.

2019-04-12 04:17