NRG through to Pro League Finals after three-way tie in Americas Group A

15-4-2019 13:26

NRG have booked their spot in the ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals after topping Group A of the Americas division.

The final day of Group A began with a mouth-watering clash between the two highest-ranked teams in contention as Renegades locked horns with NRG in a three-map series that began with an amazing comeback from the Australian side, who put in a flawless CT side display on Mirage to overturn a 3-12 deficit without losing a single round in the second half.

NRG through to the finals in Montpellier

NRG replied with a hard-fought victory on Train, where Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik topped the scoreboard with a 1.42 rating, but a reverse sweep was not to happen as Renegades ran riot on Inferno with stand-in Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield leading the charge (1.77 rating, 111 ADR).

ESL Pro League Season 9 AmericasBest of 3

NRG

Matchpage

15th April 2019

Renegades

Mirage

Train

Inferno

NRG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Brehze	66 - 56	+10	96.5	71.4%	1.26
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	60 - 58	+2	86.4	68.8%	1.12
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold Ethan	50 - 54	-4	70.9	64.9%	0.95
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov CeRq	41 - 53	-12	50.8	67.5%	0.81
Damian 'daps' Steele daps	32 - 55	-23	58.1	64.9%	0.66

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Owen 'smooya' Butterfield smooya	66 - 50	+16	80.0	77.9%	1.29
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	58 - 49	+9	88.8	71.4%	1.27
Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas Liazz	49 - 47	+2	81.0	74.0%	1.15
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad jkaem	57 - 55	+2	79.8	71.4%	1.13
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	45 - 50	-5	56.2	64.9%	0.88

After that match, eUnited and INTZ took the stage, with the Brazilians still looking for their first map win after losing the first two matches 0-2. Gustavo "⁠yel⁠" Knittel's troops acquitted themselves well on Mirage and were in the lead for large portions of the game, but eUnited picked up the pace in the final stages to run out 16-13 victors.

eUnited will move on to the second group stage

The North American team carried their momentum into the following map, Overpass, and hit match point at 15-5. INTZ still tried to mount a comeback, but their resistance was finally broken seven rounds later.

ESL Pro League Season 9 AmericasBest of 3

eUnited

Matchpage

15th April 2019

INTZ

Mirage

Overpass

eUnited	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado MarKE	41 - 35	+6	89.9	64.3%	1.19
Austin 'Cooper' Abadir Cooper	38 - 25	+13	67.5	76.8%	1.19
Kaleb 'moose' Jayne moose	42 - 33	+9	71.9	75.0%	1.12
Anthony 'vanity' Malaspina vanity	36 - 40	-4	83.5	71.4%	1.07
Victor 'food' Wong food	32 - 40	-8	60.9	66.1%	0.90

INTZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Gustavo 'yel' Knittel yel	38 - 33	+5	69.3	67.9%	1.13
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes chelo	33 - 35	-2	73.4	76.8%	1.04
Alexandre 'xand' Zizi xand	33 - 38	-5	65.8	67.9%	0.96
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves SHOOWTiME	35 - 44	-9	68.5	62.5%	0.91
João 'horvy' Horvath horvy	32 - 39	-7	61.4	60.7%	0.83

Sunday's fixtures left NRG, Renegades and eUnited in a three-way tie at the top, with Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele's side finishing in first place due to having the best map difference between the trio thanks to the map that they took off the Australians.

NRG join MOUZ on the team list for the ESL Pro League Finals, in Montpellier, while eUnited and Renegades will move on to the second Americas group stage, which will be held from May 16-23,

Group A

TEAM

Dope

2019-04-15 13:27

26 replies

Why not E-united ? , I think it's not Fair for a three-way tie to have a direct qualifier to the finals

2019-04-15 13:32

24 replies

NRG beat eunited

2019-04-15 13:34

4 replies

And lost to Renegades

2019-04-15 13:43

2 replies

And had more rounds

2019-04-15 14:00

1 reply

maps

2019-04-15 14:04

2019-04-15 14:40

That's because NRG won more maps (they lost to Renegades 1-2 while the other 2 teams had 0-2 losses). But not having that shown in the ranking makes it confusing.

2019-04-15 13:36

Cause NRG beat eUnited and NRG has better RD than RNG.

2019-04-15 13:53

16 replies

1 round

2019-04-15 13:55

14 replies

I know what others said, but i mean it's not fair , i am not against NRG , but the system like this is not fair ....

2019-04-15 14:02

13 replies

Why not tho

2019-04-15 14:08

I mean only in case of 3 way tied..

2019-04-15 14:12

Well that happens, if they wanted to go straight theough they should of gone 3-0

2019-04-15 15:55

2019-04-15 14:43

it is no different than other sports, there is nothing unfair here, sure it sucks for NRG and RNG but that is the way it goes.

2019-04-15 15:53

8 replies

Yah i know , but the problem that here it's not one group, we have 4 groups and if it happens again it won't be beautiful to watch especially for the fans. Anyway that how it's going on ...

2019-04-15 16:00

7 replies

Why not? At the end of the day all 3 teams still have a chance to make and win the LAN finals

2019-04-15 20:29

6 replies

Yah they have the chance for sure, but smaller chance despite their close results to the one who qualified .

2019-04-15 20:55

5 replies

Due to winning less maps, dont see how that's unfair.

2019-04-15 20:58

If this is the case, then i missed it so it's my fault, but what if the map wins were even for all, since it's not impossible?

2019-04-15 21:02

3 replies

Points > map difference > round difference

2019-04-15 21:08

Thanks for clarifying it ,thumbs up.

2019-04-15 21:15

Np good talk

2019-04-15 21:16

Not rd. It was map difference

2019-04-15 14:36

What is three way tie?

2019-04-15 15:07

Oui oui

rigged

2019-04-15 13:28

Rng beat nrg, but lost to eunited Eunited beat rng but lost to nrg NRG beat eunited by lost to RNG NRG through because they took a map off rng............

Using map difference as tiebreak and then display round difference in the chart, what's the point...

Eunited had best rd, while nrg played most md thats why they went through. If rng just didnt have two standins first game, things might would have been different. But who bothers.

2019-04-15 14:52

Cutler is a complete cuck

2019-04-15 15:56

First

round diff is the worst way to pick a winner imo

2019-04-15 13:29

It was map difference which decided the winner

2019-04-15 13:31

#11

using map/round differencial is just fucking ugly pls stop esl

2019-04-15 13:33

I think they don't have time to do anymore matches so they were forced to do this

welp they could play different format in groups of 4 like that wiinner and winner and loser vs loser after game 1 and no bad ties potential but i think they wanna make teams play all each other in groups for marketing purposes

2019-04-15 13:40

+1 Round robin is retarded

Nice

Too bad renegades didn’t have a little bit better of a ct side train, they had that series

2019-04-15 13:46

That's so stupid, what was the point of renegades and EU even playing... Round difference is whack. Even more whack considering renegades beat the team that made it through in BO3.

2019-04-15 13:51

It wasn't round difference, but map difference between the three teams. Round difference between the three was the next criterion

Thank you for pointing out. I mean if some guys would read the article/ comments it would be so easier to understand :)

2019-04-15 14:51

great advert for smooya, really showed he still has great potential

map difference, nice joke

2019-04-15 14:01

Anyone know why gratisfaction isnt playing?

2019-04-15 14:05

visa problems

Visa issues.

2019-04-15 14:09

With Daps NRG won't get any success. Dude is literally a bot. NRG playing like with 4 player..

2019-04-15 14:11

ok, lets remove the IGL then. This is perfect stratedy, always works

2019-04-15 16:35

bot daps

2019-04-15 14:29

well played

2019-04-15 14:32

That’s how the cookie crumbles:)

INTZ F

2019-04-15 14:41

This is how you know people do not even know the rules of this format. A lot of people are saying round difference and that was not the decider. It was map difference, so essentially, train against RNG got NRG into the playoffs