ESEA MDL Season 31 finalized, Global Challenge teams determined

22-6-2019 13:33

The 31st season of ESEA MDL has come to a close in Europe and North America, determining all participants of the Global Challenge and ESL Pro League relegation.

After the regular season came to an end last week in Europe, it was time for the playoffs. In a surprising turn of events, CR4ZY, who had gone undefeated in the regular season, went down in the quarter-finals to Spirit, with Vitality, Movistar Riders, and Sprout also reaching the semi-final stage.

Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt's team confirmed their status of favorites by defeating Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev & co., earning a chance to fight for direct advancement to ESL Pro League Season 10 against Sprout, who took down Movistar Riders en route to the European Finals.

Vitality and Sprout will play for a spot in ESL Pro League

After a hard-fought battle between the two on Sunday, Spirit defeated Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas's side 2-1, copping the third and last spot at the seasonal Global Challenge and a place in the ESL Pro League Season 9 relegation tournament.

The final standings of ESEA MDL S31 Europe look as follows:

1-2. Sprout - Global Challenge + EU MDL Finals
1-2. Vitality - Global Challenge + EU MDL Finals
3. Spirit - Global Challenge + EPL Relegation
4. Movistar Riders - $2,500
5-8. GamerLegion
5-8. Epsilon
5-8. CR4ZY
5-8. Chaos
9. FORZE
10. Virtus.pro
11. x-kom
12. AGO
13. pro100
14. ALTERNATE aTTaX - MDL S31 Relegation
15. HAVU - MDL S31 Relegation
16. Izako Boars - MDL S31 Relegation
17. expert - MDL S31 Relegation
18. ENCE - Advanced S32 (withdrawn)

In North America, Singularity, FURIA, and ATK finished atop the league with 12 wins each and they continued to succeed in the playoffs, winning their quarter-final affairs alongside Party Astronauts to determine the four teams advancing to the Global Challenge.

Having returned from a successful run in Europe, Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan's squad lived up to the expectations, beating Party Astronauts to make it to the North American Finals, in which they will take on Singularity for a spot in ESL Pro League Season 10 on July 13.

FURIA and Singularity topped the North American MDL

Meanwhile, South African side ATK won a close third-place decider against Ian "⁠motm⁠" Hardy & co., booking the last spot in the North American relegation for ESL Pro League, making the final standings of the league the following:

1-2. Singularity - Global Challenge + NA MDL Finals
1-2. FURIA - Global Challenge + NA MDL Finals
3. ATK - Global Challenge + EPL Relegation
4. Party Astronauts - Global Challenge
5-8. The Quest
5-8. Riot Squad
5-8. TeamOne
5-8. New Identity
9. Ascent
10. Rugratz
11. Peeker's Advantage
12. Variance
13. BLITZKRIEG
14. Thunder Logic - MDL S31 Relegation
15. Bushido Boyz - MDL S31 Relegation
16. Mythic - MDL S31 Relegation
17. Prospects - MDL S31 Relegation
18. Chris and the boys - Advanced S32

The following eight teams will take part in the ESEA MDL Season 31 Global Challenge, which will run on July 13-14 in Dallas, Texas:

Nice

2019-06-22 13:34

7 replies

Nice event!

2019-06-22 13:36

NA 4 spots on LAN while EU has just 3??????

5 replies

yes, ESEA peanut brain

2019-06-22 13:39

Obviously party astronauts are better than the 4th EU movistar riders

2019-06-22 14:13

2 replies

Mixwell > astronauts

2019-06-22 14:27

Nice joke

2019-06-22 18:31

The 4th spot should be for ESEA Open Brazil winner, but this season won't have it, so they decided to give it for NA... however, I agree with u

2019-06-22 17:02

Lmao ence fluke team

2019-06-22 13:35

17 replies

lmao lul

2019-06-22 13:53

1 reply

Rofl xd

2019-06-22 13:57

It s because they withdraw from mdl due To heavy schedul They played only 2 match

2019-06-22 16:05

13 replies

Nice excuses delusional ence fan xdd flukence exposed

2019-06-22 18:19

12 replies

You trash talk the only good team from your country Rip finland cs

2019-06-22 20:03

11 replies

At least my country has a real top10 team

2019-06-22 20:04

10 replies

Vitality is top 4 And closely the same point as ence And why you talk about this when i commented you say shit because ence withdraw and didn t loose mdl cause they are bad

2019-06-22 20:10

9 replies

top 4 for winning 1 tier 2 tournament, nice one

8 replies

Fan of a #81 team

2019-06-22 20:15

fan of a washed-up player

stop falling for his bait

2019-06-22 21:13

Fan of a #81 team And if you consider ECS final with Astralis NRG MIBR NIP FURIA NORTH ( all top 10 team ) LUL

2019-06-22 20:20

4 replies

fan of a washed-up player And if you consider any of those teams tier 1 your brains might be slightly dysfunctional LUL

2019-06-22 20:22

3 replies

Vitality also won cs_summit 4 where they beat both liquid and ENCE in bo1s and bo3s. Stop baiting this poor guy lol

2019-06-23 05:49

summit tier 1 tournament where half the players are asleep during the games LUL

2019-06-23 15:12

I don't think this is a valid excuse since vitality's normal timezone is only one hour off of finland's timezone. They should have been just as tired as ENCE yet they won the tournament.

2019-06-24 16:45

18th in esea LUL when disband

2019-06-22 18:09

Sprout has been looking pretty decent recently.

K1to smurfing

2019-06-22 14:19

Izz4Furia this MDL

VP > ENCE

Nais

boring, ez4vitality...

Very sad that Movistar Riders didn't close matches with Sprout and Spirit, they had last maps totally dominated.

Rip ENCE

2019-06-22 13:38

why tf are there 4 spots for NA and 3 for Europe

2019-06-22 13:40

Tournament is held in na

2019-06-22 13:50

ence HAHAHAHAHAH

really sad for MRS :(

2019-06-22 13:41

NA 4 spots, EU 3 ???????

2019-06-22 13:42

Cries in Spanish

2019-06-22 13:43

CR4ZY what a failure

2019-06-22 13:45

The trashest tournament format ever. How did team who was 16:0 end up on 5-8th place? Where is fking lower bracket?

2019-06-22 13:46

Ence to advanced deserved for disrespect

2019-06-22 13:48

LETS GO FURIA

2019-06-22 13:51

Chockistar Riders out of relevant shit again. So sad to see them dominate whole match and chocke really hard in the end. Next chance maybe in 2 years, EPL dream wont be posible for spanish CS sadly, players are getting older and cant stop chocking when it matters

Haters out of spain pls, thank you.

2019-06-22 14:14

Not hating MR, i really hope they succed. I just feel depressed after the last two weeks where they lost really close matches but in the end achived nothing. Whenever they overcome the chocking problem, they will be a top 20 team ez, but until then, they wont be able to break into top 30

2019-06-22 14:26

i understand what you mean, but we're not riders fans without suffering. Anyways, with the LVP finals achieved and won, i think that if they stop playing tier 4-5 spain Cs and only play international they could make the roster top 30 and maybe even qualify for esl next season of MDL (when is it tho?)

2019-06-23 18:16

LETS GO SPROUT

2019-06-22 13:56

Forgot to switch to GERMANY_REKT_BRA71L OR BIGGEST_BIG_FAN ?

2019-06-22 14:28

Why 4 NA Teams????

2019-06-22 14:01

they wanna make it easier for EU

2019-06-22 14:54

Nice top 3 spirit :)

2019-06-22 14:09

LMAO 4NA spots and 3 EU Spots what a joke

ENCE ESEA ADVANCED AXAAXAXAXAXAXAAXA

I think Vitality is the only one who deserves to win

2019-06-22 14:34

Unluko riders :(

2019-06-22 14:45

Sprout hltv top 1

2019-06-22 14:50

ez money and EPL spot for Vitality

2019-06-22 15:21

Sucks for GL.. had to verse vitality first round. Really close game...

2019-06-22 15:32

ez4vitality

2019-06-22 15:42

4 teams from EU and 3 teams from NA is kind of funny. Riders would probably clap all of their teams except for FURIA

2019-06-22 15:46

*cough* congratulations vitality for winning the esea mdl s31 global challenge!

2019-06-22 15:59

"18. Finland ENCE - Advanced S32" trash LOL

2019-06-22 16:09

0 IQ LUL

2019-06-22 18:24

lybrel, sounds like liberal, sounds like libtard.

2019-06-22 18:28

Didn’t even bother looking up my name. So lazy. Also, blames, sounds like lames, sounds like lametard.

2019-06-22 19:50

ENCE last xaxaxa

2019-06-22 16:16

Vitality vs furia Pog

2019-06-22 16:22

I can already predict the placings : 1. Vitality 2. FURIA 3-4. Spirit, Sprout ( if there's going to be a 3rd place decider than Sprout will take it) 5-6. Singularity, Chiefs 7-8. ATK, Party Astronauts

2019-06-22 16:34

Good

2019-06-22 16:41

will k1to win MDL again? :D

2019-06-22 16:44

Valiance was 16-0 over the season, and couldn't qualify for the Finals... I blame the name change.

2019-06-22 16:48

cr4zy fail of the year

2019-06-22 16:56

The real tier 9 tournament...

ENCE must invite mdl 32 wtf is this :/

2019-06-22 17:25

ENCE withdrew, so many people re saying ence was not good enough to make it or some crazy shit like that, but ence withdrew because of a busy calander when they had only played 4 games. fact check before you talk.

2019-06-22 18:30