Riot Squad and INTZ to ESEA MDL NA S32 Grand Finals

11-11-2019 04:51

Riot Squad and INTZ have emerged victorious as the top two teams from the North American playoffs of ESEA MDL Season 32, setting up a best-of-five clash on LAN for a spot in the 11th season of ESL Pro League.

The Riot Squad roster missed out on an opportunity to play for a spot in ESL Pro League last season, falling to ATK in their quarter-final playoffs matchup to swiftly end their hopes of a spot in the finals or relegation. In a bid to improve upon those results, the team brought on Pujan "⁠FNS⁠" Mehta and Jonathan "⁠Jonji⁠" Carey ahead of their Season 32 campaign - a change which would prove to revitalize the team as they went on to drop just three maps over the course of the regular season to Triumph, Ben's Anime Team, and INTZ.

INTZ, meanwhile, were forced to battle their way through MDL for the first time since arriving in North America after finding themselves demoted from ESL Pro League following relegation losses to Singularity and Envy in August. The team had previously made entry into the league by inheriting the spot of SK from ESL Pro League Season 7, signing the NoTag lineup that, at the time, contained João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos and Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe. Despite losing their star AWPer to MIBR, the Brazilians had little difficulty in battling past their MDL opposition during the regular season, winning thirteen maps in a row before they were dealt their only loss by Ben's Anime Team shortly after replacing Lucas "⁠destiny⁠" Bullo with Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass.

Riot Squad will face off against INTZ in a LAN rematch for a spot in EPL

Following the results of a community poll in August, ESEA introduced double-elimination playoffs into their league structure for all divisions, offering teams the opportunity to fight back through a lower bracket. Although Riot Squad entered the playoffs as the third seed, below INTZ and Ben's Anime Team, they had little difficulty in fighting past their opponents, and never needed to make use of the lower bracket. Victories over Rugratz and Ben's Anime Team gave FNS and company a spot in their upper bracket final, where they made short work of INTZ to grant themselves a one-map advantage for the best-of-five LAN Grand Finals in December.

ESEA MDL Season 32 North AmericaBest of 3

Riot Squad

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10th November 2019

INTZ

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Riot Squad	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey Jonji	43 - 33	+10	86.8	74.5%	1.30
Peter 'ptr' Gurney ptr	35 - 28	+7	75.1	70.6%	1.13
Austin 'crashies' Roberts crashies	37 - 30	+7	74.0	68.6%	1.12
Mitch 'mitch' Semago mitch	29 - 29	0	66.8	78.4%	1.10
Pujan 'FNS' Mehta FNS	38 - 36	+2	76.6	72.5%	1.01

INTZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Gustavo 'yel' Knittel yel	35 - 31	+4	72.5	66.7%	1.09
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	39 - 36	+3	80.6	68.6%	1.05
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes chelo	28 - 38	-10	69.3	74.5%	0.91
Bruno 'shz' Martinelli shz	28 - 37	-9	67.8	62.7%	0.86
Alexandre 'xand' Zizi xand	26 - 40	-14	58.8	54.9%	0.69

The loss did not completely dissuade INTZ however as, after initially notching wins over MAC-51 and their Brazilian countrymen from TeamOne, they swiftly dispatched of Triumph in the consolidation final with a 2-0 series victory to set up a rematch against FNS' side. Not all hope is lost for Triumph either, as their third place finish earns them both a spot in ESL Pro League Season 10 Relegation and a spot at the Season 32 Global Challenge LAN alongside INTZ, Riot Squad, and Rugratz.

The final standings for the online portion of the ESEA MDL NA S32 playoffs are:

1-2. Riot Squad - MDL Finals + Global Challenge
1-2. INTZ - MDL Finals + Global Challenge
3. Triumph - Global Challenge
4. Rugratz - Global Challenge
5. TeamOne
6. Ben's Anime Team
7. MAC-51
8. Ascent

The Global Challenge tournament is set to play out from December 13-15, with the first day of the event dedicated to the best-of-five playoff finals for the North American and European MDL leagues. Riot Squad will have a one-map advantage heading into the series as a result of their upper bracket finals victory, leaving them just two map wins away from a spot in ESL Pro League Season 11.

sad

2019-11-11 04:51

3 replies

EZ4CRASHIES

1 reply

Who ???

2019-11-11 07:07

Any team with fns is sad I agree

2019-11-11 05:12

nice

3 NA to 1 BR lul

2019-11-11 04:52

Yep

2019-11-11 14:47

Lol, TeamOne, best chance they get to go to Pro League and they blew it again.

2019-11-11 05:00

TeamOne should go back to Brazil immediately, the amount of money wasted is impressive.

Weak lineup. Results expected

2019-11-11 06:12

TeamOne will stay in MDL for eternity

2019-11-11 05:11

4 replies

And your surprised? I mean isn’t bit igl?

2019-11-11 05:22

not at all, they had so many great players with potential wasted thanks to him

2019-11-11 05:52

2 replies

They had a good line up in the beggining of their tryal in NA. Now its just look messy and horrible

2019-11-11 18:03

Got rid of Destiny XD

2019-11-12 06:45

F for T1

2019-11-11 05:14

rip for bens anime team

2019-11-11 05:36

rip anime

2019-11-11 05:41

They threw an 11-4 lead on Nuke against Triumph , but before that , Triumph (in the same series) threw a 12-3 lead on Overpass but still won. Obvious matchfixing is obvious.

2019-11-11 08:32

shhh they will hear you

2019-11-11 08:41

It's a riot!!

2019-11-11 07:20

Nice

2019-11-11 09:35

the rats are the weakest team here...or should i say divine.fe....Riot gonna take this one...

2019-11-11 09:38

Weren't they sued by RiotGames because of their name? How are they still alive?

2019-11-11 11:18

RIP T1

2019-11-11 11:45

Happy for my boy Boltz!

2019-11-11 12:29

lucky

2019-11-11 13:07

INTZ 3-2 in GrandFinal.

2019-11-11 13:22

TeamOne kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2019-11-11 13:38

Save Crashies! Another NA rising talent!

2019-11-11 14:00

It's sort of weird to me that games which can ultimately determine if you'll play in the pro division are largely played online. I think it's fair to say that at this point the MDL finals should be on LAN, if nothing but for consistency.

2019-11-11 15:03

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The MDL finals have been, currently are, and always will be on LAN. The reason you don't see a match-page for the grand finals yet is because those are always played on LAN.

2019-11-11 15:16

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I should've used the term playoffs, because that is what I meant. The finals have been on LAN for a while, but the majority of the playoffs were online (some teams plow everyone online and then fall apart on LAN). I understand to some degree why they do it, but online results are super inconsistent at the semi-pro level, and these teams are vying for spots in a LAN tournament environment. I just think it's a bad way to filter the field.

2019-11-11 16:07

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True but remember that LANs are much more expensive to host than online tournaments, and the level of competition in NA MDL isn't really worth spending a lot of money for a LAN yet. Maybe if csgo gets even bigger there will be more money to host more LANs, but the point of pro league is that it is now exclusively LAN and is exclusive to the teams in the absolute top tier division of the ESEA league.

2019-11-11 16:08

No, I'm aware, I nearly mentioned that in my reply (as an I understand the logistical reasons etc.). But, like you said, it's hard to be in the top tier exclusively if you got there primarily through online portions. Just look at how the E-United team basically fell apart after destroying everyone online a few seasons back (I bring this up because Jonji was abysmal on LAN). I realize there's money involved, I just hate that online cs determines so many outcomes these days.

2019-11-11 16:26

Thats what the smaller dreamhack lans are for. You have to prove yourself online before you are given a chance on bigger LANs. If you can prove yourself on those bigger LANs, you can get to even bigger LANs.

2019-11-11 17:08

Well yeah, I don't disagree. But you kind of see what I'm getting at, where you have teams entering play against top teams, and a lot of them have very little-to-no LAN experience. It's unfortunately always been an issue in the US, but there used to be a lot more small-town LANs than there are now.

2019-11-11 19:47

True

2019-11-11 23:22

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