Europe Minor Closed Qualifier - ESL One Rio 2020

Quartet qualifies for Europe Minor

7-3-2020 23:48

The first four teams through to the ESL One Rio Europe Minor are fnatic, Complexity, Heretics, and Ninjas in Pyjamas, after they passed the upper quarter-finals in the closed qualifier.

The Frenchmen around Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey continued to surprise after first taking down OG in a convincing series before also sending HEROIC to the lower bracket with another 2-0 victory, becoming the first team to clinch a spot at the Europe Minor.

fnatic followed closely behind, coming out on top of a nail-biting Swedish derby with Dignitas, which went to overtimes on the first two maps before Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim's side prevailed thanks a dominant Overpass performance that saw them pick up a flawless CT side.

Complexity advanced undefeated after being invited last-minute

Having been invited as a last-minute replacement for MAD Lions, Complexity certainly took full advantage of the second chance and pulled through undefeated, as well, after securing uncontested series victories over Sprout and GODSENT.

Meanwhile, Ninjas in Pyjamas rounded out the first day successfully despite a tough start in the opening round against Apeks, who gave the Swedes a run for their money. In the upper quarter-finals, Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson's squad clinched the fourth spot over BIG, who had just returned from their successful campaign overseas in the FLASHPOINT Global Qualifier.

The first four teams advancing to the Europe Minor once again are:

No one has been eliminated from the closed qualifier yet, as the lower bracket will be played out on Sunday, when the other four teams who will travel to Rio de Janeiro in late April will be found.

BIG was the better team. Lucky NIP won all pistol rounds and still almost lost to a jetlagged BIG LMAO We will comeback tomorrow! #ProudToBeBIG

2020-03-07 23:48

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@Striker pls explain to me how many matches BIG need to win to qualify

2020-03-07 23:49

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1 tommorow

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Only 1? Great news! EZ FOR BIG! #VamosBIG #RunToBra71l

2020-03-07 23:50

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They are playing the winner of smash vs. Movistar riders at 15:00 They are historically bad against Movistar and on top of that BIG made a lot of stupid mistakes in key rounds today against NiP, this could’ve easily been a 1-1 now really, I’m honestly scared for them

2020-03-07 23:53

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They WERE bad against MovistarRiders with the old lineup tho... now BIG is better than them for sure 100%. Dont worry BIG is still a big jetlagged im pretty sure they will dominate tomorrow! #GoBIG

2020-03-07 23:54

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All teams jetlagged??? lul

2020-03-07 23:59

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BIG came back from USA just yesterday ?!?!

2020-03-08 00:32

Afaik Big are the only ones from EU having been in the Global Qualifier for Flashpoint - both their potential opponents are beatable but it's only one chance for everyone, you lose, you're gonna be massively dissapointed. Aside from teams like Kova and Apeks who I think can consider themselves proud to even be here, maybe one of them can take down the OG boys or Nordavind and even get in the Minor who knows :) GL to the teams, up your game overnight and we'll see who throws and who goes ham!

2020-03-08 04:46

I am pretty sure they are still at LA lol. they got Flashpoint at LA next week Will not make any sense if they travel back and forth like that

2020-03-08 00:01

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Im pretty sure they are in germany since yesterday

2020-03-08 00:02

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probably since servers would be messed up

2020-03-08 01:18

They're in Germany, they were playing EU FPL last night. It would be pretty hard to play the EU closed qualifier from the west coast of NA, they'd have at least 140ms.

2020-03-08 01:39

small brain waka waka?

2020-03-08 08:33

still r bad against movistar

2020-03-09 13:46

Flag name flair checks out bro

Say it again without crying

2020-03-07 23:55

He cant

2020-03-08 00:00

nice name bro

2020-03-08 00:07

How do you comment on the first place almost every time? :D

2020-03-08 00:08

Maybe you can be a troll, maybe a really BIG Fanboy, it does not matter. You always entertain people on hltv. So, to me, you are among the good users on hltv :D

2020-03-08 00:27

Thanks dude! to #45: im just lucky!

2020-03-08 00:31

name checks out

2020-03-08 00:39

NIP_NEVER_BEAT_UNJETLAGGED_BIG

2020-03-08 01:09

16-0 kkkkkkkkkkk

2020-03-08 04:20

Big is fking trash

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Just mad that BIG is better than Pakistani CS

2020-03-08 02:51

Big is irrelevant, Pakistan cs is irrelevant.

2020-03-08 02:52

2020-03-08 03:10

ez 4 any team against BIG cuz BIG is so trash

2020-03-08 03:25

hahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahaahhahahhahahhaha

2020-03-08 03:38

i agree that Big was the better team....at sucking, ahahahahahahahaha

2020-03-08 13:46

NIP WAS JUST LUCKY.

Big was just bad

Was a bit worried about Apeks but BIG I wasn't worried a bit

2020-03-08 00:16

current nip players 9 major, current dig players (real nip) 1

2020-03-08 09:54

It’s not NiP if it doesn’t have one of the original players

Ikr

2020-03-08 04:21

see ppl, last minute flight and no JETLAG excuses

Bug

EZ FOR NIP! BUG CLAN LUL

Dignitas is the real NIP

2020-03-07 23:52

Actually true

2020-03-08 00:03

+1000

2020-03-08 03:08

This

2020-03-08 05:40

CoL lol Such a lucky team, how much they paid to buy out Mad Lions spot in qualifier?

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ESL is just insanely biased at that point, makes no sense to invite coL when there were teams that came further in the quals

??? Which one

2020-03-07 23:56

AGO for example had all in all better results in the open quals and even when we only take the last Open qualifier into account then Illuminar was 3-4th just like complexity

2020-03-08 00:06

Why tf would ESL not invite the highest rated team that finished the highest at the last qualifier? You guys are stupid as shit lmao

2020-03-08 00:29

Illuminar finished Same place at the latest qualifier and AGO had overall the better results in them. I can see why ESL did it but I still think they should’ve played that out

2020-03-08 00:36

Maybe they take the best ranked team in their rankings?

2020-03-08 00:50

They are close to qualify in the Forth Open Qualifier

Yeah but just as close as illuminar, they could’ve at least played it out in a quick BO3

#15 vs #46 in HLTV ranking I don't really think a quick BO3 will make any difference after looking at Illuminar recent results

2020-03-08 03:17

But it’s an online qualifier and complexity was pretty shit online up until this point Their ranking difference only comes from one single lan event (And yes I agree that coL probably would’ve won that, I just think it would’ve been fair)

2020-03-08 09:19

How are the biased? CoL was the best rated team not already in the qualifier and with them going 2-0 they prove they were the right team to pick.

2020-03-08 00:22

2020-03-08 00:33

COL = purchased spot

2020-03-08 15:48

2020-03-08 15:50

LOL FNATIC WILL COME OUT ON TOP OUTER FOR DEEZ NOOBAS don't @me @Risitas

2020-03-07 23:51

MAD LIONS STAY MAD

Listen here fat

BAD LION*

2020-03-08 04:18

QUARTET KEKW

Heretics pogchamp The minor will be so stack omg

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best full baguette team imho

2020-03-07 23:57

wait for new vitality

2020-03-08 04:43

Kio was not the problem pog

2020-03-08 00:04

The day when SG is nerfed, that team becomes shit. They won so many rounds vs. OG only because of SG. Even fucking XMS looked like s1mple with that weapon. It's fucking joke.

2020-03-08 10:46

TheIlluminati

ez 4 quartet

for a second im like who the fuck is Quartet.

We Are COL you boys are the best LETS FUCKING GO!!!

2020-03-08 00:05

Happy for my boy poizon, GGs.

Ez 4 Quartet, best EU team

GL in LAN Heretics! you are absolutely gonna need it

2020-03-08 00:37

Herectics put all their skills into this match. Watch as they crumble in the next one

2020-03-08 01:17

Ez major spot for g0dfig

2020-03-08 01:19

Dignitas kinda threw in OT on inferno :S

2020-03-08 02:47

Dignitas play cool. This team gave an excellent match against the top4 teams of the world. I think they’re quite capable of passing major in minor through minor.

2020-03-08 03:16