Americas Minor North America Closed Qualifier - ESL One Rio 2020

Four teams through to Americas Minor

8-3-2020 05:26

FURIA, Bad News Bears, Cloud9, and Gen.G are the first four teams to qualify for the Americas Minor through the North American closed qualifier after prevailing in the upper bracket semi-finals.

FURIA were the first of the quartet to secure their spot at the offline stage in Rio de Janeiro, fighting back from a 4-11 deficit on Overpass in their opening match against Triumph to edge out a victory in thirty rounds. Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan's troops faced little contention from there as they won Inferno 16-11 to sweep their first series, and left little room for Envy to fight back in the upper bracket semi-finals as they took a two-map victory over Dallas-based squad to remain undefeated.

Peter "⁠ptr⁠" Gurney's Bad News Bears also found themselves fighting back from an early deficit as they dropped their opening map against Rugratz, but the roster was quick to stabilize as they reverse-swept the series with a win on Inferno and a 15-0 defensive half on Nuke. Ze Pug Godz, who had upset eUnited with comeback in their initial three-map affair, found themselves unable to repeat the effort in their second match, with Bad News Bears taking a 2-0 victory to earn a spot at the Americas Minor.

FURIA are the third Brazilian team to qualify for the Americas Minor

Cloud9 were not far behind as they swept past LiViD in their opening match, pitting them against a Mythic roster who had cast a Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan-less Chaos down to the lower bracket. Although the stream team remained neck-and-neck with Cloud9 on their pick of Vertigo, Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou's squad prevailed 16-14 before coming out on top on Inferno to take the series.

In the final match of the first day, the recently-crowned DreamHack Open Anaheim champions of Gen.G were a cut above their opponents as they had no difficulty in dispatching of Divine, and swiftly secured their spot in Rio de Janeiro with a pair of 16-7 wins against their upcoming FLASHPOINT 1 competitors from Orgless.

The team list for the ESL One Rio Americas Minor now looks as follows:

No teams have been eliminated from the closed qualifier yet, with matches in the lower bracket set to play out on Sunday and Monday as the twelve remaining rosters look to secure the final two spots at the Americas Minor.

next: eunited

2020-03-08 05:27

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There are more brazilians than north americans on the North America minor///

2020-03-08 16:35

When they sign Orgless and drop those bots they currently have

2020-03-08 05:29

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oof you say it and they release team

2020-03-08 12:59

Nt orgless will never release their players from contract

Correct next eunited to be eliminated

2020-03-08 05:32

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If only they had zelsiss

2020-03-08 06:17

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Where is zellsis btw? Why isn’t he playing?

2020-03-08 10:43

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Qualified with Rugratz. Wippie is standing in.

2020-03-08 20:14

Ty for info m8

2020-03-08 21:17

Np mens

2020-03-08 23:57

2020-03-08 07:28

Nice

2020-03-08 05:53

2020-03-08 14:22

No, tq.....

2020-03-08 17:16

damn no editing this aged really well

2020-03-08 19:55

of course it was gonna age well, marke destroyed rugratz

2020-03-08 19:59

OH WTF I JUST CHECKED NEWS

easy brasil

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2020-03-08 05:38

Furia got the easiest path to the minor by far. Not that they wouldn't have made it regardless.

2020-03-08 06:03

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I mean they got the team that is currently 10-1 in MDL on the first round so.. no

2020-03-08 06:08

Mythic is in second place in mdl... There are several teams on this bracket that would've given them a harder time.

2020-03-08 08:22

yea yea, but what team in americas closed has the best rank in the top30? next

2020-03-08 09:51

You must've missed the second sentence of my first message. #28

2020-03-08 17:45

Don't mind him, some brazilians love to r/woosh even when they don't know what they on about.

2020-03-08 20:02

Wasted Spot BY m16r Should just Remove MIBR and add 1 more european team XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2020-03-08 10:45

Spam D=retard

2020-03-08 12:14

Ez 4 C9 2 time major winners

Easy for Orgless and Chaos next

2020-03-08 05:28

Chaos will not make it, those are some high high hopes

2020-03-08 05:33

Its gonna be either them or Envy

2020-03-08 13:52

I’d bet on envy before them

2020-03-08 13:58

Told u

2020-03-10 03:27

0/8 steel cannot play on majors

2020-03-08 05:44

DAVEY will make it through, mark my words!

2020-03-08 05:31

Ur words are no good

Why furia in NA qualifier?

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read the title again

2020-03-08 05:37

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damn just notice that too, yeah wth???

2020-03-08 05:40

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#14 Apparently they have gaming house in NA, just like 100t going to NA qualifiers as well

2020-03-08 05:42

it's the americas qualifier there's not a seperate qualifier for south america as far as I know

2020-03-08 05:43

They did hltv.org/events/5173/americas-minor-sout..

2020-03-08 05:46

so now if a team have a gaming house in different continent they can join qualifier in there as well. What if some EU team have gaming house in Asia?? They can just qualified through there, ez xD

Because then you'd have to live in your house 24/7 just to avoid Coronavirus

2020-03-08 06:37

Hmmm yeah like coronavirus only in Asia now, kay

2020-03-08 08:28

Damn, thought I could let that one past ya

2020-03-08 08:30

why the list have three LATAM teams?

2020-03-08 06:30

2 spots from SA qualifier (BOOM, Red Canids) FURIA through the NA qualifier because they live there and play NA qualifiers

2020-03-08 07:24

Because they have the gaming house/office in NA, samething with yeah

Thanks

Orgless will make and I'd put my bets on either Eunited Ze pug godz

2020-03-08 05:35

At least one player from the Orgless roster will make it

2020-03-08 07:30

gen.g will go through

Gen.g my asian homies

Proud of gen.g but the main qualifier looks so scary I just hope to god they don't have to play Mouz or FaZe in one of the opening rounds

2020-03-08 06:21

gen.g is growing fast, I love this team. they are in the adaptation phase, but I think they are ready to face strong teams .

2020-03-08 06:43

It's crazy to see how they've grown as a team from playing in the Leipzig qualifiers until now and how effectively they've integrated S0m and BnTeT into the core. I have no doubt in my mind they could take on any team in the top 20 right now, but the top 10 I think is still a bit away. Maybe when BnTeT's English is up to par and communication is optimal they could be dark horses for big titles.

2020-03-08 06:50

Its funny, I'd think that way if the core guys were inexperienced and were just relying on raw skills. BnTeT has a lot of recent experience playing against top 10 talent. Remember, he carried Tyloo to win bo3's against Faze, Renegades (when they were good), Mouz and G2. Ex-major winner Auti is also someone with good experience against top 10. If BnTeT could beat those teams with Tyloo, he definitely has a better chance with Gen.G.

2020-03-08 09:35

It's not their experience that really makes me doubt that they could beat the top 10, it's their teamplay and cohesion as a unit. Teams like Mouz FaZe(to an extent) Astralis Liquid etc are all going to be using utility and be able to play off eachother thrice as well as any team they've played so far. They definitely have the experience to play these teams, I'm just not sure if their utility usage and ability to coordinate is on the top 10 level yet.

2020-03-08 09:44

True, but team cohesion is just a matter of playing with each other often. Experience in this case means level of game sense that these players already have. It's why they won their first lan tournament together without much difficulty. Utility usage will only get better as well. The moment Gen.G signed BnTeT back in December, I instantly knew these guys would be contenders.

2020-03-08 11:06