Vitality, Heretics through to Road to Rio playoffs, ENCE and fnatic eliminated as EU Group A ends

9-5-2020 23:28

Group A of ESL One: Road to Rio - Europe has come to a close with Vitality and Heretics moving on to the playoffs' lower bracket, while ENCE and fnatic have been eliminated.

Astralis ended up at the very top of the group after locking down their sixth win earlier today, with a head-to-head victory putting them ahead of Ninjas in Pyjamas, who finished the group stage with the same score after winning the all-Swedish matchup against fnatic in the last round.

Although the two spots in the upper bracket semi-finals had been locked since the penultimate round, the third-fourth place, awarding teams a place in the lower bracket, was up in the air until the very last match, with Vitality, fnatic, ENCE, and Heretics all having a chance.

It was a good day for the Frenchmen

In the end, Vitality secured one of those spots after a straight-forward win against their compatriots. The other came down to a three-way tie between fnatic, ENCE, and Heretics, after each one lost their matchup in the last round, with Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey and company clinching fourth place thanks to an extra map victory among the three teams.

The French side earned the lower bracket spot despite not being able to add any more wins to their tally after having started the group stage strong with three consecutive victories, spearheaded by fantastic performances from Bryan "⁠Maka⁠" Canda, who is currently the third-highest-rated player of the tournament.

Meanwhile, ESL Pro League Season 11 champions fnatic will have to come to terms with a disappointing showing that saw them record a 3-4 score in the group, good only for the 11th-12th place overall. On Tuesday, they and ENCE will face Group B's sixth and fifth-placed teams, respectively, in matches that will break down individual placings for an extra 100 points in the Regional Major Ranking.

The final standings of Group A look as follows:

Group A

TEAM

Online cs sucks

2020-05-09 23:28

15 replies

how are u always first get a life

2020-05-09 23:29

8 replies

ONLINE CS BEST CS

4 replies

bye Fnatic, karma for all those bm

2020-05-09 23:41

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French cs best cs

2020-05-09 23:42

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Fnatic Top1 KEKW

2020-05-09 23:45

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Fnatic say bye to RTR

2020-05-10 09:05

youtu.be/pPw_izFr5PA?t=101

2020-05-09 23:32

imagine listening to snitch69

2020-05-09 23:39

Lol. Always First

2020-05-10 01:06

but aren't big better online

2020-05-09 23:31

Statistically BIG is way better on LAN

probably because they don't attend that many lan events, they did good during Leipzig tho

2020-05-09 23:33

Well, there aren't many Lans going on at the moment. Yeah Leipzig was their first LAN with this lineup and they won it.

2020-05-09 23:34

yup, there is no lan at all actually

2020-05-09 23:38

german big fan online cs sucks best teams in the world should be anyone at anytime even online pick 2

2020-05-10 00:37

lol

FRENCH ONLINE CS POG

tough tiebreaker

LESGOOOO

LETSSSSGOOOOOOOOO

Yes Go Heretics , would love to see them at a major

2020-05-09 23:30

2020-05-10 00:19

lul remember when they said fnatic new era lul

Why are heretics above?

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Heretics 1-2 Fnatic Heretics 2-0 ENCE ENCE 2-0 Fnatic which means Heretics is +1 map in the 3way head to head, ENCE is +-0 and Fnatic is -1 map Fnatic 6th place finisher

Head to Head Heretics Fnatic 1-2 Heretics Ence 2-0 Ence fnatic - 2-0 Maps Heretics 3 Fnatic 2 Ence 2

map difference. fnatic 2-1 heretics Heretics 2-0 ence ence 2-0 fnatic heretics 3-2 ence 2-2 fnatic 2-3

Okay , still have a chance

2020-05-09 23:54

If they don't only hunt for knife kills they still have good chance i other 2 RtRs

2020-05-10 10:04

They dont only Hunt 4 that! Just 1 knive kill vs NiP , and that won them the round

2020-05-10 12:13

GJ FNATIC

Yeah. I mean it is ok not the play well at EVERY singe Event they are playing and obviously it is ok to miss one playoff-circle. But it had to be the way to the Major, hasn´t it? Would have been too good for the fans to know them beeing there. It has to be a nervwrecking time every year full of hoping, bating nails and screaming at the screen. Wouldn´t be a Fnatic-Fan-at-the-major-experience without it :)

2020-05-10 08:57

fuck Heretics disappointed me in those last games but now there is some time for improvements

ez 4 french cs

lol Heretics... I think they have the smallest fanbase of all the teams attending

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Not really... I've only ever met 3 North fans in my life But all the frenchies seem to be rooting for Heretics

2020-05-09 23:43

smallest fanbases in rtr probably NORPH contact and CPH flames, Movistar carrying all the spanish fans

2020-05-10 00:21

Yeah I don't think anyones cares about c0ntact. People only want Espiranto and otto to find better teams asap

2020-05-10 00:25

norph stuck in tier 2 for like past 2 years now..

2020-05-10 00:26

Yeah they've been prety popular since their great performance with 3Dmax even though the roster changed, it's the same core

2020-05-10 02:14

3 FRENCH TEAMS !!!!!

POG

2020-05-10 01:51

rip fnatic and mouz, EPL finalists to losing vs tier3 teams..

Let's goo

Shitty tournament format. Shitty performance from a team that can do so much better. Ridiculous.

if u can't beat 2 teams that are way way worse than u there's no excuse, salty fnatic fan :) I feel bad for them too but losing to 4 teams worse than u, 2 of them which you're the clear favorites in ence and dignitas (tho ex nip vs fnatic is always intense) they deserve to go out ik it's online cs but faze and astralis are two teams doing it right rn

2020-05-09 23:36

He literally said "Shitty performance from a team that can do so much better". What about that implies that they didn't deserve to go out? Seems to me like you are the salty one here

Thank you. That was exactly my point.

2020-05-10 20:14

Don't lose to Dig, ENCE and your map pick to heretics next time

2020-05-09 23:44

Isn't that literally what he said? You rephrasing it just makes you sound like a c**t.

Sorry

2020-05-10 00:09

fnatic one week era axaxaxaxaxaxa

one week? it was only a few hours, hahaha

2020-05-09 23:50

LOL

No round difference tiebreakers at all? Fnatic had the highest round difference and they had a positive one compared to ENCE and Heretics, that sucks. Nonetheless, Heretics did upset a couple of top teams and they deserve a shot in the playoffs. EDIT: I forgot it was based off head-to-head results, that clears things up a lot more now!

flair checks out map difference before round difference

Lmao

Fnatic era kekw Admit it! There will be no era anymore. Every team will fuck up after 1 or 2 successful events

+1 except astralis, they'll just keep getting close but choke in semis like they used to. hope they don't this time

2020-05-09 23:37

4 majors?...

2020-05-09 23:47

lol cya ence

All the time golden is 20+ frags less than his teammates. Fnatic ....

"fNaTiC tOp 1" KEKW

flukenatic

Ence had a great game against astralis could have been 2-0 for ence but that first map train loss on overtime was dissappointing.

2020-05-09 23:40

ence would have choked 2nd map then, you just know it xdd

2020-05-09 23:46

Probably true

2020-05-09 23:58

EZ FRENCH LETSGO ALLEZHERETICS

Is there any chance for other teams to go to major?

there is still more events so for top team like fnatic it is not really that big deal, as this event alone decides nothing, you just collect points from it towards rio ranking, naturally good result would be better tho xd

2020-05-09 23:48

And as here was post evry event finish gives you some points like 1st 600 2nd 400 3-8th but on side note as events go forward you will get more and more points for same places so you can top last event and get 2.5k points so this event is almost pointless.

2020-05-10 12:50

Oh tanx .fnatic ' lose almost pissed me off

2020-05-10 16:47

ye, good question no major for fnatic or what >? What does this look like in practice?

There should be 2 more events to gain even more RMR points. The ones with the most points get major slots. So Fnatic still have a chance

2020-05-09 23:52

great, thanks for response m8 = )

2020-05-09 23:55

Herectics kekw

fnatic lost 14-16 so many times. This costed them the play off spot, they need to stop losing so many rounds against eco or they wont win any event again

They should kick JW cuz he doing to many misses with awp. Then olof was fnatic awp they was best. But JW is not that good than olof

2020-05-10 00:27

No, that is not true. As soon as KRIMZ is not playing well, the team collapses because they need him to anker sides and be the perfect assistence-player he normaly is. This is unfortunal but they souldn´t kick anybody just because they didn´t reach one playoff... Just unlucky that it was the important one :)

2020-05-10 09:04

fnatic ahahahhahah XDXDXDXD fluke top 1

#VAMOSHERETICS

2020-05-09 23:59

Lesgooooo

2020-05-10 00:01

EZ astralis

2020-05-10 00:08

Top 3-4 from group B will probably be kind of bad so likely to get 3 french teams in top 6 lol

2020-05-10 00:10

1.Vitality 2.Heretics 3.G2 4.faze/astralis/nip

2020-05-10 00:17

Should be a fkn tiebreaker. Unfair

2020-05-10 00:11

Vitality made it? how? Heretics? wtf happened in that group XD? ENCE has potential but they need some kind of change if they want to comeback to being competitive. fnatic eliminated? fnatic? They looked like a TOP 1 team for me last weeks, and now they got eliminated by Vitality and Heretics? wtf even is that?

2020-05-10 00:13

Welcome to online cs

2020-05-10 00:24

Yeah XD

2020-05-10 00:41

THE BEST SCENARIO

2020-05-10 00:16

"Top 1" axaxaxaxaxa

2020-05-10 00:23

Fnatic in just a week: -fallen from Rank 1 -eliminated from the major

2020-05-10 00:38

Not eliminated tho

2020-05-10 00:46

I never really read into this new system. But fnatic is completely out now or?

2020-05-10 00:52

no mens)) more opportunity to qualify later

2020-05-10 04:35

Okay good stuff. I lost interest in cs quite a bit and now with all the online stuff even more. So i dont really follow it closely.

2020-05-10 04:39

French CS is back pogchamp

2020-05-10 00:55

Imagine wanting to go to a corona ridden Brazil. Fnatic and Ence 900iq.

2020-05-10 01:02

got to love round robin gj esl

2020-05-10 01:09

I don't understand the system Fnatic has positive round diff and lost against ENCE and Vitality So is losing against Dig what costs them here? I don't understand, to be fair, round robin sucks

2020-05-10 01:14

HERETICS won more maps than ENCE and FNATIC: If the rounds would have counted, FNATIC would have been to the playoffs. I like the round robin part when every team is playing against every team, but the Map/Round Difference Part sucks, because as a team you don´t plan with winning maps, but machtes..

2020-05-10 09:11

Yeah idk Fnatic should've won against dig anyways, so it's their fault, not the system. Although they did beat Astralis, which imo is more important than qualifying atm.

2020-05-10 16:41

Yeah, they fucked up. They shoukd have won one more matchup AT LEAST! But as a fnatic fan I learned to stay humble the last years. As long as they don´t panic and change the lineup in the next moths it is going to be fine.

2020-05-10 23:15

where is that toxic kid k4rlsson that was talking shit about Astralis all last week.. xD

2020-05-10 01:23

French CS is back

2020-05-10 01:48

Heretics lost more games then they won. If you are pleased with that then ok.

2020-05-10 11:26

Bad day for JW.

2020-05-10 02:13

Another reason why Astralis have the thickest most wrinkliest brains in the scene. Astralis have struggled against Fnatic recently and could guarantee them not making playoffs. Fnatic need ENCE to lose and need to beat NIP in order to make playoffs. Astralis could simply lose to ENCE to keep Fnatic out. In return, they let ENCE get overconfident with their "win" so if they face again Astralis show their true form, although ENCE is likely to lose to someone else. However, it doesn't stop there. Vitality 2-0'd Heretics and Astralis see this. Because of this there's a scenario where if NIP win and Astralis win, both ENCE and Fnatic don't make it out rather Vitality and Heretics take 3/4, even easier opponents. Astralis delay the second map to see if NIP forces a 3rd, they do, so Astralis let their own series go to 3 by giving ENCE map 2. They keep on delaying until it seems NIP will win and then finish ENCE off, kicking both teams out from playoff contention in return. If Fnatic were to pull it back against NIP, Astralis can lighten up on map 3, letting ENCE take it, still keeping Fnatic out from playoffs.

2020-05-10 02:23

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If I were into conspiracy theories ... this above is indeed a good one !!! - It sure did Seem Like Astralis was playing “for something” lol

2020-05-10 09:01

That is called strategy and im into it big time. But they say that we gonna have even more tournaments to decide who is going to major right ? What does that mean exactly ? That for example Fnatic can still make it somehow to enter major ? Was this event which teams will end up in major or are just points ? I am kinda confused

2020-05-10 11:18

its just for points. I think there are 2 more tournaments like this 1 before major.

2020-05-10 16:34

Then why everyone says " im happy for heretics " or " Fnatic didnt make it " ? Maybe this tournament was who will end up in major and the rest tours wont matter for the teams that "made it" with this one ? Im so confused seriously

2020-05-10 16:37

they just didnt make it to the playoffs and the oportunity to achieve more points...the other 2 upcomming tournaments have even more points to share so they will definetly have more chances to qualifie. Take a moment and read this: esl-one.com/csgo/rio/road-to-rio/

2020-05-10 16:45

Thanks for all your info, really appreciated.

2020-05-10 18:15

np m8

2020-05-10 18:58

forze, ence, fnatic eliminated! SUPER pros SPIRIT, HERETICS, FURIA are through, lez go! many wow, such pro, unreal! gg

2020-05-10 04:15

Online CS is showing some interesting results as teams have shown improved performance

2020-05-10 05:27

Lul fnatic Helo Swedish fans wottup real top 1 kek

2020-05-10 08:30

2020-05-10 10:39

navi might get eliminated too so don't laugh too early lmao

2020-05-10 11:17

Hahahah I am not mad about that But I have met numerous number of fnatic fans saying they are real no. 1 giving explanation and when I prove them wrong they start going towards my country lmao

2020-05-10 15:29

tbh fnatic could still be a top 1 team they just got unlucky this time I mean they're more top 1 than Astralis

2020-05-10 15:30

This is what I am talking about Stop it Online cs is not fair Anyone can top rn

2020-05-10 20:15

yeah it's kinda shitty but it is what it is rn can't wait for Cologne

2020-05-10 20:23

same but dreamhack is starting on may19th so pretty excited about that also as top team come together rather than aimers tbh i hate online cs and it is boring cus it favours aimers rarther than teamplay sometimes csgo is a team game

2020-05-11 09:42

geez Complexity is bad, man

2020-05-10 10:35

I do not understand something. The teams that made it to playoffs are 100% into major ? They say that we gonna have even more events to decide the total RMR points so what is going on exactly ? Anyone with knowledge ? Thank you.

2020-05-10 11:14

#125

2020-05-10 20:20

2020-05-10 20:31

Dont like it when teams lose more games then they win and still get to playoffs. Heretics very lucky btw.

2020-05-10 11:25

twitter.com/Thorin/status/12591433600041..

2020-05-10 11:32

so ence and fnatic won't make it to the major? I'm still confused by how this works

2020-05-10 12:03

There are 3 rtr tournaments and this one has the lowest amount of points in the pool. Teams get some points from the Berlin major placement aswell. And from what I know there is 11 spots for EU teams.

2020-05-10 12:05