BIG, Renegades out of playoff running in ESL Pro League

11-3-2021 22:07

The two eliminated sides are set to meet in the final round of matches, while HEROIC and Complexity will fight for the top spot.

HEROIC, FunPlus Phoenix, and Complexity secured wins in the penultimate round of matches in ESL Pro League Season 13 Group A, stopping BIG and Renegades from advancing, while complicating things at the top.

A loss to FunPlus Phoenix, which included comebacks on Inferno and Nuke from the European mixture, ended BIG's chances in the tournament. The early Pro League elimination follows an underwhelming IEM Katowice showing from the Germans, where they finished 13-16th.

Losing series to fresh rosters cost tabseN and co.

The day started with HEROIC taking on OG, though, with the latter not playing with Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen for this series, instead fielding their benched member Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt. The Europeans managed to claim one map, Train, but HEROIC was dominant on Mirage and Overpass to extend their flawless run to six series since adding Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali and Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck.

Lastly, Complexity joined the battle for the first place in the group by defeating Renegades. The Australian side put up good CT sides on both Inferno and Mirage, but was unable to close out either and are still without a single map won in the tournament.

The current group stage standing looks as follows:

Group A

TEAM

The final matches of ESL Pro League Season 13 group A will all be played out simultaneously, at 19:00 on Friday. The result of the HEROIC - Complexity match will directly decide who will head to the play-in and skip the first round of playoffs, while OG and FunPlus Phoenix will face off for the third place in the group.

19:00 HEROIC vs. Complexity
19:00 BIG vs. Renegades
19:00 OG vs. FunPlus Phoenix

Ouch for big

2021-03-11 22:09

9 replies

easiest group possible and still fail XD

2021-03-11 22:59

8 replies

one group literally has c9, t1 and mibr

2021-03-12 07:09

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on the other hand that same group has furia, gambit and navi, they would have been fucked either way depending on who they replaced in that group, honestly if they couldnt leave group A then chances are they would have lost in any other group, they fucked up and are out because of it no 2 ways about it

2021-03-12 09:10

6 replies

furia hahaha

2021-03-12 10:12

furia has a new player and gambit just lost to fucking copenhagen flames lmao, could be easier than this group

2021-03-12 14:50

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sure it could but im going from whats expected to happen, furia with junior have been decent so far and gambit losing to CF might be just a fluke, and in this group if big where to replace, say MIBR and play like they are did in their group they would have lost all matches the same way

2021-03-12 15:45

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well but htey also could have replaced either of the other teams which are a threat to them

2021-03-12 18:30

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yeah after today i dont think it would really matter, they would go out on any group for sure theres really no excuse to losing to renegades

2021-03-12 21:23

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they probably didn't care bcs they were out anyways but i get what you mean

2021-03-12 21:45

Nice

BUG LUL

2021-03-11 22:10

Big disband incoming

Changes incoming for bug clan

Go fpx

2021-03-11 22:11

BIG cant even get out one of the worst groups

By ranking it isn't the worst.

2021-03-12 00:07

by literally watching any cs the last couple of months that group is way easier than any of the others

2021-03-12 00:33

Group C have 3 free opponents in C9, Team One and MIBR who are nowhere near the level of the other 3 who are basically already through to play-off because of it. Group A only had one bad opponent in Renegades while the other would completely destroy the 3 i just mentioned

2021-03-12 03:11

flag checks out

2021-03-12 02:00

Name checks out

2021-03-12 07:35

2021-03-12 07:54

It doesn't even matte if it's the most easy group or not... They were the top ratet Team by HLTV in their group and should have been at least qualified for playoffs. For a #7 team there is no way to loose 3 matches against teams that are on #13, #19 and not even on the Top30 list. I mean yeah, there a a few new linups which makes it hard to prepare against, but as a #7 team you should be able to win at least a few of them.

2021-03-12 09:55

Big srsly needs to get their shit together, they are much better than what they are showing right now. Also I feel like their coach change didn't work at all.

2021-03-11 22:12

Towb was carrying BIG with his mind-reading powers everytime he made those funny faces on cam.

2021-03-11 22:16

They make to many mistakes, seems like mid game they dont realize it. On nuke zehn was plaiyng around vent and tizian couldnt hold it twice. He made so many mistakes on mirage too. Overall they should srsly consider roster changes. Either go full german or go international. Tabsen is playing so well right now but everyone else is struggling.

2021-03-11 22:17

I don't think they need to do roster changes just yet. But they need to rethink the way their are playing midround. Feels like they start a map with an idea in mind and are unable to adapt to shit that should become obvious as the rounds go by. And their midround calling used to be decent. Dunno what happened but they need to go back to what worked

2021-03-11 22:22

The mistakes started with any map veto. Nuke as decider when they lose every time. Heroic vertigo as decider when they can't play it.

2021-03-12 00:06

damn.. unlucko 4 big?

massive choke on nuke and the comms dont seem that great with xantares still

2021-03-12 07:55

nice

2021-03-11 22:14

Two boring matches zzzzzz. Two eliminated teams and Two already qualified teams face each other. Real match is OG v FPX.

2021-03-11 22:15

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Nobody told big to disappoint you, schedule was planned ahead of time

BIG couldn't handle the FIREPOWER. I don't blame then, what can you do.

There is still a lot on the line. Winner between coL and Heroic places 1st, there is a huge difference between getting 1st and 2nd

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Meh, playoffs is a different beast. How many times a lower bracket run was sucessful and the team that stomped on the group stage fell short.

2021-03-11 22:18

Kinda different here though, since the 1st place team goes straight to semis and 2nd/3rd have to Play two more bo3s to get there.

2021-03-11 22:51

You have to keep in mind that since this is the 1st group the play offs are almost after 3-4 weeks. Alot can change in that time period.

2021-03-12 05:29

Say you lose 1st match either way. It's the difference between 9-12th and 5-6th.

2021-03-12 13:39

It's interesting for the teams that win, but for the general audience it hardly matters. Playoffs are like a month away still, and going straight to the semis guarantees nothing. Liquid and Spirit skipped to semis only to get eliminated there.

2021-03-12 15:28

heroic can be 1st even if they lose as long as they have higher round difference after the series

2021-03-12 00:32

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Rounds are pretty irrelevant, head to head is what counts

2021-03-12 01:03

bait?

2021-03-12 09:45

It's the truth

if heroic lose they will be tied by wins so the team with the higher round difference is 1st

2021-03-12 11:17

Always funny when people are confidently wrong. Now maybe take a look at esl's rulebook instead of embarassing yourself further

2021-03-12 11:25

Jermans lost XD

2 very bad tournaments in a row from big they need to work more no roster changes needed

2021-03-11 22:19

RIP BIG cya fpx!

2021-03-11 22:25

Shame

Expected that renegades are out, but BIG out was suprise

2021-03-11 22:26

it saddens me but i know they will come back stronger.

Renegades wasted spot

2021-03-11 22:27

True, they should have had Spirit

2021-03-11 22:58

2021-03-12 11:21

Disband xd

2021-03-11 22:28

OCE CSGO is such a hot garbage, wish we could see Tyloo or Vici in this event.

2021-03-11 22:45

+1 ViCi > RNG > TYLOO

2021-03-11 22:55

RNG with dexter would have been better tho. They just changed their IGL, so cant really blame em

2021-03-11 23:40

+ a year without good oponents to scrim against locked in AU

2021-03-12 10:19

At least someone gets it

2021-03-13 00:26

and finally aliStair showed his potential against BIG if you give him the second AWP

2021-03-13 04:24

cs is joke nowadays

2021-03-11 22:49

No BUG no BIG, only BOT

2021-03-12 10:20

Why not?

2021-03-12 10:31

BIG is a joke, Xantares should save himself asap.

2021-03-11 23:07

DuDe is the problem easiest group and cant reach playoffs

2021-03-11 23:12

Agree

Where are the BIGgest fluke fans right now?

2021-03-11 23:35

They still party after 7-1 in any csgo match.

2021-03-12 00:03

Man

2021-03-12 02:12

go to 99damage twitch channel (german esl stream) write command !bra71l

2021-03-12 11:02

lmao bug can't even win online XDDD

2021-03-11 23:56

Big lost all bo3 cuz of nuke. Sorry but when you can't play that map... Why do you let it go for decider? Bigs new coach doesn't seems to fit. Cuz somehow the map veto went to shit since he joined. I know that towb had a lot to say in that.

2021-03-12 00:02

Good point

2021-03-12 10:32

++11111

2021-03-12 11:24

they wouldnt have picked a map theyre bad at on purpose. maybe their mappool is just not big enough

2021-03-12 14:17

sometimes it is better to pick sth else when you know you lose the map anyway. So you can give it at least a fair try. FPX was always good (not great) on Nuke. Then play Overpass or train where you have better ways to take direct duels. On Nuke it is more about room duels

2021-03-12 14:32

Which are the tiebreaker rules here?

2021-03-12 00:10

pain

2021-03-12 00:12

RIP Big Onliners

2021-03-12 00:18

Big shit

2021-03-12 03:39

DOG CLAN OMEGALUL

2021-03-12 07:27

fan of hunden calling people dogs kek of the day

2021-03-12 07:57

thx god BIG era was one week, dogshit team, now all the delusional big fan can be quiet thx jesus

2021-03-12 08:22

BIG Choke

2021-03-12 10:15

Tow b please come back bek((

2021-03-12 10:18

Well I will be really surprised if BIG doesn't make any changes now, they are needed, it's not the first event that they struggle so hard. I hate to say it but at this point I think that there were plenty of teams that would play better here than Renegades, they are not even close to the level of those teams, and I would expect more changes if they want to be competitive on this level.

2021-03-12 12:05

In your opinion, who should they change? Xanteres or K1to ?

2021-03-12 12:49

Both I think.

2021-03-12 13:00

Unfortunate for BIG

2021-03-12 12:36

ok big clan got deleted even though they ranked the best among all in that group idk y but they sucks now

2021-03-12 13:18

BIG lol, how do they lose to FPX? FunPlus Phoenix? What the hell mens xd

2021-03-12 14:51

how many teams qualify from the group? top3 or top4?

2021-03-12 16:03

'The 24 teams will first be distributed into four round-robin, best-of-three groups of six, which will award the winning teams a place in the play-ins; a stage where the first-placed sides will play one another for a berth in the semi-finals. The second and third-placed teams will begin the playoffs in the Round of 12' hltv.org/news/31098/esl-reveal-pro-leagu.. You can also find a graphic linked in the news piece which offers a visual help.

2021-03-12 19:14