Flashpoint 3 initial matchups announced

1-5-2021 12:16

The double-elimination bracket for the first European RMR event of 2021 has been drawn.

Flashpoint has announced the initial matchups for the 16-team European Regional Major Ranking (RMR) event, which will take place on May 10-30. The tournament will be played out using a double-elimination format and give out valuable RMR points that will qualify teams for the PGL Stockholm Major.

In the first round of play, Vitality will take on countrymen DBL PONEY — without Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt who is uneligable to compete —, while Astralis will play a rematch against OG, who eliminated them from the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown in April.

An all-French matchup between Vitality and DBL PONEY starts the event

MOUZ, winners of the closed qualifier, will kick off the event against a struggling fnatic, while closed qualifier runners-up Complexity will take on BIG. G2 and FaZe facing off is certain to attract a lot of attention, as is Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz's debut for Ninjas in Pyjamas against Anonymo. Last but not least, FunPlus Phoenix will take on ex-North.

It is unclear which lineup will show up on the server for ex-North on May 14th, but the roster submitted by the Danish squad was deemed valid by Flashpoint, which means that it has at least three players from the North lineup that played in DreamHack Open Fall 2020. Two of those players, Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup and Nicklas "⁠gade⁠" Gade, have reunited under the name HYENAS in March, with their only tournament played being the second open qualifier for IEM Summer, where they were knocked out by MAD Lions in the Round of 32.

The opening matchups for Flashpoint 3 are as follows:

Vitality vs. DBL PONEY
Astralis vs. OG
BIG vs. Complexity
fnatic vs. MOUZ
HEROIC vs. Sprout
G2 vs. FaZe
Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Anonymo
FunPlus Phoenix vs. ex-North

GL TO ALL TEAMS

2021-05-01 12:16

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EZ4EX-NORTH, THE ZERO MAN SQUAD

2021-05-01 13:31

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+1 LETS GO

2021-05-01 14:01

2021-05-01 15:05

kjaerbye spray all the way!

2021-05-01 16:37

MSLul will bring more laughs to the party

2021-05-02 11:12

name checks out

2021-05-03 13:01

wow

Nice

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Faze vs G2 again kekw

2021-05-01 12:51

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I honestly love these kind of senarios we can measure to the finest details if they improved

2021-05-01 19:37

again.

2021-05-01 12:17

ex-north ez winner

nice

DBL PONEY SIGN THEM ASAP

Kcorp is on the way

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Kcorp corrupt org

2021-05-02 11:13

Why

2021-05-02 11:16

human trafficking links

2021-05-02 11:42

ez4north

gl mens

GL TO ALL UK PLAYER

No vs. between mouz and fnatic

2021-05-01 12:18

Nip easiest bracket

Ez4anonymo

2021-05-01 13:01

Anonymo the easiest bracket btw

2021-05-01 13:33

Delusional polish boys again

2021-05-01 15:16

Norph is backkkk

Vita v DBL Poney G2 v FaZe OG v Astralis BiG v Complexity All bangers

Don’t you wanna see g2 play someone else tho. I’m fed up of faze g2

2021-05-01 12:25

damn, yeah, I wish we had gotten a more spicy matchup like G2 v mousesport lmaooo

2021-05-01 12:29

Yeah haven't seen that match up in a while. Also g2 vs spirit would be a new one.

2021-05-01 13:50

So, ez for french teams

2021-05-01 12:19

Ex-North but didn't they disband?

2021-05-01 12:22

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The Org but some Players are still together. The Players have The Spot not the org

2021-05-01 12:24

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Yup but I thought they don't play together anymore. Even more when you didn't see them competing recently.

2021-05-01 12:26

They didnt Played beside of IEM Qual any officials but still together

Considering most of them are free agents and some players (e.g. Lekr0) already changed teams, I doubt they will play together in the future. But this is a free chance for a major spot so guess they'll take it. Probably their last ride together.

2021-05-01 12:40

That's one good thing about Valve over Riot, spots belong to players rather than orgs

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe in Valorant's VCT the spots and points also belong to the playes

2021-05-01 13:24

I was thinking about LoL where big league orgs have spots with no relegation system, and they can just change all their players Idk much about how the Valo system works

2021-05-01 14:09

Val has basically rmr, but with global LANs (Masters) after every "Stage" (3x a year, except the first stage this year didn't have lans beacuse of covid, and a Major (Champions) at the end of the year you qualify for with regional points and through a last chance macro-regional qualifier. The main difference is that in most regions literally every team has to qualify through open qualifiers.

2021-05-01 14:15

Liquid replace please

2021-05-03 13:03

Org quit cs, lineup still has rmr points so thats why they got invited

#21

2021-05-01 12:28

Fnatic.. I'll take that. Shame NiP and Astralis are so far apart in the bracket.

Yeah ,winninng those seeding matches was worth it, look at the other teams from the qualifier, they have all harder matchups. Let's just hope that mouz wins, we need too see them in the major.

That’s some good seeding.

"additional matches are for seeding" yeah yeah alright sure you gotta have something to hind behind when you make the same matchups that we're used to and want to see Astralis vs OG (interesting storylines rn) Vitality vs DBL (2 french teams) BIG vs coL (big rivalry between the two) G2 vs FaZe (NiKo and karrigan vs ex-team and this shit has been going on for half a year now) like if yu believe this has anything to do with seeding you're dumb, they just made the best possible matchups to get the most ammount of viewers

2021-05-01 12:31

you are fucking stupid

2021-05-01 12:42

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another retard who believes seeding >>>>>>> viewers literally nobody knows other than the organizers how the teams get matched up so they can just go "uhhh BIG and coL are playing each other for the 1000th time because... seeding!"

2021-05-01 13:07

Lol u dont kno shi Seeding tor this event: #1 2020 rmr vs #5 qualifier #2 2020 rmr vs #4 qualifier ... #4 2020 rmr vs #2 qualifier (BIG vs Complexity) Other torunaments seeding are based on rankings and you can easly see it

2021-05-01 13:36

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"you can easly see it" ok where

2021-05-01 13:38

Most of them are based on hltv ranking 1 u open ranking 2 u look at matchups Here u go

2021-05-01 13:42

Seeding based on RMR 2021 ranking, you can see it on liquipedia

braindead

2021-05-02 01:41

gambit flair

2021-05-02 20:00

Lol...fpx vs ex-north while ast vs og and g2 vs faze. Is it a bug or fpx very lucky? 0/8 mens

2021-05-01 12:30

zehn magic

2021-05-01 12:50

EZ FOR ANONYMO

g2 only play vs mouse and faze lmao

2021-05-01 12:34

The new classic like Vitality vs Nip

2021-05-01 12:56

snax gonna destroy baitvice

2021-05-01 12:36

ez4devve

2021-05-01 12:37

sprout bullied mens(

snax vs device POG

Ofc vs heroic 🙄🙄 and dbl get the easier opponent even though they got the last spot.

2021-05-01 12:43

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>zywoo >easier opponent

Zywoo is Not on point at the Moment and heroic is harder Then vitality

2021-05-01 16:09

look heroic at the moment

2021-05-02 22:14

heroic so good they managed to beat tier1 pain tier1 BIG and tier1 ALL TIME astralis wake me up when they beat a decent team

2021-05-02 22:16

what is a decent team for you ?

2021-05-02 22:19

idk tbh the only other good team rn is gambit and maybe navi with time as b1t gets more comfortable in the squad rest are terrible so either those 2 are too advanced or others have really dropped off and have to consider some changes

2021-05-02 22:22

final again heroic vs gambit ?

2021-05-02 22:23

probably yeah

what

2021-05-01 15:15

Why do I have to watch Faze vs G2 every other day?????????

Because we want to see broky outawp ChoKo

2021-05-01 13:15

FNATIC LETAS GO!

2021-05-01 12:44

wtf is north doing there xd

2021-05-01 12:47

Best matchups to watch: Astralis vs OG BiG vs CoL FaZe vs G2

2021-05-01 12:48

Damnn dbl vs vitality, if only nbk can participate

2021-05-01 12:49

Wait why can't he?

2021-05-02 13:40

Still under contract with OG

2021-05-02 15:13

Oh i thought he would be able to play but just not against og

2021-05-03 12:59

I believe so in other events, but this one is rmr

2021-05-03 14:00

interesting matchups but pretty unbalanced. Nip gets ez teams while teams like OG, G2 have got tough teams ahead. Also 5 upperbracket wins to get the trophy? Too long imo

NIP have no chance vs GOD KEi

2021-05-01 12:54

FPX vs ex-north lmao

2021-05-01 13:08

snax and co right on ! GL guys finally Polish squadron plays with big boys. GL to all the teams

2021-05-01 12:52

Every matchup has to prove something, great openings matchup

poland flag is here pog

2021-05-01 12:55

Kinda curious bout ex-north

2021-05-01 12:59

ez4Faze

2021-05-01 13:03

2021-05-01 13:11

2021-05-01 13:12

Ez 4 Ex-North

Revenge))

2021-05-01 13:16

gambit where

2021-05-01 13:17

Epic CIS League, the RMR event for CIS

2021-05-01 13:26

damn.such a bummer for gambit.Flashpoint has good prizepool.They are forced to miss out on it :(

2021-05-03 19:30

Wym flashpoints' prize pool isn't even announced yet

2021-05-03 19:41

The first 2 flashpoints had a million prizepool.Even if they cut down the prizepool massively, it'd still beat the measly 40,000$ prizepool.

2021-05-03 20:42

you've got to consider that this is not an actual Flashpoint as only 1 of their partner teams are participating, and also Gambit could've decided to join EU's RMR circuit instead of CIS', but they didn't, probably because if they suddenly became bad or something they would still easily qualify from CIS, which they most likely wouldn't manage to do in EU

2021-05-03 21:07

Let's see how it affects their prizepool. Seems like Gambit is playing safe for the major spot.Can't blame them i guess.

2021-05-03 21:19

in all previous rmrs the prize pool was around 2.5x bigger for eu than for cis, so i doubt that prize pool for this one will exceed 150k

2021-05-03 21:21

Lets go Anonymo

2021-05-01 13:25

LET'S GO NIPPPPP EZ 4 CUCKVICE #WENTTOSWEDENTOSTOPGETTINGCUCKED

2021-05-01 13:27

FPX gets a free win

2021-05-01 13:39

ez for TBA, beast from ex-North

2021-05-01 13:45

reality check for fevice

2021-05-01 13:54

Tfw there were 2 flashooints before

2021-05-01 14:00

2021-05-01 14:14

amazing game

2021-05-01 14:37

Why is NaVi never in Flashpoint?

2021-05-01 14:20

It’s the EU rmr

2021-05-01 14:28

and as we know ukraine is in africa

2021-05-01 14:43

It’s CS so CIS Has it’s own

2021-05-01 14:51

okay einstein

2021-05-01 14:52

ahh, that makes sense then. thanks

2021-05-01 15:33

flaspoint major inc

2021-05-01 14:32

flashpoint > esl

So unlucky for NBK... wow

2021-05-01 15:24

Derby for a starter, should be interesting. If KCORP recruits DBL PONEY in the meantime it will be huge

2021-05-01 15:28

Ez 4 DBl x KC

2021-05-01 15:38

g2 vs faze again, let's see who will be better. hunter or niko

2021-05-01 15:46

I don't understand how NBK was even allowed to play the qualifiers for DBL PONEY when under contract with another team. Makes zero sense. Update your rules.

2021-05-01 16:07