ESL National Championship Global Playoffs Spring 2021

LDLC win ENC Global Playoffs Spring to qualify for IEM Cologne Play-in; Sprout advance to IEM Summer

30-5-2021 22:52

The French team made the choice to participate in the Cologne precursor as opposed to IEM Summer.

LDLC have qualified for the IEM Cologne Play-in after taking down Sprout 3-1 in the ESL National Championship Global Spring Playoffs, which also had a place at IEM Summer up for grabs. The French side had the option to participate in either event after Timo "⁠Spiidi⁠" Richter & company’s had already qualified for the German tournament with their win in ESL Meisterschaft Spring earlier in May, with Ali "⁠hAdji⁠" Haïnouss's side choosing the Cologne Play-in.

As a result of their second-place finish in the National Championship Global Playoffs and a confirmed spot in IEM Cologne Play-in, Sprout will progress to the $250,000 IEM Summer, which will commence on June 3.

hAdji's consistency and Keoz's impact got LDLC over the line

The best-of-five contest saw LDLC get off to a flying start in the series by locking down Inferno 16-13 before turning around a 10-14 deficit on Dust2, winning in double overtime (20-22) thanks to a 1.42-rated performance from Nicolas "⁠Keoz⁠" Dgus.

Sprout replied with a monstrous 13-2 start on Nuke and went on to close out their first map victory 16-10 after an attempted comeback from their opponents, but the Germans lost out on Mirage (19-16) following yet another standout showing from Keoz.

ESL National Championship Global Playoffs Spring 2021Best of 5

Sprout

Matchpage

30th May 2021

LDLC

Inferno

Dust2

Nuke

Mirage

Sprout	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Denis 'denis' Howell denis	107 - 88	+19	87.0	75.8%	1.19
Marko 'kressy' Đorđević kressy	93 - 84	+9	78.6	73.5%	1.09
Timo 'Spiidi' Richter Spiidi	79 - 82	-3	69.5	69.7%	0.97
Josef 'faveN' Baumann faveN	79 - 91	-12	69.9	66.7%	0.96
Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich slaxz-	82 - 90	-8	64.2	70.5%	0.95

LDLC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus Keoz	103 - 91	+12	86.2	68.2%	1.21
Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss hAdji	100 - 86	+14	77.2	73.5%	1.15
Bryan 'Maka' Canda Maka	96 - 81	+15	74.5	68.9%	1.12
Christophe 'SIXER' Xia SIXER	75 - 88	-13	65.9	68.9%	0.92
Lambert 'Lambert' Prigent Lambert	58 - 96	-38	53.0	62.1%	0.73

The IEM Summer 2021 participants' list is now complete as all 16 teams have been confirmed. Running from June 3-13, the $250,000 event will feature two double-elimination groups leading into a best-of-three, single-elimination playoff bracket. The group breakdown can be found below:

Group A

Group B

Meanwhile, LDLC are the 10th confirmed team at the IEM Cologne Play-in scheduled for July 6-7, with the final six spots set to go to invited sides based on the ESL World Ranking. The two-day tournament will have eight places at the $972,000 main event available, which will take place from July 8-18. The IEM Cologne Play-in team list currently looks as follows:

ESL World Ranking

ESL World Ranking

Sixer beast, absolutely love this guy!

2021-05-30 22:53

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SmithZz better

HOW U FAST

2021-05-30 22:54

Nice

2021-05-30 22:52

LDLC finally doing something! enjoy last place!

cool

trash tournament, spirit is qualified to both iem event with a loose

GG ! Good to see french teams doing well behind vitality

Lambert 'Lambert' Prigent 58 - 96 -38 53.0 0.73

2021-05-30 22:57

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The breton HUNDEN

2021-05-30 23:50

@Voltix This is not entirely correct. Sprout already has a cologne spot, so the outcome would’ve been the same if LDLC lost, the players had no Choice

ldlc too scared to go to the better tournament? beacuse they are not going through play in

2021-05-30 23:00

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IEM Cologne Play-in is on LAN, and it's a huge tournament. They will go through play-in, there are a lot of weak teams there and half of the teams go through the play-ins to IEM Cologne. IEM Summer on the other hand is a forgettable tournament where they will face gambit in the upper -bracket. The choice was too easy honestly

2021-05-30 23:02

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Not really, you are lower tier team and you'll play vs teams that wanna qualify through play-in. And the tournament play less then IEM SUMMER and you will play on the major stage at the summer, where teams usually plays soft, cause its summer and the tournament pays you better! Just my opinion, and I think for the org LDLC would be better playing IEM SUMMER

2021-05-30 23:06

But they will meet device in person at Cologne with NiP play-in and complexity, EG, Spirit. It will be a good experience on lan for LDLC and they can prepare for this event.

2021-05-30 23:42

oh it´s lan? oh i didn´t know, in that case i understand

They had no choice, the article is misleading. Sprout is already qualified for cologne so LDLC would’ve gotten the cologne invite in any case and sprout would’ve gotten the IEM summer invite in any case This bo5 did not matter

2021-05-30 23:45

too ez for LDLC <3

2021-05-30 23:01

Why do they have an option to qualify for two tournaments?

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So you have choice!

2021-05-30 23:09

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#24

2021-05-30 23:44

But Sprout were already qualified for Cologne so ldlc probably didn't even had a choice

Normally there would be a choice

2021-05-31 00:00

Yeah but I think that ESL decided which Team will get which spot even before the final. IT think that denis wrote that in twitter and Sprout even said after the match against EC Brugge that they are qualified for IEM Summer so the final was absolutely useless

2021-05-31 07:46

my head is spinning tbh why would they have a qualifier for a certain tournament when another team qualified for it

2021-05-31 00:31

That’s just an exception I think cuz sprout got invited or something like that

2021-05-31 00:39

sprout acting like they're some tier 1 team using qualifiers as scrimms

2021-05-31 00:45

So Sprout qualified for Cologne because the winner from the german Meisterschaft gets a spot in the Cologne play-in and also an plays in the global spring tournament for either a spot for Cologne or IEM Summer. But because Sprout already qualified for Cologne esl (or someone else) decided even before the final which team will get which spot. So it was absolutely meaningless who will win the final because the players had no choice to decide and in the end they played for like 20 points

2021-05-31 07:55

Thx for the explaination mesns

2021-05-31 08:43

Np mens))

2021-05-31 13:44

Is Lambert playing for LDLC?

2021-05-30 23:04

Lmao Sprout were already qualified for cologne playins so there match was completely meaningless

2021-05-30 23:28

Yup Article is a bit misleading

So fucking unfair, wether LDLC were to lose, they only get to play in 1 event while sprout regardless of winning or losing, already has one event qualifed for, right here sprout won out of the 2. They can play moe events and for these teams IEM summer seems more better to chose because you start in the main event, not the playins

2021-05-31 01:24

But IEM summer "only" have 250k$ of prize pool whereas Cologne Play-In give the oppotunity (8 places on 16 team in the tournament) to play a 972k$ event

2021-05-31 14:09