ENCE fill out IEM Winter list

19-10-2021 20:42

Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer's men are the last to qualify for the December event.

ENCE round out the list of teams attending IEM Winter 2021 after a flawless run in the lower bracket of the closed qualifiers. The European mix suffered a 1-2 defeat against FunPlus Phoenix but didn't drop a map afterward, winning three consecutive series to qualify for the main event.

The Snappi-led squad clinched the third spot on offer in the European closed qualifier, behind fnatic and MOUZ, who swept through the upper bracket and locked the first two spots at the European LAN, which is scheduled for December 2-12.

hades was the best performer for ENCE with a 1.22 rating over nine maps

After the disappointing loss to FunPlus Phoenix on the opening round, ENCE quickly swept Complexity 2-0 as European squad had only recently added Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli to their roster as a temporary stand-in following their decision to bench Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev.

On the second day of the event Snappi and co. made quick work of K23 on Overpass before closing the series on their own map pick of Nuke, completing the 2-0 sweep of the CIS squad.

The last game of the qualifiers saw ENCE get their rematch against FunPlus Phoenix, after the latter had dropped to the lower bracket on the previous day on the back of a loss to fnatic. ENCE took their opponents' map pick of Vertigo 16-12 thanks to the excellent performances of Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi and Paweł "⁠dycha⁠" Dycha.

Going into the second map Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk's men forced overtime on Dust2 after a last-minute comeback from 10-15 but were eventually unable to convert the map, losing 19-16 and conceding the last IEM Winter spot to ENCE.

The teams attending IEM Winter are:

Major waiting

2021-10-19 20:43

8 replies

Allu was the problem

2021-10-19 20:44

7 replies

unironically agree

2021-10-19 21:05

3 replies

no, he wasn't

2021-10-19 23:12

2 replies

-1

2021-10-20 05:47

1 reply

2021-10-20 12:57

allu ”two-faced” Toledo was such a sneaky snake that he went over to the opposing team to throw against his own (ex-)team, which he owns a 6,5% share of.

2021-10-19 22:02

false, i bought those 6.5% year ago

2021-10-19 23:11

Cringe + false

2021-10-20 02:19

EZ4ENCE

pog

ok but where is major stickers?????

tonight

How do you know that?

2021-10-19 21:10

nice

Major stickers please

deserved #EZ4ENCE

online event?

2021-10-19 20:45

the qualifier was*

2021-10-19 20:46

good job( sad for FPX, rlly like the team and its not rlly working out

I'm 100% sure emi is getting the boot, he was like the 3rd-4th choice for the IGL role, and he's best buddies with peca (GM of FPX who also got the boot), and that's probably why he got hired in the first place when the players knew they were getting bought out by FPX

2021-10-19 21:19

i kind of hope he is after that suicide on the last round

2021-10-19 21:24

Why not LaN

it's lan bro

2021-10-19 20:48

Trash Spirit

The last map was pretty hard to take so not so easy for ence in the end. Still, they did qualify.

2021-10-19 20:47

No navi?

No mens((

2021-10-19 20:56

Ez for dycha and hades

2021-10-19 20:59

It's funny how ENCE had to go to closed qualis, but there are teams that had direct invite even tho had lower ranking :D

2021-10-19 21:00

Not on ESL ranking

Yeah I know. At least at the moment ENCE looks like top 12 team and deserves to be invited to some tournaments directly.

2021-10-20 17:05

Finally a decent event!

noice!

2021-10-19 21:06

expected

2021-10-19 21:07

ez4ence

2021-10-19 22:05

I hope they instantly fail. they are so bad mannered, I dont want them or their style to represent the sport.

2021-10-19 22:59

What do you mean with bad manners? Doesn't make sense to me

2021-10-19 23:30

??? maybe because you are biased as a fin ...

2021-10-20 19:06

You could explain. I've never heard anyone call them bad mannered, or noticed anything like that :D

2021-10-20 20:03

Ez4ence

2021-10-20 00:47

Who comes up with these rubbish titles lmao I thought ence filled out some list like you fill a form

2021-10-20 05:55

where is navi?

2021-10-20 08:03

Probably taking a break to prepare for World Finals. Makes sense actually, since there's just a 2-day gap both before and after IEM Winter.

2021-10-20 13:00

Lets go bois!

2021-10-20 13:13

Well they didn't look as sharp as at IEM , but the invididuals were to much to handle for their opponets. There is some really interesting potential in this lineup. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. GGWP ENCE!

2021-10-20 16:37