ESEA Premier Season 39 reaches playoffs

9-12-2021 15:51

The regular season of ESEA Premier for Europe and North America has come to an end and the playoffs brackets are now set.

Eight teams from each region have reached the playoffs and will now fight for the lion's share of $50,000 and one spot in ESL Pro League Season 16 Conference. 18 teams were divided into two groups for each event, with the top four-placed teams moving up to the playoffs bracket.

The bottom-placed team from each group was immediately relegated to ESEA Advanced Season 40 while the 6-8th placed teams will fight in Relegation against the best teams from Advanced Season 39 later this December.

NickelBack led Entropiq to the top of Group A

Entropiq came into the event as the second highest-ranked team, topping Group A with six wins alongside GamerLegion and Finest. SINNERS rounded up the four teams going into the next stage, leaving behind DBL PONEY and the Polish representatives of AGO, Wisla Krakow and Anonymo. The new-look FORZE only managed to steal one win on their way to securing relegation to ESEA Advanced S40.

Group B meanwhile gave us a few more surprises. The Russians of 1win were ranked #32 on the eve of the event but topped the group with only two losses to their name. Joining them were Sprout, Copenhagen Flames and BLINK. Most shocking was Movistar Riders's failure to secure a playoffs berth after being ranked the second-highest in their group.

Eternal Fire had previously taken the spot of Sangal but did not compete after being unable to field an eligible roster for their matches.

Group A

TEAM

Group B

TEAM

The playoffs of ESEA Premier season 39 will be played using a BO3, double-elimination bracket:

Entropiq vs BLINK
Finest vs Sprout
GamerLegion vs Copenhagen Flames
SINNERS vs 1win

As the highest-ranked teams at the event Copenhagen Flames, Entropiq, and SINNERS are favorites to go deep into the bracket but nothing is set in stone. 1win and Finest have already proved their upset potential and thus cannot be counted out of the race.

PKL's painN topped North America's Group A

The North American branch saw two squads rise above the rest as paiN and Extra Salt went undefeated through the group stages, topping their respective groups with a flawless record.

The Brazilians from Group A were joined in the playoffs by Triumph, Bad News Bears, and ChocoCheck as all three North American teams finished the group stage with six wins each.

Group B gave us a clearer hierarchy. TeamOne finished in second place, only counting a loss to Extra Salt while Party Astronauts only suffered defeats against the top placed teams, finishing in third place well ahead of RBG.

Group A

TEAM

Group B

TEAM

In a similar fashion to Europe, The North American playoffs will utilize BO3 games across a double-elimination bracket.

paiN vs RBG
ChocoCheck vs TeamOne
Triumph vs Party Astronauts
Bad News Bears vs Extra Salt

As the two most dominant squads across the group stages and the highest-ranked teams at the start of the event, one can expect paiN and Extra Salt to fight for the top spot ahead of the rest of the field.

Ez4Tarik

2021-12-09 15:51

1 reply

He playing ?

2021-12-09 16:09

nice!

2021-12-09 15:52

2021-12-09 15:53

EZ4RIDERS oh... wait...

2021-12-09 15:54

17 replies

no Smooya and you lose to even SAW kkkkkk

2021-12-09 15:55

16 replies

Yes but major and pro league KKKKKK

2021-12-09 16:52

15 replies

not worth anything , Fnatic with Smooya already winner of 2 T2 events this year in a short period of time while Riders won nothing.

2021-12-09 17:02

14 replies

But fnatic not in major is an epic fail. And maybe they are in pro-league because they are partner...not by they own merits...

2021-12-09 17:44

13 replies

they werent in Major because they didnt even play with this roster before it , lol . And they have been performing miles better than MR against T2 opponents as well as T1, gave a tough fight to Gambit too. Ranked higher than MR too atm.

2021-12-09 17:50

12 replies

Love yourself and stfu, you havent watch even a riders match, this riders is the best one ever

2021-12-09 18:35

3 replies

lmao keep malding with this shitty results of your subpar team. Only reason why Riders became relevant in first place was because of Smooya hard carrying them in every game and he gets treated by getting kicked and disrespected by the fans of the teams. Luckily he found a place in a team with individuals as good as him and ones who actually play T1 tournaments , unlike MR who cant even make into ESEA Premier Playoffs.

2021-12-09 18:59

2 replies

Do you know that he is or was toxic in each team he is/was? He did a rage quit in a match... He had seriously problems with Steel. MR reached its highest rank without Smooya. And Smooya is tier one player (top 5 awpers).

2021-12-09 20:24

People change man, Smooya himself said he was toxic but he knows better now. And Smooya claimed that Mopoz had a pretty bad work ethic in which he didn't like to improve which he didn't like. It's just one guy's word over another.

2021-12-09 20:44

you're comparing fnatic to riders, that's a good sign for us kkkk

2021-12-09 18:45

7 replies

no , i am comparing two teams who have a common player . One which didnt appreciate his efforts and the other who has talented individuals to support him this time. I am happy to see Smooya got out of this team when h did.

2021-12-09 19:00

6 replies

Riders bench smooya to build a spanish roster (for fans, sponsors etc...) not cose smooya was bad or toxic, I'm happy he found another team and doing well but the true is: riders +smooya = nothing riders - smooya = Major and Pro League and the riders let smooya sign for free to fnatic, so please be more respectful

2021-12-09 21:25

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riders easy to communicate, so smooya and other eu was the problem

2021-12-10 01:48

I can't be respectful when most of the Spanish fans and fans of MR weren't respectful to Smooya when MR let him go with statements of "toxic player gone" while ignoring the fact that he was the only good guy in the team and won them the games.

2021-12-10 02:55

Well, smooya leaves the server before the match ended so maybe he is still toxic And as part of the spanish fans i can tell that you are wrong about us, we love smooya

2021-12-10 11:21

no , most of you dont. I witnessed all the hate here expressed by the Spanish fans towards when new MR lineup got announced.

2021-12-10 11:25

You are wrong my friend, i know more of the spanish community than you

2021-12-10 14:03

Ldlc are lucky. If EE didn’t get disqualified, French would be last

Funny deer team wins premier playoffs

2021-12-09 15:57

we need small fantasy leagues that don't offer prize pools for these events, would definitely be a good way to learn that and have a little fun on the side.

2021-12-09 15:58

hold up, in ESEA website says that Movistar goes to playoffs, not BLINK

2021-12-09 16:02

edit.

2021-12-09 16:12

Eternal fire?? Wat happend:(

2021-12-09 16:08

it was sangal's spot. after disband they decide to give ef. but sadly esl doesnt allow spot transfer so ef couldnt play.

2021-12-09 16:13

Oh ok, yeah makes sense

2021-12-09 16:51

No no. 3 former members of Sangal must played 3 matches with EF. But former members dindn't play, because they didnt want...

2021-12-09 17:42

riders :(

EZ 4 SALTERS!

2021-12-09 16:30

LESGO FINEST! LESGO BLINK!

2021-12-09 16:49

"painN" hltv pls fix)) it paiNs me also eternal fire ended dead last in both regions LMAO nice superteam mens)) even NA >>>

2021-12-09 17:01

"Eternal Fire had previously taken the spot of Sangal but did not compete after being unable to field an eligible roster for their matches."

2021-12-09 17:27

the joke your head

2021-12-09 18:56

ESEA shit paltform!

2021-12-09 17:25

It's not though

2021-12-09 20:27

COMPARED TO FACITY YES)

2021-12-09 20:41

yeah, but the servers and the overall quality of service are better. Faceit just has a better matchmaking and a larger (by a mile) community.

2021-12-09 21:01

When will this be played?

2021-12-09 17:41

unlucky for BLINK

2021-12-09 18:44

Can someone explain me why Blink got past to playoffs when Riders won against them, and they both have the same points?

2021-12-09 19:01

it was a 3 way tie beetwen blink ,copenhagen flames and movistars and movistars had the worst round difference

2021-12-09 19:03

CF have the same points too, so map win/lose ratio decides: Riders 0 - CF 2 Riders 2 - Blink 1 CF 1 - Blink 2 So: CF 3-2 (+1) Blink 3-2 (+1) Riders 2-3 (-1)

2021-12-09 20:15