ESL Challenger Anaheim 2022 North America Closed Qualifier

Extra Salt qualify for ESL Challenger Anaheim

13-12-2021 06:13

DreamHack will return to LAN in North America in 2022.

Extra Salt have topped the North American closed qualifier for ESL Challenger Anaheim 2022 after defeating paiN 2-1 in the grand final. Facing only Brazilian opposition, Extra Salt swept the four-team qualifier without dropping a series, only losing a single map to paiN in the final match.

Extra Salt are the third team to confirm a spot at the first ESL Challenger event, which is a rebranding of DreamHack Open, a series that is finally returning to LAN in 2022. 9z and ORDER already booked their spots via the South America and Oceania qualifiers, respectively, while a fourth team will be determined on Monday following the conclusion of the Europe qualifier.

Extra Salt will have a chance to prove themselves on LAN

Despite an early lead on the CT side of Nuke, Extra Salt faltered against the T side of paiN and only secured an 8-7 lead at halftime. The North American side were unable to replicate the success of the Brazilians' offense after the side swap, and ultimately conceded the first map 13-16.

Extra Salt's pick of Overpass was a completely different story however, as Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou called an impressive offensive half, leading 10-5. Despite a huge under-performance from star Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm, the North American side pulled through in the second half with the help of a strong defense from Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery and Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado.

Vertigo was quite back and forth, seeing paiN scrappily secure six rounds on their T side. Extra Salt were able to easily secure a 15-8 lead and looked to finish out the series, but the Brazilian side weren't out and grinded their way back to 15-15 and secured overtime. Despite the choke in regulation, Extra Salt snuck by in OT, rallying back to secure the third map 19-17 despite a monstrous performance Rafael "⁠saffee⁠" Costa.

ESL Challenger Anaheim 2022 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3

Extra Salt

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13th December 2021

paiN

Nuke

Overpass

Vertigo

Extra Salt	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Justin 'FaNg' Coakley FaNg	76 - 63	+13	82.5	64.8%	1.21
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado MarKE	66 - 55	+11	75.2	75.8%	1.15
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou JT	61 - 64	-3	77.1	74.7%	1.11
Ricky 'floppy' Kemery floppy	57 - 55	+2	72.3	70.3%	0.98
Josh 'oSee' Ohm oSee	51 - 60	-9	68.1	59.3%	0.93

paiN	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Rafael 'saffee' Costa saffee	80 - 59	+21	81.9	69.2%	1.19
Gabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato NEKIZ	67 - 68	-1	86.0	70.3%	1.07
Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt biguzera	59 - 63	-4	71.0	68.1%	1.01
Wesley 'hardzao' Lopes hardzao	51 - 59	-8	59.9	71.4%	0.88
Vinicios 'PKL' Coelho PKL	39 - 62	-23	59.4	63.7%	0.80

Here is the current team list for ESL Challenger Anaheim:

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EZ for NA

2021-12-13 06:13

10 replies

esl challenged in the case of extra salt

2021-12-13 06:24

ez 4 1 canadian 2 americans 1 mexican 2 africans

2021-12-13 07:04

2 replies

Canada, USA, Mexico = NA

2021-12-13 12:27

1 reply

Welcome to CS

2021-12-13 18:01

if osee is gone then floppy would hard carry while junior gets use to JT's system

2021-12-13 07:27

5 replies

floppy hard carry? his performance has been sub par since coming back. let alone carry the team

2021-12-13 09:59

4 replies

im not saying he is im saying he needs to if they ever gonna stay on this level

2021-12-13 10:50

If 1.20 is subpar then s1mple is slightly above average

2021-12-13 14:26

look at all the matches he has played since returning.how many times was he the top of his team? he is usually mid to bottom of team.sub par.

2021-12-13 20:25

he has the 2nd best rating in the team after oSee

2021-12-14 02:37

Nice

lets gooooo

they are going to be stomped by 9z

2021-12-13 06:16

21 replies

lmao tier 5 team 9z their only achievement is two bad maps from Vitality

2021-12-13 06:17

6 replies

still better than NA lmao

2021-12-13 06:18

hltv.org/matches/2351980/liquid-vs-9z-bl.. Wasn't even close...

hltv.org/matches/2352970/pain-vs-9z-flow.. xd

2021-12-13 07:13

Grand Slam core vs 1 time playing against EU teams lol

2021-12-13 13:12

exactly

2021-12-13 13:42

I mean, 9z prolly wins against almost every other team in NA, that's what i meant, thinking about 9z winning against Liquid was bananas, but Liquid by themselves are not NA as a whole region. They have played more in EU than in NA so... they do not play like teams from NA. If you group every team playing in NA rn, 9z prolly will beat 70% of those teams, maybe 80%, but obv Liquid is not one of those teams.

2021-12-13 15:24

+1 it's crazy how NA struggles against pain imagine even worse BR teams like Keyd lol

2021-12-13 06:43

11 replies

pain is second best BR team...

they improved in NA? yes are they actually good in SA? nope people seems to forget pain is no.2 because of the esea farm they do in NA

2021-12-13 20:18

so delusional bookmarked lmao

2021-12-14 02:39

3 replies

delusional is NA replying to this, NA biggest achievement this year was beating pain LMAOOOOO

2021-12-14 02:44

what is 9z biggest achievement? They never beat an NA team at least since 2019 (I have not checked that far) they only upset vitality 2-1 but got clapped the next day Extra salt quickest 2-0 vs 9z lmao

2021-12-14 02:50

NA biggest struggle actually*: hltv.org/matches/2352970/pain-vs-9z-flow.. bookmarking this "ES 2-0 vs 9z" lol

2021-12-14 03:50

this makes 0 sense

2021-12-13 18:45

#71

no no no re read what you wrote "imagine even worse BR teams" how would ES struggle against teams worse than paiN?

2021-12-13 21:15

pain is not even good in SA they when to NA for ez farm on hltv ranking if ES struggle that much against pain i can't imagine against a decent/worse BR team lol

2021-12-13 21:40

hltv.org/matches/2353730/extra-salt-vs-p..

2021-12-14 02:54

Trollololololololol

2021-12-13 07:09

overrated team

2021-12-13 08:37

So easy

Too bad for saffee, Furia should really pick him.

junior better

2021-12-13 06:42

Junior could go to ES if oSee went to Liquid, We know Junior not succeed in Furia because langue barrier, no need to force It anymore.

2021-12-13 06:49

Only in your dreams

2021-12-13 14:57

almost choked, glad they didn't lets go godSee!

kick bot osee pls

2021-12-13 06:22

I know you're baiting but jeez this is low tier. Anyone with half a brain would disagree, unless it's so he can go to liquid

2021-12-14 02:46

Easiest game ever for Fang Gang

2021-12-13 06:28

fuckin deserves it!

I wonder who ES will pick up with -oSee coming up in the foreseeable future. +Junior?

i know a guy who knows a guy who says that grim will reunited with junior on extra salt this is trust me bro source though so not confirmed at all

2021-12-13 07:03

Bro confirmed > Hltv Confirmed

2021-12-13 09:23

LETS GO SALTERS

2021-12-13 06:46

osee tanking stats to stay on ES

osee pls dont leave. liquid will mess your career up

2021-12-13 06:58

Like EG won't lol.

2021-12-13 11:00

he shouldve left with floppy onto cloud9, it was a perfect opportunity. Now its too late

2021-12-13 13:32

They won a final????

2021-12-13 07:16

That was trash final. From 13:6 to 15:15. Very strange eco round but funny game :D

2021-12-13 09:38

They won and oSee didn’t pop off

2021-12-13 07:38

lekker man lekker

First Dutch, second Afrikaans ;)

2021-12-13 11:46

NOONE CARS

2021-12-13 07:51

about you

2021-12-14 11:18

SEZ YOU

2021-12-14 13:34

excited for Osee's future

2021-12-13 08:08

NA CS LUL

2021-12-13 08:20

Let’s go extra salt great for na hopefully they get one more na team!

2021-12-13 09:11

Free Saffee

2021-12-13 09:36

Free saffee

2021-12-13 13:46

oSee -9 against Saffee and he supposed to rescue Liquid??

2021-12-13 09:47

Osee bottom fragging and Pain still lost ? CmonBruh

2021-12-13 10:09

Nice, deserved

2021-12-13 11:58

So this new "esl challenger" is like the old "DH open" right?

2021-12-13 12:39

Pkl GARBAGE SO BAD

2021-12-13 13:45

plk good rapper man ))

2021-12-13 16:09

Hahaha

2021-12-13 17:02

saffee "alone in the dark"

2021-12-13 13:47

This game only proves that saffee > oSee

2021-12-13 14:58

saffee > oSee and saffee > fallen with awp

2021-12-13 17:03

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Delusional Brazilians.

2021-12-13 23:41

They have the same rating while oSee has teammates and saffee literally carry 4 bots every match

2021-12-14 01:24

Saffee showing no signs of slowing down is really nice to see, I have high hopes for Furia next year

2021-12-13 16:27

Can’t wait till this ESEA Premier season ends and FURIA finally signs him

2021-12-13 17:11

Deserved

2021-12-13 17:12

Flopper Gang

2021-12-14 15:57

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