MIBR, Monte qualify for ESL Pro League Season 18

27-3-2023 15:52

The Brazilian and Ukrainian rosters won their respective ESL Challenger League finals to secure berths to the 32-team LAN event.

MIBR and Monte earned spots at ESL Pro League Season 18 after reigning supreme in the North American and European ESL Challenger League Season 44 grand finals, respectively.

ESL Pro League Season 18, which will run from August 30-October 1, will once again feature a 32-team setup and be held in the Mediterranean island nation of Malta.

HEN1 led his team to an EPL berth over ATK with a server-high 1.32 rating

MIBR's run to a first-place showing began with a relatively straightforward run through ESL Challenger League Season 44's group stage. The Brazilians finished atop Group A with a 6-1 record — their only loss being a forfeit loss to Mythic as a result of the Brazilians traveling to Malta for ESL Pro League Season 17.

Raphael "⁠exit⁠" Lacerda and company's breezed through the playoffs once back stateside, with the Brazilian troupe picking up comfortable 2-0 victories over DETONATE, Nouns, and ATK en route to a spot in the best-of-five grand final, where they benefited from a one-map advantage thanks to coming from the upper bracket.

From there, it was a case of repeating their upper bracket final win over Gareth "⁠MisteM⁠" Ries' troops, clinching victory after hard-fought displays on Vertigo (19-16) and Inferno (16-14) to punch their ticket to ESL Pro League Season 18.

The victory sees MIBR return to ESL's flagship league after also qualifying for the recently-concluded ESL Pro League Season 17. The Brazilians were dealt a rough hand during their time in Malta, earning a win over IHC but also suffering defeats to G2 and fnatic to be sent down to the last chance stage, where they were eventually sent packing from the event in 21-28th place following a 0-2 defeat to Eternal Fire.

ESL Challenger League Season 44 North AmericaBest of 5

MIBR

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27th March 2023

ATK

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Vertigo

Inferno

As for Monte, the Ukrainian-majority outfit had to make a run through the lower bracket to secure their appearance at the Maltese LAN event, initially being sent down to early exit territory in the double-elimination bracket after losing to 9INE in the upper bracket quarter-final.

Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev and co. stabilized from this point on, however, recording mostly composed victories over the likes of 1win, FORZE, SAW in their sprint to the grand final, where they ultimately enjoyed revenge over 9INE, 3-1 (Anubis 16-11, Nuke 16-7, Ancient 16-9), despite coming into the brawl with a one-map disadvantage to qualify for ESL Pro League Season 18.

ESL Challenger League Season 44 EuropeBest of 5

9INE

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26th March 2023

Monte

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Anubis

Nuke

Ancient

The current team list for ESL Pro League Season 18 is:

ESL World Ranking

ESL Melbourne

ECL S45 Asia-Pacific

Europe qualifier

Brazil Premier League

South America qualifier

ESL World Ranking

ESL Hannover

ECL S45 Europe

ECL S45 NA

Europe qualifier

ESL ANZ Champs

Oceania qualifier

wasted

2023-03-27 15:53

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-1

2023-03-27 15:54

MIBR top 1

2 replies

MIBR is the most fraud team I have seen in my whole life, this team their whole tenure has qualified into main events by taking on pugs team of NA then they go out of the competition first when their is time to perform actually, they after repeated chances and being together for so long with so much funding has not improved and should disband

2023-03-27 16:38

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mad because Col has lost more games against MIBR than won lol, NA doesnt deserve any spots anymore, their top teams cant even beat Pain.

2023-03-27 23:36

respect mibr

2023-03-27 16:49

2023-03-27 16:54

Finally we got a Ukrainian team that participates on T1 tournaments and crushes T2 scene since the prime Flipside and HR. VAMOOO MONTEEE

2023-03-27 15:57

11 replies

so by your logic navi is not a ukrainian team?

2023-03-27 16:05

just for a few more weeks

2023-03-27 16:08

they have 2 russians lol

2023-03-28 11:11

navi 3 ukrainian players monte 3 ukrainian players

2023-03-27 16:10

navi: 1 ukrainian is actually important for the team monte: 2 ukrainians are actually important for the team

2023-03-27 16:17

5 replies

And all 3 of them are former cheaters 😹

2023-03-27 18:25

The 1 important ukrainian in NaVi is the only important player in the team over all tho

2023-03-27 22:12

3 replies

don't think so, perfecto is putting so much impact by playing very stable cs elec brings confidence to the team, because if not him, no one will, s1mple is more likely to blame

2023-03-28 08:17

flag checks out 0/8

2023-03-28 13:51

doesnt matter, i dont like the fact that they stay in such hypocritical organization, but, that they bring to the team is beyond any doubt. If u kick them and take any 2 ukrainians, even with s1, it would be top 30 team

2023-03-28 14:39

Carried by Jordan

2023-03-28 14:06

I´ve never played this map "default".

2023-03-27 15:55

It’s wingman map

2023-03-27 15:56

bait? but anyway I will take the bait and tell you. its 1 map advantage for MIBR because they came from the Upper Bracket while ATK had to fight through Lower Bracket

2023-03-27 16:30

New CS2 map

2023-03-27 17:07

Ez for sdy

monte lan dodgers they said

4 replies

Pin this Monte will go out 1-3 if their group has any brazilian, australian, asian or NA team besides furia and liquid. Maybe 2-3 if there are more than 1 team from these scenes

2023-03-27 22:37

i mean i dont even think they are that good in the first place i was pretty surprise they beat 9 to qualify but my point is being they get accused of lan dodgers yet they qualify for events

2023-03-28 09:19

they arent lan dodgers, they are shaddy onliners

2023-03-28 13:01

+1 to that i hate woro

2023-03-28 13:06

Monte let’s goo

Assume this will be run on CS2?

2023-03-27 15:58

2x BIG? xD

Why is BIG qualified 2 times? Did they win 2 qualifications?

2023-03-27 16:06

7 replies

where does it say 2x big?

2023-03-27 16:11

Oh they fixed it

2023-03-27 16:24

was it the ESL Hannover spot?

2023-03-27 16:42

Nope, it was something else

2023-03-27 17:04

ok thx

2023-03-27 19:35

They are just that talented. EDIT: Fixed.

2023-03-27 16:15

Oh :D, ok, ty

ez montenegro

Wtf. No mention of the Asian LAN dodgers Lynn Vision finally qualifying for a LAN for the first time in a while??? Hltv is fkn racist

2023-03-27 16:09

Lynn Vision and Monte on LAN omegalul

That's what people said when IHC first showed up. Don't underestimate these Asians teams, they don't have good teamplay but they have insane aim

2023-03-27 17:27

lets see monte on lan👀

No C9?

woro on lan kekw

2023-03-27 16:18

Last time he cockblocked OG from Stockholm

flameZ did that by going 9-23 in the decider

2023-03-27 18:21

2023-03-27 16:21

Not mentioning APAC is a crime.

2023-03-27 16:23

Robbed

2023-03-27 16:25

Lynn Vision finally qualifies for a LAN and HLTV does not even mention it. Whoever wrote this article does not know how to create a story line.

2023-03-27 16:27

let's gooo, waiting for Monte ONLAN

2023-03-27 16:34

Called monte most promising team while ago and here we go. They will hit upper tier reality now, let's see if they handle it or if they disband. I think they have still potential to improve... btw: sdy > npl

2023-03-27 16:36

ez4mibr

2023-03-27 16:37

Monte on LAN KEKW

Let's see monte on lan

boros and krasnal on lan yay i wonder how lan dodgers woro2k and demqq will do

2023-03-27 16:50

"lan dodger" hltv.org/matches/2351841/og-vs-mad-lions..

2023-03-27 16:56

almost 2 years ago btw

2023-03-27 16:57

Respect Monte - 128 maps in less than 3 months!

HEN1 farming stats against tier 10 omegalul

2023-03-27 17:08

Holy shit, potential for 6 BR teams if paiN qualify by the ESL rankings

2023-03-27 17:10

does 9ine still have chance for esl pro league? edit: nvm just read again

2023-03-27 17:24

32 teams and so many chances to qualify makes EPL not so important tournament anymore

2023-03-27 21:55

Monte vs NaVi, I wanna see

2023-03-27 17:43

lets go monte

2023-03-27 17:56

sdy already more finals won than s0mple this year xD

2023-03-27 18:11

Monte will teach them how to play csgo

2023-03-27 19:07

Nice mibr

2023-03-27 21:10

I love the concept of ESL and what they do with the ESEA online league but something has to be done about the format of ESL (the feeling was great this season but the way they do the group format is atrocious) and the amount of ESEA seasons. MIBR just played in ESL Pro League Finals 17 and then just re-qualified for ESEA Pro League Finals 18 by winning ESEA Challenger League Season 44. Something that they will need to continue to win over and over and over again unless they become a partner team. Gotta be exhausting but I guess the one positive about ESL Challenger league is they just need all their matches completed by the end of the season. It isn't a weekly. We talk about how much ESEA Pro League Finals takes up in the t1 schedule, but ESEA online league is a huge commitment as well as you can't really take seasons off (unless you win say the first of the two ESEA Challenger seasons that are qualifiers into Pro League). If ESL is going to continue with this length of events, it would be nice to see them bump up the total team pool a couple more slots and give "league cards" out to teams who consistently qualify this type of event (like V.P) but aren't partnered teams. If you don't get out of group play you lose your league card and go back to needing to qualify or something. Idk I just hope we get to a point where if a team can prove themselves good enough, they can earn something to relax their schedule a bit in terms of qualifiers.

2023-03-27 23:14

i am thrilled that sdy's gonna get his revenge

2023-03-27 23:18

br bros stop beating us and taking our qualifier spots. I know we are shitty but I legitimately am starting to hate brazilian teams for taking our only spot to get lan experience

2023-03-27 23:52