ESL Pro League Season 18 South America Open Qualifier

9z qualify for ESL Pro League Season 18

13-7-2023 03:01

Only two more spots in the league are up for grabs before it kicks off on August 30.

dav1deuS stepped up in 9z's qualifying series

9z have secured qualification to ESL Pro League Season 18 through the South American open qualifier, defeating Meta, BESTIA, and 00NATION in the final three rounds of the bracket to earn their spot at the Maltese event.

The qualifier gave us a first look at some of the new Brazilian lineups formed during the off-season period, with 00NATION, Fluxo, and O PLANO all making it to the round of 16. All three teams were on the same side of the bracket, however, while 9z occupied the other side thanks to their No.1 seed.

Fluxo complete roster overhaul with zevy, PKL, t9rnay additions

The South American combine made it through their early matches with relative ease, only being tested by Meta before reaching the best-of-three semi-finals. There, 9z met BESTIA in a series that went the distance, with the teams taking 16-14 wins on each other's map picks before 9z barely took the Overpass decider over the line in overtime.

On the other side of the bracket, Fluxo succeeded in knocking out O PLANO in the round of 16, securing a 16-12 victory on Ancient to set up their own semi-final series against 00NATION, who had moved past Solid. It was Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David's side who emerged victorious from that bout, taking the series 2-0 to set up a grand final against 9z.

Despite only just scraping by BESTIA in their previous matchup, 9z looked much more in form against 00NATION, with David "⁠dav1deuS⁠" Tapia Maldonado in particular stepping up on Anubis to steal away 00NATION's map pick, 16-7. His strong form continued on 9z's pick of Ancient, where and Santino "⁠try⁠" Rigal helped their side claw back from a 6-9 deficit with a strong CT side, giving up just two rounds en route to a 16-11 victory.

ESL Pro League Season 18 South America Open QualifierBest of 3

00NATION

Matchpage

12th July 2023

Anubis

Ancient

With the South America qualifier concluded, 30 of the 32 teams participating in EPL Season 18 have been determined. The two final spots will go to teams who advance through the NC Europe qualifier, scheduled to kick off on July 14.

These are the teams currently slated to compete at ESL Pro League Season 18:

Group A

Qualified team

Group B

Qualified team

Group C

Qualified team

Group D

Qualified team

The teams hailing from the qualifiers:

NC Europe Qualifier

Rooster

NC Europe Qualifier

congrats!

2023-07-13 03:02

00 can't click agaisnt 9z :(

2023-07-13 03:04

9Z!!!! <3

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why br still paying alot for coldzera? cmon

2023-07-13 13:56

That's awesome mens))

alrighty that’s great))) But we still need ESL to be forced to drop the partnership gibberish by the time CS2 debuts and the scene transitions to such. No normal person wants to see garbage like Astralis, EG, and BIG being automatic qualifications just by buying a spot. Force every team to sweat their asses off.

2023-07-13 03:06

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the same goes to blast events, but we know it wont happen, there's a lot a of money in between sadly

2023-07-13 03:09

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nah, there is an actual chance since Valve has already stated that they don't like the partnership gibberish. And there's also the report that Valve wants shit to change in the scene when CS2 arrives, although it hasn't been shown if it's real or not. Ideally and on paper, it is legit and Valve wants the partnership garbage to go when the scene transitions to CS2. There may be alot of money involved but Valve as a company is pretty much more than happy to screw you over if it has to come to that. Besides, TOs can't organize without a license and to get a license, they have to comply with what Valve wants. If not then they're screwed out of such, meaning no hosting for them.

2023-07-13 03:17

ever since eleague stopped hosting tier 1 it's all gone down the shitter

2023-07-13 09:45

I understand but how esl does it its fine. The scene needs the money from somewhere to be alive. Blast is the extremization of this. At least esl has all the good teams because the spots are high.

2023-07-13 12:14

I'm afraid Valve will do away with championship organizers and not supply the leagues they do around the world. Doing a few big championships a year is easy, creating a worldwide league ecosystem is hard.

2023-07-13 12:55

While I agree that the system of partnerships that Blast and ESL make is in many ways unfair

2023-07-13 12:58

it's extremely unfair, I don't get why Brazilian teams are even able to play this qualifier in the first place. ESL didn't let 9z play BPL(which already gives a Pro League spot) why do all Brazilian teams have a second chance? Imperial already won the Brazilian qualifier. Latam teams didn't have a second chance

2023-07-21 14:49

let's go 9z!!!!

coldzera cant carry 00noobs alone, sad

2023-07-13 03:08

JASDJAJSD coldzera se tiene que retirar, mejor dicho oldzera

2023-07-13 03:12

coldzera carrying? hahahah

2023-07-13 03:58

EZ for 9z!!!

2023-07-13 03:11

Dale 9ceee

would be cool if brasil let other countries play premier league so we can have fairplay for these qualys

2023-07-13 03:16

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+1 ESL BRASIL should stop being selfish with the others SA teams and let them play

2023-07-13 05:56

''Brazil'' more like ESL/valve, no? Most Brazilians also think it's unfair to the rest of South America.

2023-07-13 06:00

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haven't you read all the tweets? even br players tweeted that they should let other latam teams in brazil premier league, it got to the point where ESL confirmed they did not put that rule, it was the BR branch that say the bullshit of "people living in brazil only"

2023-07-13 07:12

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What ''Brazil branch''? Send me a link to this tweet where ESL says this

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9z manager asking why can't they play (EVEN THO they were bootcamping in br) twitter.com/siagfps/status/1651300212441.. dms with ESL "brasil branch" operations chief under tw 9z manager also says esl didn't put that rule

2023-07-13 07:15

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You know these guys probably work for ESL, right? It's not like Brazil people or ''branch'' rules anything. In this printscreen 9Z's owner asked about the possibility of SA teams entering the BPL and the guy who is answering must have gone to talk about the possibility with those who have authority on ESL.

2023-07-13 07:18

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twitter.com/siagfps/status/1651312733961.. update: esl told us this decision comes from @eslbrasil !!!

2023-07-13 07:19

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If there's one thing I've learned since I started following CS scene until now, it's not to believe what coaches and Orgs say. In my opinion, ESL Brasil shouldn't even have the authority to decide this, and even if it did, with pressure from whom? Since the Brazilian community wants other SA teams playing.

2023-07-13 07:23

bruhhh, when u make a branch on another country, u basically delegate most of the decitions made there to that branch. And this happens on any company.

2023-07-13 16:59

We don't know if this is what happens with ESL and ESL Brasil since there was no pressure from the BR community for only Brazilians to participate in the BPL, you just know what they want you to know

2023-07-13 19:15

And as I said, Brazilian players, the Brazilian community, most want other SA countries to also play the qualify events, this seems to me to be an ESL/valve thing wanting BR only teams to take advantage of the BR viewership, and because they know that 9Z would take that extra spot like they usually do

2023-07-13 07:14

i mean there's the thing that it was just gaules influence of "9z taking all qualys!!! :(" and the organizers just being dicks

2023-07-13 07:17

??? Gaules? Gaules is one of the Brazilians who sucks the balls of Argentines the most I know. And he doesn't even have the authority to decide something like that, ESL does.

2023-07-13 07:20

Easy for dav1d

2023-07-13 03:35

00surprise

2023-07-13 04:26

lmao good one

2023-07-13 11:16

Coldzera almost bottom fragging in this match 😭

2023-07-13 04:46

why did atk blow up their roster before pro league

money mens))

2023-07-13 09:43

m80 soon

2023-07-13 10:00

ATK was the Org with issues, they couldn't reach a renewal, hopefully M18 is in talks to have the Core of ATK (swisher, reck wolfy) plus they're utilizing Guatemalan talent Malbs, this really is going to be an insane NA team plus this can encourage more NA countries to come up

2023-07-13 10:45

will m80 take their spot if they acquire the core?

2023-07-13 17:34

Ofcourse, wherever the core basically goes they take the spot with them

2023-07-13 18:34

Im a day late to this but yes. Rumor has it that M80 plans on entering the scene with: Swisher reck Wolfy malbsmd maNkz Basically a 4 man NA roster with an EU IGL.

2023-07-15 02:31

DAV1DEUS TOP 1 HLTV CONFIRMED

2023-07-13 05:14

+111111

2023-07-15 02:17

EZ for 9z

2023-07-13 05:53

9z owning south american teams as always

2023-07-13 06:38

Vamos hermanos! <3

2023-07-13 07:00

dav1dgoat

2023-07-13 07:30

We miss you try ;(

2023-07-13 08:35

I believe try when transferred from 9z to 00 was doing bad meanwhile 9z bought his replacement in very talented nqz, then both orgs swapped their Awps again since then both teams are doing good

2023-07-13 10:51

Well, you can say 9z is doing good, 00 is pure disappointment. nqz was playing superbly in 9z, meanwhile he is below average in 00.

2023-07-13 17:09

It's fitting that a full fledged SA team is getting qualified from SA qualifiers rather then watching Another BR team just sayin I know other SA got talent too 9z making it will inspire them, 9z been looking hard from some time interesting to follow this team's growth

2023-07-13 10:54