ESL Challenger Jönköping 2023 North America Open Qualifier

EG, Forsaken make Jönköping closed qualifier

5-10-2023 05:13

Both favorites advanced in the second open qualifier to run entirely on CS2.

autimatic and Jeorge powered EG to victory in the deciding series

Evil Geniuses and Forsaken both made it through their first Counter-Strike 2 open qualifier, joining Complexity and Nouns in the closed stage where one spot at ESL Challenger Jönköping is on offer.

Europe's open qualifier may have been marred by upsets, but such was not the case in North America.

Favorites falter in ESL's first CS2 qualifier

EG and Forsaken didn't have too much difficulty making it through the single-elimination, best-of-one bracket to make it to the qualifying round, where the former was matched up against Party Astronauts and the latter faced Wildcard, the team currently sitting atop the ESL Challenger League Season 46 standings with a 6-0 record.

Party Astronauts, hot off a victory over Imperial in the Americas BLAST Fall Showdown, started strong with a dominant victory on their pick of Ancient. 13-4. They couldn't convert that into a 2-0 series victory, however, with Evil Geniuses bouncing back with a 13-9 win on Mirage before absolutely demolishing Ben "⁠ben1337⁠" Smith's men 13-1 on Overpass.

Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz's Forsaken had a simpler time of things in their own deciding series, a 2.12-rated performance from Josh "⁠JBa⁠" Barutt powering the team to a 13-3 win on Overpass before they closed things out on Wildcard's Ancient pick, 13-6.

Evil Geniuses and Forsaken join Complexity and Nouns on the team list for the closed qualifier, where they will compete in a best-of-three, double-elimination bracket from October 10-11 to determine who secures a berth to ESL Challenger Jönköping.

I want Forsaken to make it, just to give jBA experience against EU opposition :v

2023-10-05 05:15

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I speak for all of cs fandom when i say we want GOAT Junior to win

2023-10-06 00:39

LETS GO STANISLAW

2023-10-05 05:16

Extra Salt teased a comeback on twitter, could be that they're signing forsaken. Would be a good choice, this roster could have a lot of potential with an org to back them.

2023-10-05 05:27

ye but there is so much Extra Salt could do. They're not gonna be able to support them in the long term which is what Forsaken needs. NA CS may be horsecrap but they still have to go through M80 and coL for any sort of shit, both of which are essentially far better than Forsaken are.

2023-10-05 05:33