ESL Challenger Jönköping 2023 North America Closed Qualifier

Nouns beat EG to qualify for ESL Jönköping

12-10-2023 06:51

Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado and company went undefeated through the four-team qualifier.

Nouns join Looking4Org on the team list for the $100,000 event

Nouns have topped the North America closed qualifier for ESL Challenger Jönköping and become the sixth team to book a spot at the Swedish event.

Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen's troops powered through the closed qualifier undefeated, utilizing former ChocoCheck member Zack "⁠XotiC⁠" Elshani as a stand-in for Brendan "⁠Bwills⁠" Williams for the majority of their first two victories over Evil Geniuses and Forsaken.

Complexity withdraw from ESL Jönköping NA closed qualifier

Colby "⁠Walco⁠" Walsh's side bounced back in the lower bracket and beat Wildcard and Forsaken to set up a rematch against Nouns, who had Bwills back in their lineup for the final.

The second time was not the charm for Evil Geniuses, however, with Nouns again clinching victory in three maps.

EG struck first on their pick of Ancient, but couldn't contend with inspired performances from MarKE on both Nuke and Mirage as the Mexican rifler led his team to a reverse-sweep victory with 1.63 and 1.45 map ratings, respectively.

Two final spots at ESL Challenger Jönköping will go to the winners of the South America and Asia qualifiers, with the main event set to take place from November 24-26.

The team list for the tournament is now:

ESL Challenger Jönköping 2023 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3

Nouns

Matchpage

12th October 2023

Evil Geniuses

Ancient

Nuke

Mirage

Nouns	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado MarKE	49 - 40	+5.81%	92.4	76.7%	1.33
David 'cynic' Polster cynic	44 - 40	-1.59%	77.6	81.7%	1.12
Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones cJ dA K1nG	41 - 39	+1.72%	69.5	73.3%	1.04
Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly nosraC	37 - 42	-0.38%	70.8	71.7%	0.97
Brendan 'Bwills' Williams Bwills	34 - 46	-2.25%	60.4	68.3%	0.87

Evil Geniuses	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jadan 'HexT' Postma HexT	52 - 41	+1.52%	93.8	70.0%	1.24
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	45 - 38	+4.95%	78.9	70.0%	1.15
Paytyn 'junior' Johnson junior	45 - 37	-2.35%	73.3	70.0%	1.12
Colby 'Walco' Walsh Walco	34 - 47	-1.62%	57.9	70.0%	0.88
Jeorge 'Jeorge' Endicott Jeorge	28 - 43	-5.81%	60.6	71.7%	0.86

2023-10-12 06:52

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nosrac on LAN

2023-10-12 07:56

Huge shoutout to xotic as well!

2023-10-12 06:53

Yes! Let's go, Marke!!! Let's go, Nouns!!!

2023-10-12 06:55

rip bozo

2023-10-12 07:08

Junior GOAT!

2023-10-12 07:14

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2023-10-12 10:19

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I can respect how jacked he is but for some reason he looks stupid as hell in this photo lol

2023-10-12 16:18

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he looks like an army general in these vietnam war movies, which is hard asf imo

2023-10-12 17:00

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I dunno if anything at all it’s super funny. He was def a good player, good coach. No disrespect, But I honestly thought he was trolling when I first saw him at that event lol

2023-10-12 19:31

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It's just because of the sunglasses.

2023-10-13 18:47

Yea it’s kinda funny like he’s playing poker or something. Only he’s coaching cs lol

2023-10-13 22:06

You'll always look stupid wearing sunglasses inside a building with relatively dim lightning.

2023-10-13 03:21

Solid 322 by EG

2023-10-12 07:16

credit to EG, most of them put out good rating 2.0's. They just can't figure out how to glue the talent together.

2023-10-12 07:27

Junior relegated to NA hell

2023-10-12 07:43

EG is barely top 5 in tier 3 NA region. The org can sign any EU team and improve immediately.

2023-10-12 07:52

EG have burnt through all their money and all the execs are jumping ship, they'd be lucky to buy a taco at this point, and I don't mean the player They even asked their 'Champion' Valorant team to take a pay cut or GTFO

2023-10-12 10:16

They could sign nouns and improve immediately

2023-10-12 14:19

and how do you expect them to do that when they literally even "asked" their contract jailed VALORANT winning team for 50% pay cuts.

2023-10-12 14:58

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Free agents. Looking4Org Is a free upgrade.

2023-10-12 18:13

You realize signing players requires paying contract money, Right?

2023-10-13 18:49

EG is not bankrupt, they can easily sign an orgless team, since orgless players have no salary at all.

2023-10-14 03:58

they're literally on the verge of bankruptcy broski. Them asking for pay cuts from their VALORANT team is actually a sign of that. Doesn't help that they're also going through a lawsuit by an ex-EG player in Dota 2 that they also have a solid chance of losing.

2023-10-14 04:13

Junior to LAN ? I aren't think that

2023-10-12 07:53

Honestly, what is wrong with EG? no matter what they do they just can't seem to win? gotta be a reason but its not readily apparant

2023-10-12 08:24

EG after cerq is bulshit

2023-10-12 09:08

Lol Lmao even It takes a lot of effort to remain this bad as a rich org

2023-10-12 09:09

>rich org rich my ass, they can't even afford their VALORANT winning roster and asked them take pay cuts while being in contract jail.

2023-10-12 15:00

Is that possible? Can you link a story on it? A contract should be fulfilled otherwise they might get in legal trouble.

2023-10-12 18:22

richardlewis.substack.com/p/evil-geniuse.. it's from Richard Lewis but when it comes to shit like this, he's still very reliable.

2023-10-12 18:24

At the end of that article there is a link to: richardlewis.substack.com/p/sumail-vs-ev.. Can't this Valoreen fellows pursue legal action as well? Or at least have a little talk with a lawyer / law firm? They might be interested in taking the case.

2023-10-12 18:39