Monte, MIBR top groups at ESL Challenger Jönköping

24-11-2023 23:40

3DMAX is the first team sent home following the conclusion of the opening day of the tournament.

Monte move on to the semi-finals

Day one of ESL Challenger Jönköping is in the books, with Monte and MIBR advancing to the single-elimination playoffs. Meanwhile, the field has been whittled down to seven teams as 3DMAX have been sent packing following back-to-back group losses.

The highlight of the first day was the Group B winners’ match, a marathon of a best-of-one game that went to four overtimes, with MIBR prevailing over Virtus.pro. The Brazilian team, currently ranked 21st in the world, went into this tournament with confidence running high after qualifying for BetBoom Dacha earlier this week.

The Group A matches were more straightforward as Monte breezed past TYLOO (13-5) and Nouns (13-8). At the end of day one, Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev is sitting at the top of the event's rating leaderboard (1.62), followed by Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko (1.44).

3DMAX's official debut ended in disappointment as they finished last in their group after recording losses to Virtus.pro and GamerLegion. This was the first LAN event of the year for the French players.

ESL Challenger Jönköping will continue on Saturday with the remaining elimination match, pitting TYLOO against Eternal Fire, followed by the two decider series. The schedule can be found below:

Date	Matches
ESL Challenger Jönköping 2023
25/11/2023	TYLOO 10:00 Eternal Fire	Match
25/11/2023	Virtus.pro 12:35 GamerLegion	Match
25/11/2023	Nouns 15:15 Eternal Fire	Match

ez vp

2023-11-24 23:40

MIBR was straight up persistent while VP was just straight up desperate during that entire game. All started because they lost a 1v2 against drop of all people. Also, MR12 was supposed to make games end quicker, not make it feel like MR15 BO3(

2023-11-24 23:43

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cuz valve are clueless, imagine still keeping this sytem when a team needs to win 4 rounds on OT. I hope that this system will soon sink into oblivion like old OT when teams used to play 5 rounds per side on OT. Some 3rd party TO (not esl or blast) should set an example and then this will become the norm #ValvePlsFix

2023-11-25 00:11

VP only saved four times during that entire game, which is impressive to me.

2023-11-25 00:33

you are uninformed about MR12, it was not to make games quicker, but to make stomps quicker, while this kind of matches is pretty much a MR16 with OT match.

2023-11-25 03:43

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+1 I like mr12, the amount of fake comebacks during mr15 was so annoying

2023-11-25 14:19