ESL Challenger League Season 46 North America

M80, BOSS secure ESL Pro League Season 19 spots

10-12-2023 06:38

M80 lost just one map out of 27 en route to earning their spot.

slaxz- and M80 dominated the NA league

M80 and BOSS have booked spots in ESL Pro League Season 19 after advancing to the grand final of ESL Challenger League Season 46 North America. The two teams will do battle for a $15,000 top prize on Sunday, with M80 starting the best-of-five series up 1-0 due to coming from the upper bracket.

Date	Matches
ESL Challenger League Season 46 North America
11/12/2023	M80 02:00 BOSS	Match

M80 were indomitable in their run through the league, going 11-0 in best-of-threes and dropping just one map to BOSS in the group stage. Dominance from Marcus "⁠maNkz⁠" Kjeldsen's side continued in the playoffs, where they cruised past Party Astronauts before claiming a hard-fought 2-0 win over BOSS in the upper finals to book a ticket to Malta.

The addition of Fritz "⁠slaxz-⁠" Dietrich has paid off in spades for the team, who will also attend ESL Challenger Atlanta from December 15-17 after advancing through the NA closed qualifier. It also marks their return to Pro League after they exited Season 18 in last place with losses to Apeks, 5yclone, and 9z.

ESL Challenger Atlanta groups, opening matchups revealed

BOSS played under the Wildcard banner for a majority of the season before four of their players were dropped by the organization in a shock move, and they've ensured that the organization will regret that decision in the short-term by earning a spot in Pro League with Adam "⁠WolfY⁠" Andersson as their fifth.

The team were second only to M80 in the group stage, dropping one series to them and another to Party Astronauts to earn a bye to the upper semis in the playoffs.

They took down Nouns in their opening match of the bracket stage before claiming revenge over Party Astronauts for their group stage loss, losing Nuke only to reverse-sweep the series with wins on Ancient and Vertigo to cool off a red-hot run of form from Danny "⁠Cxzi⁠" Strzelczyk.

ESL Challenger League Season 46 North AmericaBest of 3

BOSS

Matchpage

10th December 2023

Party Astronauts

Nuke

Ancient

Vertigo

BOSS	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Matthew 'Cryptic' Whitmore Cryptic	50 - 28	+7.01%	86.4	81.5%	1.39
Brett 'brett' Rhein brett	44 - 40	+0.49%	88.5	74.1%	1.26
Matthew 'd4rty' Paplawskas d4rty	37 - 31	+1.00%	73.2	83.3%	1.22
Adam 'freshie' Paterson freshie	36 - 31	-0.99%	68.3	77.8%	1.12
Adam 'WolfY' Andersson WolfY	33 - 35	+0.41%	66.7	72.2%	1.02

Party Astronauts	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Danny 'Cxzi' Strzelczyk Cxzi	49 - 44	+5.74%	109.8	81.5%	1.45
Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue PwnAlone	33 - 35	+0.94%	62.3	64.8%	0.95
Ben 'ben1337' Smith ben1337	34 - 41	-4.41%	73.7	66.7%	0.93
Connor 'chop' Sullivan chop	26 - 39	-5.39%	51.8	63.0%	0.72
Wesley 'viz' Harris viz	22 - 41	-4.80%	47.6	66.7%	0.70

The team list for ESL Pro League Season 19 now looks as follows:

European Conference

South American Qualifier

ESL World Ranking

ESL Challenger Atlanta

South American Qualifier

Oceania Qualifier

ESL World Ranking

Not even NA cars lol

2023-12-10 06:39

3 replies

We car

2023-12-10 06:40

We car. I want to see M80 go deeper his EPL. More experience, and adding slaxz who has been great.

2023-12-10 07:03

1 reply

+1, slaxz has been a wonderful addition, and it's awesome that WolfY qualified too, even tho he got removed from the M80 lineup. More international experience for M80 is just what they need, especially tier 1 and 2 teams.

2023-12-10 07:06

Hell yea, congrats to the two teams, love seeing M80 succeed.

expected. Also, we need to eventually know what’ll happen to EG’s spot. They’re literally going to withdraw from esports soon (good riddance) and we still have no info on what’ll happen to their partner spot.

2023-12-10 06:41