ELeague CS:GO Premier

Last updated
ELEAGUE
2017
Tournament information
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location Atlanta, Georgia, United States
DatesSeptember 1, 2017–October 13, 2017
Administrator Turner Sports
William Morris Endeavor
Tournament
format(s)
Group Stage (Bo1/Bo3)
Single-Elimination Brackets (Bo3)
VenueTurner Studios
Teams16 teams
Final positions
Champions FaZe Clan
1st runners-up Astralis
2nd runners-up Cloud9
North
MVP Håvard "rain" Nygaard
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ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier was the fourth season of ELEAGUE that started on September 1, 2017, and ended on October 13, 2017. It was broadcast on the American cable television network TBS. The season featured 16 teams from across the world competing in a season, which included a regular season and a playoffs. The broadcast were simultaneously available on the online streaming service Twitch and YouTube Gaming, but when on television, a limited broadcast would appear on Twitch and YouTube. [1]

Contents

The season kicked off with FaZe Clan defeating Renegades in Group A and the first televised match of the season featured FaZe Clan defeating Natus Vincere. The season concluded with FaZe Clan defeating Astralis in the finals 2–0 as FaZe dropped zero games throughout the whole tournament.

Format

The format reflected that of ELEAGUE Season 2. A total of 16 teams will compete in the tournament. 12 teams will be invited and a four teams, two from the Americas qualifier and two from the Europe qualifier, will have to qualify for the tournament. [2]

The 12 teams will be invited based on their past performances from the previous ELEAGUE seasons. Each closed qualifier will be played online and will be held from August 26, 2017, to August 27, 2017. One team, OpTic Gaming, would later have its invite taken away due to violation of ELEAGUE rules after roster changes.

The group stage featured four groups, making four teams per group. Teams will play in a double elimination group stage. The highest seed in the group will play against the lowest seed and the other two teams will play against each other in best of one games. The two winners and two losers will then play against each other. The winners match was a best of one and the loser's match was a best of three. The winner of the winners match will move on to the Playoffs and the loser of the winners match will play a third match against the winner of the losers match. The loser of the losers match is eliminated from the tournament. The last two teams in the group will play in a best of three; the winner of the match will get a spot in the Playoffs and the loser will head home. The top two teams in each group will advance to the Playoffs.

The Playoffs will consist of the eight teams. Teams will play in a single elimination, best of three bracket and will keep playing until a winner is decided. Each group winner will face off against a group runner-up in the quarterfinals. In addition, each team will not face another team from the same group until the finals if it ever reaches that point.

Qualifiers

A maximum of 512 teams each competed in the European and Americas qualifiers. Both qualifiers took place online and were completed within two days. Shown below are the top 16 teams of each qualifier, with two from the European qualifier and three from the Americas qualifier moving on. Teams played in a single elimination bracket.

European Qualifier

Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Qualified
            
Gambit Esports 14
AGO Gaming16
AGO Gaming2
Vega Squadron 0
Space Soldiers 10
Vega Squadron16
AGO Gaming 0
Heroic2
Heroic16
RedFear eSPORTS 2
Heroic2
FlipSid3 Tactics 0
FlipSid3 Tactics 16
Orion Gaming 8
HeroicQ
Team EnVyUs Q
HellRaisers 7
Red Reserve16
Red Reserve 0
Team EnVyUs 2
Team EnVyUs 16
samba 3
Team EnVyUs 2
ARES 0
Forcebuy 7
ARES16
ARES2
Tricked Esport 0
BIG 8
Tricked Esport16

Americas Qualifier

Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Qualified
            
Immortals 16
Denial eSports 9
Immortals 2
Splyce 0
Splyce 16
Bunch of chads 4
Immortals 2
Broken Alliance 0
Counter Logic Gaming 12
Broken Alliance16
Broken Alliance2
Rise Nation 0
Misfits 11
Rise Nation16
Immortals Q
Team Liquid Q
NRG Esports 16
Final Feature Gaming 13
NRG Esports 0
Renegades 2
Renegades 16
Guerrilla Tactics 4
Renegades 1
Team Liquid 2
compLexity Gaming 7 Third Place Decider
Luminosity Gaming 16
Luminosity Gaming 0 Broken Alliance 0
Team Liquid 2 Renegades 2
Team Liquid 16
CLG Academy 4

Teams Competing

Eleven invited teams from will be joined by five other teams, two from each closed qualifier with an additional one from the Americas qualifier.[ citation needed ]

The twelve teams were invited based on their past results during the two Counter-Strike ELEAGUE seasons.

Past ELEAGUE Results
Team EL S1 EL S2
Astralis 5th2nd
Cloud9 5th9th
FaZe Clan 9th3rd
Fnatic 2nd9th
G2 Esports 11th9th
HeroicDQ2N/A3
Immortals N/A313th
mousesports 3rd5th
Natus Vincere 3rd9th
Ninjas in Pyjamas 5th5th
North 15th5th
Renegades 9thN/A3
SK Gaming DQ23rd
Team Liquid 17thN/A3
Cloud9 5th9th
Virtus.pro 1st5th

1 – ELEAGUE Season 2 champion OpTic Gaming had its invite taken back by ELEAGUE after the team replaced the majority of its players. Oscar "mixwell" Cañellas and Keith "NAF" Markovic stayed with the team. Tarik "tarik" Celik and Will "RUSH" Wierzba transferred to Cloud9 to replace Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert and Michael "shroud" Grzesiek on its active roster. OpTic signed former longtime Ninjas in Pyjamas member Adam "friberg" Friberg, former FaZe Clan AWPer Aleksi "allu" Jalli, and former North star Emil "Magisk" Reif. OpTic's spot will be filled in by a third team from the Americas qualifier. [3] [4] [5]

2 – During ELEAGUE Season 1, Luminosity Gaming (now with SK Gaming) and SK Gaming (now with Heroic) were in a contract dispute. The Brazilians had agreed to sign with SK Gaming first when it was still under the organization Keyd Stars, but signed with Luminosity first during that time. In the middle of ELEAGUE Season 1 and some time prior to ESL One Cologne 2016, SK Gaming brought up the contract. [6] [7] After the two organizations came to an agreement, in which the Danes were released from SK Gaming and the Brazilians transferred to SK Gaming, ELEAGUE commissioner Min-Sik Ko stated that the transfer did "not comply with" ELEAGUE rules, thus resulting in the disqualification of the two teams. [8]

3 – "N/A" indicates the team was not in the ELEAGUE season for any reason. Heroic was not invited to any open qualifier for ELEAGUE Season 2. Immortals was not invited to ELEAGUE Season 1 when it was signed with Tempo Storm. After Tempo Storm owner Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk said that a person associated with ELEAGUE and he had an argument, thus ELEAGUE not wanting Tempo Storm in the tournament despite being ranked higher than many of the teams. reynad later sold the team to Immortals to give the team a better chance at more tournaments and Immortals later qualified for Season 2. [9] Team Liquid was upset by Echo Fox in the ELEAGUE Season 2 Americas qualifiers. Renegades was defeated by OpTic Gaming in the Americas qualifier for Season 2.

Broadcast Talent

Host

Interviewer

Commentators

Producer

Group stage

Group A

SeedTeamRecordRF-RARDPoints
1 FaZe Clan 2–032–15+176
2 G2 Esports 2–174–53+216
3 Natus Vincere 1–248–58−103
4 Renegades 0–220–48−280
Group A Results
FaZe Clan 10 Renegades
G2 Esports 01 Natus Vincere
FaZe Clan 10 Natus Vincere
G2 Esports 20 Renegades
Natus Vincere 02 G2 Esports
Group A Scores
Group A Scores
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
FaZe Clan16 Mirage 9Renegades
G2 Esports10 Inferno 16Natus Vincere
FaZe Clan16 Inferno †6Natus Vincere
G2 Esports16 Mirage 9Renegades
G2 Esports16 Nuke 2Renegades
G2 Esports–Cobblestone–Renegades
Natus Vincere12 Cobblestone 16G2 Esports
Natus Vincere14 Inferno 16G2 Esports
Natus Vincere–Overpass–G2 Esports

Group B

SeedTeamRecordRF-RARDPoints
1 North 2–038–34+46
2 Fnatic 2–191–74+176
3 Immortals 1–260–62−23
4 mousesports 0–242–61−190
Group B Results
mousesports 01 Immortals
North 10 Fnatic
North 10 Immortals
mousesports 12 Fnatic
Immortals 02 Fnatic
Group B Scores
Group B Scores
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
mousesports8 Cobblestone 16Immortals
North16 Mirage 14Fnatic
North22 Cobblestone †20Immortals
mousesports5 Train 16Fnatic
mousesports16 Mirage 13Fnatic
mousesports13 Cobblestone 16Fnatic
Immortals10 Train 16Fnatic
Immortals14 Inferno 16Fnatic
Immortals–Cache–Fnatic

Group C

SeedTeamRecordRF-RARDPoints
1 Cloud9 2–032–8+246
2 Team EnVyUs 2–159–53+66
3 Ninjas in Pyjamas 1–269–70−13
4 Virtus.pro 0–219–48−290
Group C Results
Virtus.pro 01 Team EnVyUs
Ninjas in Pyjamas 01 Cloud9
Cloud9 10 Team EnVyUs
Virtus.pro 02 Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team EnVyUs 21 Ninjas in Pyjamas
Group C Scores
Group C Scores
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Virtus.pro6 Cobblestone 16Team EnVyUs
Ninjas in Pyjamas6 Mirage 16Cloud9
Cloud916 Train †2Team EnVyUs
Virtus.pro8 Overpass 16Ninjas in Pyjamas
Virtus.pro5 Train 16Ninjas in Pyjamas
Virtus.pro–Mirage–Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team EnVyUs9 Cobblestone 16Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team EnVyUs16 Cache 9Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team EnVyUs16 Nuke 6Ninjas in Pyjamas

Group D

SeedTeamRecordRF-RARDPoints
1 Astralis 2–032–13+196
2Heroic2–158–50+86
3 SK Gaming 1–275–97−223
4 Team Liquid 0–252–59−70
Group D Results
Astralis 10 Team Liquid
SK Gaming 01Heroic
Astralis 10Heroic
SK Gaming 21 Team Liquid
Heroic21 SK Gaming
Group D Scores
Group D Scores
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Astralis16 Overpass 11Team Liquid
SK Gaming5 Train 16Heroic
Astralis16 Train †2Heroic
SK Gaming8 Inferno 16Team Liquid
SK Gaming16 Overpass 8Team Liquid
SK Gaming19 Mirage 17Team Liquid
Heroic8Overpass16SK Gaming
Heroic16Inferno5SK Gaming
Heroic16Mirage8SK Gaming

†Game was broadcast on TBS.

Playoffs

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
Cloud9 2
G2 Esports 0
Cloud9 1
Astralis2
Astralis 2
Fnatic 0
Astralis 0
FaZe Clan2
FaZe Clan 2
Team EnVyUs 0
FaZe Clan2
North 0
North 2
Heroic 0
Quarterfinals
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Cloud916Cobblestone12G2 Esports
Cloud916Inferno8G2 Esports
Cloud9–Cache–G2 Esports
Astralis16Train5Fnatic
Astralis16Overpass12Fnatic
Astralis–Mirage–Fnatic
FaZe Clan16Nuke12Team EnVyUs
FaZe Clan16Overpass3Team EnVyUs
FaZe Clan–Inferno–Team EnVyUs
North16Overpass7Heroic
North16Mirage7Heroic
North–Inferno–Heroic
Semifinals
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Cloud916Mirage12Astralis
Cloud914Overpass16Astralis
Cloud94Inferno16Astralis
FaZe Clan16Mirage12North
FaZe Clan16Inferno10North
FaZe Clan–Train–North
Finals
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Astralis14Cache16FaZe Clan
Astralis7Overpass16FaZe Clan
Astralis–Inferno–FaZe Clan

Final standings

The final standings, prize money distribution, and teams' rosters and coaches are shown below. Each team's in-game leader is shown first.

Final Standings
PlacePrize MoneyTeamRosterCoach
1stUS$500,000 FaZe Clan karrigan, GuardiaN, NiKo, olofmeister, rainRobbaN
2ndUS$150,000 Astralis gla1ve, dev1ce, dupreeh, Kjaerbye, Xyp9xzonic
3rd – 4thUS$70,000 Cloud9 tarik, autimatic, RUSH, Skadoodle, Stewie2Kvalens
North MSL, aizy, cajunb, k0nfig, valderuggah
5th – 8thUS$35,000 Fnatic Golden, flusha, JW, KRiMZ, Lekr0Jumpy
G2 Esports shox, apEX, bodyy, kennyS, NBK- SmithZz
HeroicSnappi, es3tag, JUGi, niko, MODDIIFeTiSh
Team EnVyUs Happy, Rpk, SIXER, xms, ScreaMmaLek
9th – 12thUS$8,750 Immortals steel, boltz, cogu1, HEN1, LUCAS1zakk
Natus Vincere Zeus, Edward, s1mple, flamie, seizedkane
Ninjas in Pyjamas Xizt, draken, f0rest, GeT RiGhT, REZTHREAT
SK Gaming FalleN, coldzera, felps, fer, TACO
13th – 16thUS$8,750 mousesports chrisJ, oskar, ropz, STYKO, suNnylmbt
Renegades Nifty, AZR, jks, USTILO, NAFkassad
Team Liquid nitr0, ELiGE, jdm64, stanislaw, Twistzzzews
Virtus.pro NEO, byali, pashaBiceps, Snax, TaZ kuben

1 Immortals signed Vito "kNgV-" Giuseppe for the PGL Major 2017 after benching Lincoln "fnx" Lau. However, after placing second at DreamHack Montreal 2017, kNgV- went back to Brazil to clear visa issues. Counter-Strike 1.6 legend Raphael "cogu" Camargo took his place at ELEAGUE. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "ELEAGUE Reveals Elite Competitors for CS:GO Premier 2017". ELEAGUE . July 26, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kim, Andrew (July 26, 2017). "ELEAGUE reveals teams and groups for upcoming CS:GO tournament". Slingshot eSports. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kim, Andrew (August 15, 2017). "Cloud9 acquires RUSH and tarik to replace n0thing and Shroud on CS:GO roster". Slingshot eSports. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ Rosen, Daniel (August 21, 2017). "OpTic Gaming sign friberg, allu, Magisk to CS:GO roster". The Score eSports. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ Villanueva, Jamie (August 22, 2017). "OpTic forfeit their spot in the 2017 ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier". Dot eSports. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  6. ↑ Gonzales, Dennis (June 24, 2016). "SK Gaming to acquire Luminosity Gaming's roster in July". The Score eSports. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  7. ↑ Wolf, Jacob (May 27, 2016). "SK Gaming, Luminosity locked in contract disputes after SK attempted to poach Luminosity players". ESPN. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
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  9. ↑ Steiner, Dustin. "How One Skype Call Doomed Tempo Storm in ELEAGUE". PVP Live. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ Gonzales, Dennis (September 12, 2017). "cogu to stand in for kNg on Immortals". The Score eSports. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
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