de_brief: April 23-29, 2018

Hello, friends- The regular season ESL Pro League has now concluded. Who will be in Dallas for the playoffs? Also, what happened in ECS Season 5 and who are the final teams to qualify for IEM Sydney?

Results

Winner	Score	Loser	Map
AGO	16 – 14	fnatic	Cobblestone
Astralis	16 – 3	EnVyUs	Inferno
EnVyUs	16 – 14	Astralis	Train
FaZe	16 – 8	Space Soldiers	Train
FaZe	16 – 5	Space Soldiers	Inferno
fnatic	16 – 11	AGO	Train
fnatic	16 – 10	LDLC	Overpass
G2	16 – 9	Natus Vincere	Cobblestone
HellRaisers	16 – 6	LDLC	Cache
HellRaisers	16 – 7	LDLC	Inferno
HellRaisers	16 – 11	North	Train
Heroic	19 – 17	AGO	Mirage
Heroic	16 – 9	AGO	Train
Heroic	16 – 13	EnVyUs	Cobblestone
Heroic	16 – 14	EnVyUs	Train
LDLC	16 – 14	fnatic	Cobblestone
mousesports	16 – 13	EnVyUs	Overpass
mousesports	16 – 11	EnVyUs	Cobblestone
mousesports	16 – 11	Space Soldiers	Inferno
mousesports	16 – 14	Space Soldiers	Mirage
Natus Vincere	16 – 13	fnatic	Cobblestone
Natus Vincere	25 – 22	fnatic	Train
Natus Vincere	16 – 13	G2	Mirage
NiP	16 – 11	Astralis	Overpass
NiP	16 – 8	Astralis	Mirage
North	19 – 16	HellRaisers	Cobblestone

Standings

#	Team	G	W	L	P	RD	Form
1	NiP	26	17	9	52	+66	W W
2	mousesports	26	18	8	52	+54	W W W W
3	Natus Vincere	26	18	8	51	+63	W W W L
4	FaZe	26	15	11	47	+36	W W
5	Space Soldiers	26	15	11	46	+67	L L L L
6	Astralis	26	15	11	45	+55	W L L L
7	HellRaisers	26	13	13	39	-26	W W L W
8	Heroic	26	14	12	39	-33	W W W W
9	North	26	13	13	37	-18	W L
10	G2	26	12	14	36	+16	L W
11	fnatic	26	10	16	32	-16	L W L L W L
12	EnVyUs	26	8	18	25	-65	L L L W L L
13	AGO	26	7	19	23	-80	W L L L
14	LDLC	26	7	19	22	-119	L L L W

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Results

Winner	Score	Loser	Map
Cloud9	16 – 8	Rogue	Overpass
Cloud9	16 – 13	Splyce	Cache
compLexity	16 – 8	Ghost	Cobblestone
Ghost	16 – 13	compLexity	Mirage
Ghost	16 – 12	Luminosity	Cobblestone
Liquid	16 – 6	compLexity	Mirage
Liquid	16 – 6	compLexity	Cobblestone
Liquid	1 – 0	OpTic	(FORFEITED)
Liquid	1 – 0	OpTic	(FORFEITED)
Luminosity	16 – 3	Ghost	Train
NRG	16 – 4	Luminosity	Cache
NRG	16 – 3	Luminosity	Overpass
OpTic	16 – 9	Dignitas	Inferno
OpTic	16 – 13	Dignitas	Mirage
Renegades	16 – 12	Dignitas	Inferno
Renegades	16 – 10	Dignitas	Cache
Renegades	16 – 6	Rogue	Train
Rogue	16 – 6	Cloud9	Train
Rogue	16 – 5	Dignitas	Train
Rogue	16 – 6	Dignitas	Inferno
Rogue	16 – 11	Renegades	Cobblestone
SK	16 – 3	Renegades	Cache
SK	19 – 15	Renegades	Train
Splyce	16 – 6	Cloud9	Inferno

Standings

#	Team	G	W	L	P	RD	Form
1	Liquid	22	20	2	60	+115	W W W W
2	NRG	22	17	5	50	+118	W W
3	OpTic	22	14	8	41	+43	W W L L
4	Renegades	22	13	9	40	+56	L W W W L L
5	Cloud9	22	13	9	40	+25	W L L W
6	SK	22	12	10	35	+28	W W
7	Rogue	22	11	11	33	-1	W L L W W W
8	Luminosity	22	9	13	28	-26	W L L L
9	Ghost	22	7	15	22	-77	L W L W
10	compLexity	22	7	15	21	-57	L L W L
11	Splyce	22	7	15	20	-83	W L
12	Dignitas	22	2	20	6	-141	L L L L L L

ESL Pro League Season 7 Playoff Teams

Congratulations go to MVP PK and Grayhound as well for qualifying through ESL Pro League Asia-Pacific. These are the teams that will compete in Dallas with one more Latin-American team to qualify:

• Astralis
• Cloud 9
• FaZe
• Grayhound
• HellRaisers
• Liquid
• mousesports
• MVP PK
• Natus Vincere
• NiP
• NRG
• OpTic
• Renegades
• SK
• Space Soldiers

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Results

Winner	Score	Loser	Map
Astralis	22 – 20	G2	Mirage
Astralis	16 – 10	G2	Inferno
FaZe	19 – 16	G2	Mirage
G2	16 – 11	FaZe	Overpass
G2	16 – 9	fnatic	Mirage
G2	16 – 10	fnatic	Overpass
GODSENT	16 – 5	Virtus.pro	Train
NiP	16 – 9	mousesports	Train
NiP	19 – 17	mousesports	Inferno
Virtus.pro	1 – 0	GODSENT	(FORFEITED)

Standings

#	Team	G	W	L	P	RD	Form
1	Astralis	16	15	1	45	+102	W W
2	fnatic	16	9	7	27	+6	L L
3	FaZe	12	7	5	21	+38	W L
4	NiP	13	7	6	21	+34	W W
5	G2	12	7	5	21	+32	L L L W W W
6	mousesports	14	6	8	18	-3	L L
7	GODSENT	14	6	8	18	-15	L W
8	Virtus.pro	15	5	10	15	-63	W L
9	Gambit	14	4	10	12	-67
10	EnVyUs	12	3	9	9	-64

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Results

Winner	Score	Loser	Map
eUnited	16 – 7	Liquid	Mirage
eUnited	16 – 14	Liquid	Inferno
eUnited	16 – 3	OpTic	Inferno
eUnited	16 – 9	OpTic	Mirage
eUnited	16 – 12	SK	Train
NRG	16 – 10	Luminosity	Inferno
NRG	16 – 13	Luminosity	Cache
Renegades	16 – 14	Rogue	Mirage
Rogue	16 – 9	Renegades	Inferno
SK	16 – 13	eUnited	Inferno

Standings

#	Team	G	W	L	P	RD	Form
1	NRG	18	17	1	51	+101	W W
2	Cloud9	16	11	5	33	+51
3	Luminosity	14	7	7	21	+18	L L
4	eUnited	14	7	7	21	+3	W W W L W W
5	Renegades	16	7	9	21	-43	W L
6	Liquid	12	6	6	18	+10	L L
7	Rogue	12	6	6	18	-19	L W
8	SK	12	5	7	15	+9	L W
9	compLexity	14	3	11	9	-65
9	OpTic	16	3	13	9	-65	L L

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Congratulations to Grayhound, Chiefs and ORDER on securing the final three spots at IEM Sydney 2018!

Here is the final list of teams that will be at IEM Sydney 2018:

• Astralis
• B.O.O.T-d[S]
• Chiefs
• Cloud9
• FaZe
• fnatic
• Grayhound
• mousesports
• MVP PK
• Natus Vincere
• NRG
• ORDER
• Renegades
• SK
• Space Soldiers
• TyLoo

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Congratulations to NRG for qualifying for the StarLadder StarSeries i-League Season 5!

This is the preliminary list of teams that will attend:

• HellRaisers
• mousesports
• NRG