IEM Katowice 2018 Europe Closed Qualifier

Gambit & North to IEM Katowice

4/2/2018 - 23:56

Gambit and North have locked their spots at IEM Katowice following wins against mousesports and HellRaisers, respectively, in the closed qualifier's lower bracket.

After fnatic and Heroic secured a place at IEM Katowice via the upper bracket earlier today, it was time for the lower bracket matches. In the second round, MOUZ beat Epsilon 2-1 and North edged out Natus Vincere with the same score.

The European mixture then met Kazakh-Russian side Gambit, who lost to Heroic earlier, and grabbed the first map, Train, following a dominant CT side.

Gambit will be in attendance at IEM Katowice at the end of February

Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov & co. struck back on Cobblestone with eight rounds on each side, and clinched the spot at the Polish event after Overpass, where the two went neck and neck with Gambit grabbing a 16-13 win in the end.

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Gambit

Matchpage

4th February 2018

MOUZ

Train

Cobblestone

Overpass

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Gambit	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev AdreN	64 - 58	+6	85.5	1.14
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov HObbit	58 - 54	+4	79.3	1.14
Rustem 'mou' Telepov mou	63 - 58	+5	68.2	1.09
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Dosia	43 - 56	-13	72.8	0.94
Denis 'seized' Kostin seized	49 - 55	-6	62.5	0.88

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi suNny	63 - 57	+6	87.6	1.14
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný oskar	56 - 52	+4	73.3	1.10
Robin 'ropz' Kool ropz	53 - 55	-2	78.8	1.04
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong chrisJ	60 - 55	+5	70.2	1.02
Martin 'STYKO' Styk STYKO	48 - 58	-10	70.9	0.94

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Gambit

Matchpage

4th February 2018

MOUZ

Train

Cobblestone

Overpass

Gambit	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev AdreN	64 - 58	+6	85.5	1.14
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov HObbit	58 - 54	+4	79.3	1.14
Rustem 'mou' Telepov mou	63 - 58	+5	68.2	1.09
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Dosia	43 - 56	-13	72.8	0.94
Denis 'seized' Kostin seized	49 - 55	-6	62.5	0.88

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi suNny	63 - 57	+6	87.6	1.14
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný oskar	56 - 52	+4	73.3	1.10
Robin 'ropz' Kool ropz	53 - 55	-2	78.8	1.04
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong chrisJ	60 - 55	+5	70.2	1.02
Martin 'STYKO' Styk STYKO	48 - 58	-10	70.9	0.94

On the other side, HellRaisers started off well against North on Cobblestone with nine rounds on the defense and grabbed a 1-0 in the series following a comfortable Terrorist side.

Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow's team then had a 14-12 lead on Inferno, but the Danes, who are making their online debut with Daniel "⁠mertz⁠" Mertz and Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye, clawed back to equalize the series 1-1.

A great defence on Overpass, the deciding map, worth 11 rounds saw North clinching the fourth spot from the European closed qualifier.

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HellRaisers

Matchpage

4th February 2018

North

Cobblestone

Inferno

Overpass

HellRaisers	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Özgür 'woxic' Eker woxic	71 - 49	+22	91.5	1.34
Issa 'ISSAA' Murad ISSAA	67 - 54	+13	83.4	1.23
Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow ANGE1	62 - 53	+9	78.9	1.09
Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk bondik	46 - 52	-6	65.2	0.92
Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz DeadFox	38 - 57	-19	59.0	0.90

North	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså valde	69 - 52	+17	90.4	1.25
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	59 - 59	0	79.9	1.06
Daniel 'mertz' Mertz mertz	49 - 49	0	58.8	0.96
Philip 'aizy' Aistrup aizy	44 - 60	-16	63.3	0.84
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	44 - 64	-20	63.8	0.82

With only one spot left to be determined, the team list for IEM Katowice looks as follows:

Astralis	Cloud9
FaZe	G2
Ninjas in Pyjamas	SK
Virtus.pro	Liquid
ORDER	Renegades
TYLOO	fnatic
Heroic	Gambit
North

The last spot at the $500,000 tournament taking place from February 27 to March 4 will go to the winner of Farmskins Championship #2, which is currently in the group stage.

Ez as always for Gambit and the missterious creature known as Dosia.

2018-02-05 00:01

5 replies

To the.... ROAR! also, CONGRATS MY FAVORITE EICHEL SEIZED <3

2018-02-04 23:57

2 replies

UMM hellraisers or north? xD

2018-02-04 23:58

1 reply

n o r t h o r t h

he is a true enigma of our time (imreallysmartpls+1)

2018-02-05 01:34

I heard he just earned his map knowledge and cs go skills because he ate gaben! Thatswhy Half Life 3 will never get released... ???

2018-02-05 23:04

Ting goes skrrra

navi and hr :( Both ukr org destroyed by north HB AdreN.

2018-02-05 00:06

look , 1 of these teams will qualify hltv.org/events/3500/farmskins-champions.. navi shouldve played this, would be easier xD

2018-02-05 02:26

oh yes ! Third? PD: Expected

2ez4north New roster , new era

ez for gambit like always.

gj north

hello navi , this is seized .....

Lol ok

2018-02-05 01:06

Denis 'seized' Kostin 49 - 55 -6 62.5 0.88 OMEGALUL

2018-02-05 07:06

3 replies

and? seized on lan hello oskar,this is major.

2018-02-05 08:13

Seized's last positive event in terms of rating was ESL One New York in September, and he had 1.01 :D Hell yeah, seized on lan :D Why do you mention oskar?

2018-02-05 09:01

He is salty russian cuck

2018-02-05 09:30

im never first rip

Dk with 3 teams :o

\o/ Yeeeees

2018-02-05 00:26

Well RIP to styko then

lets hope

2018-02-04 23:59

free woxic

2018-02-05 00:00

+1 but not to kebab soldiers

2018-02-05 07:20

-Styko +Woxic Ez

2018-02-05 10:42

hope qbf will win farmskins championship

If North can talk to k0nfig and get him motivated again, kick aizy, this could be a powerhouse team.

6 replies

2018-02-05 02:14

Aizy and msl are together

2018-02-05 04:09

4 replies

gay couple?

2018-02-05 07:17

Wtf? How is it gay. You gay

> "Aizy and msl are together" > Denmark > MSL... understand?

2018-02-05 07:21

No gay Arschloch

2018-02-05 19:05

H0bbit strats > ChrisJ strats Also good job valde and FeelsBadWoxic

Well written article my dudes, HellRaisers indeed qualified.

NORTH WENT OFF SCRIPT

2018-02-05 00:03

Well done boys

71-49 1.34 ratio on awper wtf! Free woxic. He deserve better..

its just online bro

2018-02-05 08:44

save woxic please someone

more likely kick deadfox

2018-02-05 00:02

HR deserved to get a spot at IEM unlucky a bit

2018-02-05 00:09

no, HR needs to kick deadweightfox and get a proper player. He was useless as an awp and even worse as a rifler

2018-02-05 00:13

last spot QBF

what is qbf

I have to say I'm pretty disappointed in NaVi and mousesports I also thought maybe hr could squeeze in but oh well This is really good for this new north roster though and proves gambit isnt dead

north undeserved. lucky trash team. can´t wait to see them getting destroyed on lan

2018-02-05 07:16

SOME ORG SAVE WOXIC PLEASE

2018-02-05 00:15

Deadfox completely useless without awp

2018-02-05 00:16

Also useless with awp.

2018-02-05 00:22

He is trash at LAN and inconsistent Online, i can't see any point of keeping him, when there are so many better free agents like dennis, pimp, cajunb, rubino, lowel, seized, jayzar, jkaem, pyth, acilion, znajder

2018-02-05 01:02

DeadFox>Seized

2018-02-05 03:30

No way

2018-02-05 09:32

Cool, rip HR!

2018-02-05 00:17

[*] HR

2018-02-05 00:35

wp Gmb, I just hope these new things (Hobbit as IGL, +seized) will add something good to the team at least, although I wasnt that happy about that shuffle

2018-02-05 00:42

Its plain stupid. Hobbit should not IGL. Waste of his potential. They should get rid of dosia.. he is the least sharp player and they should get a ood IGL instead of him. We all saw how good gambit was when they had structure.

2018-02-05 09:33

<3 Gambit

2018-02-05 01:05

Deadfox literally dead. I don't believe it isn't better options out there.

2018-02-05 01:10

woxic :(

2018-02-05 01:15

Woxic needs a new team

2018-02-05 01:16

Hobbit is pretty good on IGL. WP

2018-02-05 01:19

RIP hellraisers dream

2018-02-05 01:48

N o r t h LUL

2018-02-05 01:50

roses are red violets are blue styko is shit but what do i know

2018-02-05 06:57

Roses are red Violets are blue Styko is shit But what can I do?

Mouz or Navi should honestly be there, instead of Virtus.pro

2018-02-05 07:10

Gonna be a good tournament

2018-02-05 08:07

wtf mouz losing against seized xd

2018-02-05 10:28

rip HR BibleThump

2018-02-05 11:26

VirtusPro should play for their spot to...

2018-02-05 11:32

+dennis

2018-02-05 13:21

Maybe not so bad for mouz to drop out. I did not like their mindset against Epsilon at all. Those are professional players, they should prepare for every opponent and don't play pug-style against them. They need to take this more serious.

2018-02-05 13:40

yeah I remember the same thing in their game against QBF. after the 13:2 lead they just started not to give a shit and then they lost it

2018-02-05 15:54

Aizy and MSL with vintage performance living up to their skill..

2018-02-05 15:28

GG Gambit!

2018-02-05 17:57

woxic deserve a better team

2018-02-05 19:49

Wasted spots

2018-02-06 01:56