Europe Minor Open Qualifier 4 - IEM Katowice 2019

Final EU Minor open qualifier reaches end

25-11-2018 18:10

The final open qualifier for the next Europe Minor Championship has come to an end, with French duo Vitality and LDLC securing tickets to the next stage. Relive the qualifier's biggest moments by going through our live updates.

Vitality will face GUNNERS for a spot in the closed bracket

Day two recap

22:00 : LDLC through to closed qualifier

LDLC followed in Vitality's footsteps and booked their spot in the closed qualifier for the Europe Minor with a convincing 2-0 victory over 2019.

Europe Minor Open Qualifier 4 - IEM Katowice 2019Best of 3

LDLC

Matchpage

25th November 2018

2019

Mirage

Train

LDLC	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
David 'devoduvek' Dobrosavljevic devoduvek	42 - 34	+8	90.8	1.26
Antoine 'to1nou' Pirard to1nou	42 - 28	+14	69.5	1.23
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin ALEX	41 - 38	+3	90.0	1.19
François 'AMANEK' Delaunay AMANEK	33 - 23	+10	63.2	1.12
Logan 'LOGAN' Corti LOGAN	35 - 35	0	78.3	1.04

2019	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Paweł 'innocent' Mocek innocent	32 - 34	-2	67.8	1.01
Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel RUBINO	36 - 37	-1	76.6	0.98
Jorgen 'cromen' Robertsen cromen	33 - 39	-6	66.8	0.88
Kevin 'HS' Tarn HS	30 - 44	-14	70.8	0.86
Bastian 'ayken' Schendzielorz ayken	27 - 39	-12	54.2	0.77

This means that the final team list for the closed qualifier, scheduled for December 12-13, looks as follows:

21:00 : Vitality secure closed qualifier spot

Vitality have booked the first spot in the closed qualifier after taking down GUNRUNNERS on just two maps. Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut was once again the name on everyone's lips as he topped the scoreboard, ending the first map with a 31-8 score.

Europe Minor Open Qualifier 4 - IEM Katowice 2019Best of 3

Vitality

Matchpage

25th November 2018

GUNRUNNERS

Mirage

Dust2

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ZywOo	47 - 18	+29	108.9	1.82
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	40 - 27	+13	96.4	1.50
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	41 - 20	+21	86.7	1.48
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	29 - 25	+4	70.5	1.15
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Happy	28 - 24	+4	65.5	1.06

GUNRUNNERS	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
David 'frozen' Čerňanský frozen	28 - 35	-7	64.3	0.76
Erik 'The eLiVe' Sith The eLiVe	25 - 36	-11	64.3	0.75
Karel 'fredi' Královec fredi	21 - 35	-14	59.8	0.71
Richard 'queztone' Strnátko queztone	21 - 42	-21	69.4	0.65
Patrik 'DEV7L' Stuchlík DEV7L	19 - 37	-18	52.8	0.59

The other semi-final, pitting LDLC against 2019, is still ongoing, with the French side having a 1-0 lead after winning Mirage 16-8.

19:15 : GUNRUNNERS, 2019 through to semi-finals

GUNRUNNERS, who are playing the tournament under the name "Warmup", beat Red Reserve with a strong display from star player David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský, while 2019 squeezed past HAVU in a hard-fought match that went to all 30 rounds.

This means that the semi-final matches are the following:

Vitality vs. GUNRUNNERS
LDLC vs. 2019

18:56 : Vitality, LDLC breeze past opposition

LDLC and Vitality are the first two teams through to the semi-finals after easing past average25iqbutheadshots and 3DMAX, respectively, with Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy and David "⁠devoduvek⁠" Dobrosavljevic raising eyebrows.

In the next round, Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin's side will take on the winner of the match between HAVU and 2019, while the DreamHack Open Atlanta champions will face the team coming out of the match between Red Reserve and GUNRUNNERS.

18:10 : Day two begins

The quarter-final matches are now live. Follow all the action by clicking the links below:

LDLC vs. average25iqbutheadshots - MATCH PAGE
Red Reserve vs. GUNRUNNERS - MATCH PAGE
3DMAX vs. Vitality - MATCH PAGE
HAVU vs. 2019 - MATCH PAGE

16:00 : Tournament about to resume

We are just two hours away from the kick-off time for the quarter-finals, the final stage to feature a best-of-one format. The teams emerging victorious from this round will progress to the best-of-three semi-finals. You can follow all the action on our match page.

Day one recap

00:30 : Quarter-final matches determined

2019 eased past SJ in the last Round of 16 match, which means that all quarter-final slots have been filled. Below you can find the match-ups for the next round, scheduled for 18:00 :

LDLC vs. average25iqbutheadshots
Red Reserve vs. GUNRUNNERS
3DMAX vs. Vitality
HAVU vs. 2019

23:55 : First quarter-finalists determined

iESF champions HAVU edged past Movistar Riders 16-12 in the standout match of the Round of 16. There is now just one ongoing match, pitting SJ against the former Tempo Storm squad, who are playing under the name 2019.

Below you can find the results so far:

3DMAX 16-12 PANTHERS
LDLC 16-14 Copenhagen Flames
HAVU 16-12 Movistar Riders
3DMAX 16-12 PANTHERS
Red Reserve 16-10 Horus
Vitality 16-9 Jordan's Money Crew
GUNRUNNERS 16-12 LeftOut
average25iqbutheadshots 16-9 expert

22:28 : Round of 16 set to start

The fifth round of matches, the last one of the day, is about to start, with a number of mouth-watering clashes. Follow all the action by heading over to our match page.

22:20 : Round 4 results

LDLC 16-4 Nexus
expert 16-6 Ignite
HAVU 21-18 Chaos
Movistar Riders 16-6 pieuwpieuw
Red Reserve 16-5 Dark Tigers
LeftOut 19-16 PRIDE
Vitality 16-4 Gravity

20:55 : Favourites prevail in Round 3

With only a few matches left to play, Round 3 went according to expectations as most of the favourites progressed to the next round. The exceptions so far are Codewise Unicorns (19th seed), who were hammered 16-3 by Berzerk, and Giants, who were defeated by Nova.Pro.

Below are some of the results from this round:

Chaos 16-11 OFFSET
HAVU 16-6 Arctic
Berzerk 16-3 Codewise Unicorns
3DMAX 16-13 Madness
Vitality 16-6 PSIHOAKTIV
LDLC 16-5 Kuruma
Nova.Pro 16-9 Giants

19:50 : Round 3 set to start

3DMAX vs. madness - mixer.com/IEMKatowiceCSGO
expert vs. Team Kramer - twitch.tv/esl_99damage
Izako Boars vs. Gravity - twitch.tv/esl_csgo_pl
Vitality vs. PSIHOAKTIV - twitch.tv/esl_csgo_fr2
Chaos vs. OFFSET - twitch.tv/esl_fraglider
Giants vs. Nova.Pro - twitch.tv/esl_moreira
PANTHERS vs. Lyngby Vikings - twitch.tv/esl_99damage1

19:40 : PACT eliminated in Round 2

Polish side PACT, the 11th seed of the qualifier, have been eliminated after being defeated by GUNRUNNERS, who are competing in the tournament under the name Warmup.

Below you can find the first notable results from Round 2:

2019 16-1 tZEN
PACT 6-16 GUNRUNNERS
3DMAX 16-4 noFuture
x6tence Galaxy 16-2 F1racecar
LDLC 16-2 LowLandLiars
expert 16-9 AGAiN
Vitality 16-6 Headex
Giants 16-13 oksucc

19:10 : Big names enter the fray

With the first round done and dusted, the seeded teams will now join in on the action. Follow some of the key matches by clicking the links below:

Giants vs. oksuuc - https://www.twitch.tv/esl_csgo_es
Vitality vs. Headex - https://www.twitch.tv/esl_csgo_fr2
PACT vs. Warmup - https://www.twitch.tv/esl_csgo_pl
PANTHERS vs. MIX_FTW - https://twitch.tv/esl_99damage1
expert vs. AGAiN - https://www.twitch.tv/esl_99damage

18:00 : Bracket unveiled

ESEA has revealed the bracket for the tournament, with LDLC and Vitality earning the top two seeds. Epsilon are a last-minute absentee as they did not check in for the tournament.

Below you can find some of the notable sides who will be taking part in the qualifier:

16:45 : ScreaM to skip qualifier

Belgian talent Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom has revealed on Twitter that he will play no part in the qualifier, for which LeftOut currently has the following line-up submitted:

Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend
Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill
Žygimantas "⁠nukkye⁠" Chmieliauskas
Haakon "⁠Radifaction⁠" Tholo
Rasmus "⁠kreaz⁠" Johansson

16:42 : ALTERNATE aTTaX pull out of qualifier

On his Twitter page, ALTERNATE aTTaX captain Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen has announced that his team will not be taking part in the qualifier as they will be focusing on fixing the team's line-up issues.

Hope they win, good luck Vitality!

2018-11-24 14:53

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Mibr hahaha

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2018-11-24 14:55

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very strong teams remain, sadly no chance for vitality

2018-11-24 15:36

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+1 overhyped team

2018-11-24 16:06

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They just won a dreamhack event why no chance?

2018-11-24 17:29

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They have been throwing bo1s recently, but after dreamhack Atlanta, I hope they are more confident and stop throwing ez matches.

2018-11-24 17:54

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Online is hard, the opponents are comfortable and ping differences tend to favor the worse team, i just hope they become a world class team, so much talent in the French scene

2018-11-24 22:29

They def have a good chance. It won’t be easy though. Them and ldlc are the favorites. Sad only 2 make it

2018-11-24 16:19

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They aren't on the same side they can qualify both

2018-11-24 17:01

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Yea but their are some rams that could def beat these two. Like if 4 made it they’d have a better chance. Obv

2018-11-24 17:13

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The quarterfinals are bo3 so if they make it that far they will probably both make it through

2018-11-24 17:56

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Semis*

2018-11-24 18:15

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Potential toughest matches: bo1 vs bpro, bo1 vs x6tence/3dmax, bo3 vs red reserve/Leftout.

2018-11-24 18:28

Doubt leftout wins bo1 against pact without scream.

2018-11-24 18:43

On second thought pact has been shit since they lost 16-0 VS valience.

2018-11-24 18:48

LeftOut won't win against gun runners.

2018-11-24 20:14

They failed to qualify in previous qualifiers and i was kinda bummed about it. But now coming in confident from a lan win they might qualify here... Will be nice to see them at minor and possibly the major.

2018-11-24 15:04

they will lose to onliners sorry friend

2018-11-24 15:46

If they lose they lose... Just saying from a general perspective it will be good to see some new team(s) challenging the already established names...

2018-11-24 15:57

I think there are a lot of up and coming teams that I'd love to see get a chance at the major

2018-11-24 20:52

Yeah

2018-11-25 00:07

Go go ZyWoo

2018-11-24 14:54

Could literary be a minor smh deserves more spots

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Minor system is fucked. EU has so many good teams and CIS minor has teams no one ever heard about. EU NEEDS MORE SPOTS.

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Yeah 🖒

2018-11-24 15:01

yeah but they dont care

2018-11-24 15:32

And that's why fnatic was eliminated by CIS teams while in London?

2018-11-24 15:47

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What are you talking about? Thats not relevant at all

2018-11-24 15:48

yh fnatic didnt come from minor but from last major

2018-11-24 15:51

How is that related?

2018-11-24 16:29

The only CIS team they lost to was Na’Vi, if losing to the 2nd best team in the world is a bad thing then ur mentally ill. CIS minor should just be absorbed into the EU minor, because if these teams are so good they’ll qualify through the EU minor anyway!

2018-11-24 16:41

Probably this is the best solution, sadly no one is going to hear ya

2018-11-24 17:09

So HR isn't CIS? Plus they barely won against Vega. Draken was whining bout CIS teams then they kicked his swedish ass out of fnatic xD

2018-11-26 17:51

Nah, HR aren’t CIS. Having 2 CIS players doesn’t make you a CIS team. As I said before, if these teams are so good they’ll get out of the EU minor just fine.

2018-11-26 18:50

Woah retard talking about other people being mentally ill for no reasons cannot see a team qualified thru cis quali - so they are obviously CIS with russian, ukrainian, 2 muslims and DeadFox, so so Eu... And they easily got to top16, Vega did and spirit was very. VP was a wasted spot, SS with the coach - same. Danes were cery dissapointing. Don't see the reason to change anything

2018-12-01 15:23

2 CIS 2 EU 1 Middle Eastern But yes, keep telling yourself HR are a CIS team if it makes you feel better.

2018-12-01 15:26

they would have probably be eliminated by eu team aswell

2018-11-24 16:42

Tbh teams from the cis minors always do well at majors, Asian teams are much worse

2018-11-24 15:55

I don't think that the problem is that there no strong teams in CIS. The problem is that there are so much more strong teams in EU that will never get a chance because of how stacked it is.

2018-11-24 16:26

they do have a chance, in the qualifiers. If they can't beat the better teams in the online qualifiers, there's little chance they would offline. all the new and upcomer teams are onliners, experience is essential to be better on lan

2018-11-24 16:34

You don't understand what I'm saying. Look at this hltv.org/events/4125/europe-minor-closed.. Sure better teams will make it but far better teams will lose out at a major spot compared to CIS ones. Even if mousesports, north make it you still have ENCE, optic and a bunch of others that could win CIS Minors.

2018-11-24 16:39

You don't understand what I'm saying either. The teams you listed should make it out of the closed qualifier. And the ones that won't don't deserve to. Yes, they're better than some teams in the CIS minor, but we've seen that there's tons of potential in that scene, so the 2 spots are totally justified. So what would the EU teams gain if there were more spots in the eu minor?

Are you seriously asking what would teams gain by getting a major spot? Teams are afraid to change rosters too much just to keep their major spots. Better question what is CIS gaining by having 2 spots considering they barely do anything outside of majors? Flipsid3 farming majors back in the day, QBF/Winstrike, Spirit in and out, Vega 4 majors and they had like what 1 international result recently?

2018-11-24 16:50

I'm asking what would eu teams gain form getting a MINOR spot. The teams that didn't make the eu minor are generally weaker than the teams at the minor, so they would never qualify... And who cares about what they do outside of majors? From valve's perspective, majors are the only thing that matters, and they're by far the most important to everyone else too. Flipside, vega, gambit, qbf and avangar all came from the cis minor and they've proved that the cis scene is a force to be reckoned with

2018-11-24 17:51

CIS minor looks much stronger on paper than EU minor. Here only Vitality looks good, while CIS minor has at least 4 strong teams who could give a good fight for the Legend spot.

XDDDDDDD nice joke.

The problem is this is not even eu minor this is eu minor qualifier

2018-11-24 15:59

Open qualifier too. You could easily make 2 more stacked CIS minors out of EU closed qualifier teams.

2018-11-24 16:33

Complete no names were qualifying to CIS closed and this is the one you should be looking at: hltv.org/events/4125/europe-minor-closed..

2018-11-24 16:32

XDDDDDDDDDDD

2018-11-24 16:38

Dude it's not the EU minor, it's the EU minor OPEN QUALIFIER

2018-11-24 15:14

Go Riders!!

Will they win vs checkwin? Kappa

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Will fox be able to play? Keepo

2018-11-24 18:05

Nice movistar 😂

3DMAX pls

Europe open qualifier > Every other minor

true EU gold nova >>> NA global

2018-11-24 14:56

+999

2018-11-27 13:58

TRUE R U E

2018-11-24 15:33

omg

ldlc lose, amanek cant stream snipe

Top seed. High chances their games will be streamed from like round4-5 EZ for ldlc))

2018-11-24 18:20

ok amanek can stream snipe ez for LDLC

2018-11-24 18:38

No cloud9 there?

maybe cause they already are at the major...

2018-11-24 14:59

C9 got lucky when they played winstrike so they go the main qualifier

2018-11-24 15:06

Lets go GIANTS!

2018-11-24 14:58

JUNTAAAAAAA

2018-11-24 15:31

Good luck <3, lets cheer for an iberian team in the qualifer

2018-11-24 17:55

Ez 2-1 for Movistar Riders

delete every minor besides eu wasted spots

2018-11-24 15:00

feel like some random teams will make it. I'm calling x6tence Galaxy and Epsilon.

Riders ofc

Epsi wont play

2018-11-24 18:13

ez for Left Out.

2018-11-24 15:02

I'd be happy for the Spaniards

2018-11-24 15:08

This is definitely not the toughest qualifier. Maybe tougher than 3rd one considering +LDLC +Movistar +HAVU and Red Reserve with no standins. Even then that's questionable since 2 teams made it through, 3DMAX downgraded, AGO missing(?). And why keep highlighting Giants... They don't even make it to top16.

2018-11-24 15:18

ago in bangkok

Idk if that was worth it for the tournament it turned out to be. Guess they don't expect to make it through closed quals.

2018-11-24 16:04

Some teams not highlighted: 2019 (Ex-Tempo Storm), Nexus, Flow, expert, GoldenGitte, PANTHERS, PACT.

2018-11-24 16:20

Flow and expert should definitely be highlighted.

They keep highlighting giants because Miraa is a fan of them and fox.

2018-11-24 21:04

I know but he doesn't have to do it. Giants aren't good enough and it's not even close. They almost lost in their first match.

2018-11-24 22:07

Come on riders!

2018-11-24 15:12

Let's go VITALITY

Sooo many good teams

2018-11-24 15:13

GO GO GO RIDERS

2018-11-24 15:15

When?

I think it's in 2h30m but matches won't be featured on HLTV until top16 and only bigger teams might have matches streamed before that. Here will be the bracket: play.esea.net/?s=events&d=brackets&id=16.. Today to top8 and tomorrow will finish and bo3 only semi-final (qualify).

2018-11-24 15:27

6pm CET

2018-11-24 15:24

TY <3

2018-11-24 16:05

Stream links? Inygon maybe?

2018-11-24 16:56

druken last chance

2018-11-24 15:19

Go, Giants

2018-11-24 15:22

Probably some onliners will strike again

EU deserves more spots. So many great teams. This aint fair smh...

How many times same teams played?

2018-11-24 15:35

4th qualifier. But LDLC, HAVU, Movistar didn't play 3rd one, Red Reserve had standins, 3DMAX new roster, AGO missing still, Epsilon new lineup with fejtz and no 5th yet.

2018-11-24 18:12

Only eu arent wasted spots wtf

2018-11-24 15:39

GL to Vitality and LDLC.

it will be funny if they dont make it

both french teams must make it

2018-11-24 16:11

inb4 same side of bracket and not even possible xddd, I guess can hope 1 and 2 seeds tho but who knows how they decide seeds exactly xddd

They should definitely be in separate sides but I wouldn't put it past Vitality to lose to FCottoNd or Leftout

2018-11-24 16:23

ofc they will be top2 seeds

2018-11-24 16:30

last time vitality was 4 seed but now they are late tournament winners and ranking got way better so hopefully it shows in seeding D:...

2018-11-24 16:31

el di el ci

2018-11-24 16:21

Anyone can send me brackets link plz?

2018-11-24 16:28

play.esea.net/?s=events&d=brackets&id=16..

2018-11-24 17:21

bracket?

2018-11-24 16:37

cis and na teams should just give two spots each to these guys lol

sooo fucking stacked wtf

2018-11-24 16:47

Vitality won't make it

EZ 4 RR&LeftOut

no hunden in major, feels bad man xd

2018-11-24 16:58

I'm pretty sure North can kick cadian if they want God HUNDEN.

2018-11-24 17:08

no Hunden no hype

wtf is vitality logo? looks ugly

2018-11-24 17:34

It's a bee.

2018-11-24 21:18

rip LeftOut :/

they arent out lol

2018-11-24 21:59

Let's go RIDERS

2018-11-24 18:00

RIP Epsilon, they won't play

2018-11-24 18:14

>We (@ATNattax) decided to skip the last minor qualifier to try to fix our lineup issues! Regardless of what they do they will forever be an irrelevant online team

2018-11-24 18:30

I love how panthers's game is fetured but experts not

2018-11-24 19:18

There are like 100 matches being played at the same time. I'm adding the matches as I get info from casters. Trust me, it's not easy

2018-11-24 19:20

np :P

2018-11-24 19:43

what about leftout men

2018-11-24 21:15

Why this is not on the matches list?

2018-11-24 20:05

Too many matches and some random mixes. It will start from top16 as usual.

2018-11-24 22:18

Nice comeback GIANTS!

2018-11-24 20:06

EZ4Xtqzzz

2018-11-24 20:47

ok nvm

2018-11-24 21:06

frozen to major Kappa

2018-11-25 00:46

2018-11-25 02:29

ez 4 average25iqbutheadshots

2018-11-25 13:02

average25iqbutheadshots xDDD

2018-11-25 18:46

Damn predicted the quarterfinals 4/4 ez $700

2018-11-25 19:38

Please win Vitality and Tempo Storm

2018-11-25 20:12

Meaning of closed qualifier?

2018-11-25 21:09

Expected. Always said G2 wouldn't work without apEX. Best french entry fragger by far

2018-11-25 21:26

Finally

2018-11-25 21:33

how can be ZywOo that good? ZywOo > everyone in 2019

2018-11-25 21:40

We will finally see him play against T1-2 teams like Mouse / North I hope he can keep this level against these teams ! He's really entertaining to watch

2018-11-25 22:01

only took 4 qualifiers

2018-11-25 21:53

EU minor list WTF

2018-11-25 22:24

compare eu minor to others - what a shitshow lul

2018-11-26 07:39

Feel sad about the Spanish/Portuguese teams, but they didn't deserved to qualify playing like they did.

2018-11-26 09:44