Americas Minor North America Closed Qualifier - IEM Katowice 2019

Quartet through to Americas Minor

13-12-2018 08:38

NRG, FURIA, eUnited, and Envy are the first four teams to qualify via the North American closed qualifier to the Americas Minor after topping the upper bracket.

A total of 16 teams were battling in the Americas Minor NA Closed Qualifier, where the first four teams qualified via the upper bracket, with the remaining two slots going to those who survive in the lower bracket.

Luminosity, who received a direct invite to the tournament, entered with Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass replacing Gustavo "⁠yel⁠" Knittel as well as Rafael "⁠zakk⁠" Fernandes stepping into the lineup for Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles, who was not added to the roster prior to the opening match by mistake. Things did not pan out for Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes's team, who fell flat to FURIA on two maps to fall to the lower bracket.

NRG were the first North American squad to punch their ticket to the Minor, taking down iNTACT & Singularity without dropping a map. Right behind them were FURIA, who defeated Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir's Swole Patrol in the second round to reach the Minor in Poland.

FNS' eUnited advanced to the Americas Minor

eUnited and Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares' Old Guys Club clashed in a three-map thriller, resulting in Pujan "⁠FNS⁠" Mehta & co. advancing. In the second round, they met Ghost, with the series coming down to the decider, Inferno, as Michael "⁠dapr⁠" Gulino led the way with a 1.75 rating in the 16-5 map victory to clinch the series.

The last team to make their way to Poland were Envy, who began their journey against Mythic in a close three-map series. Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano and his men then took on Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen's Rogue, which saw a tightly contested series come down to the wire, with Stephen "⁠reltuC⁠" Cutler paving the way with a 1.16 rating in the series to help his team reach the Minor.

The first four teams from the North America closed qualifier will join INTZ and Imperial at the Americas Minor in Poland, as two more slots remain up for grabs, which will be determined on Thursday-Friday.

Below is the current team list for the Americas Minor:

Qualifier

Qualifier

Wow

2018-12-13 08:39

5 replies

what the fuck envy

3 replies

Unlucky

2018-12-13 08:42

1 reply

Yuurih so good

2018-12-13 09:48

Ikr

2018-12-13 08:58

Nice

pray for ogc

2018-12-13 08:40

lets goooo

2018-12-13 10:27

yea broooo

2018-12-13 10:35

bump

2018-12-14 01:58

BR Minor

2018-12-13 08:41

4 replies

team one in coming

2018-12-13 08:51

2018-12-13 12:54

It's fine, since none of these teams will make it in the end.

2018-12-13 10:13

Nope, Furia will classify

2018-12-14 23:54

OGC for the win

Lmao na minor is so shitty

2 replies

lmao okay polak theres gonna be no poland players at the major

2018-12-13 10:15

More like SA Minor Amirite

2018-12-13 15:07

MSLUL

Just curious why furia and luminosity didn't have to go through the SA qualifier and were invited/able to go to the NA qualifier

2018-12-13 08:45

6 replies

They live and competing in NA for a long time already

2018-12-13 09:22

Also that is why there is only 2 spots for SA at the Americas minor

2018-12-13 14:04

Makes sense, thanks

2018-12-13 17:57

Mad NA kid lmaooooo

2018-12-13 09:51

Not really, they deserve the spot they got. I was just wondering because they added the SA qualifiers. Calm down Mad Faze kid, lmaooo at faze trying to qualify for ESL or ECS

2018-12-13 17:56

i mean they could compete at both right?

2018-12-13 10:40

I just want to se drdisrespect at a major

2018-12-13 08:52

Or a minor, whatever

Whos Quartet

2018-12-13 09:21

This man here making the real questions, idk who Quartet is but I predict them to win the major

2018-12-13 15:33

RIP OGC even if they win first game shroud cant make 2nd game so they will have to forfeit.

2018-12-13 09:01

What will he do instead of playing a major qualifier?

2018-12-13 09:15

Hes doing some sponsored stuff in L.A. He has to play the first game at skadoodle house too

2018-12-13 09:18

weird

ez furia

2018-12-13 09:03

so many brazilians flags if HEN1 was not such a dumbfuck LG could be there too

2018-12-13 09:20

Why HEN1 didn't played? I still didn't understand

2018-12-13 13:18

They needed to add him in the area roster for this tournament. They thought being in EPL was enough. Dumb mistake and lack of responsibility again, since they didn't read the rules this time too.

2018-12-13 13:24

He forgot to join the team roster to play the minor... for them he was not a player of the team because of this... so him was not allowed to play

2018-12-13 13:29

what a dumb fuck this kid is

2018-12-13 13:58

He forgot or the coach forgot? I think it's the coach who does this kind of things.

2018-12-13 14:44

LG still had a chance with boltz, lucas1, nekiz and steel. They´ll have to beat Bravado, Singularity (hard match) and possibly Ghost with a coach like them. It´s hard, but possible.

2018-12-13 14:21

brazilian overtake

2018-12-13 09:23

I wish FNS the worst.

2018-12-13 09:31

So far there is one team has a chance to make it to the Major. Not comparable to EU so far.

2018-12-13 09:43

NRG, INTZ, Luminosity (now with boltz). Ghost (if wasn´t the steel´s problem, could do, too).

2018-12-13 14:23

SOOO ez 4 nv

2018-12-13 10:14

Ayy nice support

2018-12-13 10:16

gotta rep the ex clg boys

2018-12-13 10:17

I’ve been an envy fan since og french roster

2018-12-14 09:56

ive been a clg fan since 2015, cutler being my favorite player and ill follow him anywhere

2018-12-14 11:28

Good fan right there :D

2018-12-14 22:32

Nice boys :))

+LG +oNe and ez for Brazil top1 country

NA minor's qualifier is already very weak so if you had banned players like -swag or -steel it becomes even more of a clown fiesta s0m played very well though

2018-12-13 10:30

s0m was rekted on Ovp, but played very good on Cache. His aim is very good.

2018-12-13 14:24

Lets go win lower bracket Team One and LG.

2018-12-13 13:13

Would be fucking hilarious if LG and TeamOne gets those last two spots. More BR than NA teams on the NA minor.

2018-12-13 13:16

AmericaS Minor*

2018-12-13 14:07