Heroic qualify for EPICENTER 2019 over mousesports

Heroic have qualified for EPICENTER 2019 after a 2-0 victory over mousesports in the Europe closed qualifier grand final.

The two-day tournament saw eight teams battle it out in a best-of-three single-elimination bracket, with the likes of mousesports, North and CR4ZY in attendance.

mousesports secured a spot in the closed qualifier’s final after dominant series victories over CR4ZY and SMASH in the previous rounds, which included a 16-0 thrashing of Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas and co. Meanwhile, Heroic set up a match with mousesports following wins over GamerLegion and Danish rivals North on the other side of the bracket.

Heroic qualify for EPICENTER 2019

The grand final kicked off on Vertigo, Heroic’s map pick, where the two teams locked horns early on, which ultimately saw the Danish side narrowly edge ahead 8-7 at the halfway mark. Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer and his squad stormed to a 14-8 lead as the second half ensued, with match point following soon after a string of rounds from mousesports. Despite their best efforts, the European mixture could not tie things up as Heroic shut down the comeback swiftly to pick up the opening map 16-13.

mousesports set out to even the score on Mirage and got off to a great start thanks to a Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen triple kill, which paved the way for a 9-6 advantage for the European mixture as the two squads swapped sides. Heroic stepped up their game on the defence, however, as the Danish squad grinded out a 16-14 victory, with Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund spearheading the comeback.

EPICENTER 2019 Europe Closed QualifierBest of 3

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Mirage

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mousesports	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
David 'frozen' Čerňanskýfrozen	42 - 44	-2	85.6	1.05
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	36 - 45	-9	77.5	0.93
Robin 'ropz' Koolropz	36 - 41	-5	65.2	0.82
Özgür 'woxic' Ekerwoxic	33 - 39	-6	56.1	0.79
Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ	29 - 41	-12	49.5	0.76

Heroic	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Martin 'stavn' Lundstavn	58 - 32	+26	96.6	1.53
Johannes 'b0RUP' Borupb0RUP	40 - 38	+2	80.4	1.16
Casper 'cadiaN' MøllercadiaN	39 - 31	+8	66.5	1.13
Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferSnappi	39 - 36	+3	73.9	1.09
Patrick 'es3tag' Hansenes3tag	34 - 40	-6	64.7	0.87

Heroic are the sixth team confirmed for EPICENTER 2019, joining five already invited top 10 teams, with the final two places up for grabs in the CIS and Chinese closed qualifiers. The participants’ list for the $500,000 event, which is set to take place from December 17-22, looks as follows:

Evil Geniuses
AVANGAR
fnatic
CIS qualifier

Vitality
Natus Vincere
Heroic
Chinese qualifier