ESL Challenger League Season 40 North America

daps' Orgless lineup invited to ESL Challenger League NA as team list is finalized

18/1/2022 - 01:54

Also among the teams competing is a new roster helmed by Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz.

The team list for ESL Challenger League Season 40 North America has been determined ahead of its scheduled start on Tuesday, with the total number of teams in the league increasing from the initial fourteen to a total of sixteen.

As a result of the Extra Salt roster's impending move to Complexity, a Louvre Agreement organization who hold a partner slot in ESL Pro League, a free spot was available in the division. To fill that gap, ESL have elected to invite Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele's recently-created Orgless lineup.

daps will compete in ESL Challenger with his new team

To increase the total number of competitors in the league, two teams that previously took part in ESEA Premier Season 39 Relegation were also moved up, including X13 and a previously unknown roster that David "⁠Delta9⁠" Shafer would be able to create using Detonate's spot.

That team was revealed on Monday to be one helmed by stanislaw, who is set to return to active play after he was released from Evil Geniuses in November. The lineup also includes Delta9 as well as two other players who have hovered around the Premier and Advanced level in North America over the years, with a fifth member yet to be determined.

For stanislaw, it will be an opportunity to build himself back up after a lacklustre 2021, a year in which he averaged a 0.87 rating as Evil Geniuses struggled to post any notable results, falling flat in almost all of their international tournament appearances.

The team list and groups for ECL Season 40 North America looks as follows:

Group A

Group B

ex-Detonate

go daps!

2022-01-18 01:55

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leggoooo

2022-01-18 01:57

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ALSO ex-Detonate = STAN's TEAM

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stanislaw is back ?

2022-01-18 02:35

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Curious to see s0mple and zywho missing in this tier 1 event. I wonder why....

2022-01-18 02:39

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they were afraid they could be up against MISTER M in group A

2022-01-18 03:41

ofc what daps does is what stanislav does

2022-01-18 08:20

trial by fire

Go Damian!

2022-01-18 01:56

NA CS POGGERS

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

yeeeeeeeee

LETS GO STANISLAW!

Let’s go stanislaw, right down Stanislaw lane, snakin and chokin dragging all his teammates through the mud again

2022-01-18 06:38

undeserved

2022-01-18 06:44

stanislov best polish player #virtusplow

2022-01-18 15:22

Pretty good lineup all things considered!!

i'm so confused wasn't he coaching for EG or did I mistaken for the other daps

2022-01-18 01:58

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he is no longer coaching, they are looking at maLek i think

2022-01-18 02:00

already comfirmed since the start of the year

2022-01-18 02:04

yeah thats what I was pretty sure i just didnt want to double check and say something dumb

2022-01-18 02:12

its actually not been confirmed yet lol only the players have been confirmed by eg

2022-01-18 05:04

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hes on the EG roster tho

2022-01-18 05:53

hltv.org/news/33020/evil-geniuses-confir..

2022-01-18 06:41

ah a fellow davenport enjoyer

2022-01-18 02:19

He was. He had a terrible time and wanted to compete again.

malek is EG coach now, daps left to play again

yes its former eg daps he left and and said he wanted to be a player again his current roaster will be pick up but extra salt im asuming after the funspark event and col is signing extra salt

2022-01-18 02:03

He left for reasons like EG didn’t let him make roster moves and stuff

2022-01-18 05:08

daps vs stan will be a good match to watch 100%

2022-01-18 01:59

it's a good story line and rivalry(I mean it can be if it wasn't one sided lol)

2022-01-18 02:02

NICE!! GL :D

I'm glad Stan has gone the building up young talent route

Yeah but is he really the role model you would want? He's shady AF IMO.

2022-01-18 12:21

NA Premier finally looks like a decent league. Also, will the format be similar in EU?

all formats are universal in esea leagues im assuming

2022-01-18 02:05

Same format for all regions I think

2022-01-18 02:06

Pretty cool, because for some reason liquipedia showed just a double elim bracket for the whole league and I was getting worried

2022-01-18 02:09

You can click on the tournament link for more info. It will be a roundrobin groupstage, all bo3. Losing at playoffs sends you to the lower brackets. Grand final bo5, with 1 map advantage for the one who got through the upper bracket.

2022-01-18 03:50

This orgless team is gonna go far I reckon. Minus is probably the most underrated player in na cs in my opinion. Also I just realised bnb signed Pluto gg

2022-01-18 02:10

Mauisnake raves about minus and I saw minus when he played with Maui. He is good. Like swisher played with Maui then worked hard and excelled. I’m playing with Maui next season then I’ll go pro.

2022-01-18 02:17

Sheesh. Good luck with that. I saw elige put minus as his bold prediction but I remember he signed for atk from springroll beforehand in a swap deal for cyrix, and people were raving about him. But he kinda got screwed over by atk :/

2022-01-18 02:18

You doubt me? 8 months from now when birdbath wins MVP at the major I’m going to say “Jerry2805 said it couldn’t be done. Well how do like them apples Jerry2805!?!”

2022-01-18 02:22

I didn't mean "good luck with that" in a sarcastic way xd I'm being sincere about it :)

2022-01-18 02:23

No. You were right to doubt me. But I do hope minus does well. Say hi to Maui if you see him. He moved to the UK.

2022-01-18 02:26

I doubt I will see him tbh haha

2022-01-18 02:31

ez 4 nython

I had daps organizing my sons birthday party’s from age 1-3 but I replaced him when my son was 4. The parties just were not reaching the heights I had hoped for.

2022-01-18 02:11

RESPECT DAPS

where is the LAST DANCE invite?

good question, I can't wait to see them play

2022-01-18 03:02

respect to daps this dude never gives up fr

2022-01-18 02:28

IT should be Last Dance Last dance > all teams present And they would bring a lot of media and viewers

2022-01-18 02:42

paiN and TeamOne with 4... I wonder who will they pick

Just come up with a cool org name instead of "orgless" it looks stupid as fuck.

2022-01-18 03:34

They should just do a OPEN QUALI to anyone and have a tournament for a ESL C spot to skip all the pointless league seasons in lower divisions, I like they just gave daps a spot imo

2022-01-18 03:39

the esea league is literally the only reason ppl pay for esea, and the league's concept is "path to EPL". having an open qual loses ESL/ESEA lots of money

2022-01-18 03:58

I honestly think the lower leagues is for practice to get to that level. If you are a mix of players from different Premier teams and can easily destroy all of the league below Premier, just like paiN MIBR YEAH Gaming, all did... these teams should have an alt route into the higher leagues if they are ranked on hltv higher than current prem teams for instance just entering the league.

2022-01-20 21:40