ESL Pro League Season 18 NC Europe Qualifier

Eternal Fire, ORKS clinch final ESL Pro League Season 18 slots

16-7-2023 22:20

Bad News Eagles, Into the Breach, and SAW were among the names who failed to qualify.

MAJ3R and company have earned spots in EPL S18

The team list for ESL Pro League Season 18 has been set following the conclusion of the National Championship Europe qualifier, with Eternal Fire and ORKS securing the final two spots available at the Maltese event.

The 10-team bracket featured teams who qualified through a spread of ESL's national championship events, ranging from ESL Premiership Spring, Masters Spring, NC France, Turkey Championship, and ESL Meisterschaft Spring.

The opening round featured just two matches, with ORKS and ECLOT beating ex-DomiNation and ex-Genk, respectively, to advance to the quarter-final round.

There, a handful of upsets unfolded, with the most notable seeing ECLOT dispatch of BLAST.tv Paris Major Legends Into the Breach, and ORKS narrowly prevailing over Bad News Eagles in a hard-fought series. Eternal Fire also eliminated the former HEET core, playing under Looking4Org, while SAW moved past Timo "⁠Spiidi⁠" Richter's ALTERNATE aTTaX.

9z qualify for ESL Pro League Season 18

The final two matches, where spots in ESL Pro League Season 18 were on the line, then unfolded. Eternal Fire made short work of ECLOT to become the first team to confirm their berth, converting a 10-5 lead on their Anubis pick into a 16-13 victory before cruising to a 16-7 finish on Inferno.

ORKS continued their impressive run by defeating SAW in their own matchup, running up a 10-5 lead on the T side of Nuke before closing out their pick, 16-13. Vertigo ended up more one-sided as Arek "⁠Vegi⁠" Nawojski and Patryk "⁠olimp⁠" Woźniak powered their side to a 16-10 finish, earning the Polish team the last spot at the $850,000 event in Malta.

The complete team list for ESL Pro League Season 18 looks as follows:

Group A

Qualified team

Group B

Qualified team

Group C

Qualified team

Group D

Qualified team

The teams hailing from the qualifiers:

Eternal Fire

Rooster

ORKS

2023-07-16 22:20

Nice

1 reply

xantarest goat

2023-07-16 22:36

Great

mhm

2023-07-16 22:21

Orks!!!! :D

Good luck EF

2023-07-16 22:22

gg calyx

2023-07-16 22:23

Orks okay

Also part of the Paloma roster on lab wtf

2023-07-16 22:24

Orks > t2 bots

ez4ef

2023-07-16 22:25

what will happen to ex-ATK spot btw?

2023-07-16 22:26

2 replies

M80

2023-07-16 22:35

makes sense

2023-07-16 22:37

gg saw barely missed gamers8 and now epl

2023-07-16 22:31

good job my boys

casey, sNx, olimp, mwlky, vegi - another polish team with TOP 20 potential

2023-07-16 22:38

19 replies

2023-07-16 22:43

bruhhh stop fanboying, top 30 max with some lucky results

2023-07-16 22:52

Casey is stand-in, hs Play on orks normally

2023-07-16 22:55

casey is not even in this team, he was just standin for HS

2023-07-16 23:48

More like top 80 potential.

2023-07-17 01:25

11 replies

Chill man after this week they'll be top40 and then we can go somewhere from There. U overestimate top40 range

2023-07-17 01:35

7 replies

Yeah u can go top50 with them

2023-07-17 02:46

6 replies

saw is #26 and bne is #21

2023-07-17 11:31

5 replies

Yeah but this is mix.You never know what will happen.I predict that ORKS won't win a single game on EPL unless they will play in the group D where they will prob face 9INE in the lower bracket(and it's lottery between Polish teams).

2023-07-17 13:04

4 replies

its actually a team, HS estonian player is playing with them instead of casey who was stand-in yesterday

2023-07-17 13:27

3 replies

It's a mix team.I dont see 2 washed players,2 onliners and one overrated player to do anything there.

2023-07-17 13:41

they were the mix but they advanced to EPL so they will be playing together for longer

2023-07-17 14:13

That's true but still the roster is not good enough to win anything there

2023-07-17 14:16

They already beat og, saw and bne

2023-07-17 01:52

First one was bo1 and rest is gj

u are mad asf XD please just dont reply

2023-07-17 13:53

top 1 with radar

2023-07-17 01:55

dougbuck stop creating new accounts

2023-07-17 03:00

top20 poland

2023-07-17 07:51

ex-Atk will be m80 right?

yes

2023-07-16 22:49

99.99% yes, they have 3 ppl from atk that qualified

orks how?

2023-07-16 22:39

Tenzki GOAT

2023-07-16 23:01

yeah i guess

2023-07-16 23:05

Pog

2023-07-16 22:40

poggies

2023-07-18 23:39

BNE cant even qualify for EPL but atleast major exists

2023-07-16 22:41

8 replies

at least they humiliate choko and then go off :)

2023-07-16 22:42

16-13 when choko was the only one playing for g2= humiliate

who needs a proper csgo career or win a tournament when you can just come out of the woodwork once every 6 months to humiliate choko and bottigan and then disappear?

fair enough

2023-07-16 23:09

thats why bne is based

2023-07-17 00:58

2023-07-17 12:46

Barely lost to orks who are probably cheating in these online shit matches

2023-07-17 01:53

Nah, if u watched Paloma like 7/8 months ago players Play 10x more better. Now they are 100% clear. I think they never Cheated but they do matchfixing

2023-07-17 03:58

Someone at HLTV should probably update ex-ATK to M80 now.

2023-07-16 22:50

HS gonna play for casey on LAN :D

2023-07-16 23:02

let's go EF!

2023-07-17 00:01

letsss goo EF

2023-07-17 00:07

Good Luck EF!

2023-07-17 00:09

Nice but casey or HS is in ORKS? Because casey was playing in quals

2023-07-17 00:17

casey was standing in because they needed to maintain Paloma/Ignis Serpens core from ESL MP HS is their long-term player

2023-07-17 10:50

Furia flag???

2023-07-17 01:20

lets go EF!!!

2023-07-17 03:52

why is eg still here

2023-07-17 06:36

Paloma on lan KEKW

2023-07-17 06:37

ORKS Russian Pride

2023-07-17 06:52

Paloma on LAN

2023-07-17 08:12

I tought tenzki and HS would be retired by now

2023-07-17 09:31

Group D What happened? It's hell of good teams

2023-07-17 09:35

i thought orks would be a russian team

2023-07-17 09:45

same

2023-07-18 17:47

Where can we express the frustration we have for BNE results the entire 2023 year. This is the worst shape and form i have seen BNE be in since they were in blink with gulito instead of rigon. The coach has done absolutely nothing to improve instead he has made their playstyle worse. CT sides are a joke now on all maps for them. @devilwalk hope he sees and just leaves the team.

2023-07-17 10:41