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ESL One: Road To Rio Recap

Posted on by Nathan Bonello

Yesterday, we saw the conclusion of the ESL One: Road to Rio Recap, an event which was highly anticipated due to the regional stakes at hand.

Final standings + winnings for each region

Europe

  • 1st – $33,000 – Astralis
  • 2nd – $21,500 – G2 Esports
  • 3rd – $14,000 – FaZe Clan
  • 4th – $10,000 –  Team Vitality

Astralis was one of the most dominating teams in Road to Rio, they started out by grabbing 1st in group A, with a 6-1 score line, and then advanced to the playoffs, where they swept G2 with an astonishing 3-0.

CIS

  • 1st -$15,000 – Team Spirit
  • 2nd – $10,000  – Winstrike Team
  • 3rd – $6,000 – Hard Legion Esports
  • 4th – $5,000 – Virtus.pro

Spirit kicked off the event with an outstanding performance during the group stage where they managed to place 1st with a clean score line of 5-0. They then progressed through the playoffs and met Winstrike in the Grand Finals, which they managed to beat 2-0.

North America

  • 1st – $18,000 – Gen.G Esports
  • 2nd – $13,000 – FURIA Esports
  • 3rd – $8,000 – Cloud9
  • 4th – $6,000 – Team Liquid

Gen.G have already shown us that they’re capable of winning against the best teams, and they continue to dominate the North American scene with another win here at Road to Rio.

South America

  • 1st – $6,000 – BOOM Esports
  • 2nd – $3,000 – Isurus
  • 3rd – $1,000 – Imperial

In South America BOOM Esports were the dominating team this time round. They finished group stage with a clean 3-0 score line, and beat Isurus 2-0 in the Grand Finals.

Oceania

  • 1st – $6,000 – Renegades
  • 2nd – $3,000 – ORDER
  • 3rd – $1,000 – Chiefs Esports Club

Renegades  lived up to their expectations as they battered every other team in the Oceanic region. They finished the group stage placing 1st with a 3-0, and passed through the playoffs to meet ORDER in the Finals. Even though ORDER managed to give them a very close series in the Grand Finals, Renegades still reigned supreme and ended the series with a 2-1 score line.

Asia

  • 1st – $4,000 – TIGER
  • 2nd – $2,000 – TYLOO
  • 3rd-4th – $1,250 – D13
  • 3rd-4th – $1,250 – ViCi Gaming

TIGER was one of the underdog teams heading into Road to Rio. They have surprised everyone with their performance and they have shown that Asia has a lot to offer when it comes to Counter-Strike.

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Credit: ESL

All in all, the event provided high quality CS:GO for fans all around the world. A great regional tournament to showcase which squad is the top dog of their region. Next up in terms of events is the DreamHack Masters 2020 which will feature a vast number of North American and European teams, separately of course. Lets see if these teams will be able to keep up their performance onto the next event.

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DreamHack Open Summer Announced – $300,000 Prize on the Line!

Posted on by Gabriel Sciberras

Despite the global situation, DreamHack has happily announced a new online CounterStrike: Global Offensive event which will take place across the four regions of Europe, North America, Australia and Asia with $300,000 all on the line. Read on to learn more about DreamHack Open Summer!

DreamHack already had multiple CS:GO events lined up for the summer such as that for Montreal, Valencia and Hyderabad. Each of these three has been converted to outlets for the DreamHack Open Summer for the four regions – America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Bearing in mind the online format, all participants involved will be streaming everything from their very own homes.

Details are slowly flowing following the $300,000 prize pool announcement, with $100,000 prize pools for NA and Europe and $50,000 for Australia and Asia. For certain, it’ll be cut up into stages. Here is the confirmed format:

  •           Top two teams in Europe Stage 1 will advance to Stage 2 to be held on July 2-5, joining six invited teams. Eight teams will compete in Stage 1: four invited and four open qualifiers.
  •           North America will follow a similar style: Stage 2 held from August 13-16th.
  •           Asia and Oceania tournaments will also have the same format for less prize, Oceania Stage 2 running from August 7-9th and Asia Stage 2 taking place from August 14th to 16th.
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Credit: Dreamhack

The final event will have 8 of the best CS:GO teams in the world battling it out for global pride, at a later and unconfirmed date. Just like that, DreamHack has converted a bad situation into a new opportunity for teams to compete on a continental level from the comfort of their home.

With regards to teams confirming invites, DreamHack is yet to announce the official invitations for the event but have promised more information at a later date together with online regulations to keep matches fair – BLAST recently announced that they could be allowing substitutions between maps apart from games. Perhaps DreamHack might act similarly. 

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North acquire Kristou as replacement for Kjaerbye

Posted on by Nathan Bonello

North have just announced that they have signed an up and coming talent in Kristoffer “kristou” Aamand. North have signed Kristou on loan from AGF esports and he will be replacing Markus “Kjaerbye” Kjærbye on the danish squad.

The main reason for Kjaerbye having to drop out of the main roster was due to health reasons. As you may know, North’s coach Jumpy had been standing in for the past few matches due to Kjaerbye being unable to play. It was only reasonable that they find a suitable replacement until Kjaerbye is fully healed and ready to play again. They might also opt for a six man roster, as Astralis and a few other teams are doing.

This roster change will definitely impact the team’s performance, however it might not be as bad as many might assume. Kristou has been one of the top performances on his previous team. Who’s to say he’s not capable of being North’s upcoming stars?

ForZe vs North – Get a €60 risk free bet on your favourite

Posted on by Old admin

DreamHack Open Anaheim is just around the corner, and just by looking at the team lineups, you’ll know this will be one hell of an event. Day 1 is expected to be very chaotic as it will start with the following matchups:

  • MiBR vs Complexity
  • North vs ForZe

Head To Head

The above matches are sure to be tense, but if you had to compare them, you’ll realize that the match of the day will be North vs ForZe. These 2 teams have only played each other once before, which was in April 2018, and it resulted in North winning the series 2-1 in their favor. However, their rosters have changed drastically since then and both teams have improved greatly.

Recent Performance

In regards to recent performances, ForZe had an excellent showing in the DreamHack Open Anaheim 2020 European Closed qualifier, winning against strong teams such as Winstrike, CR4ZY, and Heroic. 

As for North, their recent results haven’t been extremely promising. In their most recent event, DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020, North won their opening match vs Sprout with a clean 16-4, and later that day lost to MAD Lions 16-10. They had one more chance to qualify for playoffs by playing versus Heroic the following day, but the score resulted in 2-1 in Heroic‘s favor.

Team News

On the 17th of January North revealed that they are bringing back Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen to the starting roster. MSL brought leadership and structure to the danish team, and was also an exceptional awper, so definitely a good pick up for them.

Following their recent performance, on the 11th of February, North decided to bring in Jimmy “Jumpy” Berndtsson as the team’s new head coach. Even though we still haven’t seen any matches from North with their new coach, we can already assume that they have been trying to adapt to their new style as quickly as possible for DreamHack Open Anaheim.

Prediction

ForZe has shown lots of promising results all through 2019, especially in December, grabbing the 1st place at DreamHack Open Winter 2019, and winning matches against Evil Geniuses and Virtus.pro during Epicenter.

Even with North‘s recent roster changes, it doesn’t change the fact that they have been a pretty inconsistent team, especially when playing against the top 5-20 teams in the world. In regards to maps, ForZe has displayed a strong showing on more tactical maps, such as Train, Inferno, and Nuke. Whereas North are more comfortable picking more aim based maps such as Dust 2 and Mirage. No matter the map is chosen, the match is sure to be a great one. The Odds on GGbet are 1.97 for ForZe to win this one.

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