posted by Morantyx,
Tonight, the first out of 12 teams will be eliminated in ESL One New York's European qualifier as world Team Tinker takes on eu Crypsis tonight. While 6 teams have already reached glory in round 1 of the upper bracket, only 2 spots remain. Fnatic and Moscow5 join Team Tinker in the action tonight.


Round 1 of the upper bracket approaches conclusion



While there are still two matches undecided in the first round, 6 teams have already advance to the second round. Losing finalist of WEC, world Cloud 9 had the honor of playing the first match of the European qualifier, and they did not disappoint. A brutal murder of jo 4 bunnies 1 turtle, one of the 4 victorious teams from the open qualifier, was sealed within half an hour.

One day later, se Alliance fought against eu Crypsis, the new team of 3 former members of dk Meet Your Makers named Unicorn, Exist and Cr1t-. Their qualified squad was brought down by the champions of the third International in two relatively good games where the second confrontation proved more exciting after Alliance ended the first game in only 20 minutes.

The next match caused the biggest upset as of yet, since world Team Tinker surprisingly lost their first match against the renewed ru Moscow Five. Although 80% of all rares were behind Teamerino Tinkerino, they failed at transforming the support into a victory as they got demolished in the first game by the power of early aggression and they conceded within 20 minutes.

Despite returning the favour in game 2 with an amazing win in 15 minutes, where they claimed a kill every minute and only lost one casualty over the course of the entire game, Team Tinker were unable to proceed in that fashion. In the third and deciding game, Moscow Five turned the tide with a Mirana-Bane combination supplemented by a Warlock, Luna and Brewmaster. The line-up of Team Tinker could not overcome the overwhelming lockdown and called "GG" after only 21 minutes.

Even a 5-man Echo Stomp from Bulba could not bring them victory.


Next up was by Power Rangers versus ru Virtus.Pro, which ended in a 2-0 victory for VP as JotM landed arrow after arrow once again on his beloved Priestess of the Moon, thereby granting his team the ability to collect a lot of gold from pick-offs and capitalise on these kills by pushing down towers, which was a piece of cake with Pugna in the first game and the likes of Death Prophet, Jakiro and Shadow Shaman in their second encounter.

ru Team Empire had a great time against ua NVMI, the current team of Goblak and Scandal, as Silent got to play two of his signature heroes : Lycan and Gyrocopter. Despite the fact that Scandal has been a standin for Empire in the slumber after The International, his team could not bring them down as NVMI dropped to the lower bracket with a 0-2 defeat.

On the 7th of September, eu Team Secret started their campaign towards New York by eliminating the new dk Meet Your Makers without dropping a game. By utilising solid pushing strategies, they secured themselves a spot in round 2 of the upper bracket. Check out our matchticker to see which games are being played tonight and beyond.


Next matches in Europe



Round 1 Upper Bracket

eu Fnatic vs kz xGame
Today, 16:00 CET


fr Denial E-Sports vs ua Natus Vincere
Tomorrow, 17:00 CET


Round 1 Lower Bracket

world Team Tinker vs eu Crypsis
Today, 19:00 CET


Round 2 Upper Bracket

ru Moscow Five vs se Alliance
Today, 21:00 CET


Brackets Europe



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