blackpoisoN and the rest of ATK are one step closer to qualifying

Third ECS Season 8 Pinnacle Cup qualifier gears up for the final round

Tomorrow, two more teams will claim their spot in September's showdown.

Tonight, the quarterfinal matches of ECS Season 8 Pinnacle Cup Open Qualifier 3 drew to a close, leaving four teams standing to duke it out for the two spots in ECS Season 8 Pinnacle Cup in September. 

Before matches began, Monstars were able to catch a break as Ascent forfeited since they would be unable to play. 

After things kicked off, Rap Gang managed to diss LiViD 2-1, pulling off a reverse sweep after failing to win their own map pick, Mirage. Undiscouraged by a 16-11 loss, Justin "FaNg" Coakley and his crew came back to take Inferno 16-2, then follow it up with a 16-7 win on Nuke.  

LiViD
1 - 2
Rap Gang
All maps
LiViD K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Mathieu 'INCRED' Bergeron 44 - 51 -7 63.8 60.3% 0.88
Canada Danny 'huynh' Huynh 41 - 52 -11 69.2 54.4% 0.87
Canada Loic 'effys' Sauvageau 41 - 52 -11 72.1 60.3% 0.86
Canada Michael 'MkaeL' De Luca 37 - 54 -17 64.2 64.7% 0.82
Canada Anthony 'gMd' Guimond 35 - 56 -21 62.4 57.4% 0.73
Rap Gang K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams 61 - 38 +23 88.1 76.5% 1.40
United States Kevin '4pack' Przypasniak 58 - 41 +17 92.8 76.5% 1.36
United States Erick 'Xeppaa' Bach 56 - 33 +23 86.6 79.4% 1.34
Canada Justin 'FaNg' Coakley 53 - 42 +11 84.5 76.5% 1.19
United States Bilal 'SPAMMER' Ali 37 - 44 -7 59.7 73.5% 0.95

Further down the bracket, ATK took down Glizzy Gang 2-0, where a short two game series saw the South African team take Inferno 16-3, then have a dominant T-side on Dust2 to win 16-11. 

ATK
2 - 0
Glizzy Gang
All maps
ATK K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou 41 - 21 +20 95.4 84.8% 1.57
Rhys 'Fadey' Armstrong 37 - 30 +7 87.3 80.4% 1.31
United States Ian 'motm' Hardy 41 - 29 +12 87.1 69.6% 1.30
Roberto 'blackpoisoN' Dall'Occo 36 - 29 +7 86.5 69.6% 1.26
Dominic 'Domsterr' Sampaio 37 - 26 +11 82.2 80.4% 1.26
Glizzy Gang K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Sebastian 'retchy' Tropiano 31 - 37 -6 76.4 69.6% 0.97
Canada Jimmy 'Marved' Nguyen 33 - 41 -8 89.0 63.0% 0.94
Canada Ryan 'shanks' Ngo 33 - 38 -5 76.5 60.9% 0.87
United States Daniel 'tropiiical' Elshani 16 - 37 -21 44.4 58.7% 0.59
Canada Kevin 'poised' Ngo 21 - 39 -18 49.7 58.7% 0.55

As for RUNnGUN and Tiny Meat Gang, Tiny Meat Gang prevailed 2-1 after a hard fought series. Regulation ended in a tie on Overpass, but Tiny Meat Gang went on to win the first map 19-16. Nuke played out in the same fashion, although this time RUNnGUN would be the victor. Mirage also saw an overtime, with Tiny Meat Gang winning 19-17.

RUNnGUN
1 - 2
Tiny Meat Gang
All maps
RUNnGUN K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Michael 'miLLe' St-Pierre 93 - 60 +33 87.5 78.8% 1.38
Canada Cedric 'Melio' Perrault 75 - 76 -1 81.5 67.3% 1.04
Canada Gabriel 'tENSKI' Rodrigue 66 - 70 -4 66.7 71.2% 0.99
Canada David 'J0LZ' Jolin 68 - 71 -3 70.7 70.2% 0.98
Canada Yannick 'KOLER' Blanchette 54 - 76 -22 58.3 67.3% 0.80
Tiny Meat Gang K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Oliver 'figment' Thompson 80 - 68 +12 84.7 76.9% 1.21
United States Corey 'ChurmZ' Koch 77 - 73 +4 83.3 72.1% 1.17
United States Garrett 'Bunny' Molle 74 - 77 -3 75.0 69.2% 1.09
United States Troy 'ara' Pollock 65 - 65 +0 61.8 66.3% 0.94
United States Reagan 'Reagan' Love 57 - 73 -16 64.0 71.2% 0.87

Tomorrow will feature the top four teams facing off, with the winners of each matchup earning a spot in the ECS Season 8 Pinnacle Cup. 

Taking place at 8PM EDT, the semifinal matchups are as follows:

United States Tiny Meat Gang vs.  ATK
United States Rap Gang vs.  United States Monstars

This weekend will be the fourth and final open qualifier for the main event taking place from September 10th-15th. For those interested, more information can be found on the ECS website.

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