Calyx and Envy are looking sharp in their first outting

Envy, Rugratz, Infinity, Faint to ESL One Rio qualifier semifinals

Two of the remaining teams will secure themselves places in the Closed Qualifier.

The first day of the first qualifier for ESL One Rio 2020 has come to a close, seeing four teams left in the hunt for two spots in the Closed Qualifier.

Things got off to an unexpected start, as Rap Gang lost in overtime to Advanced side Neko Paradise. Russian Street Party, Prospects, ETHEREAL, twentythrees, Fine Wine, CLG Red, and ANEW also suffered losses in the second round.

The third round of play most notably saw LiViD get taken out by the recently-signed GameAgents roster. Additionally, New England Whalers take down Marcos "tacitus" Castilho's Polar Ace side, Faint handily defeat Clarity, and Monstars brutalize Savage.

Upsets abounded in round four, as Danny "cxzi" Strzelczyk's Faint continued to hit hard, demolishing a New England Whalers side that featured Danny "roca" Gustaferri instead of Marc-Andre "NiSMO" Tayar. Interestingly, the team's roster for the event also contained Swedish player Linus "Limpone" Wecksell, who most recently was a coach/analyst for Singularity.

Fledgling MDL side Asuna's Anime Aimers also upset Matthew "WARDELL" Yu's Just For Fun side, even without the presence of Tyson "TenZ" Ngo. Yet another surprising result saw Monstars defeated by Spencer "Hiko" Martin and Ze Pug Godz.

The final round to be played out yesterday saw a spectrum of results, as Rugratz and Faint battered their opposition in the forms of ex-iNTACT and Station7, respectively.

Rugratz
16 - 3
ex-iNTACT
All maps
Rugratz K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Alexander 'zanz' Diaz 23 - 6 +17 114.5 89.5% 1.94
Canada Erik 'penny' Penny 21 - 9 +12 136.2 94.7% 1.94
United States Nathan 'leaf' Orf 16 - 8 +8 81.7 78.9% 1.30
United States Joshua 'Hunter' Madore 12 - 5 +7 57.5 89.5% 1.30
United States Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro 14 - 10 +4 69.4 78.9% 1.18
ex-iNTACT K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Alexander 'retrQ' Kadan 12 - 17 -5 74.0 63.2% 0.95
United States Austin 'AAustiN' Urb 10 - 17 -7 68.5 57.9% 0.73
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly 7 - 18 -11 36.6 57.9% 0.43
United States Riley 'Reality' Fusch 5 - 18 -13 46.4 36.8% 0.35
United States Chad 'Oderus' Miller 4 - 16 -12 27.1 31.6% 0.28

Station7
1 - 16
Faint
All maps
Station7 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States William 'shonk' Kittrell 12 - 17 -5 77.6 64.7% 1.01
Canada Jonah 'JonahP' Pulice 9 - 17 -8 69.2 52.9% 0.74
United States Damian 'EMIYA' Boulware 5 - 16 -11 50.9 47.1% 0.41
United States Trevor 'FrostayK' Bandle 7 - 16 -9 42.5 29.4% 0.39
Canada Sterling 'sterling' Allard 4 - 17 -13 43.1 47.1% 0.38
Faint K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Ezekiel 'KmZ' Hughes 25 - 3 +22 118.2 100.0% 2.25
Canada Alex 'vek' Voynov 21 - 7 +14 129.2 100.0% 1.95
United States George 'Powerzz' Yaede 15 - 7 +8 90.4 94.1% 1.48
United States Danny 'cxzi' Strzelczyk 11 - 10 +1 88.5 76.5% 1.21
United States Brian 'Brian2K' Ladron De Guevara 11 - 10 +1 59.2 88.2% 1.10

In somewhat closer affairs, Envy defeated Asuna's Anime Animers:

Envy
16 - 12
Asuna's Anime Aimers
All maps
Envy K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Ryan 'ryann' Welsh 24 - 19 +5 95.9 85.7% 1.40
Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın 23 - 18 +5 90.9 71.4% 1.34
Canada Kaleb 'moose' Jayne 16 - 14 +2 61.0 75.0% 1.09
Michał 'MICHU' Müller 19 - 17 +2 65.5 64.3% 0.98
United States Noah 'Nifty' Francis 15 - 19 -4 54.4 64.3% 0.89
Asuna's Anime Aimers K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Peter 'Asuna' Mazuryk 25 - 22 +3 82.5 67.9% 1.14
Canada Wayne 'castro' Einarsson 20 - 22 -2 87.2 60.7% 1.07
United States Norman 'contii' Yeung 18 - 15 +3 69.1 67.9% 1.02
United States Eric 'Kanpeki' Xu 14 - 20 -6 63.1 53.6% 0.79
United States Paytyn 'junior' Johnson 10 - 18 -8 51.0 50.0% 0.65

And Ze Pug Godz were outmatched by the new-look Infinity squad:

Ze Pug Godz
10 - 16
Infinity
All maps
Ze Pug Godz K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor 25 - 18 +7 87.7 76.9% 1.30
United States Spencer 'Hiko' Martin 18 - 17 +1 72.2 84.6% 1.14
United States Noah 'ULTRA' Giesbrecht 17 - 22 -5 83.1 69.2% 1.03
Canada Derrick 'LILMAN' Boyne 14 - 19 -5 78.9 65.4% 0.94
United States Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones 11 - 22 -11 62.8 61.5% 0.66
Infinity K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Guatemala Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa 26 - 16 +10 97.1 80.8% 1.50
Mexico Francisco 'k1Nky' Alvarez 20 - 17 +3 88.8 80.8% 1.21
Andres 'spamzzy' Correa 21 - 18 +3 72.3 73.1% 1.15
Santiago 'Daveeys' Galvis 18 - 14 +4 62.8 73.1% 1.14
Jesus 'sam_A' Taboada 13 - 20 -7 79.4 69.2% 0.88

Today's matches are as follows:

United States Faint vs. United States Envy 6 PM EST
United States Rugratz vs. Infinity 9 PM EST

The full bracket is available here.

As mentioned, the winners of today's matches will earn themselves spots in the ESL One Rio 2020 North America Closed Qualifier. Teams who were unsuccessful this time around still have three more cracks at it, with dates and links to the remaining qualifiers on the Dust2.us Calendar.

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