Replacing LILMAN with neptune seems to have given Ze Pug Godz the boost they needed

Divine, LiViD, Polar Ace, Ze Pug Godz advance to second ESL One Rio qualifier semifinals

A number of smaller squads managed to find their way into the top four this time around.

Day one of the second qualifier for ESL One Rio 2020 has concluded, seeing MDL squads Divine and LiViD joined by Advanced side Polar Ace and mixteam Ze Pug Godz.

Compared to the first qualifier, round one saw no major upsets as the majority of the higher-seeded teams made it through to the next round without much trouble.

In the second round the first major upsets took place as Ze Pug Godz, using Jason "neptune" Tran in place of Derrick "LILMAN" Boyne from their previous outing, secured a narrow 16-12 win over Pujan "FNS" Mehta's Orgless. Elsewhere in the bracket Josh "JoshRT" Lee's Prospects also claimed a 16-12 win against MDL squad Thunder Logic.

The third round of the qualifier saw Ze Pug Godz continue their upset run as Bradley "ANDORID" Fodor led the way for his team to win Inferno 16-10 over number one seed New England Whalers. Additionally, Prospects also managed to fight on with a 16-12 win over Asuna's Anime Aimers, albeit with Ramal "Rampage" Silva standing in for Peter "Asuna" Mazuryk.

In the fourth round, Prospects' run was finally put to an end as Ze Pug Godz crushed the team 16-3 on Mirage.

Prospects
3 - 16
Ze Pug Godz
All maps
Prospects K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'JoshRT' Lee 15 - 18 -3 74.8 78.9% 1.01
Canada Adam 'Ange' Milian 10 - 19 -9 63.8 68.4% 0.77
United States Dylan 'Hiki' O'Kane 9 - 18 -9 72.9 63.2% 0.77
United States Mike 'real_bM' Desanto 12 - 19 -7 68.3 57.9% 0.68
United States Anhduy 'nguyen' Nguyen 5 - 18 -13 45.2 52.6% 0.40
Ze Pug Godz K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor 27 - 6 +21 125.4 84.2% 2.09
United States Noah 'ULTRA' Giesbrecht 19 - 12 +7 90.8 94.7% 1.52
United States Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones 17 - 15 +2 111.9 94.7% 1.51
United States Jason 'neptune' Tran 15 - 10 +5 90.1 84.2% 1.35
United States Spencer 'Hiko' Martin 12 - 8 +4 64.6 84.2% 1.15

In a far closer affair, Polar Ace claimed their spot in the semifinals with a 16-12 win against Monstars.

ex-iNTACT
14 - 16
Polar Ace
All maps
ex-iNTACT K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Alexander 'retrQ' Kadan 26 - 19 +7 97.0 76.7% 1.36
United States Riley 'Reality' Fusch 24 - 16 +8 78.8 66.7% 1.29
United States Austin 'AAustiN' Urb 18 - 19 -1 70.2 70.0% 1.00
United States Chad 'Oderus' Miller 18 - 18 +0 55.2 66.7% 0.99
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly 11 - 24 -13 56.9 66.7% 0.77
Polar Ace K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Ryan 'shanks' Ngo 26 - 19 +7 94.0 70.0% 1.39
Canada Sebastian 'retchy' Tropiano 22 - 18 +4 74.5 70.0% 1.11
United States Kevin '4pack' Przypasniak 23 - 20 +3 83.1 63.3% 1.08
Canada Jimmy 'Marved' Nguyen 16 - 22 -6 63.3 66.7% 0.87
United States Daniel 'tropiiical' Elshani 9 - 18 -9 38.1 66.7% 0.72

Finally, LiViD and Divine claimed the last two spots with 16-7 wins over Mythic and Station 7, respectively.

LiViD
16 - 7
Mythic
All maps
LiViD K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Anthony 'gMd' Guimond 24 - 13 +11 112.3 73.9% 1.65
Canada Danny 'huynh' Huynh 19 - 15 +4 82.3 73.9% 1.33
Canada Abdo 'c4Lypso' Agha 19 - 14 +5 72.3 78.3% 1.27
Canada Michael 'MkaeL' De Luca 14 - 14 +0 72.0 69.6% 1.15
Canada Mathieu 'INCRED' Bergeron 14 - 10 +4 64.2 73.9% 1.11
Mythic K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Donovan 'zNf' Froid 16 - 17 -1 73.9 60.9% 0.95
United States Kaitlin 'Keiti' Boop 17 - 19 -2 84.0 56.5% 0.89
United States Erik 'fl0m' Flom 12 - 18 -6 68.3 60.9% 0.80
United States Adam 'Polen' Polen 13 - 17 -4 56.0 60.9% 0.69
United States Corbin 'C0M' Lee 8 - 19 -11 44.0 52.2% 0.44

Divine
16 - 7
Station7
All maps
Divine K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Rahul 'curry' Nemani 21 - 13 +8 110.8 78.3% 1.57
United States Brady 'thief' Dever 21 - 13 +8 95.6 82.6% 1.44
United States Brenden 'stellar' McGrath 20 - 14 +6 84.8 91.3% 1.33
United States Chris 'riku' Piasecki 20 - 14 +6 72.1 78.3% 1.29
United States Robert 'robby' Brown 17 - 13 +4 83.7 69.6% 1.23
Station7 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Jonah 'JonahP' Pulice 22 - 20 +2 87.1 60.9% 1.07
Canada Sterling 'sterling' Allard 16 - 21 -5 87.9 65.2% 0.95
United States William 'shonk' Kittrell 10 - 19 -9 62.0 65.2% 0.78
United States Damian 'EMIYA' Boulware 13 - 19 -6 60.0 65.2% 0.71
United States Trevor 'FrostayK' Bandle 6 - 20 -14 42.3 30.4% 0.33

Today's matches are as follows:

United States Ze Pug Godz  vs.   United States Divine 6 PM EST
Canada LiViD vs.   Canada Polar Ace 9 PM EST

The full bracket is available here.

The winners of today's matches will join Envy and Rugratz from the first open qualifier in the ESL One Rio 2020 North America Closed Qualifier. Teams who were unsuccessful this time around still have two chances to qualify, with dates and links to the remaining qualifiers on the Dust2.us Calendar.

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