Sharks and ATK secure highest seeds in ECS Season 8 Pinnacle Cup
The second and third rounds of the ECS Season 8 Pinnacle Cup have come to an end, seeing Sharks and ATK breeze through the competition.
Riot Squad met The Quest in the second round and managed to beat the latter 2-0, with The Quest only winning fifteen rounds in the two maps that were played. Sharks continued with their dominant performance and destroyed Divine 2-0, with Luken having an astonishing 1.62 HLTV rating. The match between ATK and oNe was the only one of the 1-0 pool that went to a third map, while Rap Gang came out on top in their match against Bushido Boyz.
ATKTeamOne| ATK |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ricky 'floppy' Kemery |
63 - 43 | +20 | 95.0 | 80.0% | 1.41 |
| Ian 'motm' Hardy |
57 - 53 | +4 | 82.7 | 73.3% | 1.19 |
 Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek |
53 - 42 | +11 | 71.6 | 73.3% | 1.15 |
| Josh 'oSee' Ohm |
50 - 45 | +5 | 75.3 | 74.7% | 1.11 |
| Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou |
46 - 49 | -3 | 64.6 | 82.7% | 1.04 |
| TeamOne |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda Lima |
59 - 47 | +12 | 81.2 | 72.0% | 1.18 |
| Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos |
53 - 54 | -1 | 68.5 | 76.0% | 1.05 |
| Bruno 'b4rtiN' Câmara |
43 - 55 | -12 | 69.7 | 72.0% | 0.94 |
| Alencar 'trk' Rossato |
40 - 58 | -18 | 62.9 | 62.7% | 0.81 |
| Caike 'caike' Costa |
36 - 55 | -19 | 57.8 | 66.7% | 0.79 |
effys and the rest of LiViD were better than RBG, having no problems against the majority-Canadian and taking a 2-0 victory. New Identity, playing with Maxim "wippie" Shepelev in place of Collin "wrath" McSweegan, lost Overpass to Mythic, but were then able to reverse-sweep the stream team and move into the 1-1 pool.
New IdentityMythic| New Identity |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael 'dapr' Gulino |
71 - 55 | +16 | 102.2 | 74.1% | 1.37 |
| Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver |
54 - 47 | +7 | 61.2 | 66.7% | 1.01 |
| Will 'dazzLe' Loafman |
58 - 59 | -1 | 74.0 | 72.8% | 1.00 |
 Maxim 'wippie' Shepelev |
47 - 58 | -11 | 71.8 | 79.0% | 0.95 |
| Sebastian 'seb' Bucki |
53 - 60 | -7 | 71.7 | 66.7% | 0.93 |
| Mythic |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erik 'fl0m' Flom |
72 - 54 | +18 | 93.5 | 72.8% | 1.38 |
| James 'hazed' Cobb |
53 - 59 | -6 | 74.4 | 70.4% | 1.08 |
| Kaitlin 'Keiti' Boop |
56 - 55 | +1 | 74.9 | 67.9% | 1.05 |
| Corbin 'C0M' Lee |
57 - 52 | +5 | 73.1 | 75.3% | 1.04 |
| Samuel 'SileNt' Portillo |
41 - 63 | -22 | 54.6 | 64.2% | 0.72 |
In the third round, Sharks played Rap Gang for one of the two high seeds, where the Brazilian squad obliterated Kevin "4pack" Przypasniak and co. to finish the Pinnacle Cup with a 3-0 result. ATK versus Riot Squad was another one-sided match in the 2-0 pool, as despite Jonathan "Jonji" Carey's best efforts, his team fell to the South African/American side.
The remaining matches were all rather straight-forward 2-0 affairs, though it should be noted that Big Frames were playing with former Party Astronaut Abdo "c4lypso" Agha.
DivineLiViD| Divine |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Erik 'penny' Penny |
73 - 64 | +9 | 82.8 | 74.2% | 1.23 |
| Joshua 'Hunter' Madore |
63 - 54 | +9 | 64.3 | 73.0% | 1.12 |
| Tyler 'tweiss' Weiss |
65 - 61 | +4 | 85.6 | 70.8% | 1.09 |
| Alexander 'zanz' Diaz |
61 - 64 | -3 | 76.2 | 68.5% | 1.00 |
| Daniel 'roca' Gustaferri |
54 - 53 | +1 | 69.7 | 66.3% | 0.94 |
| LiViD |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony 'gMd' Guimond |
76 - 65 | +11 | 94.9 | 73.0% | 1.30 |
| Mathieu 'INCRED' Bergeron |
62 - 60 | +2 | 70.8 | 69.7% | 1.07 |
| Loic 'effys' Sauvageau |
54 - 63 | -9 | 69.9 | 70.8% | 0.93 |
| Danny 'huynh' Huynh |
55 - 67 | -12 | 67.3 | 53.9% | 0.84 |
| Michael 'MkaeL' De Luca |
48 - 62 | -14 | 63.7 | 62.9% | 0.84 |
The final day of the Pinnacle Cup will commence tonight at 6:00 PM EDT, with the following matches:
| 2-1 Round | ||
| Riot Squad |
vs. | Bushido Boyz |
| Rap Gang |
vs. | The Quest |
| Divine/ LiViD |
vs. | oNe |
| 1-2 Round | ||
| Oceanus |
vs. | RBG |
| LiViD/ Divine |
vs. | Mythic |
| New Identity |
vs. | Big Frames |
