nosraC looks to make his way back to LAN with Gaimin Gladiators

Gaimin Gladiators top first ESL Challenger Melbourne qualifier

cynic and co. bested the new BHOP lineup in the finals.

The first ESL Challenger Melbourne qualifier has concluded, seeing Gaimin Gladiators top a somewhat underwhelming field of teams due to the post-ECL rebuild/player break and IEM Cologne. Notably, they played with the enigmatic Zack "XotiC" Elshani in place of Dominick "JazzPimp" Dimpfel. Gaimin Gladiators join ATK and Ben "ben1337" Smith's Evil Geniuses lineup in the closed qualifier.

Overall, the qualifier went by without any notable upsets, with the round of 16 seeing Touch Point dispatched by Gaimin Gladiators and Mad Kings bested by oNe. In the quarterfinals, the only result of note was a modified Mythic lineup being felled by ONET4P 16-9 on Vertigo.

Moving into the semi-finals Gaimin Gladiators took down Logan "Voltage" Long's ONET4P 16-9 on Inferno while the new-look BHOP narrowly overcame oNe 19-16 on Inferno. In the finals, BHOP struck the first blow by winning Inferno 16-8 before David "cynic" Polster led Gaimin Gladiator's efforts to win Mirage 16-10 to tie the series up. With the series tied, Gaimin Gladiators clinched Overpass 16-10 to claim their spot in the closed qualifier.

Gaimin Gladiators
2 - 1
BHOP
All maps
Gaimin Gladiators K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States David 'cynic' Polster 70 - 52 +18 102.2 76.3% 1.34
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams 48 - 50 -2 74.9 75.0% 1.04
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly 49 - 48 +1 71.9 65.8% 1.03
United States Jeorge 'Jeorge' Endicott 47 - 54 -7 76.5 63.2% 0.97
United States Zack 'XotiC' Elshani 46 - 50 -4 58.1 63.2% 0.94
BHOP K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Brett 'brett' Rhein 61 - 58 +3 85.6 64.5% 1.11
Canada Brody 'BeaKie' Kelly 51 - 49 +2 78.0 69.7% 1.08
United States Danny 'cxzi' Strzelczyk 51 - 52 -1 64.0 71.1% 0.99
United States Austin 'AAustiN' Urb 47 - 52 -5 73.7 69.7% 0.99
United States Silas 'silas' Marrufo 42 - 51 -9 62.8 67.1% 0.89

The current list of teams in the ESL Challenger Melbourne Closed Qualifier is:

World ATK
United States Gaimin Gladiators

United States Evil Geniuses (EG.PA)
Open Qualifier #2

The second ESL Challenger Melbourne qualifier is set to start today at 06:00PM. Currently the qualifier has a fairly lackluster turnout much like the first one, with BHOP and oNe being the top squads currently signed up.

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