MarKE to Katowice?

Nouns, PA, ATK set to battle in stacked qualifier

The ESL Challenger Katowice CQ has only one spot for NA's best.

The BLAST.tv Paris Major Americas RMR has come and gone, but that doesn't stop the grind for teams like Nouns. The squad, just coming back from a successful trip in Mexico and successfully winning a crucial vote to continue their funding for the next ten months, have made it through the ESL Challenger Katowice Open Qualifier, only dropping a single map.

The two-day qualifier, which also saw Evil Geniuses fall to ESEA Advanced side WITHOUTWARNING in the second round, was brutal for a number of teams who had to claw their way for three available spots in the closed qualifier to meet up with ATK. Complexity had also been invited to the closed qualifier, but declined the event as they already have an action packed schedule with the team headed to the BLAST.tv Paris Major and IEM Dallas.

Qualifying for the next stage was not overly challenging for Party Astronauts, who easily dispatched Claymakers and timbermen, but did run up against the red-hot Nouns who recently took a map off of Liquid, who in turn defeated them in a BO3 that went the distance. PA, however, were able to qualify thanks for Complexity's withdrawal as they took the third place decider over Take Flyte.

Party Astronauts
2 - 0
Take Flyte
All maps
Party Astronauts K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 55 - 25 +30 94.9 83.3% 1.64
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 40 - 31 +9 84.8 70.4% 1.19
United States Connor 'chop' Sullivan 41 - 28 +13 71.2 77.8% 1.18
United States Danny 'cxzi' Strzelczyk 36 - 34 +2 83.7 79.6% 1.13
United States Wesley 'viz' Harris 32 - 30 +2 65.5 77.8% 1.06
Take Flyte K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Kyle 'Wolffe' Greenfield 34 - 39 -5 73.2 64.8% 0.99
United States Umar 'Umar' Qaiser 31 - 39 -8 66.8 61.1% 0.88
United States Noah 'Nifty' Francis 32 - 41 -9 71.7 50.0% 0.86
United States Liam 'xCAPE' Redmond 27 - 42 -15 54.6 53.7% 0.69
United States Nick 'nicx' Lee 24 - 43 -19 54.8 53.7% 0.67

Nouns, as mentioned before, cruised to the qualification with the only stumbling block being Party Astronauts as they took down DNA and Mythic 16-4, 16-11, respectively. Their final match against Party Astronauts went the full distance, but also to a nail-biting overtime on the final map which saw the Americas RMR representative pull away to secure their spot to play later tonight.

Party Astronauts
1 - 2
Nouns
All maps
Party Astronauts K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 82 - 53 +29 92.5 73.0% 1.42
United States Danny 'cxzi' Strzelczyk 54 - 70 -16 79.4 64.0% 0.95
United States Connor 'chop' Sullivan 61 - 65 -4 71.1 58.4% 0.90
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 58 - 73 -15 76.8 62.9% 0.88
United States Wesley 'viz' Harris 36 - 70 -34 56.2 62.9% 0.67
Nouns K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States David 'cynic' Polster 82 - 57 +25 94.3 77.5% 1.43
United States Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones 72 - 60 +12 86.6 70.8% 1.12
Mexico Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado 58 - 63 -5 82.6 68.5% 1.11
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams 62 - 57 +5 73.7 70.8% 1.05
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly 55 - 57 -2 69.4 69.7% 0.98

Finally, Detonate, with their full roster together, along with Danish coach Philippe "Winspai" Mølgaard Ouabaid, were able to run their section of the bracket, taking down X13, EG-killers WITHOUTWARNING, and Take Flyte, sending the latter team to the third-place decider, where they would unfortunately go up against the new-look Party Astronauts. Detonate, who are looking to avenge their failed venture to Mexico, play their first game tonight against Nouns.

Detonate
2 - 0
Take Flyte
All maps
Detonate K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Keller 'SLIGHT' Nilan 49 - 23 +26 83.2 84.3% 1.45
United States Matthew 'Cryptic' Whitmore 41 - 34 +7 97.2 80.4% 1.35
United States Brett 'brett' Rhein 42 - 33 +9 87.8 80.4% 1.29
Canada Adam 'freshie' Paterson 38 - 34 +4 82.5 74.5% 1.15
United States Jack 'micro' Ryan 30 - 31 -1 68.8 82.4% 1.08
Take Flyte K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Liam 'xCAPE' Redmond 26 - 26 +0 65.8 78.4% 1.11
United States Nick 'nicx' Lee 35 - 39 -4 69.5 72.5% 0.97
United States Umar 'Umar' Qaiser 32 - 40 -8 62.7 62.7% 0.88
United States Noah 'Nifty' Francis 29 - 44 -15 67.4 56.9% 0.76
United States Kyle 'Wolffe' Greenfield 25 - 40 -15 57.4 56.9% 0.73
United States Tommy 'corn' Eckhart 6 - 12 -6 37.0 69.6% 0.71

The ESL Challenger Katowice Closed Qualifier takes place over the next two days, with only one spot going to the winner of the competition. ATK, Party Astronauts, Nouns, and Detonate will all be looking to punch their ticket to Poland.

United States Nouns vs. United States Detonate

United States Party Astronauts vs. United States ATK

Both games begin today at 05:30PM.

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#1(With 0 replies)
April 13, 2023 04:36PM
lkznz
loving the new party astronauts roster
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