ANDROID carried his team with a 1.60 rating over the course of the qualifier

Ze Pug Godz and LiViD easily advance to Americas Minor NA Closed Qualifier

Ze Pug Godz completed their upset run with a strong series against Divine.

The second qualifier for ESL One Rio has come to an end, with Ze Pug Godz and LiViD besting Divine and Polar Ace, respectively.

Ze Pug Godz started their semifinal series off against Divine, overrunning the MDL squad to secure a 16-7 win on Inferno.

Moving onto Dust2, Divine put up a markedly better showing, rallying around Chris "riku" Piasecki to win the first five rounds in a row on their CT-side. However, the map rapidly began to fall away for Divine as Ze Pug Godz won the next ten rounds in a row to solidify their lead heading onto their CT-side. In the second half the two squads were relatively evenly matched, eventually tying at 13-13 before Bradley "ANDROID" Fodor and co. secured a 16-13 win.

Ze Pug Godz
2 - 0
Divine
All maps
Ze Pug Godz K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor 49 - 29 +20 90.4 80.8% 1.48
United States Noah 'ULTRA' Giesbrecht 44 - 31 +13 86.5 82.7% 1.40
United States Spencer 'Hiko' Martin 39 - 25 +14 89.7 78.8% 1.33
United States Jason 'neptune' Tran 38 - 30 +8 79.5 80.8% 1.25
United States Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones 26 - 36 -10 57.5 65.4% 0.91
Divine K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Chris 'riku' Piasecki 39 - 35 +4 80.6 63.5% 1.11
United States Rahul 'curry' Nemani 38 - 42 -4 81.6 57.7% 0.99
United States Robert 'robby' Brown 30 - 41 -11 62.0 65.4% 0.79
United States Brenden 'stellar' McGrath 24 - 38 -14 57.6 61.5% 0.77
United States Brady 'thief' Dever 20 - 40 -20 47.1 55.8% 0.56

Compared to the relatively close series between Ze Pug Godz and Divine, LiViD versus Polar Ace was far more one-sided. Danny "huynh" Huynh, Anthony "gMd" Guimond, Michael "MkaeL" De Luca all put up 40 frags over the series to crush Polar Ace to secure a quick 2-0. 

LiViD
2 - 0
Polar Ace
All maps
LiViD K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Danny 'huynh' Huynh 47 - 26 +21 102.1 85.4% 1.62
Canada Anthony 'gMd' Guimond 41 - 28 +13 93.1 85.4% 1.55
Canada Michael 'MkaeL' De Luca 43 - 23 +20 90.7 89.6% 1.49
Canada Mathieu 'INCRED' Bergeron 43 - 24 +19 84.4 79.2% 1.40
Canada Abdo 'c4Lypso' Agha 26 - 30 -4 58.3 68.8% 0.85
Polar Ace K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Kevin '4pack' Przypasniak 35 - 40 -5 86.5 60.4% 0.99
Canada Ryan 'shanks' Ngo 29 - 39 -10 72.7 50.0% 0.77
Canada Jimmy 'Marved' Nguyen 25 - 40 -15 57.2 45.8% 0.62
United States Daniel 'tropiiical' Elshani 22 - 40 -18 47.3 54.2% 0.62
Canada Sebastian 'retchy' Tropiano 20 - 41 -21 55.2 56.2% 0.56

The teams in the Americas Minor NA Closed Qualifier are currently:

United States Chaos United States Cloud9
United States eUnited Brazil FURIA
United States Gen.G United States Swole Identity
United States Riot Squad United States Triumph
United States Envy United States Rugratz
United States Ze Pug Godz Canada LiViD

The third qualifier for ESL One Rio will take place from February 8-9th. As always, refer to the Dust2.us Calendar for important dates.

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