GGPR and Recon 5 replace Extra Salt and OCG in Premier Playoffs; bracket reseeded

With Extra Salt in Europe and OCG unable to field a full roster, two new teams have been pulled in from the group stage.

ESEA have published an updated bracket for ESEA Premier Season 36 Playoffs, seeing  the bracket get reseeded and Extra Salt and OCG replaced by GGPR and Recon 5. 

Extra Salt dropped out of Premier Playoffs due to traveling to Europe to play a number of high profile events including BLAST Premier Spring Showdown and DreamHack Masters Spring 2021.

The downside of this decision is that Extra Salt will be unable to directly qualify to ESL Pro League Season 14 this season, although they will still have a chance in Season 37. Additionally, should they perform well enough on their European adventure, they may possibly receive a world ranking invite to the event.

OCG meanwhile pulled out due to not having a full lineup as Alex "vek" Voynov and David "J0LZ" Jolin are currently suspended on ESEA pending the conclusion of ESIC's investigation into their ties to the leaked recording of ChocoCheck/Rebirth members discussing fixing a match against Russian Canadians.

Importantly, despite Sebastian "retchy" Tropiano and Carson "nosraC" O’Reilly also being suspended, ChocoCheck do not have the same problem as their ESEA roster has a number of substitutes and ringers while OCG only has their starting five.

Danny "cxzi" Strzelczyk told Dust2.us that ChocoCheck are set to field Daniel "tropiiical" Elshani for sure while the team are still deciding between Ali "phantom" Sachs, Spenser "shrek" Adams, and ogre — a friend of the team with no competitive history. Additionally cxzi said phantom may have intermittent availability due to classes.

As previously mentioned, as a result of these changes the Playoffs bracket has been completely reseeded, with Bad News Bears set to play Recon 5 in their new opening match while Triumph will play GGPR.

The complete list of reseeded opening matchups is as follows:

United States Bad News Bears vs. United States Recon 5
United States High Coast vs. United States Mythic
United States ChocoCheck vs. United States RBG
United States Triumph vs. United States GGPR

ESEA Premier Season 36 Playoffs is set to start on April 13th at 9PM EDT.

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#1(With 1 replies)
April 10, 2021 06:36PM
Fingy
Are GGPR and Recon 5 still placed in 9-10 in the league or are they going to get more prize money
#2(With 0 replies)
April 10, 2021 10:04PM
iMarbot
Dust2 Birthday cake!
I would assume extra salt and ocg take their places
#3(With 0 replies)
April 10, 2021 10:55PM
SolGoat
Unlucky that ChocoCheck still get to waste a playoff spot :/
#4(With 0 replies)
April 11, 2021 12:04PM
B0b3rT
Very solid
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