Leaders maintain their invincibility | ESL Impact League S8 Week 4 Roundup
The fourth week of ESL Impact League Season 8 North America saw the leading trio of Nocturnal, Shimmer, and FlyQuest RED maintain their invincibility, so this means that the NA representatives in the Finals will likely be two of them.
Unfortunately, it was a bad week for women's CS as days after the matches were played, ESL announced that it would shut down the Impact circuit following the S8 Finals in November.
Shimmer 2-0 Little Bocks 
There's not much to say about this series other than Shimmer absolutely hammered Little Bocks. They only lost four rounds across the two maps played, and Lucy "empathy" Verkaik once again led by example, having finished with 40 kills and a monstrous 145.2 ADR.
Shimmer| Shimmer |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucy 'empathy' Verkaik |
40 - 18 | +22 | 145.2 | 93.3% | 2.27 |
| Lydia 'Fawx' Dalton |
34 - 13 | +21 | 115.6 | 96.7% | 1.72 |
| Wrenna 'Stx' Trampel |
25 - 13 | +12 | 91.0 | 90.0% | 1.55 |
| Raven 'raven' Sol |
22 - 10 | +12 | 63.5 | 90.0% | 1.42 |
| Sylvie 'Serendipity' Splaver |
20 - 11 | +9 | 62.1 | 86.7% | 1.15 |
| K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea 'Andrea' Bracewell |
9 - 15 | -6 | 62.7 | 56.2% | 0.78 |
| Megan 'Kionetta' Kirkland |
14 - 29 | -15 | 56.3 | 53.3% | 0.65 |
 Joanne 'sapphire' Tan |
15 - 28 | -13 | 50.5 | 56.7% | 0.61 |
| Julie 'Bouchard' Bouchard |
10 - 29 | -19 | 49.9 | 60.0% | 0.53 |
| Mirna 'athxna' Noureldin |
12 - 29 | -17 | 57.5 | 46.7% | 0.51 |
| Cathryn 'exhile' Rudawsky |
4 - 13 | -9 | 49.2 | 21.4% | 0.46 |
Nocturnal 2-1 Lotus
Lotus will be beating themselves for their disasterclass on Ancient's CT-side. They were 9-3 ahead, but couldn't find a solution to fix their defense and take the map.
Lotus tied the series on Nuke, but Nocturnal dominated Overpass to run away with the series. Had Lotus not lost on Ancient, they could have broken Nocturnal's winstreak, and gotten closer to Shimmer and FlyQuest RED.
Lotus feNocturnal| Lotus fe |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha 'Zazu' Blair |
52 - 49 | +3 | 86.5 | 72.7% | 1.31 |
| Cass 'tokkis' Dellinger |
51 - 55 | -4 | 87.2 | 72.7% | 1.06 |
| Alice 'alicerawr' Hewitt |
42 - 43 | -1 | 73.7 | 63.6% | 1.05 |
| Avery 'cyclone' V. |
38 - 52 | -14 | 67.2 | 62.1% | 0.79 |
| Ava 'estrella' Ubiles |
29 - 48 | -19 | 43.9 | 63.6% | 0.74 |
| Nocturnal |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marissa 'madss' Dasta |
55 - 43 | +12 | 82.7 | 86.4% | 1.27 |
| Tori 'tori' Gustafson |
52 - 43 | +9 | 93.4 | 78.8% | 1.20 |
| Lilith 'gadfly' Mize |
46 - 43 | +3 | 73.8 | 72.7% | 1.13 |
| Violet 'violet' Carfora |
49 - 41 | +8 | 71.1 | 74.2% | 1.09 |
| Riley 'lunari' Luna |
42 - 44 | -2 | 74.4 | 78.8% | 1.01 |
FlyQuest RED 2-0 Black Mold
FlyQuest RED once again showed their strenght, this time with a convincing victory vs. Black Mold. They won comfortably on Mirage, and spanked Black Mold on Nuke, as they won their T-side by 11-1.
Every one of the FlyQuest RED players showed up during the series, but it was Marie "marie" Ellen Toft Sørensen who led the charges with 38 kills and nearly 100 ADR.
Black MoldFlyQuest RED| Black Mold |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 'Bungee' Haight |
26 - 28 | -2 | 78.0 | 61.1% | 1.06 |
| Sheila 'Pterodactylsftw' Weidman |
19 - 31 | -12 | 62.8 | 50.0% | 0.82 |
 Olga 'Knopk@' Horoshilova |
13 - 34 | -21 | 55.4 | 38.9% | 0.46 |
| Kelsie 'uhKelsie' Click |
13 - 35 | -22 | 48.6 | 52.8% | 0.42 |
| Jenny 'sunnypp' Nova |
14 - 33 | -19 | 43.6 | 36.1% | 0.41 |
| FlyQuest RED |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Marie 'marie' Ellen Toft Sørensen |
38 - 14 | +24 | 98.9 | 94.4% | 1.93 |
| Vanessa 'vanessa' Gideon |
35 - 14 | +21 | 89.8 | 86.1% | 1.66 |
| Mounira 'GooseBreeder' Dobie |
31 - 19 | +12 | 89.8 | 88.9% | 1.52 |
| Emma 'Emy' Choe |
26 - 19 | +7 | 92.2 | 86.1% | 1.33 |
 Vivienne 'BiBiAhn' Quach |
31 - 19 | +12 | 92.2 | 86.1% | 1.31 |
Ghost 2-0 wwaves 
Ghost clinched their second victory in the league at the expense of wwaves. Emmalee "EMUHLEET" Garrido had a phenomenal game and delivered 43 frags throughout Inferno and Dust2.
With that, they still have hope to qualify for the Finals as they're in fourth place behind Shimmer, Nocturnal, and FlyQuest RED.
Ghostwwaves| Ghost |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emmalee 'EMUHLEET' Garrido |
43 - 28 | +15 | 87.5 | 80.4% | 1.37 |
| Mira 'mira' Luna |
39 - 32 | +7 | 90.3 | 76.1% | 1.29 |
 Kiki 'PiggyKiki' Long |
33 - 29 | +4 | 79.2 | 78.3% | 1.11 |
 Tilde '7licious' Byström |
31 - 27 | +4 | 84.1 | 76.1% | 1.10 |
| Elena 'Ellie' Garland |
29 - 26 | +3 | 73.4 | 89.1% | 1.09 |
| wwaves |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kira 'kira' Imeeva |
36 - 33 | +3 | 81.3 | 73.9% | 1.28 |
| Iuliia 'sckrafft' Gerasimova |
34 - 39 | -5 | 82.0 | 73.9% | 1.04 |
 Yana 'sakura' Beresneva |
23 - 36 | -13 | 61.7 | 56.5% | 0.82 |
 Daria 'daria' Anokhina |
24 - 34 | -10 | 64.3 | 60.9% | 0.74 |
| Olga 'olya' Kryvulych |
24 - 33 | -9 | 54.7 | 65.2% | 0.70 |
Week 5 Schedule
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Ghost vs. Black Mold - Wednesday 07:30PM
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wwaves vs. Little Bocks - Wednesday 07:30PM
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FlyQuest RED vs. Lotus - Thursday 07:30PM
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Shimmer vs. Nocturnal - Thursday 07:30PM
Standings after Week 4
1st - Shimmer - 4-0
2nd - Nocturnal - 4-0
3rd - FlyQuest RED - 4-0
4th - Ghost - 2-2
5th - wwaves - 1-3
6th - Lotus - 1-3
7th - Little Bocks - 0-4
8th - Black Mold - 0-4
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