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StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 New Legends Stage
+ Show Spoiler [Tournament Information for New Viewers] +The valve sponsored Majors are played twice a year and are still the most prestigious tournament in CS:GO. There are 10 qualification spots for all relevant regions (Europe, CIS, Americas, Asia/Oceania) in the so called Minors. 14 teams are automatically qualified for progressing to a certain stage at the last major, meaning the tournament will feature 24 teams in total. The Major has 3 stages: - The challenger stage consists of 16 teams: 10 teams that qualified through the Minors, and 6 teams from last majors legend stage (see below). They play in a swiss system; winner vs winner, loser vs loser until each team has either 3 wins or 3 losses. The best 8 teams advance to the legends stage. The other 8 teams will have to go through qualification again for the next major.
- The legends stage consist of 16 teams: 8 teams from the challenger stage and 8 teams that made the playoffs in the last major. It uses the same system as the challenger stage. The best 8 teams advance to the playoffs. From the rest, two teams will not win any games and will have to qualify again for the next major. The other 6 teams are qualified for the challengers stage of the next major.
- The playoff stage: 8 teams battle it out in a classic playoff, all games are Best-of-3. Winning team gets 500'000 Dollars. All 8 teams are also qualified for the legends stage of the next major.
Wednesday, Aug 28 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Round 1: Wednesday, Aug 28 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 2: Thursday, Aug 29 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 3: Friday, Aug 30 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 4: Saturday, Aug 31 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 5: Sunday, Sep 01 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/StarLadder/2019/Major/Legends_Stage
Streams
Starladder Main Stream | Starladder B Stream
TeamsThe Returning Legends The Challenging Legends ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/f/f6/AVANGAR_2019.png/165px-AVANGAR_2019.png)
Results+ Show Spoiler [Qualified Teams for Playoff Stage] +- 3-0: Ence, NRG Esports
- 3-1: Avangar, Team Vitality, Astralis
- 3-2: Renegades, Team Liquid, Na'vi
+ Show Spoiler [Eliminated Teams] +- 0-3: DreamEaters, Ninjas in Pyjamas
- 1-3: MiBR, Faze Clan, North
- 2-3: G2 Esports, Mousesports, CR4ZY
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What is North doing? 5v4 and they run out of time...
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I wonder what the internal dynamics in Ence is currently like, knowing that your IGL will be replaced after the major.
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On August 29 2019 12:36 WindWolf wrote: I wonder what the internal dynamics in Ence is currently like, knowing that your IGL will be replaced after the major. they had an easy game yesterday vs Avangar, it's gonna be interesting to see how they will handle pressure when a game gets close.
I didn't see MIBR vs NIP, did NIP just fall apart or was MIBR playing that good? I hope MIBR will be more of competition for Ence then Avangar was yesterday.
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Espiranto with his Deagle clutch probably killed NiP.
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Doesn't feel like Liquid when they're winning pistols but losing the match.
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Didn't follow the Cold drama closely, but is MIBR really playing with their coach? That gives Ence a big advantage already.
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On August 30 2019 02:57 WindWolf wrote: Didn't follow the Cold drama closely, but is MIBR really playing with their coach? That gives Ence a big advantage already. Cold said that he wants to leave after the major. Then the team told him that therefore they no longer want to play with him, and prefer playing the major with the coach instead.
And NIP lost to them yesterday...
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G2 forgetting to defuse the bomb to lose the map. That's already the most memorable moment of the tournament.
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Liquid shitting the bed.
I'm so mad right now.
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I feared Liquid would struggle in groups and it's being realized.
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On August 30 2019 15:58 phagga wrote: G2 forgetting to defuse the bomb to lose the map. That's already the most memorable moment of the tournament.
I just saw that clip. How does something like that happen to a team that is playing at a major. They had plenty of time to get a defuse in as well
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Why are they playing on Vertigo? You can't tell me they rotated it into the competitive pool....
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On September 01 2019 05:12 Miragee wrote: Why are they playing on Vertigo? You can't tell me they rotated it into the competitive pool.... You must have missed the last 6 months... it was rotated in after Katowice to replace Cache. There have already been numerous updates to the map to improve it.
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On September 01 2019 05:23 phagga wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2019 05:12 Miragee wrote: Why are they playing on Vertigo? You can't tell me they rotated it into the competitive pool.... You must have missed the last 6 months... it was rotated in after Katowice to replace Cache. There have already been numerous updates to the map to improve it.
I honestly only watched a handful of matches this year and it was never played when I watched so far.
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On September 01 2019 06:32 Miragee wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2019 05:23 phagga wrote:On September 01 2019 05:12 Miragee wrote: Why are they playing on Vertigo? You can't tell me they rotated it into the competitive pool.... You must have missed the last 6 months... it was rotated in after Katowice to replace Cache. There have already been numerous updates to the map to improve it. I honestly only watched a handful of matches this year and it was never played when I watched so far. In all fairness it wasn't played a lot on the top-level, I think only 10 times in LANs before the major.
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Olof's streak of making it to the top8 in every major is now broken. What a run that was nonetheless.
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I have no idea why G2 decided to go for upgraded pistols/Mac10+Armor+Utility after winning rounds. In map 3 nonetheless.
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So it seems Liquid and Na'vi are finding their form right on time. I feel bad for Mousesports, who got screwed by the seeding, they deserved a top8 spot too.
Quarterfinals are: Ence - Renegades Team Vitality - Avangar
Astralis - Team Liquid NRG - Na'vi
That's the current top6 of the hltv ranking, together with #17 (Renegades) and #20 (Avangar). The big match in the Quarters is of course Astralis vs Liquid, with both teams showing weakness in the major, so the game could go either way. The same goes for NRG vs Na'vi. NRG have shown to be incredibly strong right now, so Na'vi really needs to be on point if they want to make it to the semis.
Ence and Vitality are heavy favorites for the semis, this should be the end of the road for Renegades and Avangar.
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