Some much needed good news for Zellsis and co.

Envy, Lazarus, and Riot Squad through to MSI MGA Closed Qualifier

One day of action and a light field sees the three teams through to the next stage of the event.

The first qualifier for MSI MGA 2019 played out yesterday, seeing 59 North American teams participate.

Things proceeded as normal for the first two rounds of play, with the only notable matchup to speak of being Rugratz against Jasper "sfX" Ko's x1 Mob, which the MDL team won.

Rugratz' run and Tyler "tweiss" Weiss's AWPing experiment would come to an end in the Round of 16 at the hands of Riot Squad. Advanced squad Final Feature also saw their qualification chances terminated by Frost Pug, a mix featuring the core of The Quest.

In the quarterfinals, Peter "ptr" Gurney and Riot Squad got a modicum of revenge over (brief) former teammate Michael "dapr" Gulino and New Identity, while Envy took care of business against MDL hopefuls LiViD.

The semifinals saw Lazarus handily defeat Riot Squad, perhaps taking some frustration out on Pujan "FNS" Mehta. Jaccob "yay" Whiteaker dropped over thirty kills in the effort, recording a 1.95 rating.

Lazarus
16 - 9
Riot Squad
All maps
Lazarus K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Jaccob 'yay' Whiteaker 32 - 15 +17 130.6 80.0% 1.95
Canada Yassine 'Subroza' Taoufik 24 - 15 +9 96.8 76.0% 1.49
United States Braxton 'swag' Pierce 22 - 12 +10 83.9 72.0% 1.38
United States Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro 19 - 14 +5 85.2 76.0% 1.31
United States Gage 'Infinite' Green 10 - 15 -5 47.9 80.0% 0.87
Riot Squad K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Mitch 'mitch' Semago 20 - 21 -1 81.4 72.0% 1.01
Canada Pujan 'FNS' Mehta 16 - 19 -3 72.7 60.0% 0.94
United States Austin 'crashies' Roberts 16 - 22 -6 74.6 72.0% 0.83
Canada Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey 14 - 22 -8 68.6 44.0% 0.62
United States Peter 'ptr' Gurney 5 - 23 -18 30.8 60.0% 0.34

On the other side of the bracket, Advanced team Lowkey, who were playing with Stephen "Huston" Huston in place of Paytyn "Junior" Johnson, actually put up a decent fight against Envy, but the IEM Chicago-bound team eventually triumphed.

Envy
16 - 12
Lowkey
All maps
Envy K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Jacob 'FugLy' Medina 20 - 20 +0 86.6 53.6% 1.18
Canada Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor 24 - 18 +6 83.5 57.1% 1.16
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek 17 - 16 +1 65.0 71.4% 1.09
United States Noah 'Nifty' Francis 22 - 20 +2 85.4 57.1% 1.05
United States Sam 's0m' Oh 11 - 21 -10 45.7 53.6% 0.52
Lowkey K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Alex 'Obs1dian' Conrad 24 - 22 +2 87.0 57.1% 1.22
United States Lucas 'Fiziq' Blow 21 - 18 +3 74.5 71.4% 1.22
Canada Alex 'vek' Voynov 22 - 18 +4 74.7 64.3% 1.16
United States Damian 'EMIYA' Boulware 12 - 18 -6 55.9 75.0% 0.86
United States Stephen 'Huston' Huston 16 - 18 -2 64.6 60.7% 0.83

Unfortunately for them, Lowkey's good luck and form did not continue into the third-place decider, where Riot Squad ran wild over them to secure the final qualification spot.

Riot Squad
16 - 3
Lowkey
All maps
Riot Squad K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Mitch 'mitch' Semago 21 - 7 +14 99.4 84.2% 1.74
United States Peter 'ptr' Gurney 19 - 8 +11 93.3 94.7% 1.65
Canada Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey 16 - 6 +10 104.5 89.5% 1.61
Canada Pujan 'FNS' Mehta 17 - 7 +10 88.1 84.2% 1.47
United States Austin 'crashies' Roberts 14 - 14 +0 82.2 73.7% 1.16
Lowkey K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Alex 'Obs1dian' Conrad 14 - 16 -2 77.4 52.6% 0.91
United States Stephen 'Huston' Huston 8 - 17 -9 48.8 57.9% 0.67
United States Damian 'EMIYA' Boulware 9 - 18 -9 57.9 57.9% 0.56
United States Lucas 'Fiziq' Blow 7 - 17 -10 60.9 36.8% 0.51
Canada Alex 'vek' Voynov 4 - 19 -15 22.4 42.1% 0.22

Interested teams still have two further chances at a spot in the MSI MGA 2019 Closed Qualifier. As always, links and information are available on the Dust2.us Calendar.

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