PwnAlone will look to continue his form and send Whalers through to the grand final

ESEA MDL Season 35 playoffs down to top three seeds; Whalers or Secret Club will face oNe in finals

All three remaining teams will see an increase in their winnings as a result of the MDL Global Challenge cancellation.

The ESEA MDL Season 35 Playoffs have just two series remaining and oNe, New England Whalers, and Secret Club left vying for the ESL Pro League Season 13 berth. The latter two squads will face off in the lower bracket final tonight for the right to challenge oNe in the grand final.

Upper bracket

Following technical issues that impacted both teams, the series between Whalers and Mythic eventually resumed where it had left off, with Mythic holding a 1-0 lead after securing their map pick of Train.

Whalers were able to bounce back and reverse sweep the stream team, thanks largely to monster performances from Josh "PwnAlone" Pigue and Jonathan "djay" Dallal, with the pair going 28-9 on Nuke and 29-14 on Inferno, respectively.

New England Whalers
2 - 1
Mythic
All maps
New England Whalers K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 60 - 42 +18 79.2 77.0% 1.29
Canada Jonathan 'djay' Dallal 56 - 49 +7 74.7 71.6% 1.16
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 49 - 53 -4 82.8 75.7% 1.12
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams 46 - 52 -6 67.8 71.6% 0.95
United States Ramal 'Rampage' Silva 40 - 47 -7 65.9 70.3% 0.94
Mythic K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Kaitlin 'Keiti' Boop 54 - 52 +2 85.5 71.6% 1.13
United States Eric 'adreN' Hoag 51 - 51 +0 84.2 71.6% 1.11
Canada David 'DAVEY' Stafford 48 - 49 -1 72.7 75.7% 1.03
United States Erik 'fl0m' Flom 49 - 46 +3 63.6 66.2% 0.98
United States Adam 'Polen' Polen 40 - 53 -13 61.2 63.5% 0.80

PwnAlone and co. failed to carry that momentum forward into their series with oNe. The Brazilians outlasted a 45-kill performance from PwnAlone in a double-overtime affair on Train and then decisively swept the Whalers out to sea on Inferno. 

oNe leaned heavily on the sole non-Brazilian member of their lineup in this series, as Mario "malbsMd" Samayoa led the way for the team with 57 kills in the series. PwnAlone led Whalers on Inferno with 21 frags, finishing with a series-high 66 kills in the loss.

TeamOne
2 - 0
New England Whalers
All maps
TeamOne K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Guatemala Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa 57 - 43 +14 94.7 69.7% 1.36
Brazil Matheus 'pesadelo' Panisset 54 - 40 +14 82.8 77.3% 1.26
Brazil Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos 43 - 35 +8 65.9 75.8% 1.13
Brazil Bruno 'b4rtiN' Câmara 51 - 42 +9 72.6 74.2% 1.10
Brazil Matheus 'prt' Scuvero 34 - 46 -12 71.6 66.7% 0.93
New England Whalers K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 66 - 42 +24 91.7 72.7% 1.36
Canada Jonathan 'djay' Dallal 39 - 51 -12 71.9 71.2% 0.91
United States Ramal 'Rampage' Silva 30 - 52 -22 65.7 63.6% 0.81
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams 38 - 49 -11 57.7 59.1% 0.80
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 32 - 47 -15 58.6 68.2% 0.77

Lower bracket

Secret Club used back-to-back strong second halves to sweep and eliminate Rebirth, with the latter team managing just four rounds in the second half of each map after initially holding Secret Club to slim leads.

Ethan "reck" Serrano led Secret Club with 24 frags on Vertigo while it was Collin "wrath" McSweegan that did the heavy lifting on Overpass with 32 kills for Secret Club. Kevin "4pack" Przypasniak and Ali "phantom" Sachs each had 37 kills in the series loss for Rebirth.

Secret Club
2 - 0
Rebirth
All maps
Secret Club K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Collin 'wrath' McSweegan 46 - 28 +18 91.0 81.1% 1.43
United States Ethan 'reck' Serrano 41 - 36 +5 89.0 86.8% 1.28
United States Adam 'WolfY' Andersson 42 - 29 +13 75.2 79.2% 1.27
United States Jordon 'jitter' Ruggiero 38 - 33 +5 74.5 75.5% 1.16
United States Anthony 'CLASIA' Kearney 34 - 36 -2 84.8 75.5% 1.14
Rebirth K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Kevin '4pack' Przypasniak 37 - 35 +2 77.9 62.3% 0.98
United States Ali 'phantom' Sachs 37 - 39 -2 70.9 79.2% 0.97
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly 31 - 39 -8 68.9 66.0% 0.89
Canada Sebastian 'retchy' Tropiano 31 - 44 -13 62.8 58.5% 0.78
United States Zack 'XotiC' Elshani 25 - 44 -19 62.4 56.6% 0.70

Depth looked like they were going to keep things interesting when they opened the series with seven rounds on their T-side of Overpass, but were completely exploited by Mythic while on the defensive side of the server. They managed just three CT-sided wins as Eric "adreN" Hoag paved the way for Mythic with 24 kills.

Mythic wrapped the series up quickly and jumped out to a 12-3 lead after their CT-side of Vertigo. They alternated rounds with Depth in the second half and picked up their sixteenth after just two match points. Erik "fl0m" Flom led his stream team and the server with 23 frags to complete the sweep. 

Depth
0 - 2
Mythic
All maps
Depth K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Wyatt 'snav' Phillippi 32 - 40 -8 76.5 65.3% 0.97
United States Kyle 'KEL' Murray 33 - 35 -2 68.1 49.0% 0.89
United States Shane 'shane' Dressler 23 - 38 -15 62.3 61.2% 0.74
United States Jake 'bddu' Gartin 20 - 34 -14 48.2 53.1% 0.70
United States Derek 'dare' Brown 24 - 42 -18 60.9 59.2% 0.69
Mythic K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Eric 'adreN' Hoag 41 - 25 +16 87.6 81.6% 1.39
United States Erik 'fl0m' Flom 43 - 28 +15 86.2 71.4% 1.32
United States Kaitlin 'Keiti' Boop 39 - 26 +13 87.4 83.7% 1.29
Canada David 'DAVEY' Stafford 34 - 25 +9 79.4 75.5% 1.19
United States Adam 'Polen' Polen 29 - 28 +1 67.7 75.5% 1.05

Secret Club jumped out to an 11-4 lead on Vertigo and never looked back as they stole away Mythic's map pick. fl0m and friends brought the scoreline all the way back to 14-11, but Secret Club swiftly converted their first match point to send the series to Inferno. reck led the server with 28 kills for Secret Club, while David "DAVEY" Stafford led Mythic with 20 frags.

Secret Club successfully fended off a comeback attempt by Mythic in round thirty to eliminate the stream team in just two maps. They squandered five match points in a row before finally breaking through when it counted most and finished the map in regulation. adreN led the server with 27 kills in the loss, but Adam "WolfY" Andersson wasn't far behind with 26 frags for the victors.

Secret Club
2 - 0
Mythic
All maps
Secret Club K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Adam 'WolfY' Andersson 48 - 30 +18 90.5 75.4% 1.45
United States Ethan 'reck' Serrano 46 - 35 +11 90.1 77.2% 1.27
United States Anthony 'CLASIA' Kearney 40 - 32 +8 80.8 78.9% 1.16
United States Jordon 'jitter' Ruggiero 42 - 38 +4 74.9 84.2% 1.14
United States Collin 'wrath' McSweegan 42 - 34 +8 75.8 77.2% 1.13
Mythic K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Eric 'adreN' Hoag 38 - 43 -5 82.6 61.4% 1.02
United States Erik 'fl0m' Flom 39 - 45 -6 70.7 64.9% 0.95
Canada David 'DAVEY' Stafford 37 - 43 -6 65.5 57.9% 0.82
United States Kaitlin 'Keiti' Boop 33 - 41 -8 64.2 61.4% 0.82
United States Adam 'Polen' Polen 22 - 46 -24 58.9 57.9% 0.68

As a reminder, here is what is still up for grabs for the three remaining squads:

  • 1st   - $12,500 + ESL Pro League
  • 2nd - $10,000
  • 3rd  - $5,000

Whalers and Secret Club will square off this evening at 8PM EST for a spot in the grand final, with the victors going on to face oNe at 8PM EST on Saturday. The Brazilians will be spotted a 1-0 advantage going into the best-of-five series following their upper bracket conquest.

Also read

You must be logged in to add a comment.