dumau was a teenaged terror in the ESEA Advanced grand final, as was v1c for GGPR

Yeah sweep GGPR for ESEA MDL Season 36 berth

The relegation field is now complete and rounded out by SKDC, who beat ex-Thunder Logic in the tiebreaker

The ESEA Advanced Season 35 postseason has officially come to a close following a pair of series sweeps. GGPR put up a respectable fight in the grand final but couldn't keep Yeah from closing out their season with an emphatic 3-0 win to advance to MDL. The fifth-place decider that occurred in lieu of an invite to relegation this season has also concluded, with SKDC securing the final spot in next week's event with a 2-0 sweep of ex-Thunder Logic.

Yeah were given a 1-0 series lead in the best-of-five after coming from the upper bracket and they made sure that it didn't go to waste. Eduardo "dumau" Wolkmer popped off on Overpass with 34 kills, but to their credit GGPR kept things close and stole a few rounds that were Yeah's for the taking, including a cheeky defuse out in the open on the A site. But in the end 11-11 was as close as GGPR would get to putting Yeah away, as their opponents won five of the last seven rounds and converted their first match point to take a 2-0 series lead. GGPR were led by their teenage talent as well, Victor "v1c" T. finished with 23 frags in the opening map loss.

The fragging power of the young guns continued to be a theme on Inferno, as dumau and v1c led the way again, with 24 and 22 kills, respectively. This time Yeah were able to assert themselves a bit more in the second half, allowing GGPR just three offensive rounds after sneaking away with the same 8-7 halftime lead. Brandon "bew" Roberts finished with a 1.41 rating, good for the best in the server as the Brazilian-American hybrid roster locked down the sole automatic berth to ESEA MDL Season 36.

Yeah
3 - 0
GGPR
All maps
Yeah K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer 58 - 34 +24 102.8 76.4% 1.58
United States Brandon 'bew' Roberts 44 - 32 +12 90.5 78.2% 1.33
Brazil Rodrigo 'RCF' Figueiredo 42 - 31 +11 80.5 70.9% 1.27
Brazil Arthur 'f4stzin' Schmitt 41 - 35 +6 76.5 78.2% 1.15
United States Michael 'Swisher' Schmid 28 - 37 -9 62.1 67.3% 0.88
GGPR K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Victor 'v1c' T. 45 - 45 +0 82.5 69.1% 1.06
United States Jeorge 'Jeorge' Endicott 34 - 41 -7 68.0 54.5% 0.89
United States Jake 'eXotic' Vaupell 35 - 41 -6 68.2 63.6% 0.86
United States Chase 'lowrider' Releford 26 - 43 -17 69.2 67.3% 0.76
United States Evan 'Creed' Dao 28 - 45 -17 58.7 60.0% 0.72

In the 5th-place tiebreaker things started out close on Inferno, with SKDC scraping out a 8-7 lead on their CT-side. After the switch their offense proved to be much more effective than their defense and ex-Thunder Logic just simply couldn't get their retakes going and win their duels. SKDC won just one round by detonating the bomb, while their other seven victories came via elimination. Dylan "Hiki" O'Kane was the highest rated player in the server for SKDC, but David "sensu" Oliver led the way in kills with 25 in the victory.  Brandon "Sharkie" Ly was ex-Thunder Logic's top performer in the loss.

SKDC closed out the series with an even more dominant win on Nuke. They jumped out to a 10-5 lead on T-side and then allowed ex-Thunder Logic just one round on their attacking side to close out the series and keep their MDL dreams alive. Derek "desi" Branchen led all players with 27 frags in the series-clinching win, while Brandon "YuZ" Cyr led ex-Thunder Logic with 16 eliminations in the loss.

SKDC
2 - 0
ex-Thunder Logic
All maps
SKDC K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States David 'sensu' Oliver 49 - 28 +21 91.9 79.2% 1.51
United States Derek 'desi' Branchen 47 - 26 +21 97.4 77.1% 1.51
United States Dylan 'Hiki' O'Kane 43 - 30 +13 96.6 85.4% 1.47
Canada Kory 'SEMPHIS' Friesen 36 - 32 +4 79.7 79.2% 1.11
Canada Kyle 'OCEAN' O'Brien 26 - 26 +0 59.9 77.1% 1.02
ex-Thunder Logic K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Brandon 'Sharkie' Ly 35 - 38 -3 80.6 68.8% 1.02
Canada Brandon 'YuZ' Cyr 30 - 43 -13 71.6 52.1% 0.81
Canada Paolo 'pao' Lope 28 - 40 -12 73.8 66.7% 0.80
United States Brian 'Brian2K' Ladron De Guevara 23 - 37 -14 55.1 54.2% 0.67
United States Michael 'Turismo' Haas 26 - 43 -17 58.4 50.0% 0.63

ESEA MDL Season 35 Relegation will feature the following opening-round matchups:

United States Vireo.pro vs.     United States SKDC
United States ex-Recon 5 vs.     United States GSG9
United States ex-ImPerium vs.     United States Rise
United States Kinship vs.     United States GGPR

The first round of the event is slated to begin Monday at 9:30PM EST.

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