E-mpire Esports League - Season 2

The **E-mpire Esports League** was an amateur Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. It was the second season of the European Esports League.

The event was confirmed on Twitter on May 20th, 2018. The qualifying stages were held between 15-30 June 2018, and the main group stage was held between 5-24 July, 2018.

Season One champions Cryogenic eSports, and Alike Cup 1 winners Newcastle Jaguars automatically progressed to the main event, while 26 further teams took part in qualifying.

Newcastle Jaguars beat North Sea Gaming 3-0 in the best-of-five final, on September 7th, 2018.

## About

### Broadcast Talent

Hosts and Commentators:

* Bluewolf
* Lui2k

Commentators

* DucksworthDuck
* MLGFrazer
* Morris
* RazpTV

### Map Pool

* Cache
* Dust 2
* Inferno
* Mirage
* Nuke
* Overpass
* Train

### Teams

* Alike Esports
* Arctic.GG
* Arion
* Chilled Esports (Former Sweven Esports roster)
* Cryogenic Esports
* Cursed Cobras
* DEFY Gaming
* DarX Nation
* Fantastic Esports
* HEXO eSports
* Infinix UK
* Kalma
* Mossenspotters
* No Remorse
* Machine Soldiers
* Medieval eSports
* Newcastle Jaguars
* Nitain.GG
* North Sea Gaming
* Enospys (Former Rhino eSports roster)
* Rygen EU
* Rygen UK
* Spaced eSports
* Ex-Swix Esports
* Team Alba
* Toast
* Undefined
* Pragmatic Esports (Ze Pug Godz).

## Qualifying

The qualifying stages took place between 15 - 30 June 2018 in a Swiss System format. The best-ranked 16 teams progressed to the Group Stages.

### Qualifying Stages: Round One (15-16 June 2018)

* Alba 3-16 DEFY Gaming
* Arctic.GG 8-16 Ze Pug Godz
* Enigma Esports W-L Chilled Esports
* Mossenspotters W-L Toast
* HEXO eSports 2-16 North Sea Gaming
* Infinix 3-16 Enospys (ex Rhino)
* No Remorse 14-16 Machine Soldiers
* Nitain.GG 16-11 Org<
* Rygen EU 6-16 Cursed Cobras
* Rygen UK W-L Kalma
* Spaced Esports 16-13 Arion
* Ex-Swix L-W DarX Nation
* Alike Esports W-L Fantastic Esports

*Team Undefined* received a bye in the First Round of Qualifying after a processing error.

### Qualifying Stages: Round Two (17-23 June 2018)

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on June 16th, at 8.30pm.

**Winners Bracket (1-0) :**

* Mossenspotters 16-13 Defy.GG
* Alike 14-16 Cursed Cobras
* Enospys 11-16 North Sea Gaming
* Darx Nation 6-16 Nitain.GG
* Machine Soldiers 0-16 Spaced Esports (Machine Soldiers forfeit)
* Rygen UK 16-3 Enigma
* Undefined 16-7 Ze Pug Gods

**Losers Bracket (0-1):**

* Arctic 16-0 No Remorse (No Remorse disbanded)
* Infinix UK 16-8 HEXO eSports
* Chilled Esports 0-16 Org<
* Ex Swix-eSports 0-16 Arion (Ex-Swix forfeit)
* Toast 0-16 Team Alba
* Fantastic 0-16 Rygen EU

*Team Kalma* received a bye in the Second Round of Qualifying due to an odd number of teams.

### Qualifying Stages: Round Three (24-30 June 2018)

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on June 24th, at 7.30pm. Matches will be a best of three, and this will be the last chance to progress to the finals.

* Machine Soldiers 2-1 Enospys
* Arctic 0-2 Darx Nation
* Kalma W-L Toast
* DEFY 2-0 Infinix
* Chilled F-F Alike
* Arion W-L Enigma
* Rygen EU L-W Ze Pug Gods

*Chilled Esports and Alike Esports were both removed from the league.*

## Results

### Groups - Swiss System

Results as of 21st July 2018. Teams in bold progress to playoffs.

1 Cryogenic Esports qualified automatically through winning Season 1.

2 Newcastle Jaguars qualified automatically through winning the Alike Cup #1.

3 Pragmatic Esports were referred to as 'Ze Pug Godz' during the Qualifying Stages.

4North Sea progressed instead of Spaced eSports due to the team disbanding..

**Group A**

* Cryogenic 16-5 Pragmatic
* Cursed Cobras 17-19 DEFY Gaming
* Cryogenic 16-11 DEFY Gaming
* Pragmatic 16-9 Cursed Cobras
* DEFY Gaming 0-2 Pragmatic (Decider match, *Forfeit*)

**Group B**

* Rygen UK 16-7 Kalma
* Undefined 16-2 Machine Soldiers
* Undefined vs Rygen UK
* Machine Soldiers 0-16 Kalma *(Forfeit)*
* Kalma 0-2 Rygen UK (Decider match)

**Group C**

* North Sea Gaming W-L Enospys (*Forfeit*)
* Spaced eSports 5-16 Arion
* North Sea Gaming 11-16 Arion
* Spaced eSports 16-0 Enospys (*Forfeit*)
* North Sea Gaming 0-2 Spaced eSports (Decider match)

**Group D**

* Newcastle Jaguars 16-5 DarX Nation
* Nitain.GG 14-16 Mossenspotters
* Newcastle Jaguars 16-6 Mossenspotters
* DarX Nation 12-16 Nitain.GG
* Mossenspotters 2-1 Nitain.GG (Decider match)

### Play-offs

**First Round**

* Cryogenic 0-2 Rygen UK
* Arion 2-1 Mossenspotters
* Undefined 0-2 Ze Pug Godz
* North Sea Gaming 0-2 Newcastle Jaguars

**Winners Bracket Round 1**

* Rygen UK 0-2 Arion\*
* Ze Pug Godz 0-2 Newcastle Jaguars

**Losers Bracket Round 1**

* Mossenspotters 2-0 Cryogenic
* North Sea Gaming 2-0 Undefined

**Winners Bracket Round 2**

* Arion 1-2 Newcastle Jaguars

**Lower Bracket Round 2**

* Mossenspotters 0-2 Pragmatic
* Rygen 0-2 North Sea Gaming\*

\*North Sea progress to next stage, after Rygen disbanded.

**Lower Bracket Round 3**

* Pragmatic 0-2 North Sea Gaming

**Lower Bracket Round 4**

* Arion 0-2 North Sea Gaming

**Final (best-of-five)**

* Newcastle Jaguars 3-0 North Sea Gaming

Reference.

 Final Placements

## References

1. ↑ Twitter, @EELeague <https://twitter.com/EELeague/status/998314294919008261> Accessed 07-June-2018
2. ↑ Toornament, EEL <https://www.toornament.com/tournaments/1587409325291241472/information> Accessed 08-Aug-2018

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