Luminosity beat Misfits, hold onto ECS spot

Luminosity have kept their spot in the Esports Championship Series (ECS) after defeating Misfits 3-0 in the promotion stage for the North American league.

The North American promotion stage kicked off with a best-of-five clash between Luminosity, last season's ninth-placed team, and Misfits, who had finished second in the Development League. 

The series began on Train, Luminosity's map pick, where the Brazilians posted a close 16-12 victory thanks to a strong individual display from Gustavo "⁠SHOOWTiME⁠" Gonçalves, who posted a 1.97 Rating, helping to keep the Terrorists at bay in the second half after they had taken the lead.

SHOOWTiME & co keep their ECS spot

Mirage was the map that followed, and here it was Gabriel "⁠NEKIZ⁠" Schenato's time to shine. After getting off on the wrong foot, losing five of the first six rounds, Misfits picked up the pace and brought the deficit to a minimum by the end of the half. The North American team then rallied back after losing the pistol round, but Luminosity regained control of the game and ran away with the lead.

The first half of Cache was a complete blowout, with Luminosity cruising to an 11-4 lead after giving Misfits very little room to operate on the attacking side. Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares's men came out of the break a different side, winning five of the first six rounds of the half to bring the deficit to 9-12, but then the Brazilians' offence came to life and they picked up four straight rounds to seal a convincing 3-0 win.

ECS Season 4 NA PromotionBest of 5 LuminosityMatchpage 3 0 24th September 2017 Misfits 16Train 12 16Mirage 13 16Cache 9

Luminosity	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' GonçalvesSHOOWTiME	65 - 49	+16	85.7	1.36
Gustavo 'yel' Knittelyel	65 - 48	+17	76.3	1.24
Gabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoNEKIZ	56 - 55	+1	77.5	1.13
Vinicios 'PKL' CoelhoPKL	53 - 48	+5	74.1	1.09
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedeschelo	54 - 52	+2	70.1	1.04

Misfits	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Hunter 'SicK' MimsSicK	61 - 52	+9	75.6	1.17
François 'amanek' Delaunayamanek	49 - 58	-9	74.9	0.96
Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanShahZaM	52 - 56	-4	58.7	0.88
David 'devoduvek' Dobrosavljevicdevoduvek	47 - 63	-16	71.9	0.87
Sean 'seang@res' Garesseang@res	42 - 65	-23	67.5	0.75

The final spot in ECS Season 4 will be determined by the other promotion match, pitting Ghost against Tempo Storm. The team list for the North American league currently looks as follows: 

Cloud9	CLG
Immortals	Liquid
NRG	OpTic
SK	Renegades
Luminosity	TBD

NRG #37 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteAllan 'AnJ' JensenTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves Age: 20 Team: Luminosity Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 385 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.68 SK #1 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloJoão 'felps' Vasconcellos Gabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato Age: 21 Team: Luminosity Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 146 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.69 CLG #18 Pujan 'FNS' MehtaStephen 'reltuC' CutlerRicardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandKenneth 'koosta' SuenEthan 'Ethan' Arnold Luminosity #23 Vinicios 'PKL' CoelhoGustavo 'SHOOWTiME' GonçalvesGabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoGustavo 'yel' KnittelMarcelo 'chelo' Cespedes Misfits #25 Sean 'seang@res' GaresShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanHunter 'SicK' MimsFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayDavid 'devoduvek' Dobrosavljevic OpTic #35 Aleksi 'allu' JalliAdam 'friberg' FribergOscar 'mixwell' CañellasKevin 'HS' TarnEmil 'Magisk' Reif Liquid #6 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Cloud9 #9 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Ghost #111 Sebastian 'seb' BuckiCaio 'zqkS' FonsecaRonnie 'ryx' BylickiConnor 'CONNOR93' GloverMatthew 'WARDELL' Yu Renegades #19 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardKeith 'NAF' MarkovicKarlo 'USTILO' PivacNoah 'Nifty' Francis Tempo Storm #49 Lucas 'destiny' BulloPaulo 'land1n' FelipeDenis 'dzt' FischerAlef 'tatazin' PereiraBruno 'shz' Martinelli Sean 'seang@res' Gares Age: 29 Team: Misfits Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 589 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.68 Immortals Lucas 'steel' LopesRicardo 'boltz' Prass