Swole Patrol beat eUnited to qualify for IEM Sydney

Swole Patrol have assured themselves of a spot at IEM Sydney 2019 after beating eUnited in the grand final of the North American closed qualifier.

The final day of the eight-team double-elimination bracket began with brothers Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir and Austin "⁠Cooper⁠" Abadir facing each other as Ghost locked horns with eUnited in the tournament's consolidation final.

Ghost, who had defeated Luminosity in the previous round, got off on the wrong foot as they mustered just two rounds in the first half of Cache, in which they had to make do without Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen. The former Liquid and CLG man showed up in time for the second half and inspired a comeback from his team, but in the end it amounted to nothing as eUnited wrapped things up in overtime.

s0m helped Swole Patrol to qualify for IEM Sydney

eUnited, who were fielding former Ghost member Yassine "⁠Subroza⁠" Taoufik as a stand-in following Pujan "⁠FNS⁠" Mehta's departure, got off to a dream start on Overpass as they stormed to a 9-1 lead before Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan's men responded with five rounds of their own. In the second half, Ghost came back from 7-13 down and were on the verge of taking the map, but eUnited bagged the final three rounds of regulation to earn a shot at revenge against Swole Patrol in the grand final.

IEM Sydney 2019 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3 eUnitedMatchpage 2 0 8th February 2019 Ghost 19Cache 17 16Overpass 14

eUnited	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Austin 'Cooper' AbadirCooper	54 - 39	+15	82.7	1.29
Yassine 'Subroza' TaoufikSubroza	52 - 43	+9	83.6	1.22
Michael 'dapr' Gulinodapr	51 - 47	+4	81.8	1.13
Kaleb 'moose' Jaynemoose	45 - 41	+4	69.7	1.04
Will 'dazzLe' LoafmandazzLe	36 - 40	-4	61.9	0.94

Ghost	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Matthew 'WARDELL' YuWARDELL	46 - 44	+2	75.3	1.10
Kenneth 'koosta' Suenkoosta	38 - 35	+3	60.5	1.07
Joshua 'steel' Nissansteel	42 - 48	-6	72.1	0.98
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadirfreakazoid	46 - 50	-4	73.0	0.94
Jason 'neptune' Tranneptune	35 - 47	-12	54.9	0.70
James 'JamezIRL' MacaulayJamezIRL	3 - 14	-11	21.9	0.66

As the team coming from the upper bracket, Swole Patrol had an automatic one-map advantage heading into the best-of-five grand final. Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce's side, who enlisted former Complexity member Sam "⁠s0m⁠" Oh for the qualifier, had a rough CT half on Inferno, picking up only five rounds, but battled back after the break, running all over the eUnited defence to emerge 16-14 victors.

The first half of Train was a keenly-contested affair as it ended with an 8-7 scoreline in favour of Swole Patrol, who lost a bit of momentum after switching over to the CT side. But after watching their opponents take the lead at 11-10, the team tightened up their defence and kept the eUnited offense at bay, eventually locking down the map at 16-12.

IEM Sydney 2019 North America Closed QualifierBest of 5 Swole PatrolMatchpage 3 0 9th February 2019 eUnited 1Default 0 16Inferno 14 16Train 12

Swole Patrol	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Sam 's0m' Ohs0m	53 - 36	+17	89.5	1.28
Braxton 'swag' Pierceswag	37 - 30	+7	73.1	1.13
Anthony 'vanity' Malaspinavanity	40 - 43	-3	74.5	0.99
Edgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoMarKE	35 - 38	-3	66.9	0.97
Victor 'food' Wongfood	36 - 43	-7	78.1	0.96

eUnited	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Kaleb 'moose' Jaynemoose	45 - 38	+7	86.0	1.17
Michael 'dapr' Gulinodapr	42 - 42	0	86.8	1.14
Will 'dazzLe' LoafmandazzLe	38 - 39	-1	68.4	0.99
Yassine 'Subroza' TaoufikSubroza	32 - 42	-10	62.4	0.85
Austin 'Cooper' AbadirCooper	32 - 41	-9	58.1	0.82

According to a report from Dust2.us, s0m will be travelling with Swole Patrol to IEM Sydney, which will take place from April 30 through to May 5. This will be the second Big Event in the history of the team, who attended EPICENTER last year, with swag and Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado being the only remaining players from the line-up that competed at that tournament.

With Swole Patrol's qualification, the team list for the Australian event currently looks as follows:

Renegades
MIBR
Swole Patrol
Invite #5
Invite #7
Invite #9
Oceania qualifier
AU/NZ national champion FaZe
BIG
Invite #4
Invite #6
Invite #8
Greater China qualifier
Southeast Asia qualifier
East Asia qualifier Kenneth 'koosta' Suen Age: 22 Team: Ghost Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 723 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.66 Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir Age: 26 Team: Ghost Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 711 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.70 MIBR #8 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloJoão 'felps' Vasconcellos FaZe #4 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard Swole Patrol #68 Braxton 'swag' PierceVictor 'food' WongEdgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoAnthony 'vanity' Malaspina BIG #15 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' MagetIsmailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş Renegades #13 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiJay 'Liazz' Tregillgas Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado Age: 20 Team: Swole Patrol Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 340 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.66 Complexity #38 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanRory 'dephh' JacksonPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzRicardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Luminosity #33 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato Pujan 'FNS' Mehta Age: 26 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.89 Maps played: 772 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.69 Ghost #16 Ryan 'freakazoid' AbadirJoshua 'steel' NissanKenneth 'koosta' SuenMatthew 'WARDELL' YuJason 'neptune' Tran Joshua 'steel' Nissan Age: 29 Team: Ghost Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 353 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.69 eUnited #44 Will 'dazzLe' LoafmanMichael 'dapr' GulinoKaleb 'moose' JayneAustin 'Cooper' Abadir Sam 's0m' Oh Age: 16 Team: Swole Patrol Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 126 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.68 Braxton 'swag' Pierce Age: 22 Team: Swole Patrol Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 447 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.62 Yassine 'Subroza' Taoufik Age: 21 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 408 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.71 Austin 'Cooper' Abadir Age: 24 Team: eUnited Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 321 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.63