SPL Season 2 NA Summer 2015 Challenger Cup

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SPL Season 2 NA Summer 2015 Challenger Cup
Tournament Information
Organizer	HiRez Studios
Location	USA
Format	Single Elimination
Start Date	May 16, 2015
End Date	July 5, 2015

The SPL Season 2 NA Summer 2015 Challenger Cup is a series of weekly tournaments open to all teams that did not qualify for the SPL Season 2 Summer Split.

Format

• A weekly, single elimination tournament where teams earn points
• The top 4 teams by accumulated points will play in the Summer Qualifier tournament
• The 5th/6th placed teams by points also have a chance for an invitation to the Summer Qualifier tournament.

Weeks 6 & 7 Format Change

The Challenger Cup Finals begin on 07/04/2015

The Top 8 teams from each region through weeks 1-5 in the Challenger Cup are broken into 2 groups of 4 and will compete in a Round Robin. Each team will play each other twice by the end of Week 7.

Tiebreakers after Week 7 will be held immediately after the last game is played in the Round Robin.

Week 8 Format Change

The Top 2 from each group will advance to a Single Elimination (Bo5) Bracket with the winners from each semifinal matchup advancing to the Fall Split Qualifiers.

Group Stage Roster

In the last three weeks of Challenger Cup, eight teams are split between two groups for the final brackets.

Group A

Hi Five	Yomi	LunatiK Esports	KoS Gaming

Group B

Resist Gaming	Noble eSports	COG Crusaders	Torch

Week 1 Update

38 teams participated in Week 1 and the early rounds showed that competition will be tight this year as no team gave an inch. Early Spring Challenger Cup hopefuls, ‘That’s a Paddlin’ have rejoined the tournament and moved onto the second round. Noble eSports, MommaImOnTV and Normies Leave all defeated their opponents to advance as well.

Nothing got shook up in Rounds 2 & 3 as Hi-Five advanced through both onto the Quarter-Finals, along with Normies Leave, ReturN, Noble eSports and Resist Gaming. Team Zistar showed promise early but were unable to take down ReturN as they made it to the Semi-Finals vs. Noble eSports.

The Lower Semi-Finals was the highest profile much in Week 1 when Hi-Five and Normies Leave faced off. Normies Leave (cdubb, Wubbn, wigglessdabae, Quig, Whalrus) is comprised mostly of players that were on ReturN’s roster last split. Hi-Five on the other hand (Medieval, ElBrochacho, Grishank, Bolture, Wolfy2032) remained fairly the same with the exception of Wolfy2032 who was a sub this week as Nonton could not make it. Experience proved to be the victor here as the game last 25 minutes with Hi-Five taking a dominating win on their way to the Finals. The Upper Semi Finals saw ReturN drop to the 3rd/4th place matchup with Noble eSports rocketing to the finals with impressive play by Adjust and BkHaste.

Week 1 couldn’t have asked for a better matchup in the Finals. Noble eSports, who had never advanced to the Finals prior, took on a team hot off relegations. The games were back and forth for most of the time and the series had to be taken to its full extent with Noble eSports claiming the title Week 1 champions in a 2-1 series win.

Brackets

Pre-Semifinals

	Round 2				Round 3
	Hi Five<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
	Team Kavalry	0
					Hi Five<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
					KoS Gaming<sup>multiple results</sup>	0
	KoS Gaming<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
	IguanaGang	0

	Yomi	1
	Made 2 Game Alpha	0
					Yomi	1
					LunatiK Esports<sup>multiple results</sup>	0
	LunatiK Esports<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
	Entropy eSports	0

	Resist Gaming<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
	Magicis Gaming	0
					Resist Gaming<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
					Torch<sup>multiple results</sup>	0
	Torch<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
	Fat Zeus	0

	Noble Esports	1
	Sov eSports	0
					Noble Esports	1
					Cog Crusaders<sup>multiple results</sup>	0
	Cog Crusaders<sup>multiple results</sup>	1
	VexX Gaming	0

Semifinals

	Round 3				Semifinals
	TBD
	TBD
					TBD
					TBD
	TBD
	TBD

	TBD
	TBD
					TBD
					TBD
	TBD
	TBD

Finals

	Semifinals				Finals
	Losing road<sup>multiple results</sup>	0
	Six Sigma	1
					Six Sigma	2
					Myrmidons	0
	Myrmidons	1
	Team Illusion<sup>multiple results</sup>	0

Challenger Cup Points

Ranking

Rank	Team	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Total Points
1	Hi Five	60	100	10	-	-	330
2	Resist Gaming	10	60	100	-	-	250
3	Noble eSports	100	5	10	-	-	225
4	Yomi	-	10	40	-	-	135
5	LunatiK eSports	5	40	25	-	-	105
6	COG Crusaders	5	5	60	-	-	90
7	Torch	-	-	-	-	-	60
8	Normies Leave	40	-	10	-	-	50
9	KoS Gaming	5	10	5	-	-	35
10	Garden Guys	10	10	5	-	-	25
-	Turnip eSports	10	25	10	-	-	45
-	Salt Shakers	5	5	10	-	-	20
-	Rogue eSports	2	5	5	-	-	12
-	Iguana Gang	2	5	5	-	-	12
-	Digisurge	2	5	5	-	-	12
-	Team Zistar	10	-	-	-	-	10
-	Adrasteia	5	5	-	-	-	10
-	Get in my Backpack	5	-	5	-	-	10
-	VexX Gaming	2	5	2	-	-	9
-	MommaImOnTV	2	5	2	-	-	9
-	NvilisInVerba	2	5	2	-	-	9
-	Fat Zeus	2	2	5	-	-	9
-	Ginger Bread Men	-	2	5	-	-	7
-	The Modern Meta	2	2	2	-	-	6
-	Team Dauntless	5	-	-	-	-	5
-	No Names	5	-	-	-	-	5
-	Revenant Gaming	5	-	-	-	-	5
-	ReturN	-	5	-	-	-	5
28	Team Kazuel	2	2	-	-	-	4
-	Elucidate	2	2	-	-	-	4
-	Wikipedia	2	2	-	-	-	4
-	Team Elo	2	2	-	-	-	4
-	RiHez Gaming	2	2	-	-	-	4
-	Circuit Gaming	-	2	2	-	-	4
-	Reach Harder	-	2	2	-	-	2
-	Versace Hot Ganks	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	SpøøkyFace	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	Xiphias Gaming	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	Immortal Five	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	Thats a Paddlin	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	Eclipse eSports	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	Sov eSports	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	Team Infinity	2	-	-	-	-	2
-	Invictus eSports	-	2	-	-	-	2
-	BM Bros	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	Vivid Gaming	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	Alpha Gaming	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	Villainous Gmg	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	Famine	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	Magicis Gaming	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	Above the Dogs	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	Thank me later	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	aXis	-	-	2	-	-	2
-	lets go pro	-	-	2	-	-	2

MVPs

Week	Name	Team	Position	Source
Week 1	Adjust	Noble eSports	Jungle	Announcement
Week 2	Bolture	Hi-Five	Mid	Announcement
Week 3	Fearno	Resist Gaming	Hunter	Announcement
Week 4	Elchapoo	Hi-Five	Solo	Announcement
Week 5	Syper	Noble Esports	Solo	Announcement
Week 6	[[]]	[[]]		[ Announcement]
Week 7	[[]]	[[]]		[ Announcement]
Week 8	[[]]	[[]]		[ Announcement]

Round Robin

Rank	Team	Win/Loss Ratio
1	TBD	-
2	TBD	-
3	TBD	-
4	TBD	-
5	TBD	-
6	TBD	-
7	TBD	-
8	TBD	-

Finals

Rank	Team	Reward
1	TBD	-
2	TBD	-
3	TBD	-
4	TBD	-

Point distribution

Place	Points
1.	100
2.	60
3.	40
4.	25
5-8.	10
9-16.	5
17.+	2

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