X3 and Nemiga Gaming Win DPC EEU 2021/2022 Tour 3: Closed Qualifier
Maksym ShylovThe closed qualifiers of the second division DPC 2021/2022 EEU Tour 3 have ended. 4 teams met in the double-elimination bracket to determine the two winners of the last slots in the final part of the season.
The qualifiers kicked off with the upper bracket semi-finals, where Nemiga Gaming faced ARCRED and HF took on X3. These matches were played in bo1 format. As a result, ARCRED and HF were forced to fight for survival in the lower bracket semi-finals. The roster, mainly consisting of Kazakh and Belarusian players, was able to beat their opponents from ARCRED with a score of 2:0 and continue the fight for the coveted second slot.
Meanwhile, the Russian team X3 defeated Nemiga Gaming by a similar score to win the first of two available slots in the second division. This was not the end of Nemiga Gaming's performance in the qualifiers, because in the final of the lower bracket they were already waiting for the HF roster. In the match for the last slot, the teams first took one map each, which reduced the meeting to the decisive third map. As a result, representatives of Nemiga Gaming won the full bo3 series and qualified for the DPC season.
X3 and Nemiga Gaming became the last participants in the second division of Eastern Europe. They will join the teams that took the last two places in the DPC EEU 2021/2022 Tour 2: Division I Playoffs and the squads that were able to keep their slots at the end of the DPC EEU 2021/2022 Tour 2: Division II Playoffs.
The list of participants in DPC 2021/2022 EEU Tour 3: Division II is as follows:
- HellRaisers;
- PuckChamp;
- HYDRA;
- cybercats;
- Team Empire;
- no sorry;
- x3;
- Nemiga Gaming.
Maksym has been working at EGamersWorld since 2017. Joining the company during his first year at university, he worked as a translator until 2022. After that, Maksym began working as an editor. His main discipline is Dota 2, and over time, Maksym's responsibilities expanded to include CS:GO, CS2 and Valorant. Additionally, as an editor, he publishes various materials on gaming topics.