PRIDE win Legends Cup

PRIDE took the title at Legends Cup in Santa Ana, California, by beating 5POWER 3-1 in the grand final.

Legends Cup brought four teams from three continent to North America, pitting them against each other with $25,000 up for grabs.

The North American representatives were Swole Patrol and Etherian, PRIDE came in as a replacement for the European winners AGO, while 5POWER was the Asian team in the competition, however, fielding two stand-ins due to visa issues. 

MINISE and co. secured their first international LAN victory

The two North American sides suffered losses in the opening matches, the upper bracket semi-final, with Swole Patrol holding on to tournament life with an overtime win over Etherian in the lower bracket.

Meanwhile, PRIDE took a fairly comfortable win in the upper-bracket BO3 final against 5POWER, whose stand-in duo Erdenetsogt "⁠erkaSt⁠" Gantulga and David "⁠Toy⁠" Han made the second map a close one by dropping 29 and 27 frags, respectively.

After dealing with Swole Patrol again, 5POWER scheduled a grand final rematch with PRIDE on the last day of the tournament. The Poles started with a dominant 16-3 win on Train, but the Asian team brought it back on Mirage. However, PRIDE sealed the deal on Nuke, and with that took the 3-1 win in the series due to having a map advantage, as they came from the upper bracket.

Legends CupBest of 5 PRIDEMatchpage 3 1 12th February 2018 5POWER 1Default 0 16Train 3 13Mirage 16 16Nuke 11

PRIDE	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jacek 'MINISE' JeziakMINISE	67 - 48	+19	93.3	1.37
Tomasz 'ToM223' RichterToM223	63 - 48	+15	88.7	1.33
Piotr 'morelz' Taterkamorelz	58 - 49	+9	86.3	1.27
Paweł 'reatz' Jańczakreatz	59 - 50	+9	82.4	1.22
Maciek 'Luz' BugajLuz	59 - 48	+11	80.4	1.21

5POWER	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Gan-Erdene 'dobu' Batbolddobu	65 - 60	+5	98.3	1.21
Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaerkaSt	60 - 62	-2	88.5	1.09
Kitikawin 'PTC' RattanasukolPTC	40 - 57	-17	59.5	0.83
Bat-Enkh 'kabal' Batbayarkabal	40 - 60	-20	57.5	0.75
David 'Toy' HanToy	38 - 67	-29	63.2	0.59

Final standings:

1. PRIDE - $12,500
2. 5POWER - $7,500
3. Swole Patrol - $5,000
4. Etherian

5POWER #95 Lei 'forget' LiGan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarPeng 'xiaosaGe' SongKitikawin 'PTC' Rattanasukol Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga Age: 22 Team: Grayhound Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 306 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.68 Etherian #87 Eric 'Kwong' KwongIan 'motm' HardyJosh 'oSee' OhmBlake 'Strings' StringerGage 'Infinite' Green PRIDE #38 Jacek 'MINISE' JeziakPaweł 'reatz' JańczakPiotr 'morelz' TaterkaTomasz 'ToM223' Richter Swole Patrol #65 Ryan 'freakazoid' AbadirSamuel 'SileNt' PortilloRyan 'ryann' WelshJordan 'Zellsis' MontemurroAustin 'Cooper' Abadir David 'Toy' Han Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.93 Maps played: 232 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.69 AGO #22 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiMichał 'snatchie' RudzkiMateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiTomasz 'phr' Wójcik