Previously known as Puszek Team, Euronics has begun to make waves notably in the recent European Enter the Storm tournament. The Polish players only won one qualifier but competed in all eight, placing them sixth overall, tying points with Bubble Squad, Team Liquid & Virtus.Pro. They have yet to regularly play against any “big name” teams but they will more than likely get that chance going into the group stages of EU ETS.
If they can continue the path they’re on and stand against stronger teams, they could potentially become a new contender in the European scene.
Although they struggled through most of the qualifiers of the first North American Enter the Storm, eLevate competed in enough to make it to the playoffs, but fell (like most NA teams do) to Bob Ross Fan Club. They also climbed to second place in the Heroes Rising Qualifiers, just barely making it to the main event. The seasoned team obviously have a fair adaptation of the current North American meta and a strong draft system, but they’re one of the many teams that have hit that invisible “wall” in competition play.
With 2016 being the year of esports, if there was any chance for them to bust through their wall, it’ll be now.
Most recently Team Blaze won the first qualifier of the NA ETS Cup #2 in a huge final series against Tempo Storm. Although getting thrown into the lower bracket after their first match at Heroes Rising, Blaze were able to work their way back all the way to the lower bracket semi-finals beating out Team oVo and Panda Global in back to back 2-0 matches. Their knowledge of team composition and complete and total map awareness protection and domination puts them easily on equal ground with the rest of the top NA competition. Blaze is also one of the most entertaining teams to watch play with their surprising late game strategies.
And their gif-tweets are on point.
While EDG is a largely popular organization in China for their League of Legends team, their Heroes of the Storm team is starting to pick up the pace. They’ve placed in the top 4 in just about all the events they’ve participated in in 2015, and most of their players have been on the team since its creation. The only competition in China they seem to struggle against is eStar Gaming, as they have only beaten them twice in their last eight meetings. Other than eStar, their only clear competition is Europe in general.
As we already know there will be much more international competition in 2016. This will be the perfect opportunity to see how EDG can fair against opponents from overseas.
Lead by two powerhouse players, former Dignitas player adrd, and former Virtus.Pro player bkbgrnrjefek, TSaM broke out into the scene, like most teams do, competing in Enter the Storm. They made strides in most that they played in, facing Na'Vi and Fnatic in two semifinals and going all the way taking the top spot in qualifier #7, only losing two out of the past ten matches. Even though they’ve only been playing in Enter the Storm qualifiers they’ve proved their worth enough jumping up to the #18 position on the Gosu rankings and taking the top seed going into the ETS European group stages with a whoping 92 points.
The group stages will be the real test, seeing if they can play strong and win against top European teams Fnatic and Na’Vi. The potential is there, and we’ve seen it. If they can at least play strong they’ll be a tough competition for the rest of the teams in EU and potentially the world.
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