TI6 EU Qualifiers standings: Team Secret head to TI6

The TI6 EU Qualifiers standings for day 2 are in. Team Secret has secured their spot at TI6. Fantastic Five, Escape Gaming, Ad Finem and Alliance have advanced into the playoffs. Team Empire, Virtus.Pro, Vega Squadron, Power Rangers and Flipsid3 Tactics have been eliminated. The double elimination brackets will kick off tomorrow June 27th, at 10:30 CEST.

UPDATE (August 13th):

TI6 final standings, updates and highlights – HERE

The TI6 EU Qualifiers standings are in after a long and eventful day has concluded for the day 2 group stage.

As predicted and completely expected, the EU region was bursting with upsets, close matches and even closer rankings. The fully stacked TI6 EU Qualifiers became a full on battle ground of the region’s top contenders. It all came down to the last matches of the day to declare the winner and playoff teams.

Escape Gaming, Team Secret and Fantastic Five had to compete in a tiebreaker for the first place position.

After the dust had settled, Team Secret has become the first team from EU to earn their place at TI6.

TI6 EU Qualifiers standings yield the four regional teams that will advance to the playoffs. Fantastic Five, Escape Gaming, Ad Finem and Alliance will fight for the second spot at TI6 as well as the TI6 Wild Card series spot.

Team Empire, Virtus.Pro, Vega Squadron, Power Rangers and Flipsid3 Tactics have been eliminated.

TI6 EU Qualifiers standings day 2

TI6 EU Qualifiers standings tie-breakers

Escape Gaming, Fantastic Five and Team Secret all had incredibly strong and fantastic showings in the group stage. It was a close race for the first place spot which would award the winner with a direct slot to TI6.

At the end of the scheduled matches, Team Secret had overpowered Team Empire pushing the European squad into a three way tie in the top position and eliminating the CIS team at the same time.

Even though Escape Gaming had defeated both Team Secret and Fantastic Five previously, they were still subject to the Tie Breaker rule that required all ties to be played out in new matches instead of based off of head to head previous encounters.

The first tie-breaker was set between Fantastic Five and Escape Gaming. The match started out relatively even until about 25 minutes when Escape Gaming just opened up the match and took it over. From that point the game was heavily one sided and gave Escape the first victory.

The second tie-breaker took place between Escape Gaming and Team Secret. With back and forth swings, Team Secret maintained much of the advantage and control. It still took over 70 minutes for Team Secret to clinch the game and take on the victory, evening out the tie-breaker score so far between the two teams.

The third tie-breaker match pit Team Secret against Fantastic Five. This was the match to determine the next steps and fate of the teams. Team Secret had control and dominance during most the match and eventually established a strong foothold on it about 22 minutes in. The team cruised to victory then by 48 minutes and secured their spot to TI6.

TI6 EU Qualifiers standings playoff and eliminated teams

Ad Finem and Alliance were able to hold tight to a place in the playoffs -both tied with a 5:4 record.

Virtus.pro had a disappointing second day despite a very strong first day – being in the lead with a 4:1 record. They lost all of their matches for the day – against Ad Finem, Fantastic Five, Escape Gaming and Flipsid3 Tactics. Their losses today put them at 4:5 deficit and eliminated them from the event.

Vega Squadron and Team Empire struggled in their results today and ended up tied with Virtus.Pro in a 4:5 record – being eliminated from the event.

Power Rangers came out of the gate swinging and took a game off of Fantastic Five. The Belarus based team was looking strong, but then dropped a match to Escape Gaming. They rebounded to defeat Flipsid3 Tactics in a 54 minute long game and started to hope for the best. They ended the day losing to Empire and then Alliance to seal their spot at the bottom with a 3:6 record.

Flipsid3 Tactics were unable to gain any momentum to pull themselves out of the bottom from yesterday. After losing their first two matches to Empire and Power Rangers, the team was mathematically already eliminated. They continued to play their last 2 matches against Team Secret – a game lost in 11 mins and defeated Virtus.Pro – giving them a 2:7 ending record.

TI6 EU Qualifiers format

The format for the TI6 Regional Qualifiers are different this year to accommodate having two regional spots advance to the TI6 main event and one regional team advance to the TI6 Wild Card series.

Group Stage

• 10 teams in one group, played in a round-robin format for EU
• Eight invited teams for EU
• Two teams qualified through the Open Qualifiers
• All matches are played best-of-one
• The top team qualifies to The International 2016
• Second through fifth place teams advance to the Playoffs
• Tiebreakers: Head-to-head, then best-of-one round robin, then time rating on the round robin

Playoffs

• Four teams compete in a double-elimination bracket
• All matches are played best-of-three
• Grand Final is best-of-five
• The winning team qualifies to The International 2016
• The runner-up qualifies to The International 2016 Wild Card

TI6 EU Qualifiers schedule

June 27

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• 13:30 CEST – Escape Gaming vs Alliance
• 17:00 CEST – Fantastic Five vs Ad Finem
• 20:30 CEST – Lower Bracket semi finals

TI6 Open Qualifiers streams

Beyond the Summit have brought together some of the best talent in the scene at their studios in Los Angeles, California, for this year’s TI Hub. The Hub will broadcast TI6 Qualifiers games from all four regions.

• Beyond The Summit TI6 open qualifier hub’s multicast stream
• Beyond The Summit TI6 open qualifier hub’s fun stream
• Beyond The Summit TI6 open qualifier hub’s regional stream
• Beyond The Summit TI6 open qualifier hub’s regional stream
• Beyond The Summit TI6 open qualifier hub’s regional stream
• Beyond The Summit TI6 open qualifier hub’s regional stream