2-0 victories over O PLANO and Bad News Bears saw the two ESEA Premier sides advance to the main event.

Extra Salt and paiN have secured spots in cs_summit 8, the Regional Major Ranking event for North America, taking down O PLANO and Bad News Bears, respectively, in the upper bracket of the closed qualifier to book their ticket in the main event.

Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou's troops were the first to secure their berth, making short work of O PLANO in a two-map series. Although the Brazilian side kept themselves in close contention during the first halves of Inferno and Nuke, where they edged out 8-7 leads, the second half of both maps were all Extra Salt, who gave up a combined three rounds en route to swift map victories to close out the series in fast fashion.

oSee topped the board for Extra Salt in their win over O PLANO

Bad News Bears entered their match against paiN with a commanding lead, demolishing Rafael "⁠saffee⁠" Costa's side 11-4 on the Terrorist side of Mirage; however, once the sides swapped over, paiN were the ones running rampant over the Bad News Bears defenses, conceding just one additional round before taking a 16-12 map victory.

Nuke was even more one-sided as paiN had their foot on the throat of Bad News Bears from the onset, dominating the first half 14-1 and wasting no time in closing things out in the second half to book their ticket to the main event.

cs_summit 8 Closed QualifierBest of 3 Extra SaltMatchpage 2 0 16th May 2021 O PLANO 16Inferno 10 16Nuke 9

Extra Salt	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Josh 'oSee' OhmoSee	50 - 26	+24	95.5	1.54
Edgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoMarKE	45 - 28	+17	90.7	1.49
Justin 'FaNg' CoakleyFaNg	34 - 25	+9	69.9	1.18
Johnny 'JT' TheodosiouJT	29 - 30	-1	65.5	1.02
Aran 'Sonic' GroesbeekSonic	28 - 34	-6	60.7	0.91

O PLANO	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Leonardo 'leo_drk' Oliveiraleo_drk	34 - 38	-4	66.3	0.96
Vito 'kNgV-' GiuseppekNgV-	31 - 36	-5	65.8	0.91
Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1	29 - 34	-5	63.5	0.90
Vinicius 'vsm' Moreiravsm	31 - 40	-9	69.4	0.86
Lucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLUCAS1	16 - 38	-22	55.6	0.64

cs_summit 8 Closed QualifierBest of 3 Bad News BearsMatchpage 0 2 17th May 2021 paiN 12Mirage 16 1Nuke 16

Bad News Bears	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Michael 'Swisher' SchmidSwisher	34 - 41	-7	87.5	0.99
Peter 'ptr' Gurneyptr	28 - 36	-8	73.6	0.89
Gabe 'Spongey' GreinerSpongey	27 - 32	-5	62.9	0.84
Jonathan 'Jonji' CareyJonji	26 - 38	-12	66.0	0.73
Nick 'alter' Jacksonalter	12 - 39	-27	39.1	0.41

paiN	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Vinicios 'PKL' CoelhoPKL	44 - 26	+18	94.0	1.60
Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourtbiguzera	42 - 20	+22	84.9	1.51
Rafael 'saffee' Costasaffee	35 - 28	+7	76.3	1.26
Wesley 'hardzao' Lopeshardzao	32 - 30	+2	86.3	1.23
Gabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoNEKIZ	33 - 28	+5	88.2	1.23

The team list for cs_summit 8 now looks as follows:

FURIA
Liquid
Extra Salt
Closed Qualifier EXTREMUM
Evil Geniuses
paiN
Closed Qualifier Bad News Bears #38 Peter 'ptr' GurneyJonathan 'Jonji' CareyGabe 'Spongey' GreinerNick 'alter' JacksonMichael 'Swisher' Schmid Rafael 'saffee' Costa Age: 26 Team: paiN Rating 1.0: 1.23 Maps played: 139 KPR: 0.82 DPR: 0.60 EXTREMUM #34 Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandAaron 'AZR' WardJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiJay 'Liazz' Tregillgas O PLANO #50 Vito 'kNgV-' GiuseppeHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraVinicius 'vsm' Moreira Evil Geniuses #23 Michał 'MICHU' MüllerPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzVincent 'Brehze' CayonteTsvetelin 'CeRq' DimitrovOwen 'oBo' Schlatter Extra Salt #21 Aran 'Sonic' GroesbeekEdgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoJohnny 'JT' TheodosiouJosh 'oSee' OhmJustin 'FaNg' Coakley FURIA #6 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoPaytyn 'junior' JohnsonKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato paiN #33 Vinicios 'PKL' CoelhoGabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoWesley 'hardzao' LopesRodrigo 'biguzera' BittencourtRafael 'saffee' Costa Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou Age: 22 Team: Extra Salt Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 788 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.67 Liquid #9 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipMichael 'Grim' Wince