The Brawl Stars playoffs are starting tonight!
After seven qualifiers, today is the start of the A1 Adria League Brawl Stars playoffs. The eight best teams from the last weeks will clash in the double-elimination playoffs in which we will crown the champion of the first-ever Brawl Stars season.
After the seventh qualifier in which Alpha Elite once again took the 100 points and maximized their success, the qualifiers came to an end and the endgame is starting now. The teams will ban 1 global Brawler per game mode, and these are the modes and maps:
Set 1: Gem Grab – Cell Division
Set 2: Brawl Ball – Pinhole Punt
Set 3: Siege – Factory Rush
Set 4: Heist – Pit Stop
Set 5: Bounty – Canal Grande
The first round of the playoffs looks as follows:
Alpha Elite – So Bad
Easy Win – Free Agents
Good Game – ULC eSports
Mayoi – FA Deadly
As always, you will be able to watch the Brawl Stars playoffs on A1 Adria League’s streams on YouTube and Twitch, with the stream starting at 6pm.
esad1memic and Alpha Elite snatch victories in the sixth qualifiers!
One more A1 Adria League qualifier is all that remains before we advance to the next stage of this season of the League. The favorites prevailed once again in the sixth qualifier and the leaderboard is now nearly completed.
Brawl Stars
Mayoi finished the sixth qualifier a bit earlier than usual, falling to FA Deadly in the quarterfinals. Mayoi are still second in the overall leaderboard, but Good Game have great chances of overrunning them and securing the second spot. Undefeated outplayed Crna ruka, while Good Game came out as the winners in their match versus Pekari. Alpha Elite remained undefeated and proceeded to the semifinals over Easy Win in the last match of the quarterfinals.
In the first semifinal, FA Deadly beat Undefeated without any problems and secured the first spot in the finals. The ex-Good Game 2 team, now playing as Alpha Elite, dominated the Good Game squad and once again entered the finals of the qualifier.
FIFA
After a win in the Round of 16, brstimir couldn’t get past arminho0307 and finished the sixth qualifier in the top 8. senozabac advanced to the quarterfinals but couldn’t beat rob1 who won this match after beating Hardi in his top 16 matchup. JasikFIFA and lexylexxx met in the fifth round after victories against Brunoh4545 and eldorado2912, respectively.
JasikFifa was the better football player in this game and advanced to the semifinals. In the Bosnian quarterfinal derby between amke2001 and esad1memic, we had the chance to see esad1memic outplay amke and secure the semifinal match against JasikFifa. esad1memic managed to breeze past Jasik, while in the other semifinal, rob1 bested arminho. At the end of the day, Jasik snatched the third place, while esad1memic finished the qualifier as the champion.
rob1 and Alpha Elite continue dominating in the fifth qualifier!
Only two Brawl Stars & FIFA A1 Adria League qualifiers remain before the second stage of the League. Alpha Elite and rob1 once again destroyed the competition and further strengthened their place on the top of the leaderboard.
Brawl Stars
QSKE Gaming’s Brawl Stars team ended the fifth qualifier in the Round of 16 after a loss to FA Deadly. Good Game bested ULC eSports and Free Agents outplayed Team Placenici without much trouble. Banda Kasharit managed to breeze past Crna ruka, while Easy Win won their match versus APOLLO. In the quarterfinals of the qualifier Alpha Elite once again went to the semifinals after a victory against Banda Kasharit. FA Deadly won their duel against MarkoYouTube’s Free Agents and in the last quarterfinal match, Good Game advanced to the semis over Predators.
The first semifinal saw Alpha Elite take a 3-0 victory versus Easy Win. After Mayoi were eliminated earlier in the competition, this served as an ideal chance for Alpha Elite to finally take that first place on the leaderboard. FA Deadly had a stellar performance in their 3-1 victory versus Good Game and secured the second finals spot. Alpha Elite once again topped the qualifiers and added another 100 points next to their name.
Alpha Elite are now in the charge of the Brawl Stars leaderboard with 300 points while Mayoi are close second with 280. Free Agents and Good Game are still pretty close to the first two teams, with 270 and 235 points, respectively. Easy Win are close behind these two, while FA Deadly and So Bad are falling behind more and more every qualifier.
FIFA
Last week’s finalist, JasikFIFA, was eliminated early in the Round of 16 by edenn95. The Montenegrin player ArsoDr beat Erminjamak and arminho0307 was the better player in his match against HRVoje-95. In the other, more notable matches brstimir managed to get past HarisBL, while Hardi ended this qualifier after a loss to esad1memic.
rob1 advanced to the semifinals with his victory versus edenn95. Harun came out as the better player in the Bosnian derby with esad1memic, while arminho0307 ended ArsoDr’s winning streak in the third quarterfinal. brstimir fell short to Cano 19 11 with the latter securing a matchup against arminho0307 in the semis.
rob1 won the second qualifier in a row after victories against Harun and arminho0307. Harun, who lost the semifinal match against rob1 managed to finish 3rd after a win versus Cano 19 11 in the third-place decider. With these A1 Adria League qualifiers coming to an end, rob1 currently stands strong with 250 points, with arminho coming second at 180.
Mayoi and rob1 claim the top in Brawl Stars and FIFA!
The fourth qualifier for the fifth season of A1 Adria League has drawn to a close and some of the teams and players in FIFA and Brawl Stars are starting to cement their top places on the leaderboard.
Brawl Stars
After falling short in the third qualifier, Predators managed to advance to the quarterfinals this time. Rookies were better than THE GOOD FIGHTE while Easy Win didn’t have any problems in their match against So Bad. Lavvek’s Good Game team bested Come Back and right after them, the former Good Game 2 and Free Agents players, now playing as Alpha Elite, beat Banda Kasharit in their matchup.
In this qualifier’s quarterfinals, Rookies secured a spot in the semifinals while Easy Win couldn’t get past Good Game. Alpha Elite beat their ex-teammate and the rest of Free Agents and ULC eSports finished their qualifier journey in the quarterfinals again, after a loss to Mayoi.
Rookies’ great streak came to an end in the semifinal where they faced Good Game. Blarneyy & Rookies couldn’t beat the experienced guys from Good Game and they finished this qualifier at 3rd-4th. Alpha Elite breezed past Mayoi in the semifinals and with their final victory versus Good Game, they won a second consecutive qualifier, earning 100 more points.
FIFA
One of the more interesting matches in the Round of 16 was the FIFAFICO versus Harun matchup where surprisingly, Harun took the win and eliminated FIFAFICO from this qualifier. rob1 bested arminho0307 while Persunipzs was better than Erminjamak. In the quarterfinals, Jasik outplayed Persunipzs and amke2001 advanced to the semis past Harun. rob1 managed to beat senozabac while esad1memic ended Sko_gbo5’s semifinal dreams.
amke2001 won the Bosnian semifinal derby versus esad1memic, while in the other semifinal we saw one more Bosnian player in Jasik secure a spot in the Grand Final. rob1 beat esad1memic in the 3rd place decider, and in the finals, amke got the W and earned himself the biggest amount of points in this qualifier.
CS:GO qualifiers draw to a close; Brawl Stars and FIFA20 continue!
During the previous week we saw the last CS:GO qualifiers in which we got the remaining four teams for the SWISS League, while Brawl Stars and FIFA had their third qualifier played with more points split between the best teams.
CS:GO
In the third CS:GO qualifier we saw familiar faces make it through to the League. The former Juggernauts player, Luka “c0llins” Živanović secured one of the spots along with his team, Shock Bomb. On the other side of the bracket, QSKE Gaming played a mixed squad containing some of the most famous names in the region, COLOMBIANA. The Macedonian squad managed to breeze past Nemanja “sarenii” Šarenac and COLOMBIANA and take the sixth spot in the upcoming season of A1 Adria League.
The last chance for qualifying was on Sunday when we saw the mix team karavan and the current A1 Adria League champions, Juggernauts, take the two remaining spots. karavan had a really intense match against eSportsKosova in the semifinal, but they managed to slip past their opponents after two overtimes. Juggernauts, on the other side, showed everyone that the champions are back, and even with a new player in David “devoduvek” Dobrosavljević had no problems against the competition.
Brawl Stars
One of the best teams from the previous two qualifiers, Good Game, got upset and eliminated from Crna ruka in their Round of 16 match. GetRekt got wrecked by So Bad, while Alpha Elite managed to get past Banda Kasharit. The modified Free Agents squad lost a tight 2-3 game against FA Deadly and Mayoi secured a spot in the quarterfinals in their match against Predators.
So Bad bested Crna Ruka and Good Game 2 outplayed ULC eSports in the first two quarterfinal games. Come Back had a clean victory against Sabasniper’s Deadly Black squad and in the last game, Mayoi secured a spot as one of the best four teams in the qualifier again.
Good Game 2 definitely had a great run in the third qualifier and a victory versus So Bad earned a spot in the finals for the second Good Game squad. After finishing second in the previous qualifier, Mayoi repeated history once again and finished the third qualifier in second place, after a loss to the newly-formed Good Game 2.
FIFA 20
esad1memic and Harun won their Round of 16 matches against Aki and Hardi, respectively. Persunipzs rob1 bested macer maci while brstimir advanced to the quarterfinals with a clean win versus Erminjamak. Week one’s champion, FIFAFICO was eliminated by Persunipzs, finishing the third qualifier at 9th-16th and discoluzer didn’t let Tamur_gbo98 get to the quarterfinals.
Persunipzs won his match against discoluzer with ease and at the same time, brstimir fell short to rob1. Harun beat his countryman, esad1memic, while HarisBL secured a W versus Privaty01 in the upper part of the bracket.
HarisBL couldn’t outplay Harun so he fell to the third-place decider match, while in the other semifinal, rob1 managed to beat Persunipzs and qualify for the events final. In the Grand Final of the third qualifier, the Serbian player rob1 came out as the better player and earned the grand 100 points from this week’s qualifier.
A sudden shuffle caused trouble for a number of Brawl Stars teams
While we were preparing for the third Brawl Stars qualifier, a massive shuffle happened involving some of the current top teams as well as the first-placed team on the A1 Adria Brawl Stars standings – Free Agents.
Good Game formed a second Brawl Stars division
As the first two qualifiers passed, some teams started putting themselves on the leaderboard on their way to the Second Stage of the League. Free Agents, in particular, dominated the whole competition in both the qualifiers, earning themselves all of the 200 possible points. And just like that, everything changed…
Good Game and their current roster are currently fourth on the Brawl Stars standings with a total of 95 points. With the great game they have been showing in recent times, their chances of qualifying are looking great. Even while fielding a great squad, Good Game love the competition A1 Adria League brings so they decided to form a second team.
While one more team in the qualifiers is a great thing for the players, followers, and the League, when it consists of a mix of players from other teams, it can become a problem. The so-called “poaching” of a single player doesn’t impact a team that much, but when you take the core of the team away, it could really become troublesome for the poached side.
Good Game 2 consists of players from Easy Win, No Name, and most notably Free Agents. Easy Win are currently third with 120 points and No Name occupies the fifth place with 80 points, but they will have to continue their qualification road without Ew_Ciro and DzonDzonO, respectively. The real problems come with the two ex-Free Agents’ players, Andreybs_ and ToDe05, who will be finalizing the second Good Game team.
Problems arise for the Free Agents squad
At the moment where the majority of the active players leave the team, the minority that is still playing is left with the current points, but their points stay unchanged. If the players who left the team earn points while playing for another squad, the minority from their previous squad, or what is left from Free Agents, lose all their earned points. This will most certainly be the case for Marko, who is the only active player left in Free Agents, judging by the quality of the players in Good Game 2.
When asked about the current situation, Marko didn’t try to hide his frustration and said that the remaining members of Free Agent will not continue playing the qualifiers, while also mentioning his plans for quitting competitive Brawl Stars. He told me that Andrey had disagreements with the rest of the team and he left in order to further develop, even though Marko believes the team was good enough and they could keep going with the roster they had at the time. The Free Agents player also thinks that Good Game will not equally focus on both teams, but that the second squad was formed in order to destroy the competition and make the matches easier for their main division.
The new Good Game 2 team consists of:
DzonDzonO
Andreybs_
EW_Ciro
ToDe05
*MarkoYouTube changed his decision and will continue to play in the third Brawl Stars qualifier along with a modified Free Agents squad. Seeing as two out of the four Free Agents players are still part of the roster, Free Agents will keep their current points.
Inder45: “I think that [our regional players] will be under a lot of pressure because of the prizes they can win”
After the FIFA interview with Maid “Kora_Sensei” Korić, I decided to continue this series of interviews with one of the best regional Brawl Stars players Teo “inder45” Božikov, who is also our commentator for the upcoming A1 Adria League season. Inder is usually in the playing roster of Brawl Stars competitions, so this commentating role is a new experience for him, but as we saw last week, he fits it perfectly. He talked to me about the Brawl Stars competitive scene as a whole, his career in the game, and of course, the details about the approaching fifth season of A1 Adria League.
After featuring Hearthstone in the previous two seasons, A1 Adria League decided to switch the mobile titles a bit and add Brawl Stars to the roster. What made Brawl Stars the perfect candidate for the next two seasons of A1AL?
I think the biggest reason for picking Brawl Stars over Hearthstone was it’s popularity. I would say that in the Balkan region at the moment, Brawl Stars is the most popular mobile game, or at least that’s what I would say if you are looking at YouTubers that create Brawl Stars content. Another good reason would be that Brawl Stars is a 3vs3 game where playing as a team is really important. The matches usually last about 2 minutes and are full of chaos and intense plays which makes it much more interesting to watch than Hearthstone, which is more slow paced game where thinking takes time, while in Brawl Stars you need to think really fast and have great reflexes.
You have played Brawl Stars competitively before. You will take part in the upcoming seasons of A1 Adria League, but in a different role, as a commentator. How different is commentating to actually playing the game and do you miss competing?
It is really different, the biggest difference (besides the obvious) is that I can see the mistakes players make during their match and I’m focused on everything that is happening on the map while as a competitive player that was much harder to do, because games are really intense and you don’t have much time to think and because of that you will probably make a mistake or two that could cost you the match. Yeah I’m definitely sad that I won’t be competing in this season because my team is one of the favorites to win the whole league, but I still wish them good luck and I hope they win.
The company behind Brawl Stars, Supercell, is constantly organizing weekly and monthly cups with various rewards to help the growth of the game’s competitive scene. While worldwide the scene is better than ever, in the Adriatic region we are still in the process of developing a competitive circuit for Brawl Stars. We hope that A1 Adria League will help the players in their paths to a competitive career and we certainly hope on seeing some of you competing at the highest level in the future.
Supercell gives a lot of attention to Brawl Stars when it comes to the esports aspect of the game. Our regional players have had limited chances to take part in a competitive Brawl Stars environment, so what does it mean for them to be able to play Brawl Stars for real prizes?
Yeah, Supercell really loves Brawl Stars and wants to make it their No.1 competitive game. As for our regional players I think they will be under a lot of pressure because of the prizes they can win, but that is good, a bit of adrenaline while you play is something I really like while playing competitive matches.
FIFA has the FBC that immensely helped the growth of competitive FIFA in the Adriatic region. Are there similar communities for Brawl Stars? Are there groups developing and trying to help the growth of the game over here?
Might sound a bit egoistic but I actually created a big league whose purpose was to “wake up” teams in our region and tell them that we can make Brawl Stars an esport in our region as well. I think that helped a lot to form a few teams that are now one of the best in our region, but of course I’m not the only one, there are also others who created their tournaments and helped Brawl Stars develop as an esport over here.
How will the fifth season of A1 Adria League be played out when it comes to Brawl Stars? What format will be used in the qualifiers and in the stages afterward?
I actually really like the format in A1 Adria League. There will be seven online qualifiers in which the teams need to get as much points as they can, and after seven weeks the top 8 teams with the most points will advance to the Online Playoffs where they will compete for really big prizes. As for the in-game format, in the qualifiers it is BO5 in game modes while every game mode is BO1, each team has 1 ban that is global which means that no team can play the banned brawler for the rest of the match.
Anything you want to add and say to the players, followers, and the organization behind this tournament?
For the players I would say that you should just keep practicing, and that nothing will come over night, classic I know, but it is true, especially in Brawl Stars, keep focusing on your game and don’t get down if you lose. Re-watch the match you lost, find mistakes and try to focus on them so you won’t make the same mistake twice. For followers I hope you will enjoy the streams and support us in making our game a real esports, and for the organisation all the best whishes since I hope we will get to know each other a bit better as I’m new to all this.
Thank you for the kind words Inder. We are lucky to have you as a part of the staff this year and we will definitely have time to get to know each other during the season. Brawl Stars is continuing this week, so don’t forget to tune in at our Twitch channel and watch the best regional squads battle it out on their way to the playoffs.