Homeless, iBP win in ESEA openers

Homeless and iBUYPOWER have prevailed in their openers versus mouseSpaz and United5 at ESEA Invite Season 15 Global Finals in Dallas, TX.

ESEA Finals kicked off late Friday night for Europeans as Joshua "steel" Nissan's Homeless took on Ricky "sLip" Cohen's mouseSpaz in the  opening round of the ESEA Invite Season 15 Global Finals.

Nissan and company started off strong as they won twelve rounds on the counter-terrorist side of de_mirage, and put the map away at 16-11 after some terrorist side struggles.

iBUYPOWER hope to make up for their shortcomings at DreamHack Winter 

Cohen's and Christian "sobo" Soboleske's mouseSpaz evened up the series on de_dust2 though, winning eleven rounds as the defenders and then quickly tying the series with a 16-5 score.

It all came down to de_cache, where this time it was Carey "frozt" Kertenian's side Homeless who prevailed, winning easily 16-7 after a 11-4 first half score to advance to the next round. ESEA Invite Season 15 Global FinalsBest of 3 HomelessMatchpage 2 1 18th January 2014 mouseSpaz 16Mirage_ce 11 5Dust2 16 16Cache 7

Homeless	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadirfreakazoid	67 - 50	+17	-	1.32
Joshua 'steel' Nissansteel	55 - 52	+3	-	1.15
Justin 'mosbeck' Mosbeckmosbeck	44 - 46	-2	-	0.94
Carey 'frozt' Kertenianfrozt	40 - 41	-1	-	0.87
Neil 'montE' MontgomerymontE	36 - 48	-12	-	0.81

mouseSpaz	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerreltuC	53 - 45	+8	-	1.19
Richard 'Lucky' VasconcelosLucky	55 - 49	+6	-	1.10
Christian 'sobo' Soboleskesobo	45 - 49	-4	-	0.95
Pujan 'FNS' MehtaFNS	43 - 49	-6	-	0.94
Ricky 'sLip' CohensLip	41 - 50	-9	-	0.82

Second match of the day saw fan-favorite Sam "DaZeD" Marine's iBUYPOWER, now making their LAN debut in North America, take on former coL and EG member Matt "Warden" Dickens' United5.

First map in the series was de_cache, where Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham's twenty-six frag performance helped iBUYPOWER to a convincing 16-10 win after a 10-5 counter-terrorist half.

The series was quickly over with a 2-0 scoreline as Kevén "AZK" Lariviere's thirty-kill effort helped eliminate United5 with a 16-9 score on de_inferno, thus allowing iBP to advance. ESEA Invite Season 15 Global FinalsBest of 2 iBUYPOWERMatchpage 2 0 18th January 2014 United5 16Cache 10 16Inferno 9

iBUYPOWER	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Keven 'AZK' LariviereAZK	47 - 32	+15	-	1.27
Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamSkadoodle	40 - 29	+11	-	1.19
Sam 'DaZeD' MarineDaZeD	43 - 34	+9	-	1.17
Todd 'anger' Williamsanger	34 - 29	+5	-	1.08
Eric 'adreN' HoagadreN	34 - 31	+3	-	0.96

United5	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Matt 'Warden' DickensWarden	31 - 38	-7	-	0.90
Tyler 'Storm' WoodStorm	30 - 38	-8	-	0.82
Jason 'moses' O'Toolemoses	30 - 38	-8	-	0.80
David 'Xp3' GarridoXp3	32 - 42	-10	-	0.79
Zach 'TM' MillerTM	32 - 44	-12	-	0.73

ESEA Invite Season 15 Global Finals continue today at 17:00 with compLexity taking on Homeless, followed up by French-Belgian Titan facing off against iBUYPOWER at 20:00 .

All matches but the consolidation final and grand final will be played tonight in Dallas, TX. You can find our day one gallery with almost 100 photos here. We will add statistics later today.

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