ORDER beat Grayhound to qualify for Pro League S8 Finals

ORDER will be Oceania's representative at the ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals after beating Grayhound in the final of the regional qualifier.

Eight teams from across Oceania took part in this double-elimination qualifier for the chance to represent the region at the upcoming Pro League event, where $750,000 will be on the line.

ORDER, who brought in Joshua "⁠INS⁠" Potter and Charlie "⁠zeph⁠" Dodd during the recent Oceanic shuffle, were the first team to secure a spot in the grand final after beating Ground Zero 2-0 and edging past Tainted Minds and Grayhound in close three-map series.

ORDER will attend their first Pro League event

Down to the lower bracket, Erdenetsogt "⁠erkaSt⁠" Gantulga's men breezed past Chiefs to progress to the final, but they knew they had a mountain to climb to overcome the one-map disadvantage they had heading into the match.

Grayhound were unfazed by the task at hand, however, and levelled the series with a close victory on Cache before ORDER restored a one-map lead with a convincing Dust2 display. The next map, Mirage, went down to the wire, with Grayhound recovering from an 8-14 deficit to take the game to overtime, only to falter in the extra rounds.

ESL Pro League Season 8 OceaniaBest of 5 ORDERMatchpage 3 1 31st October 2018 Grayhound 1Default 0 12Cache 16 16Dust2 8 19Mirage 16

ORDER	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Joshua 'INS' PotterINS	67 - 56	+11	93.1	1.22
Alistair 'aliStair' JohnstonaliStair	69 - 58	+11	78.9	1.21
Chris 'emagine' Rowlandsemagine	66 - 60	+6	81.3	1.15
Jordan 'Hatz' BajicHatz	50 - 58	-8	64.6	0.93
Charlie 'zeph' Doddzeph	43 - 63	-20	59.5	0.82

Grayhound	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Ollie 'DickStacy' TierneyDickStacy	66 - 62	+4	81.7	1.14
Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaerkaSt	62 - 60	+2	81.9	1.11
Christopher 'dexter' Nongdexter	62 - 64	-2	79.4	1.05
Liam 'malta' Schembrimalta	57 - 61	-4	70.2	0.95
Euan 'sterling' Mooresterling	48 - 50	-2	56.7	0.91

This will be ORDER's third-ever appearance at a Big Event, after IEM Katowice and IEM Sydney, both of which took place earlier this year. In the Polish city, the Australian side went out 13th-16th, but they fared better at the tournament down under, where they came close to eliminating Cloud9 in the groups.

The ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals will run from December 4-9 at the Sparekassen Fyn Arena, in Odense, where 16 teams will be facing off for the grand prize of $250,000. The team list for the Danish event currently looks as follows:

Astralis
MIBR
ORDER
Europe #4
Europe #6
North America #3
North America #5
ESL Pro League Asia winner Natus Vincere
Ghost
Europe #3
Europe #5
Europe #7
North America #4
North America #6
ESL LA League winner MIBR #5 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoTarik 'tarik' CelikFernando 'fer' AlvarengaJake 'Stewie2K' YipMarcelo 'coldzera' David ORDER #81 Chris 'emagine' RowlandsAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJoshua 'INS' PotterJordan 'Hatz' BajicCharlie 'zeph' Dodd Joshua 'INS' Potter Age: 20 Team: ORDER Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 465 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.66 Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga Age: 23 Team: Grayhound Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 472 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.66 Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Ghost #25 Joshua 'steel' NissanKenneth 'koosta' SuenYassine 'Subroza' TaoufikMatthew 'WARDELL' YuJason 'neptune' Tran Grayhound #68 Christopher 'dexter' NongErdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaLiam 'malta' SchembriEuan 'sterling' MooreOllie 'DickStacy' Tierney Ground Zero #137 Mark 'deStiny' KaganCallum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonNikhil 'NikkeZ' VictorChase 'Xtinct' DicksonCooper 'void' Farrell Chiefs #71 Mohammed 'MoeycQ' TizaniIyengaran 'IyeN' RajuJesse 'InfrequeNt' BarkerSam 'flickz' JonesMatthew 'Texta' O'Rourke Tainted Minds #87 Mike 'ap0c' AliferisRyan 'zewsy' PalmerChris 'ofnu' HanleyKarlo 'USTILO' PivacSimon 'Sico' Williams Charlie 'zeph' Dodd Age: 16 Team: ORDER Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 138 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.72 Natus Vincere #2 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov