{"id":663,"date":"2016-08-26T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eslproleaguecsgo.eslpro.gg\/uncategorized\/2016\/08\/top-teams-emerge-in-week-2-of-the-north-american-csgo-pro-league\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T21:16:00","slug":"top-teams-emerge-in-week-2-of-the-north-american-csgo-pro-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/2016\/08\/top-teams-emerge-in-week-2-of-the-north-american-csgo-pro-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Top teams emerge in Week 2 of the North American CS:GO Pro League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Season 4 of the North American <link http:\/\/en.eslproleaguecsgo.eslpro.gg\/csgo\/ _blank>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Pro League<\/link> is well underway as more matches are played and teams begin to separate themselves in the standings. <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cloud9 _blank>Cloud9<\/link> is sitting in first with an amazing 10-0 win-streak, but North American frontrunners <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/SKGaming _blank>SK Gaming<\/link> have yet to play any games. Here&#x2019;s everything that happened in Week 2 and next week&#x2019;s schedule.&#xD;<\/p>\n<h2> \tTUESDAY<\/h2>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nWeek 2 started off strong for <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/SplycePro _blank>Splyce<\/link> as they secured the first win of the day 16-14 against Complexity Gaming.&#xD;<\/p>\n<div id=\"768254561366609920\" class=\"twitter-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nComplexity earned some league points of their own, returning the favor and defeating Splyce 16-11 in Game 2.&#xD;\n<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Immortals _blank>Immortals<\/link> then took down <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/eunitedgg _blank>eUnited<\/link> 16-10, who then answered back in a crazy upset with a 16-10 win of their own.&#xD;<\/p>\n<div id=\"768301264023072768\" class=\"twitter-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>&#xD;<\/p>\n<h2> \tWEDNESDAY<\/h2>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nAfter taking a game off of Immortals on Tuesday, eUnited couldn&#x2019;t maintain their momentum and fell to <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpTicGaming _blank>OpTic Gaming<\/link> twice the following day. But their one Week 2 win gave them three league points and moved them up to 11th place in the standings.&#xD;<br \/>\nImmortals on the other hand did not take their loss lightly and went on to regroup and dominate Splyce first 16-7 and then 16-4.&#xD;<\/p>\n<div id=\"768616872908500992\" class=\"twitter-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>&#xD;\n<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/SelflessGG _blank>Selfless Gaming<\/link> earned their first win of the season, defeating Winterfox 16-13, but <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Winterfoxgg _blank>Winterfox<\/link> turned things around in Game 2 to win 19-16 in overtime.&#xD;<\/p>\n<div id=\"768663484284358656\" class=\"twitter-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nCloud9 continued their Season 4 winning streak, taking down Complexity 16-9 and 16-5.&#xD;<\/p>\n<h2> \tTHURSDAY<\/h2>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nImmortals continued to climb the standings with two wins and six more league points after their matches against <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRGgg _blank>NRG Esports<\/link>.&#xD;<br \/>\nCloud9 did one better than Immortals, closing out Week 2 with zero losses in first place after defeating <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/clgaming _blank>Counter Logic Gaming<\/link> twice on Day 3.&#xD;<\/p>\n<div id=\"769002222646497280\" class=\"twitter-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>&#xD;\n<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamLiquidpro _blank>Team Liquid<\/link> took down Winterfox first 16-14 and then 16-11, putting them in fifth place, just under OpTic Gaming who gained and gave three points after a win and a loss against <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Renegades _blank>Renegades<\/link>.&#xD;<\/p>\n<div id=\"769026507511623686\" class=\"twitter-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>&#xD;<\/p>\n<h2> \tCOMING UP<\/h2>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nWe have four days of action for you in Week 3 of the North American ESL Pro League with matches on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Be sure to check out the <link http:\/\/en.eslproleaguecsgo.eslpro.gg\/standings\/ _blank>standings<\/link> and <link http:\/\/live.eslproleaguecsgo.eslpro.gg\/ _blank>tune in<\/link> starting at 5PM PDT for all four days to watch SK Gaming make their ESL Pro League Season 4 debut!&nbsp;&#xD;<br \/>\nAs always, stay tuned to ESL Counter-Strike on <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS _blank>Twitter<\/link> and <link https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESLCS\/ _blank>Facebook<\/link> for all the latest updates and don&#x2019;t forget to join the conversation using #ESLProLeague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All but the legendary squad of SK Gaming are on the leaderboard after Week 2 of the NA ESL Pro League&#xD;<br \/>\n&#xD;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"_blank"},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}