With official matches already getting taking place for Season 3 of the FACEIT 2015 League in Europe, the North American and Oceanian divisions have been idling in neutral until the completion of their respective qualifiers. With two teams advancing from each region's qualifier for the 2015 League, and with G2.Kinguin and HellRaisers accomplishing said feat in Europe, it was North America's turn next with two qualifying matches taking place, on September 17 and 19.  ptr's ex-eLevate team, who are currently in ESEA Premier, upset CLG for a FACEIT S3 spot
The Brazilians of Luminosity were the first to snag a spot in the FACEIT League, moving through not-so-easily-won games against fellow countrymen of Games Academy in the quarter-final and then defeating Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan's Conquest 2-1 in the qualifier's match, with the latter match going into double overtime on the final map. FACEIT League 2015 Stage 3 NA Closed QualifierBest of 3 Conquest Matchpage 1 2 18th September 2015  Luminosity 6Mirage 16 16Inferno 8 21Cache 26 The second qualifier's match saw CLG taking on the ex-eLevate lineup, the latter of which comprises Peter "ptr" Gurney, an old eLevate core from this summer in Adam "aKis" Kisseberth and Steven "rooRoooo" Herrell, and finally two mostly online talents in Jake "Stewie2K" Yip and Alec "Slemmy" White. With CLG advancing over FolloweSports.com and ex-eLevate taking down Method in the teams' respective quarter-finals, the deciding match saw ex-eLevate come out with guns blazing, and actually upset the North American favourites CLG with a score of 2-1 (16-13 on de_dust2, 9-16 on de_cache, and 16-13 on de_mirage). FACEIT League 2015 Stage 3 NA Closed QualifierBest of 3 ex-eLevate Matchpage 2 1 20th September 2015  CLG 16Dust2 13 9Cache 16 16Mirage 13 Peter 'ptr' Gurneyptr | 64 - 49 | +15 | - | 1.19 | Jake 'Stewie2K' YipStewie2K | 67 - 59 | +8 | - | 1.11 | Steven 'rooRoooo' HerrellrooRoooo | 61 - 58 | +3 | - | 1.06 | Adam 'aKis' KisseberthaKis | 48 - 55 | -7 | - | 0.86 | Alec 'Slemmy' WhiteSlemmy | 39 - 62 | -23 | - | 0.68 |
Tarik 'tarik' Celiktarik | 68 - 58 | +10 | - | 1.15 | James 'hazed' Cobbhazed | 64 - 53 | +11 | - | 1.11 | Pujan 'FNS' MehtaFNS | 55 - 58 | -3 | - | 0.97 | Josh 'jdm64' Marzanojdm64 | 51 - 50 | +1 | - | 0.95 | Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerreltuC | 44 - 60 | -16 | - | 0.75 |
Meanwhile, the Oceanian qualifiers, which will add two teams from that region to the four Australian teams already waiting in the division, kick off Monday September 21 and conclude the following day.  Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan Age: 21 Team: Conquest Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 152 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67  Peter 'ptr' Gurney Age: 25 Team: ex-eLevate Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 115 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.61  Alec 'Slemmy' White Age: 25 Team: ex-eLevate Rating 1.0: 0.90 Maps played: 37 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.68  Steven 'rooRoooo' Herrell Age: 25 Team: ex-eLevate Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 25 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.69  Adam 'aKis' Kisseberth Age: 23 Team: ex-eLevate Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 22 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.72  Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Age: 17 Team: ex-eLevate Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 39 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.74 |