Luminosity win MAX5 Invitational

Luminosity cement their status as the region's best with a dominant 3-0 defeat of Keyd Stars in the MAX5 Invitational grand finals (16-4 on de_cache, 16-2 on de_mirage, and 16-11 on de_cbble).

Taking place inside of the Mega Arena X5 in São Paulo, the MAX5 Invitational brought together nine Brazilian teams and one Argentinian team in a five day long South American duel to determine the region's best.

The group stage saw a few notable teams fail to make the playoffs of the event, such as Raphael "⁠cogu⁠" Camargo's INTZ, Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes's CNB, and perhaps most surprisingly a Games Academy team that included Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass.

Luminosity win in São Paulo

In the playoffs of MAX5, it was g3x and Caio "⁠zqkS⁠" Fonseca's AlienTech that fell aside (AlienTech won the third place decider), meaning that the final face-off would be between the tournament favourites Luminosity and Keyd Stars.

Luminosity, who are currently ranked seventh in the world in our official team ranking, had a breeze for most of the best-of-five grand final against Keyd Stars, whose lineup included Renato "⁠nak⁠" Nakano, the previous coach for Luminosity.

After a 16-4 win on de_cache and a 16-2 destruction on de_mirage against Keyd, Luminosity went up 14-1 on the third map of de_cbble before Keyd Stars finally showed some signs of life in the game and began to claw their way back. In the end however, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo and his men got the final two rounds and won the map 16-11.

MAX5 InvitationalBest of 5 LuminosityMatchpage 3 0 10th January 2016 Keyd 16Cache 4 16Mirage 2 16Cobblestone 11

Luminosity	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFalleN	67 - 32	+35	-	1.60
Marcelo 'coldzera' Davidcoldzera	64 - 35	+29	-	1.50
Lincoln 'fnx' Laufnx	56 - 39	+17	-	1.28
Fernando 'fer' Alvarengafer	50 - 39	+11	-	1.14
Epitacio 'TACO' de MeloTACO	40 - 37	+3	-	1.02

Keyd	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda LimaBIT	41 - 55	-14	-	0.83
Lucas 'destiny' Bullodestiny	42 - 54	-12	-	0.77
Vito 'kNgV-' GiuseppekNgV-	37 - 57	-20	-	0.72
Jean-Michel 'mch' D'Oliveiramch	31 - 56	-25	-	0.64
Renato 'nak' Nakanonak	31 - 55	-24	-	0.60

MAX5 Invitational final standings:

1. Luminosity - R$16 000,00 (~$4,000)*
2. Keyd Stars - R$11 000,00 (~$2,750)*
3. AlienTech - R$3 500,00 (~$870)
4. g3x - R$2 500,00 (~$620)
5-6. Santos.DeX - R$1 250,00 (~$310)
5-6. Games Academy - R$1 250,00 (~$310)
7-8. CNB - R$1 000,00 (~$250)
7-8. NTN - R$1 000,00 (~$250)
9-10. INTZ - R$500,00 (~$125)
9-10. Gathers - R$500,00 (~$125) 

*First and second place prizes were doubled.

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Lucas 'steel' Lopes Age: 22 Team: CNB Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 198 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.64 Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo Age: 24 Team: Luminosity Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 217 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.62 Caio 'zqkS' Fonseca Age: 23 Team: AlienTech Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 91 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.66 Ricardo 'boltz' Prass Age: 18 Team: Games Academy Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 189 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.66 Raphael 'cogu' Camargo Age: 30 Team: INTZ Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 13 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.70 Renato 'nak' Nakano Age: 28 Team: Keyd Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 12 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.69