With a one-map advantage coming from the upper bracket, Luminosity swept NoTag 3-0 to qualify for IEM Chicago (16-4 on Overpass and 16-7 on Cache).
The best-of-five grand final kicked off on NoTag's map pick, Overpass, where Luminosity's Henrique "HEN1" Teles and co. got off to a smooth 3-0 start as CTs. João "felps" Vasconcellos and his men stopped the streak with a win in the fourth round, but could not keep the pace on the T-side, as Luminosity secured ten out of eleven rounds to lead by 13-2 at halftime.
The second half saw NoTag come out swiftly to secure the CT pistol, but Luminosity fired back with two in a row, before trading rounds to eventually win the 16-4 map victory to take the series lead, 2-0.
The series then moved on to Cache, Luminosity's map pick, which saw NoTag win the pistol and the following anti-ecos for a clean 3-0 start. The streak ended when HEN1 and his men took the fourth round. The two sides the went back and forth, before Luminosity won nine in a row, ending the half with a 10-5 lead.
In the second half, NoTag got the better start by winning the pistol, but their parade quickly came down as the T side struck back with two rounds. In a blink of an eye, Marcelo "chelo" Cespedes and co. fired back to win their second of the half, but Luminosity wouldn't go down that easily and got their wits together on the T side to pick up four in a row, securing the series 3-0 for a spot at IEM Chicago 2018.
IEM Chicago 2018 South America Closed QualifierBest of 5
Luminosity
Matchpage 3 0 31st August 2018 
NoTag 1Default 0 16Overpass 4 16Cache 7 | Luminosity | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1 | 38 - 20 | +18 | 97.0 | 1.63 |
| Lucas 'steel' Lopessteel | 42 - 24 | +18 | 93.6 | 1.47 |
| Lucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLUCAS1 | 37 - 23 | +14 | 97.2 | 1.42 |
| Gabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoNEKIZ | 38 - 27 | +11 | 88.6 | 1.40 |
| Gustavo 'yel' Knittelyel | 34 - 25 | +9 | 86.1 | 1.27 |
| NoTag | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandre 'xand' Zizixand | 34 - 36 | -2 | 86.6 | 1.09 |
| Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedeschelo | 30 - 35 | -5 | 78.3 | 1.02 |
| João 'horvy' Horvathhorvy | 31 - 36 | -5 | 58.3 | 0.86 |
| Vito 'kNgV-' GiuseppekNgV- | 12 - 40 | -28 | 41.9 | 0.37 |
| João 'felps' Vasconcellosfelps | 12 - 43 | -31 | 49.6 | 0.32 |
Below is the current team list for the $250,000 tournament taking place at the Wintrust Arena from November 6-11:
Astralis
LiquidMIBR
Renegades
fnatic
AVANGAR
eUnitedLuminosity 
FaZeMOUZNRG
BIG
Natus VincereNorth
MVP PK
TBA Qualifier 
BIG #6 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' Maget
Owen 'smooya' Butterfield 
MOUZ #5 
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi
Robin 'ropz' Kool Luminosity #25 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesGabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoGustavo 'yel' Knittel João 'felps' Vasconcellos 
Age: 21 Team: NoTag Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 576 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.71 
FaZe #4 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard 
North #10 Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenPhilip 'aizy' AistrupMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeValdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåNikolaj 'niko' Kristensen Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes 
Age: 20 Team: NoTag Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 339 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67 
Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif 
fnatic #8 Richard 'Xizt' LandströmRobin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonWilliam 'draken' Sundin 
Natus Vincere #2 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' Teslenko
Egor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov 
eUnited #30 Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverWill 'dazzLe' LoafmanMichael 'dapr' Gulino
Kaleb 'moose' JayneBrandon 'Ace' Winn 
MIBR #7 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoTarik 'tarik' CelikFernando 'fer' AlvarengaJake 'Stewie2K' YipMarcelo 'coldzera' David 
Liquid #3 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken 
Renegades #15 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadKarlo 'USTILO' PivacNoah 'Nifty' Francis 
AVANGAR #24 Bektiyar 'fitch' BahytovTimur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Henrique 'HEN1' Teles 
Age: 23 Team: Luminosity Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 561 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.57 
NRG #9 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' Arnold
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov 
MVP PK #31 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeSeon-Ho 'xeta' Son NoTag #53 Vito 'kNgV-' GiuseppeAlexandre 'xand' ZiziJoão 'felps' VasconcellosMarcelo 'chelo' CespedesJoão 'horvy' Horvath (责任编辑：spectrum 2 case)
