ESEA Season 5 kicks off tonight, as X3O.CSS takes on Frag Dominant and Cyber Revolution on de_dust2. As the defending champions of ESEA, X3O.CSS has put a lot of their focus this week into cleaning up their dust2 setup rather than solely focusing on de_scorch for CEVO Professional. I had the chance to talk to Kevin “Legend” Binette earlier this week to gather his thoughts on defending the title of ESEA Invite rather than being the runner-ups and going for the gold.

“It’s definitely going to be a unique situation for us to be in. With Sean (TN) and Karlos (solraK) in Season 3, and Eric (adreN) and Justin (Sunman) last season, we always seemed to be looking out for “that team” that would always in the end just get our number off of a miscue. This time around we’re a lot more confident going into matches and really feel like this is our time to shine.”

The first match of the week for ESEA pits X3O.CSS up against Frag Dominant once again. The first time these teams met was this past week in CEVO on de_scorch. However, this is going to be a completely different scenario with the match being played on a highly used map in dust2, and we’re sure to see more coordination and precise timing from both teams. The latter of the two matches this week is against Cyber Revolution who in CEVO Professional Week 1:2, took X3O to the limits by forcing overtime on de_inferno, and are looking to do the same to PEX and co. on de_dust2. Check out the scoreboards below for updated information on the matches!

Season Record: (0-0-0) // Current Rank: 1st Place
Team X3O CSS ESEA-Invite Season 5 - Starting 5 Lineup
Legend Montreal, Canada Since: April, 2009	adreN Pittsburgh, PA Since: August, 2009	PEX Quebec, Canada Since: April, 2009	AZK Quebec, Canada Since: April, 2009	Sunman Harrisburg, PA Since: August, 2009

ESEA-Invite Season 5 Week 1:1 | de_dust2 Team 1H 2H OT Final X3O Legend / Sunman / PEX / AZK / adreN 10 6 - 16 Frag Dominant Spyder925 / monster1 / davE / freakazoid / kTRAiN 5 5 - 10 COMPLETED - WIN

ESEA-Invite Season 5 Week 1:2 | de_dust2 Team 1H 2H OT Final X3O Legend / Sunman / PEX / AZK / adreN 4 2 - 6 Cyber Revolution hauNt / steel / neiL / ryan / forever0 11 5 - 16 COMPLETED - LOSS