AGAiN to grand final over GamePub

21-12-2013 22:48

AGAiN proceed to the grand final of SLTV StarSeries VII Finals after beating GamePub 2-0 (21-18 de_inferno, 16-12 de_train).

GamePub defeated Astana Dragons 2-0 quite comfortably in the first match yesterday, which was followed up by AGAiN edging out Natus Vincere on three maps.

The two winners were up against each other for the place in the grand final. The match started off on de_inferno and it was the Poles who started off better, as they made a two-versus-three A bombsite retake successfuly for 2-0.

The same apartment strategy as in the pistol round worked out for GamePub that time, as they took two quick kills and the Poles were forced to save. With a clean B bombsite push the score was tied at 2-2.

That was before Paweł "byali" Bieliński started his streak of frags when GamePub tried attacking A three times in the next five rounds, as he was quickly at thirteen frags at 8-2.

byali was on point during de_inferno

A few more attempts by the Balkan lineup ended in a disaster, as AGAiN won in two two-versus-two retakes, as well as a four-versus-two failure saved by Filip "Neo" Kubski thanks to a well placed molotov and a grenade.

Nestor "1NTEL" Tanić managed to clutch a one-versus-two situation over at the A bombsite and with a quick push to the same one, the teams switched sides at 11-4 in favor of the Polish team.

It seemed everything was over for GamePub when AGAiN won the pistol round, but the Serbian-Macedonian-Bosnian lineup kept racking up rounds thanks to multiple individual performances by Nemanja "k1Ng0r" Bošković and Luka "emi" Vuković to make it 14-12.

Then Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas showed a perfect A attack, taking two flick headshots off of GamePub, who recovered with a round of their own afterwards. An anti-eco and a three-kill round by Nikola "NiKolinho" Kovač secured an overtime.

AGAiN move on to the grand final

Three quick kills by Anel "NENO" Ceković opened up the first side of the overtime, but two split strategies by AGAiN put the Polish side back to a lead. Two remaining rounds were exchanged for a 3-2 lead in favor of the Poles.

AGAiN managed to open up thanks to two good nades after switching to the Counter-Terrorists, and with Wojtas and Bieliński combining for four kills, their team had to win only one of the remaining three rounds, which they did at 21-18.

After losing the knife round on de_train, AGAiN decided to fake upper and eventually attack lower, which met with a good retake on GamePub's side for 2-0 in the beginning.

A bomb plant helps the Poles buy, but despite a first frag, GamePub managed to defend once again twice in a row. With only pistols, AGAiN managed to get into the A bombsite and won themselves an unlikely round, adding an anti-eco and a lower bombsite push to their score afterwards.

This time it was Ceković who managed to do more than expected in the eco, as he flanked for three kills with a stolen AK-47 in hands for 5-3.

NiKolinho kept GamePub in the game on de_train

Only an ivy push slowed AGAiN down as they took two rounds afterwards thanks to a flank by Wojtas to the connector, which Bieliński put to good use with three deagle headshots on upper.

Only one round of the remaining four went in the hands of the Poles, which made it 9-6 in favor of GamePub before switching to Terrorists. There, they struggled in the beginning during the pistol round and the antiecos, but then they managed to win an unlikely attack on upper with Kovač securing three kills of his own.

Two following rounds were not as successful and with a failed plant by Tanić, the score was sitting at 10-12. Jarosław "pasha" Jarząbkowski then got himself four frags while defending upper, putting his team in a comfortable position at 10-13.

Another flank by Ceković and an unexpected two-versus-three was all she wrote for GamePub, as AGAiN closed the game out with sweeps on upper at 12-16.

Inferno 1st side

-2v3 retake for again, 2-0

-same strat as in the pistol opens with two frags, three save, 2-1, B push, clean 2-2

-fake B didnt work, 3-2, byali 3 kills, 4-2 another A attack, a single nade stopping a B rush helped again to 6-2

-another A attack ended up with a 2v2, 7-2, byali defending again with three kills for 8-2

-B defense for 10-2 after neo saved an almost lost 4v2 with two grenades

-2v2 again 11-2

-intel clutches a 1v2 for 11-3, quick A push for 11-4

Inferno 2nd side

-again pushing b for the pistol, gamepub unable to defend, 14-4 despite good eco rounds

-pasha just about losing 2v2, 14-6, defending A, 14-8

-a slow strat from again meets with kingor 4 kills, 14-9

-a quick strat makes it a 1v2 from pasha, 14-10

-emi defending B all on his own, three headshots make it 14-12

-TaZ with an insane 2 kill action help again make it to three map points, gamepub answer with a round of their own for 15-14 after an eco and niko with three kills to 15-15

another mr5 of the day, Inferno OT #1

-quick three kills by NENO 0-1

-a split A 1-1, B split 2-1

-gp swept the floor with again, 2-2

-3-2 for again

-again opening up thanks to two nades, 5-2 after a sweep with byali and taz combining for 4 kills, but gamepub survives a scary two-versus-three, but again respond with quick early kills with awps to win the map 21-182-2-3-2 for again

SLTV StarSeries VIII FinalsBest of 2

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21st December 2013

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AGAiN	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski pashaBiceps	62 - 44	+18	-	-	1.41
Paweł 'byali' Bieliński byali	54 - 41	+13	-	-	1.23
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas TaZ	50 - 45	+5	-	-	1.03
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Snax	43 - 38	+5	-	-	0.99
Filip 'NEO' Kubski NEO	39 - 40	-1	-	-	0.95

GamePub	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Anel 'NENO' Ceković NENO	46 - 48	-2	-	-	1.01
Nestor 'LETN1' Tanić LETN1	44 - 44	0	-	-	0.98
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	49 - 53	-4	-	-	0.95
Nemanja 'k1Ng0r' Bošković k1Ng0r	36 - 52	-16	-	-	0.74
Luka 'emi' Vuković emi	32 - 52	-20	-	-	0.65

GamePub move on to the consolidation final against Natus Vincere, which is scheduled for tomorrow at 12:00 , while AGAiN secured themselves a spot in the best-of-five grand final at 19:00 .

2013-12-21 22:49

gj lads :)

2013-12-21 22:50

Neo last again..so weird still.

26 replies

IGL

2013-12-21 22:51

20 replies

does neo IGL?

2013-12-21 22:52

19 replies

yes

2013-12-21 22:53

16 replies

NO! snax is igl. neo is just bad in csgo, thats it.

2013-12-21 23:17

15 replies

he was

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when? not today at starladder. maybe for a short time before snax joined.

2013-12-21 23:19

5 replies

no man !! neo is a igl !! 1 or 1,5 month neo is igl in team

2013-12-21 23:22

3 replies

wtf nice excuse for being noobest in the team.

2013-12-22 09:01

1 reply

ask neo then (on fb f.e)

2013-12-22 11:13

i think its snax but fuck it

2013-12-22 09:45

lol, if u have no idea, stop discussing. NEO is igl in AGAiN. Snax WAS.

2013-12-22 11:44

snax was igl ... new igl is neo ...trust us

2013-12-21 23:20

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today at starladder snax was sitting in the middle, so he is still the igl or not?

2013-12-21 23:25

They said that IGL doesn't have to sit in the middle. Trust me, NEO is IGL at the moment.

2013-12-21 23:45

hahahhahha 'sittin in the middle' what a theory :D

2013-12-22 00:15

That IS where the IGL usually sits..

2013-12-22 01:47

snax WAS igl now igl is neo.

2013-12-21 23:30

#39

2013-12-21 23:42

this post give me cancer neo is igl

2013-12-22 00:14

after dh they've changed igl

2013-12-22 02:37

Neo is IGL since a month or so. I guess they decided to give him IGL since snax almost always has better stats than neo so they let him focus on fragging.

2013-12-22 03:18

in second map he gets 24 frags i think

Seems you have not watched the match.Neo won a very important 1v2 clutch on inferno and also made 1-2 open frags in the overtime.While on de_train Neo was the main frager and was the player with most frags ;)

2013-12-22 10:51

+9999

2013-12-22 11:27

You just didn't get what I was pointing out. In 1.6 he pretty much always was the topfragger of any matches. In CS:GO he's never really been a top fragger. It's quite obvious that people still can win important round.

2013-12-22 14:37

Well i have missunderstood you,sorry ;).Yes it is pretty obvious that neo is far from what he was in 1.6

2013-12-22 15:27

really wp byali, MVP

GO GO AGAiN ! MAGIC TAG

n1, good to see polish guys playing well. i'm sure they're super pumped for EMS one katowice

yeah bro totally

2013-12-22 05:45

NeO played pretty bad first map, but on the second one he played really good. Good game AGAiN and gl tomorrow!

gg :D

Looks like NG (NeoGear) is a new "company" ? :D They just need sponsors and they will be beasting soon, they've always performed so well when they have no sponsor! :D

no, they support them for a long time

2013-12-21 22:56

NeoGear is Neo's separate thing, they've been around for a few months.

2013-12-21 22:57

Neogear is a shop pal

byali on some rajon rondo type of game with that 22 assists

2013-12-21 22:54

byali - POLISH ScreaM <3

2013-12-21 23:08

2013-12-22 02:36

buhaha

2013-12-22 10:41

More like Scream is Moroccan byali xD

2013-12-22 21:27

2013-12-21 22:59

Terrible communication in both teams... GamePub started killing each other on train :/

smoke + reflex = team kill

2013-12-21 23:01

and what wrong Again do ??

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they have stupid mistake just like GP, losing on eco,rotation...

2013-12-21 23:16

yeah, and i think they threw one round because they had no def as ct... if they played against some of the top teams, those mistakes would cost them so much...

2013-12-22 01:57

NaVi 2 - 1 game pub Final NaVi 3 - 1 AGAiN

2013-12-21 23:02

rotflmao.

2013-12-22 13:36

Will upper bracket give AGAiN map advantage in Grand Final?

2013-12-21 23:07

2013-12-21 23:14

Ez tournament for AGAiN

2013-12-21 23:11

byali is clearly AGAIN best player right now he been on a tear for like a month and half

He always seems to step up massively on lan, online he's mostly playing average for some reason. Obviously he has his games but the pressure on lan probably gives him that boost to be a frag machine.

2013-12-22 03:15

poles (here I mean g5) were always worse online, in 1.6 online they were losing a lot but on lan thet were incredible

2013-12-22 11:49

Great play by iNation, great performances, great and very entertaining matches. Very deserved to be there at the event, really doubt k1ck would have been able to show such strong performances as well (but who knows), so, good that k1ck wasn't there, as a matter of fact if k1ck were at the event, the whole situation and history could have drastically been changed as AD could have (but not necessarily would have) won vs k1ck, and at the end k1ck would have possibly fall short placing 4th at the event, but it wasnt the case and by having GamePug instead of k1ck we had AD being shockingly knocked out dropping them to lower bracket where the situation repeated and ANGE1 couldn't find the key to knocking out NaVi from the tournament and that's what caused them to place 4th. I am really happy the way things turned out to be right now and am hoping for iNation to keep on performing so well and their sponsors to have the money to send them to big events! What we learned? 1st - AD will need to make sure they get their crap together and go over all previously lost matches (ANDE1's job) which resulted in really poor results basically dethroning AD from being TOP 3 to now being together with every other TOP team somewhere near TOP 5-8 I'd say who are capable of playing well at a certaind day/time once in a while, so the stability and something new is what ANGE1 needs to think of and fix inside the team! 2nd - GamePug showed incredibly good performances in all of their played matches and if other teams kind have underestimated them coming in to these finals (AD for instance) - well, it's that loser's team perfect time to learn from that mistake and make sure going forward every single match vs any team out there is very well thought of and taken into considaration because even now in CS:GO ANY TEAM OUT THERE can beat anyone on a certaind day/time, so yap! GL to iNation aka GamePug, congrats with bronze, really hoping to see more matches with them. Dont worry - be happy! 3rd - AGAiN - Not much to say, me is sure most people waited for a really long time since the beginning of CS:GO and a change in the line up to see GoldenFive boyz achieve at least placing TOP 3 on any LAN even for the members of the team themselves to get some kind of a moral boost and understanding that all that time they played CS:GO was not a waste of time and here we are they we already garanteed ourselves a silver medal aka TOP 2 finish at the event! GL vs GP or NAVI tomorrow! 4th - Na`Vi? Mmmmmmmmmmm! AM is sure that lots of people waited for this to happen as well as its not a secret that NaVi spent lots of time and went a reaaaaaaaalllly long way to finally come this far with all of their line up changes bla bla bla etc, but it actually happenned and they are already waiting for one or the other team to meet them in GrandFinal (obviously there is no NiP, VG or any other teams and if they would be here maybe NaVi wouldnt be battling for 1st place, but it doesnt matter). Still they were able to beat AD where both teams only had ONE CHANCE to use where is WIN = C00L whereas LOSE = GO HOME and they managed to survive, so nto much to add, NaVi DID make tons of mistakes , but those were acceptable taking into considaration 2 new mambers in the team where one of them does understand, but still has a little barrier in language, so its ok! GL! LOVE EVERYONE! CS:GO BECOMES MORE INTERESTING! life is good enjoy and dont get mad! :D peace

2013-12-21 23:28

gamepub* also, i wouldve waited for the last two matches before writing this. it wouldve been... just better.

2013-12-21 23:39

5th byali is a monster ;)

2013-12-21 23:35

AGAiN always strongest without an orga :D

2013-12-22 00:49

exactly they dont need any = win every tournament, haha.

2013-12-22 07:38

if you pay them the hotels, flights, food, they will stay without an orga, trust me.

2013-12-22 11:47

:D no but seriously, u surely remember when they lost orga they won the big tourneys (only) like eswc,wcg,etc

2013-12-22 12:06

I know, I know, but they need someone that pay them the costs for tournaments + some salary. Maybe NG will take some sponsors and they will play under its name.

2013-12-22 13:10

yh neogear is neo's under project and a shop I guess, maybe they can finanse some cost, I believe if they win sltv someone will pick them up

2013-12-22 13:19

final again;)

2013-12-22 01:17

upper and lower bombsites on train? wtf it is not nuke

2013-12-22 01:33

Exactly my thoughts, don't know why no one noticed this. Pretty sure he meant to write inner and outer bombsites :S

2013-12-22 06:28

Neo so bad?

2013-12-22 01:39

Neo top1 on train?

2013-12-22 08:46

2013-12-22 01:55

Gamepub don't look so great anymore... I guess they just anti-strated AD and I guess AD didn't really watch GP-strats, too

2013-12-22 02:10

AD needs new igl because they strats looks so "normal" (nothing special) and almost every round they do the same/or simillar but GP played quite good anyway against AD, they showed some combination of tactics and different styles in game what can i say about the match between again and GP, again looked stronger on tt sides, they won CT sides because of individual performance of some players, byali played awesome match with pasha on inferno... also on train pasha done so many frags on ct side, gg both teams

2013-12-22 02:44

Why Gamepub don't look good anymore lol? Cuz they lost to Again?

2013-12-22 02:59

I just think AD played bad once more, of course GP won fair and square, and of course this is good for the scene. But I doubt GP will do this again (at least against AD) No hard feelings :D

2013-12-22 22:59

GP still look good, both maps were very close today.

2013-12-22 03:13

you guys are morons. Look at neos stats compared to his teammates for the past year their unreal considering they haven't placed to well.

2013-12-22 02:41

He's really hit or miss isn't he. One day he will be a monster and another just fail.

2013-12-22 03:12

Never seen him being "a monster" in cs:go. 1 or 2 good performances isnt really being a beast is it? Thats not the neo we are used to.

2013-12-22 12:32

neo again at the bottom of the scoreboard...doesn't work for me,even if he is the igl or not.But "AGAiN",at important lans,usually the other guys in the team overperformed(in 1.6 in was loord and kuba,now it seems like byali)!Anyway,i want neo-da-king back!

2013-12-22 03:06

bIcEpS sTrOnG as always

2013-12-22 05:16

Neo played less on the first map, but on the other has been the best. What's the problem?

2013-12-22 05:24

Neo quit pls

2013-12-22 08:08

pasha lost a lot of muscle. no more pasha biceps

2013-12-22 09:03

2013-12-22 10:49

again stronk, performing great. effort > gamepub imo

2013-12-22 11:12

I think Navi vs Again in final

2013-12-22 11:17

You peoples need to really learn how to understand this game and stop looking on frags score, its a team game, one fragger is not winning the game, he have just impact, every single player have impact on the game, this is reason why you play it 5v5 and not 1v1, youwork as a team, you can be 0/20 but you probably still doing, granades, covers, planting bombs, and many other stuff, Neo is a legend on counter strike scene, its an honour to watch such a nice guy and good that he doesnt gave up with all these haters, Neo is the man. Just understand the game please...

2013-12-22 11:38

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+1,the haters are just mad fragkids, playing and looking just for frags not for rounds

2013-12-22 11:45

+1 and he is IGL also.

2013-12-22 12:03

2013-12-22 12:08

While everything you said is true, no team will ever win a game while having a player going 0-20, like you said. Its a team game, there are countess things that matter thats true, but you just cant put aside the fragging department. Its ALL needed.

2013-12-22 12:34

So you're saying that NiP should get rid of Fifflaren?

2013-12-22 13:21

If you check NiP last games, for a few months already fifflaren has really improving his game alot, so no, im not saying NiP should get rid of Fifflaren, im saying a team needs their players to be decent in every aspect of the game, including the fragging part.

2013-12-22 13:51

" im saying a team needs their players to be decent in every aspect of the game, including the fragging part." yep, and Fifflaren isn't decent in that part. Don't even try to argue about that. In his case the stats say a lot and they are absolutely humiliating. He's the prime example of someone not being on the same level as his team-mates. In 12 years of CS I never ever saw someone paying so consistently under his mates level than Fifflaren did during 1.5 years. He had 2-3 good games during the past months? What about the other 300 games where he underperformed? Seriously, his case is so crystal clear...

2013-12-22 15:26

Of course Fifflaren is below his teammates thats un-arguable. Still, hes a decent player and even tho you/me/the community may think he should be replaced, i would like to believe NiP players know better than us and if he is still there, hes there for a reason.

2013-12-22 15:29