LDLC.com through to play-offs

LDLC.com are through to the playoffs after a comeback against 3DMAX, ending up with 16-13 on de_inferno.

To start the match, 3DMAX chose an A bombsite push, where they were able to take three players out for only one on their part and took a 3-0 lead despite a very scary eco saved by Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander.

3DMAX took it slow in the following round and attacked the B bombsite that time around and managed to exchange two players for a 5-0 lead with an eco thrown in.

That was before Hovik "KQLY" Tovmassian finally made his own entry into the match and helped his team win three rounds in a row with his trusty sniper rifle.

The Danes kept on attacking B three times in the next four rounds and repeated their first gunround success, which rocketed them to a 9-3 lead with Philip "aizy" Aistrup stepping it up in a one-versus-three in one of the rounds.

Finally LDLC.com change their mindset in the match and start pushing a little more agressive in the following round, which surprised 3DMAX, who lost two more rounds afterwards as Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez put up big numbers.

EMS One Katowice 2014Best of 1

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Being on the Counter-Terrorists side, 3DMAX tried to push up agressively from mid and banana, but that met with zero defense. After they backed off, LDLC.com went on to do their own split to the B bombsite and start getting back into the match.

At 9-8 for 3DMAX though, the in-game leader Rossander played an excellent eco and took three kills for himself in a two-versus-three B bombsite retake.

Tovmassian and Quiquerez kept racking up rounds and tied it all up at 11-11. The Danish team was getting picked off all over the place as LDLC.com got a two-round lead for the first time in the game.

Despite 3DMAX's morale going to hell after Rasmus "raalz" Steensborg's crash, they still managed to defend the A attack and lower the deficit to only one round.

Dan "apEX" Madesclaire's one-versus-three in the following round was a dealbreaker though, as two B bombsite attacks are traded for two rounds and LDLC just obliterated their opponents in the last round's A push, which took it to a 16-13 win.

EMS One Katowice 2014Best of 1

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LDLC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Mathieu 'Maniac' QuiquerezManiac	26 - 19	+7	-	-	1.26
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	25 - 22	+3	-	-	1.21
Hovik 'KQLY' TovmassianKQLY	24 - 21	+3	-	-	1.20
Vincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerHappy	22 - 15	+7	-	-	1.17
Kevin 'Uzzziii' VernelUzzziii	10 - 21	-11	-	-	0.55

3DMAX	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenMSL	25 - 23	+2	-	-	1.17
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossandergla1ve	22 - 23	-1	-	-	1.12
Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy	17 - 21	-4	-	-	0.93
Rasmus 'raalz' Steensborgraalz	17 - 20	-3	-	-	0.88
Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp	17 - 20	-3	-	-	0.79

Teams from groups C and D are getting ready for their matches as compLexity will take on Clan-Mystik and Reason will be up against fnatic in the two openers.