NiP 2-1 over coL; proceed to semis

NiP are through to semi-finals after a three-map battle against compLexity (12-16 de_dust2, 16-2 de_nuke, 16-11 de_train).

Starting off on de_dust2 it was compLexity as Terrorists who took NiP by a complete surprise and got off to an unexpected start with Braxton "swag" Pierce's three-kill pistol round, followed by a double-awp strategy in the first gunround.

A slow mid push in the anti-eco afterwards was met with a crossfire defense, it was Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund and Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson combining for four kills and lowering the deficit to 1-4. In spite of Alesund's attempts NiP wasn't able to win any of the following five rounds, out of which only one ended up in a close situation. 

NiP tried to switch things up a little bit with a double-awp setup of their own and compLexity ran into an A trap, which made the scoreline 9-2. For two more rounds it was compLexity on a great offense once again for 11-2 as Johansson wasn't able to defuse against Sean "sgares" Gares' AWP. 

He made up for it only a after a little while thanks to a long combination with Richard "Xizt" Landström for 11-4 alongside a successful eco coming from Adam "friberg" Friberg and his last second defuse.

At that point Pierce was at a 22-7 score, but he went quiet for a little while in the beginning of their Counter-Terrorists side. Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Alesund were the stars of the second pistol, which lowered their deficit to only four rounds.

Lindberg continues with a good performance in the several following rounds until compLexity started pushing out from upper dark and short and with Gares' two kills on A while being all by himself, NiP found themselves five rounds behind.

That was when they seemed to get back on track, destroying another attempt at an unexpected push from the CTs, but Pierce shows his name once again with the following crazy one-versus-four against two low-hp Ninjas while retaking the B bombsite.

Even though NiP tried to get back from that round, it only took compLexity three attempts to close the map at 16-12.

Switching over to de_nuke, the storyline was completely turned around. With the pistol round going the Swedes' way thanks to an outside lower rush and a couple of saved scary ecos, NiP were up 6-0.

A chance offered itself once again when Martin "hiko" Spencer dealt an immense amount of damage on ramp in a three-versus-three, but NiP managed to come back from that and defended the lower plant successfully as Friberg won a one-versus-one.

Finally the Americans got their first round after yet another three-versus-three, but it was too little too late, because NiP just kept on racking up more rounds for an eleven-round lead before switching sides.

Not even the second pistol round ramp strategy worked out for Gares and company, which ended up being a death sentence and de_nuke was over at 16-2.

de_train started off with compLexity's Jordan "n0thing" Gilberg picking off two Swedes on lower, which allowed his team get into the bombsite and win the first round.

The usual eco round worked out better than expected for NiP's Landström, who took three people out of the ecquation before winning a one-versus-one for a tie at 1-1.

compLexity were able to forcebuy afterwards thanks to a plant, and that alongside an upper push seemed to pay off, but it was Landström yet again with four kills and this time a one-versus-two. 

Another upper attack by the American side worked out well and with an eco thrown in, they were back in the one-round lead. That was until Alesund ended up in a one-versus-two in the following round, killed one of the opponents and defused against Pierce without a kit.

Then it was all NiP's game until they were 9-3 in the lead, when Sgares ended up in a number of unsuccessful one-versus-three attempts. compLexity managed to get back on track though, with Pierce getting six kills in the three rounds and the halftime score read 9-6 in favor of the Swedes.

A fast upper attack saw Lindberg taking two quick kills, which rocketed NiP to a six-round lead. Only one round in the following four was defended by the Americans though, who found themselves only two rounds away from getting dropped out of the tournament.

Another upper attack was completely demolished by the Counter-Terrorists this time around, but that was almost the end of the story as the next round was taken under the wings of NiP, who only needed three more despite Alesund's good attempt at a one-versus-three.

EMS One Katowice 2014Best of 3

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Matchpage

2

1

14th March 2014

Complexity

12

Dust2

16

16

Nuke

2

16

Train

11

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundGeT_RiGhT	74 - 44	+30	-	-	1.45
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindbergf0rest	61 - 50	+11	-	-	1.20
Robin 'Fifflaren' JohanssonFifflaren	57 - 44	+13	-	-	1.14
Richard 'Xizt' LandströmXizt	50 - 44	+6	-	-	1.08
Adam 'friberg' Fribergfriberg	46 - 51	-5	-	-	0.88

Complexity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Braxton 'swag' Pierceswag	69 - 54	+15	-	-	1.28
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbertn0thing	49 - 56	-7	-	-	0.87
Kory 'SEMPHIS' FriesenSEMPHIS	42 - 61	-19	-	-	0.73
Sean 'seang@res' Garesseang@res	38 - 60	-22	-	-	0.67
Spencer 'Hiko' MartinHiko	35 - 57	-22	-	-	0.62

Day two is now over in terms of matches, but we still have more content including highlights, stats and photos to give you. Tomorrow the matches continue with the last quarter-final between LGB and fnatic kicking off day three at 13:00 .