fnatic easily defeat iBUYPOWER

14-8-2014 15:47

fnatic have defeated iBUYPOWER 16-7 (9-6, 7-1) on de_cobblestone in their opening match at ESL One Cologne 2014.

iBUYPOWER attacked B to start their terrorist side of de_cobblestone, but three kills by Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer and two by Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell gave fnatic the openiing pistol round.

A good save by iBP netted them two kills, and star player Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce put up three headshots, including a one-on-two, to get them on the board in the next round.

After a save swag won another key one-on-one with two kills, and after another weapon round that saw them trade picks early on, they found themselves up 5-2 as terrorists.

That's when fnatic shifted to a higher gear, as olofmeister and Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist put up triple kill rounds each to force iBUYPOWER on a save round, tying the game up again.

Now at 5-5, iBUYPOWER took over B and gained one final lead at 6-5, before fnatic replied. Markus "⁠pronax⁠" Wallsten's triple forced iBP on a save, and a double kill from him made it 8-6.

pronax led his team to a win on de_cobblestone

On the final round olofmeister and Freddy "⁠KRIMZ⁠" Johansson combined for five kills, and fnatic changed sides with a comfortable 9-6 lead as counter-terrorists on the map.

The team's captain pronax continued strong play in the second half, putting up another double on the pistol, followed by a triple against iBUYPOWER's triple Scout buy.

Down 6-12 after another save, Sam "⁠DaZeD⁠" Marine and swag got iBUYPOWER a round, but JW and flusha then broke their money with five kills.

The North Americans went for a weak Scout buy next, but it paid no dividends. A full buy later saw fnatic run over their A defense, and break iBUYPOWER's money again.

With fnatic up 15-7, iBP bought whatever they could, but swag's triple FAMAS round was outdone by JW who scored a quad-kill and a one-on-two to win 16-7.

ESL One Cologne 2014Best of 1

fnatic

Matchpage

14th August 2014

iBUYPOWER

Cobblestone

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	29 - 11	+18	-	-	1.93
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	19 - 8	+11	-	-	1.42
Markus 'pronax' Wallsten pronax	19 - 14	+5	-	-	1.31
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	16 - 15	+1	-	-	1.17
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	12 - 16	-4	-	-	0.76

iBUYPOWER	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Braxton 'swag' Pierce swag	26 - 16	+10	-	-	1.52
Keven 'AZK' Lariviere AZK	12 - 20	-8	-	-	0.64
Sam 'DaZeD' Marine DaZeD	10 - 18	-8	-	-	0.57
Joshua 'steel' Nissan steel	11 - 21	-10	-	-	0.55
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	5 - 20	-15	-	-	0.28

fnatic will face off against Virtus.pro tomorrow, while iBUYPOWER will now go on to face dAT in a game where the loser will be sent packing in Germany. Group D begins later today.

Betted on iBP, congrats fnatic n1 1st time ever, I'm PoepieMoe and happy

2014-08-14 15:48

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Bet on Fnatic when odds were 40-60 to iBP. Now odds were 55-45 for Fnatic. Wouldn't have bet with these odds. Thanks Fnatic <3

2014-08-14 15:52

goed,met jou?

2014-08-14 17:18

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ja gaat wel

2014-08-14 17:41

this map is a joke

7 replies

cbble looks way better than overpass. overpass is a true CoD map.

2014-08-14 15:49

4 replies

No nuke is a CoD map, who ever says that any CS map is a CoD map is a fucking retard. Fucking nuke is a doom map then. And Inferno CoD map because it is fucking pocket sized. /rage

2014-08-14 15:50

you just called yourself a retard :!

2014-08-14 15:56

Nice way of calling your self a retard, gj!

2014-08-14 16:30

wow U just called yourself a retard

2014-08-14 17:09

It's been a joke since 1.6. Lel. No, seriously, is your computer so bad that you have to blame the maps for your poor performance? I guess this is the the most difficult map to run with an optimal frame rate.

2014-08-14 15:54

You are idiot, you don't realize is imposible retake a site as CT? Is lottery is map. Alot of places to camp.

2014-08-14 15:58

2 EZ

bb murica

joke map.com

Well americans are used to fastfood, so i guess this will be a fast home trip.

2 replies

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

2014-08-14 15:51

Haha such a bad joke but you made my day

2014-08-14 16:12

olof <3 =DD

lets pick a shit map and buy scouts every round. iBP 2014

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you know the veto system ?

Each team can ban 2 maps, if they didn't want cbble they could've just banned it and tried their luck on a map which they play more often. Stop using this veto system as an excuse for a bad performance.

2014-08-14 16:02

lol dude i just wanted to point out that the map pick is random and nothing more... because of his sentence "lets pick a shit map" ...

2014-08-14 16:05

I still think the veto system isn't to blame here. But I understand your point, I also think playing a random map out of the 3 remaining maps is weird :)

2014-08-14 16:15

maybe they've played this map the most?

2014-08-14 16:09

Even if it is grand final, wont watch a match on de_cbble

u won't cause that map is called de_cobblestone and I do NOT see here any 1.6 tournament t have final on de_cbble

2014-08-14 16:00

de_cbble is short form of de_cobblestone

OLOF <3

Best of one with "random" map selection, and no knife round. What the fuck ESL?

Not like they did 9-6 CT side and iBP barely put any around as CT...

IBP love to choke, that's what they do, but what I'm implying is the format itself is boring. I kind of feel I could have missed every match today, checked the results and have had the same experience.

2014-08-14 15:57

The HR Epsilon was kinda the game of the day and now we gotta wait Titan C9 for a decent game.

top1 NA not even top10 worldwide huehuehuehue

Stick to CoD murica.

I though UK was where the Pro CoD scene was big

All the pro teams are American I thought?

2014-08-14 17:10

Skadoodle great performance!

Yeah, I'm very happy I chose him instead of swag in my fantasy team, based of G3 performance! But yeah, you can't win if you lose both pistols, dont kill anyone in the ecos (10 hp left on 3 guys every round in Fnatic) and you don't hold mid.

lost both pistols, constantly bought scouts and couldnt convert those into kills etc, definitely not going to be happy with themselves after that

OLOFMONSTER

This is the worst map in cs together with overpass..you have to clear like 10000 corners

Skadoodle is such a sick player, but waaaay too inconsistent. If he can't get his play up to par, iBP are never going to go anywhere..

what up now 'murica woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

STATS!

this map was so bad

2014-08-14 15:53

ul sweg

fnatic easily defeat swag* gg wp fnatic tho :)

ez pz

n1 but expected :)

I swear IBP don't understand the money system of this game...

2014-08-14 15:55

lol

2014-08-14 16:04

buy scouts, fail, buy scouts again, fail, buy scouts again, lose ggwp

2014-08-14 17:22

fucking maps

Good job fnatic!

expected

2014-08-14 16:01

easy!

cobble was good a lil bit but overpass..............

I won with all in bet on fnatic, but fucking first half was so scary ^=.=^

2014-08-14 16:10

Fnatic is so hot right now. Better bet on them!

2014-08-14 16:11

mad props to swag

Online doodle floppy flop

2014-08-14 16:29

cobblestone was very spectacular now we need de_port

5-20 never forget

2014-08-14 16:37

2014-08-15 01:33

fy_snow? :D

predicted by a milestone !

2014-08-14 20:15

steel getting that ass handed to him once again..

2014-08-14 21:23

troll

2014-08-14 22:54

troll? Not at all... he talks so much smack during his streams and what not, but when it has come to these last 3-4 matches he hasn't lived up to what he says he can do.... no trolling here.. the numbers done lie.. iBP fanboi

2014-08-15 01:32