LDLC beat Cloud9 a second time

24-10-2014 14:26

LDLC won their second match against Cloud9 at the FACEIT Finals, this time a 16-11 success on de_dust2.

After a one-sided match on de_inferno, LDLC's pick, both teams moved on to de_dust2, Cloud9's map choice, with the North American side coming into the game knowing that anything other than a win could put their chances of reaching the playoffs in jeopardy.

Cloud9, who started out on the Terrorist side, did a short-long split in the pistol round with great success, wich much thanks going to Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen, who picked up four kills. After suffering a few scares in the first anti-eco round, Cloud9 fell short in the third round, with LDLC running riot as they took a staggering seven rounds in a row.

shroud's ace was a turning point in the match

An impressive ace from Mike "⁠shroud⁠" Grzesiek in A finally broke LDLC's momentum, with Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin getting an ace of his own, this time in B, just two rounds later. It was thanks to such strong individual performances from their players that Cloud9 managed to counter LDLC's strong teamplay and go into half-time down by just one round.

In the second half, a triple kill from SEMPHIS in long paved the way for his team to win the pistol round, but Cloud9 fell victim to LDLC's CZ and armor buy in the following round.

LDLC continued in the driving seat and edged closer to victory as time went on. A 1-on-2 clutch from Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares at 9-14 gave the North American side a lifeline, but the French side never took their foot off the pedal, so it was with little surprise that they secured a 16-11 victory, with Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey getting a stunning a ace towards the end of the match.

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24th October 2014

LDLC

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LDLC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey kioShiMa	25 - 18	+7	-	-	1.41
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Happy	28 - 21	+7	-	-	1.33
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	19 - 16	+3	-	-	1.07
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	17 - 16	+1	-	-	0.99
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	15 - 16	-1	-	-	0.88

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Hiko	25 - 19	+6	-	-	1.38
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	22 - 20	+2	-	-	1.19
Kory 'SEMPHIS' Friesen SEMPHIS	18 - 24	-6	-	-	0.88
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	12 - 20	-8	-	-	0.63
Sean 'seang@res' Gares seang@res	10 - 21	-11	-	-	0.54

well played ldlc

2014-10-24 14:27

Happy Carry

GJ LDLC

nice ldlc

nice ez ldlc

ez pz

expected

3 aces in 1 match amazing

3 replies

I saw the shroud ones, who were the other two?

2014-10-24 14:33

2 replies

hiko and kio

2014-10-24 14:34

1 reply

Ah kk..thanks bud. Guess ill just have to wait for HLTV to upload them then.

2014-10-24 14:39

cloud9 easy meat for euros. ez win ez advance

2014-10-24 14:28

well played, 2 bets won so far

that was hard lol

2014-10-24 14:45

GG LDLC Cloud9 will disband after this and upcoming tournament Imo.

4 replies

lol

2014-10-24 14:29

ibp too

that escalated quickly

2014-10-24 14:30

you are retarded.

2014-10-24 22:05

Happy to strong this game :X

well played LDLC! They will not lose one single map in my point of view! Dominationn

byebye c9

have a nice flight

EU>NA everytime,everywhere

2014-10-24 14:31

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why people repeat this shit all the time? its nice to see NA team vs euros, stfu and enjoy the game

2014-10-24 14:32

reasonable response on hltv.org wow

2014-10-24 14:37

cuz Kosovo>Serbia

2014-10-24 15:54

cuz u are stupid, and dont have any other response? funny, wont reply anymore.

2014-10-24 15:57

go back to your cave

2014-10-24 16:14

Happy too stronk.

WOOOOO

2ez4ldlc

dont understand why all the hate against c9 lol, 4 of them are such nice guys...

Probably because their fans keep overrating them to oblivion.

2014-10-24 15:30

no they dont tbh, people just blindly hate and even if the fans do, every fan overrates their fav team...

2014-10-24 16:20

Are you kidding me? -Thorin 2014

2014-10-24 14:35

Thank you nothing and sgares for dragging cloud9 down 2 maps in a row. Just like at the cevo LAN. Replacements please.

LOL Hiko brought them down at CEVO and replace n0thing ? I wonder who is gonna take his place :D

2014-10-24 14:52

It's hilarious how people are bashing on C9 as if they have lost to a bottom tier team. At this point LDLC might as well be the number 1 team in the whole world. People keep ignoring that and jump on the bandwagon of NA hate, which is in fact quite ridiculous. C9 had slim chance of winning this match to begin with, in my opinion they performed well considering who they were up against. Hope they can show up for their next match.

2014-10-24 14:44