Virtus.pro take third place at ESWC

2-11-2014 12:55

Virtus.pro have scooped the bronze medal at ESWC 2014 after a 2-1 victory over Natus Vincere (16-12 on de_mirage, 11-16 on de_nuke and 16-3 on de_inferno).

With an extra $5,000 and bragging rights at stake, there was plenty to fight for in this third-place decider, even though motivation from both teams probably hit a low after being denied passage to the final.

The first map of the best-of-three tie was de_mirage, Na`Vi's pick, a curious pick considering Virtus.pro are usually very strong on it. Some strong attacking play from the Polish team saw them take a 10-5 lead going into the break. In the second half, Virtus.pro further enlarged their lead by taking the opening three rounds, and even though Na`Vi managed to close the gap in the gun rounds, Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács's side could not prevent their opponents from running out 16-12 winners.

Virtus.pro scoop $10,000 cheque

Next up was de_nuke, where Virtus.pro got off to an early five-round lead on the CT side. Na`Vi then strung three rounds together to reduce the deficit to 3-5, but Virtus.pro regained controlled of proceedings and finished the half up 11-4. Now playing on the CT side, Na`Vi, powered by a quad kill from Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin in the pistol round, turned in a perfect display as they picked up 12 rounds in succession to secure a 16-11 victory.

The final map of the tie was de_inferno, where Virtus.pro, who began on the CT side, stormed through a 12-3 scoreline after picking up the first six rounds of the half. A B push from the Polish team in the pistol round piled more misery on Na`Vi and inspired Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas's team to post a 16-3 win and capture the $10,000 cheque.

ESWC 2014Best of 3

Virtus.pro

Matchpage

2nd November 2014

Natus Vincere

Mirage

Nuke

Inferno

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Snax	64 - 40	+24	-	-	1.39
Paweł 'byali' Bieliński byali	61 - 47	+14	-	-	1.21
Filip 'NEO' Kubski NEO	50 - 42	+8	-	-	1.07
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski pashaBiceps	52 - 51	+1	-	-	0.95
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas TaZ	43 - 50	-7	-	-	0.88

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Zeus	49 - 56	-7	-	-	0.96
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	54 - 55	-1	-	-	0.94
Denis 'seized' Kostin seized	48 - 51	-3	-	-	0.94
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	45 - 53	-8	-	-	0.86
Sergey 'starix' Ischuk starix	34 - 55	-21	-	-	0.70

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2014-11-02 12:56

well deserved, VP 2stronk

navi's soul got crushed after they got too cocky on nuke

how much did they win? only 5k?

3 replies

VP 10k, NaVi 5k

2014-11-02 12:57

1. $20,000 2. $15,000 3. $10,000 4. $5,000

2014-11-02 12:58

10k, 5k bonus over 4th place

2014-11-02 13:00

overpass? wtf, it was mirage.

well play vp , shame fnatic is better atm, but they can take other teams ( including ldlc).

knife more Navi, You deserve to lose. Suckers

10 replies

haha someone lost his skins

2014-11-02 13:01

5 replies

lol? u didnt even understand what he was saying...seized was trying to knife VP players all the time on nuke. Were do skins come in here?

2014-11-02 13:04

4 replies

it's called a joke

2014-11-02 13:08

2 replies

That made no sense whatsoever xD

2014-11-02 13:10

yeye its called a joke when someone fails as he did

2014-11-02 13:23

umm they actually won nuke?

2014-11-02 14:21

he knifed them twice and still won nuke. why shouldn't he knife them ?

2014-11-02 13:25

Actually seized succeeded on every knife kill he attempted

2014-11-02 13:27

2/3 :)

2014-11-02 14:10

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I think i missed one then but anyways, it wasn't even a fact. VP simply took every advantage Navi gave :p

2014-11-02 14:13

VP top3

Well I think titan are better than vp.

2014-11-02 13:48

And only you think in that way.

2014-11-02 14:11

I do not think I am.

2014-11-02 14:19

u do, LOL TITAN HAHAHAHAHA

2014-11-02 21:25

gz vp <3 now dhw coming !

they won $10000

A little typo in first sentence.

expected, wp both teams

2014-11-02 12:59

video with drunk zeus and taz incoming

n1 :)))

2014-11-02 13:07

expected .

1.fnatic 2.ldlc/vp

atm fnatic>vp>ldlc>rest

1 bo1 won by vp doesnt mean vp > ldlc..

2014-11-02 13:02

i aren't think that

2014-11-02 14:04

I don't think so. LDLC & fnatic are playing on the same level.

2014-11-02 13:06

LDCL>>>VP

2014-11-02 13:13

Ldlc isnt far ahead of vp. And they can loose to them. But fnatic crushes vp. and ldlc can crush fnatic.

2014-11-02 13:19

Form makes a huge difference, next month VP could be better than LDLC but I think LDLC overall is better because VP are too inconsistent. VP win big games but they dont win tournaments, not consistent enough even when they are on good form.

2014-11-02 13:58

What LDLC won in new and old lineup?:P U're right, VP doesn't won big tournaments, are you new user?:P

I am not new no. How many tournaments have vp won this year? 1?

2014-11-02 15:03

1 major (Katowice), 1 normal tournament (Gfinity) and 1 online league (FACEIT)

2014-11-02 15:07

In this year were 2 big tournaments, and one of them VP won. There was about 4 medium tournament's and VP won one of them, and they get 2nd place in one. There achieve some 3-4 place in smaller tournament's and leagues, also won faceit. In this perspective, this is one of the most succed team in this year. But what about a ldlc?:D

2014-11-02 15:09

motar2k gave the remaning in advance :D

Well deserved , especially due to the 16-3 thrashing on inferno.

2014-11-02 13:03

so motar did pay 10k for pasha for 3rd place?

vp to take dhw

Navi noobs

this ldlc, fnatic, vp top 3 every tournament starts to be boring...

Vp? Haha

2014-11-02 13:12

look at last 5 events you idiot, vp always top 3

2014-11-02 13:52

True.

"LDLC so low. Barely won on their map. Easy 2:1 for VP"

i would put vp over ldlc since pretty sure vp would pass throught ldlc this tournament.

yeah VP > all, neo top 1 matrix

2014-11-02 13:17

If they were playing LDLC instead of dignitas they would have been rekt. Because they did a lot of mistakes against dignitas. But it did not append and LDLC are in the grand final... So no, for now LDLC > VP Maybe we'll see at DHW! But VP is getting better since neo is leading :)

2014-11-02 13:18

Agree, seems like they are slowly getting there after neo started leading again, would love for all five of them to show up every match.

2014-11-02 13:24

polish attack detected :DD

2014-11-02 13:16

Rest of the world butthurt detected :DD

VP > all, i know jacek

2014-11-02 13:21

Virtus.Pro must learn how to play against Fnatic and gonna be nr 1

hltv.org/news/13535-fnatic-ldlc-to-conte.. number of polish flags ? 0

2014-11-02 13:22

haha xD

2014-11-02 13:29

And only u from Hungary XD

2014-11-02 14:15

congrats VP ! always a pleasure watching you play

Nice :)

snax n1

2014-11-02 13:32

m2k > 3place eswc ))

2014-11-02 13:36

Snax and byali are awesome in this match!

2014-11-02 13:45

if pasha would be on his form in semifinal they would have been in final.. ;/ but 3rd place is good also !

2014-11-02 13:49

good

2014-11-02 13:53

gg both teams. have a good rest and enjoy the grand final.

2014-11-02 14:00

does navi practive nuke now? They've played it twice this tourney against teams who activly practice it and won?

2014-11-02 14:05

its more like others teams stop practicing nuke because of teams rarely picking them on tournaments, just my foughts

clever way of picks by navi then :o

2014-11-02 14:26

from nearly eliminated on the group stage (with their pride to swallow as usual) to third place finisher with a 5000 $ dollar bonus... i think its quite a good deal... SMITHZZZ has allowed VP to be third on world cup ! they should give him at least 10% of the 5000$ i guess ...

2014-11-02 14:14