Titan, C9 sent packing at ESEA

7-12-2014 04:35

iBUYPOWER and Denial advance to the lower bracket final at ESEA Invite S17 Finals after knocking out Titan and Cloud9, respectively.

Cloud9 were tested early by Denial, who found themselves leading in the second half as counter-terrorists on de_inferno. C9 gained a 14-12 lead, but fell apart at the end.

In overtime Denial, led by Shahzeb "⁠ShahZaM⁠" Khan, were able to quickly take down Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert's Cloud9 with a 4-1 score, thus giving them a 1-0 lead in the series.

Denial upset Cloud9 at ESEA

Second map de_mirage, despite being Cloud9's pick, didn't go much better. Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares's squad scored seven terrorist rounds, but struggled on defense.

Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele and company ran up a 15-12 lead in the second half, but seang@res's heroics in a one-on-two allowed C9 to get within one round, before Denial knocked them out.

ESEA Invite Season 17 Global FinalsBest of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

7th December 2014

Denial

Inferno

Mirage

Denial	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Damian 'daps' Steele daps	49 - 45	+4	-	-	1.07
Jacob 'FugLy' Medina FugLy	48 - 45	+3	-	-	1.05
Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan ShahZaM	48 - 41	+7	-	-	1.05
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	48 - 47	+1	-	-	1.02
Todd 'anger' Williams anger	27 - 48	-21	-	-	0.61

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	52 - 49	+3	-	-	1.15
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Hiko	44 - 42	+2	-	-	1.09
Sean 'seang@res' Gares seang@res	50 - 46	+4	-	-	1.06
Kory 'SEMPHIS' Friesen SEMPHIS	44 - 44	0	-	-	0.90
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	36 - 39	-3	-	-	0.88

Meanwhile Titan, playing with coach Jeremy "⁠ioRek⁠" Vuillermet as a stand-in, took on iBUYPOWER. Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub strong play powered the French on de_cache, and they won 16-11.

Titan's map of choice, de_season, backfired and allowed Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce's iBUYPOWER to tie the series at one, as the North American side cruised to a 16-10 win.

Titan are eliminated by iBP in 5-6th place

Final map in the series was de_inferno, where the North Americans had a fairly poor defensive half, narrowly winning 8-7. However, strong terrorist play made up for it, and they went into overtime.

Titan won the first round in overtime, but then iBUYPOWER stepped their game up a notch, and led by Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham's AWP, won four straight rounds to win 2-1 overall.

ESEA Invite Season 17 Global FinalsBest of 3

Titan

Matchpage

7th December 2014

iBUYPOWER

Cache

Season

Inferno

iBUYPOWER	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	79 - 55	+24	-	-	1.27
Keven 'AZK' Lariviere AZK	67 - 60	+7	-	-	1.11
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	64 - 53	+11	-	-	1.08
Eric 'adreN' Hoag adreN	51 - 55	-4	-	-	0.91
Braxton 'swag' Pierce swag	57 - 61	-4	-	-	0.87

Titan	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	76 - 57	+19	-	-	1.27
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	66 - 70	-4	-	-	0.95
Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez Maniac	50 - 62	-12	-	-	0.85
Jeremy 'ioRek' Vuillermet ioRek	50 - 66	-16	-	-	0.82
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	42 - 63	-21	-	-	0.73

iBUYPOWER will take on Denial next in the lower bracket final, while Virtus.pro are about to battle fnatic in the upper bracket final. Consolidation final and grand final will be played on Sunday.

C9 needs some serious changes,maybe a VACation *Kappa*. Nice Try Titan 4v5.

2014-12-07 04:39

13 replies

c9 needs to get rid of that big mouth semphis and seangares although seangares has played better than his usual in this tournament

2014-12-07 04:37

4 replies

2014-12-07 04:48

shroud played terrible at dreamhack and now terrible at this... i think we know what's gona happen

2014-12-07 11:08

-semphis -seangares +steel + dazed pls c9 :D

2014-12-07 13:37

1 reply

+dazed is good for refreshing their styles with a new leader, but they do need a good awper ideally, so maybe +shahzam instead of steel?

2014-12-07 22:49

3v5. ex6 fucking noob

2014-12-07 04:47

7 replies

2014-12-07 04:50

... LOL Like that time he 1v5'd Na'Vi

2014-12-07 05:57

5 replies

even fifflaren got a 1v5 once

2014-12-07 08:00

Wrong , he tried to save his awp vs Epsilon

2014-12-07 08:21

3 replies

technically still a 1v5 but if you insist, even badiaN got a 1v5

2014-12-07 08:26

2 replies

Its not cuz he didnt win the round

2014-12-07 10:08

"technically still a 1v5" Really?? think it through

2014-12-08 00:30

fail9

2014-12-07 04:35

rip skins

Yes iBP!

ul titan, nice IBP

Titan <3 :(

n111

easy

2014-12-07 04:36

wp ex6, worst eu player

this kid knows a lot about counter strike /no

^this

2014-12-07 09:44

Last time I checked Ibp won first round of overtime, second round Titan won and then IBP won 3 straight rounds

iBP gj

rip C9 :(

D9 > C9

bot ex6

L8R FRANCE

C9 Oo

nice Denial

Denial going to the grand final? lol , well played! sad for Titan tho

Be impressive if they manage to beat IBP and VP/Fnatic

2014-12-07 04:38

yes, that would be awesome i mean, i know they can't beat atm vp or fnatic but they can win vs ibp, who knows? lets see :)

-sgares +shahzam

This might sound crazy but I think that if Lex on Mythic takes the game a little more seriously, in time he could be a really good awper. I could see him fitting into the lineup. I dont think anyone in C9 could get along with Shahzam.

2014-12-07 06:21

ptr shazam jdm69 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lex impressed by NAF_FLY & nitr0 in this LAN , solid players.

2014-12-07 08:01

Bye bye titan cheaters.

lol rise of NA

no kqly no party

15-14 and ex6 was hiding on b site instead of killing the ibp players, when they focusing on iorek gg..

plz cut semphis

GG ex6 :D

Roster changes in C9 inc

I'm laughing at all the americans thinking ibp is good cus they beat titan, with a their fucking coach playing xD

2014-12-07 04:44

Not trying to defend iBP, but they are also using a stand in. For a team that lost two of their best players after faceit lan, this win is actually quite impressive.

steel and dazed were nowhere near ibp's best players

2014-12-07 05:58

Yeah but they made the magic happen

2014-12-07 07:29

They'd love to have Adren full time tho

2014-12-07 07:33

adreN is their best choice if they part on the way with dazed. c9 need +Shahzam -seangares and maybe +NAF-FLY -semphis or n0thing.

2014-12-07 08:05

Next fnatic. go home fail9 go home vactitan

2014-12-07 04:49

Glad for adreN and his new team

2014-12-07 05:07

Cloud9 -sgares -semphis Please cloud9 hurry up and replace them so you can stop sucking. :(

2014-12-07 05:53

c9 = scrubby noobs can't even compete in their own country

2014-12-07 08:37

Hiko throws for skins, you should all know by now. He has all the most expensive stuff in the game and whenever you have 80%+ odds on his team you gotta beware the incoming throw. I didn't bet on this game nor did I bet on C9 or Denial for the outright winner.

2014-12-07 08:40

Lol those KennyS stats compared to the rest :D

2014-12-07 09:34

Yeah, but not even that is enough to carry his team. It's so sad to watch, he deserves a much better team.

2014-12-07 09:45

Cloud9 and iBP should merge.

2014-12-07 09:37

Ex6TenZ sucked as usual...

2014-12-07 09:40

New Titan: KennyS Apex Storen Scream Fxy0 Ex6 retire New Epsilon: Toinou Mathend GMX Uzzii Maniac Denial -Anger +Tarik Cloud9 -Semphis -Sgares +uhh +iDunno iBP -iBP +EG -mix +Practice

2014-12-07 10:38

They fucked up big a Dreamhack, but this is even worse. Losing out to another american team that isn't even iBUYPOWER is a big smack to the face. Would not be surprised if they got the boot, and C9, or maybe even compLexity picked up Denial.

2014-12-07 11:21