CLG beat Titan; through to major

14-2-2015 14:43

Counter Logic Gaming have qualified for ESL One Katowice after seeing off Titan 16-14 on de_dust2.

Following a dramatic 28-24 victory over PiTER in the opening round after a quadruple overtime, Titan approached this game determined to give a better account of themselves, and they came out strongly, winning the very first round after holding down the B site even in a 3-on-4 situation.

The French team were, however, surprised on the eco in the following round thanks to Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik’s four kills in the middle, which powered CLG to take five rounds in a row against what looked to be a helpless Titan side.

In the following gun round, Titan went for a double AWP setup, a strategy that bore fruits as it allowed the Frenchmen to cut the gap to 3-5, but then CLG regained control of proceedings and won five more rounds before the break.

CLG have booked their place at the upcoming major

CLG picked up where they had left off and won the pistol round as Terrorists following an A push, with James "⁠hazed⁠" Cobb getting three kills to his name. A long-range double kill from Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy in the first gun round after a series of trade kills in long then gave Titan some hope, but an aggressive push from the Frenchmen in the following round backfired and put the North American side on the brink of victory.

Still, Titan refused to throw in the towel and picked themselves up in the final stages of the match to go from 7-15 to 14-15. It looked like CLG had lost control of the match, but a long push in the final round gave them the win and the ticket to ESL One Katowice.

ESL One Katowice 2015 Main QualifierBest of 1

CLG

Matchpage

14th February 2015

Titan

Dust2

CLG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	31 - 15	+16	-	-	1.70
Pujan 'FNS' Mehta FNS	23 - 21	+2	-	-	1.12
James 'hazed' Cobb hazed	19 - 18	+1	-	-	0.99
Peter 'ptr' Gurney ptr	17 - 18	-1	-	-	0.88
Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler reltuC	14 - 18	-4	-	-	0.81

Titan	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	26 - 21	+5	-	-	1.20
Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez Maniac	21 - 24	-3	-	-	0.84
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	19 - 24	-5	-	-	0.83
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	13 - 17	-4	-	-	0.77
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	11 - 18	-7	-	-	0.69

sad

2015-02-14 14:43

12 replies

USA USA USA ....wait whaa?

2015-02-14 14:44

yes

2015-02-14 14:47

kennyS leave TITAN please

2015-02-14 14:48

8 replies

+1 So sad

2015-02-14 14:56

1 reply

how much skins you lost

2015-02-14 18:17

Best player of Titan

2015-02-14 14:59

5 replies

Yes, needs better team.

2015-02-14 15:03

3 replies

KennyS for NiP

2015-02-14 15:09

2 replies

:D +1 make it happen!

2015-02-14 15:55

too OP then, save CS plx

2015-02-14 17:42

Best player in the world

2015-02-14 18:57

RpK & apEX delete CSGO pls

2015-02-14 14:49

goog clg

vod: youtube.com/watch?v=z8bm4LaYngI#t=1697

2015-02-14 16:05

LOL

noicee

expected

FUCK YEAH MURICA <33333333

for once you can be happy :D

2015-02-14 14:45

Were happy everyday of our lives... We live in AMERICA!!

2015-02-14 21:25

i mean in the csgo scene, for once, maybe one more day you muricans will be happy when c9 going to the katowice major

2015-02-14 21:46

lucky

WELL DESERVED CLG! Keep it up <3

2015-02-14 14:54

Bo3 = Titan win

ez game titan go home ur bad

Pretty sad, KennyS can't carry his team all the time... :(

WP Muricans

GO KABUMMMM!

TITAN deserved it more

4 replies

kennys did,titan as a team definitely not...

2015-02-14 14:46

..Why?

They lost, so no they didn't.

If they really deserved it, they would have won.

2015-02-14 15:07

AMERICA <3 USA USA USA

7 replies

The usa usa usa chant is the reason many don't like you. I like you and i like clg, just saying in case muricans want to be more liked.

6 replies

USA USA USA USA

2015-02-14 14:52

You don't get it. It's very light hearted honestly.

2015-02-14 15:04

we don't USA USA USA

2015-02-14 15:24

I also dislike many Europeans for saying EU>NA every round where a European team wins, so I guess we're kind of even...

We dont need to be liked by anyone. They move here because they want to be here. USA USA USA USA

2015-02-14 21:24

Why so serious? We're just screwing with you guys. I like to say it just cause it makes me laugh because of reactions like this. Plus we know the whole world hates us anyways. The world just want our money and our government is stupid enough to just give it away.

2015-02-14 22:32

I knew that this will happen after match that titan played, gg wp CLG deserved

WP CLG

Ez skins

is Titan out?

nope they will play against the winner of PiTER vs G2

You're wrong, they will play someone from other lafh of the bracket: esl-one.com/csgo/katowice-2015/qualifier..

2015-02-14 14:57

oh rly? nice.. cause Ive never liked the aspect that u play the same teams again.

2015-02-14 15:00

Yeah, pretty cool that there is 2 groups of 8 teams instead of 4x4, so now 2 teams can't play eachother again.

2015-02-14 15:05

2015-02-14 15:01

USAAAAA

Titan out of katowice??

No, one more chance.

ty for the info :D

np :)

2015-02-14 14:50

GJ USA

MIRAA you have this news article filed under the wrong event.

haha hltv.org/?pageid=82&eventid=385

CLG <3 Go Tarik

Event: ESL Major Serie IV ??

i am professional body language expert and it is clear to me kennyS not happy, the way he whips his hair back and forth indicates this. i saw him scratch his right elbow mid way through last round which to me makes it obvious he is joining nip. the scratch shows he's been practising swedish and the fact it's his right arm shows he's prepared to shove it up get_right when the time comes. expected.

i am professional dr love and i can confirm this 10/10

Well deserved.

expected, CLG > Frenchies imo

disband

nice stats ex6

CLG winner. It's really nice. PS: I want my sticker CLG. :>

2015-02-14 14:51

clg showed some good performance, keep it up ptr and gl

Great play by Tarik

TARIK SO EZ

2015-02-14 14:53

Titan :( gg

So lucky... and Tarik carry

Great CLG! To me this team has already proved a lot and by winning even this one bo1 again on LAN they just earned even more respect and I'd be surprised if iBP didnt sign them unless CLG is a bigger org with more $$$ which I kinda missed and not sure about, but these youngsters are definitely the team to look out for and stay away from where as the possibly combination of Hiko & Ska (if this duo would ever make up a team a team) to me seems like would be the team with the same SO-SO potential as eLevate has now where all the players are kind of oldschoolers/legends of their time with 5-10 years experience, but they would always be in the middle due to their age and motivation that makes them play more for fun like (at least thats how it looks), where as you can clearly see how desperately CLG players want to win and what their reaction is after winning a match. You can see that motivation is coming out of every single hole of their body..... leeel gl CLG! Just pls make sure you dont fail after recieving too much of respect from community and pls dont repeat the same mistakes other USA/CA team used to make which is having BIG MOUTH interviews, speeches etc that I witnessed multiple times especially between years 2003-2010 if i remember correctly or even more specifically during WCG 2007 where Mr. Hostile showed how retard the players from his PRO community could be! ;) gl

CLG more likely has more money to spend on an esports team

2015-02-14 15:26

CLG is a very big org. They won't be changing anytime soon.

2015-02-14 15:27

Sound g00d to me then if thats the case . . .

2015-02-14 15:32

America, fuck yeah! Coming again to save the mother fucking day, yeah America, fuck yeah! Freedom is the only way, yeah

2015-02-14 14:55

Mericuuuuuh*

2015-02-14 15:19

Play dust2 versus US teams = fail

Honestly, if kennyS had been on point from the start, I think that Titan would have won, since kennyS getting ~2 kills every round just matters that much to Titan, like we saw later in the game. Its sad to say, but Titan just depends that much on him. CLG are good, but they will fall out against more consistent teams I believe.

does this mean titan is not going to ESL?

They still have a chance. Probably will qualify honestly, it's not like the teams they are facing are super good.

ok i see more matches being played(clg) what does that determine? or they go just home now?

How can kennyS rating be so much higher than his teammates when he wasnt even playing well for most of the game..

where are all the hltv retards calling for tariks head after a couple of average lans? Let hope this time it sinks in and you start to get a clue about competitive cs / anything competitive with pressure.

Titan can stil qualify, right?

Yes, they still have a chance esl-one.com/csgo/katowice-2015/qualifier..

thank you ^.^

not even 30 frags? wtf kennyS step up son

2015-02-14 14:58

-kennyS +JW

Kevin Droolans best

These forums are so funny at this time of the day when all of NA is sleeping. No Europeans saying stuff like: AHHA NA SO BAD. but also no muricans to fight back xD Nice to see CLG perform this good but I wish Titan wins the decider match cuz KennyS deserve to be playing at the major too, if not I hope he finds a better team.

inb4 Titan win next match and the whole tournament

I aren't think that

2015-02-14 15:06

I am wizard, trust me.

Shit just got real xD

2015-02-14 15:08

Titan swept all the way through Pantamera up until the final, then got held to a quad overtime vs. PiTER and lost vs. CLG. What???

kennyS is holding Titan back, only +5 kd... srsly kenny? If you want to win, you have to +25...

pls clg be new top 'merican team. -throws

2015-02-14 15:17

tarik > titan

feel like x6Tenz & Maniac is holding titan back, imo there's no hope for the team unless they want to change it entirely

If NA team beats EU team then something must be very wrong. Ex6TenZ so much skillz and so good igl :D:D:D

2015-02-14 15:21

2015-02-14 15:23

Cant beleive -.- useless spot

2015-02-14 15:38

Did K1ck qualified? (Do not take it the wrong way, I am just asking to know).

2015-02-14 17:38

2015-02-14 22:47

Would rather have seen Liquid qualify over CLG, just like that team more. Hope they still have a shot, and will be nice to see two teams (assuming C9 doesn't royally drop the ball) at a major again.

2015-02-14 15:40