NiP see off Titan in StarSeries

27-3-2015 13:39

Ninjas in Pyjamas have progressed to the SLTV StarSeries XII Upper Bracket semi-finals following a 2-0 victory against Titan (25-22 on de_cache and 16-11 on de_dust2).

The first match of the StarSeries XII offline finals, taking place at the Kiev Cybersport Arena, in Kiev, featured two teams who are at opposite ends of a spectrum: NiP, who came into this event on the back of a runner-up finish at ESL One Katowice, and Titan, who went out at the Polish major after two defeats.

It was thus with hope, rather than expectation, that Titan approached this match, and they relied on an in-form Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire to prevent NiP from running riot during the first map of the series. But what they did not expect was Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli to produce such a dominant display, with the Finnish star's 1.31 rating powering his team to a close 25-22 victory.

allu was the man of the match

Next up came de_dust2, where Titan came out the brighter and won nine rounds as Terrorists thanks to some spectacular AWP work from Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub. But as soon as the second half started the game made a 180-degree turn as Titan found themselves helpless to stop NiP's attacks, and so the Swedish team quickly secured the ten rounds they needed to win the map and close out the series at 2-0.

SLTV StarSeries XII FinalsBest of 3

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Matchpage

27th March 2015

Titan

Cache

Dust2

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli allu	62 - 42	+20	-	-	1.28
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	62 - 50	+12	-	-	1.14
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	52 - 48	+4	-	-	1.01
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	52 - 52	0	-	-	0.99
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	45 - 43	+2	-	-	0.93

Titan	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	63 - 52	+11	-	-	1.22
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	60 - 58	+2	-	-	1.11
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	41 - 54	-13	-	-	0.77
Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez Maniac	37 - 57	-20	-	-	0.70
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	34 - 53	-19	-	-	0.68

go allu

2015-03-27 13:39

2 replies

too ez for allu

2015-03-27 13:47

1 reply

that was a very good match for viewing pleasure, congs to both nip and titan, i wanna watch matches like these, cache was insane

2015-03-27 20:36

allu beast!

rip

2015-03-27 13:40

allus in pyjamas!

expected

2015-03-27 15:41

friberg <3

2015-03-27 13:41

-Maniac -RpK +iorek +ScreaM

3 replies

Kappa

2015-03-27 13:45

yea :DD

2015-03-27 14:03

debilu

2015-03-27 17:33

alluak

Allugator

red ballu

2015-03-27 14:51

lmao

2015-03-27 17:18

allu the unstopable

"See off"? Titan are not out yet right? They just bounced to lower bracket or am i mistaken?

2015-03-27 13:42

Correct. HLTV use of this phrase is annoying when the losing team is not eliminated from the tournament.

2015-03-27 14:04

Where are the haters now?

2015-03-27 13:44

These headlines are so bad!

Kenny and Apex... the rest don't matter.

nice games, Titan not that bad :/

Suprise that allu is on top again Not Kappa

2015-03-27 13:46

3 reasons Titan lost: 1) RpK -13 2) Ex6TenZ -20 3) Maniac -19 Having kennyS and apEX isn't enough to win vs top1-5 teams.

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4) allu +20

5) NiP > Titan

2015-03-27 13:49

captain obvious

2015-03-27 13:58

nonono they are support players throw flash like fifflaren last guy in so cant kill hurr durr

2015-03-27 15:17

The saddest thing abouth that is that there are no free players in France, who are better than those. If you mention ScreaM, I will ask you to check his stats, his beast performances stopped when Valve nerfed ADADAD and shox left Titan, then he had some good matches, but his role in a team is an open fragger and a crazy fragger, he has never lurked like Maniac usually does, and the only guy to be replaced with ScreaM could be RpK, but who would kick a guy whom you forced to return from retirement?

2015-03-27 15:28

2ez for allu

-SmithzZ and KioShima +KennyS and Apex.

kioShiMa is a solid fragger, apEX has too many bad days recently, if you watched Titan's last matches, you would understand what I'm talking about.

2015-03-27 13:53

Do not make that ridiculous comparison, is much easier to play alongside players who also pull the responsibility and end up with the most matches (shox, Happy, NBK), than playing in a team where you see the biggest star (Kennys) die and having to carry the other 3 bots to win the round. detail, it needs to load the 3 bots against the best teams in the world that has players of the same level as himself, miracles do not exist.

2015-03-27 14:00

NBK refused to kick SmithZz back in his Titan times, he will refuse to do it again in EnVyUs. If you want to get rid of SmithZz, you will be forced to get rid of NBK too. So either -nbk&smithzz +apex&kennys, or nothing else.

2015-03-27 14:02

- allu +pyth no Kappa Kappa

I do not know what the Envyus are hoping to have a team that hit the front against fnatic, do not understand why Kennys and APEX not left the team yet, or they love to carry a team or are stupid, they are wasting time playing at Titan and failing to win titles at nV.

2015-03-27 13:54

this roster aint ever gonna work out.. -maniac + solid mad fragger = top5 world

2015-03-27 13:55

ScreaM

2015-03-27 15:59

as much as i like Titan and cheering for them they need a change.....i mean this team is not clicking right..RpK fits well but Maniac and Ex6 need to step it up or change imminent inc.

2015-03-27 13:56

carryllu

2015-03-27 13:57

-Maniac +Scream Titan top3

2015-03-27 13:59

Maniac is becoming worse, i rly dont see reason why he is still in lineup

Friberg had a decent hs % and it seems that when allu has his mojo on GTR also starts going rapemode.

Thinking about freelancer-players its hard to understand why scream would not be better for this team than maniac.Certainly he would bring at least the same that maniac brings.At best a hell of a lot more fragginpower.

It seems Maniac went back to his usual shape

2015-03-27 14:26

-maniac +scream

2015-03-27 14:28

This is incorrect... Titan still have a losers match right?

2015-03-27 14:42

yes

2015-03-27 14:52

great match

2015-03-27 14:44

KennyS really carrying these noobs :)

2015-03-27 15:06

allu > kennyS ez

2015-03-27 15:07

-allu +fifflaren...Oh wait

2015-03-27 15:08

Very good first match. gg NiP

2015-03-27 15:15

2015-03-27 15:21

Titan 1 man army

2015-03-27 15:31

titan...

2015-03-27 15:42

so you people clearly haven't seen the match. Maniac performed , but when you loose obviously you have negative stats. And scream is a horrible team player.

2015-03-27 16:01