Virtus beat Cloud9; to semis

2-7-2015 19:00

Virtus.pro have secured the first place in the ESL Pro League Finals last-four stage after moving past Cloud9 16-10 on de_overpass.

Fresh off beating EnVyUs in what was the first upset in Cologne, Cloud9 were paired with Virtus.pro, who had eased past Luminosity Gaming earlier in the day. The battleground was de_overpass, which certainly left the Poles very happy as this is a map on which they are usually very strong.

Cloud9, who began the match on the Terrorist side, came out strongly and won the pistol round and the following two anti-ecos with ease. In the first gun round, Virtus.pro went for an aggressive approach as they pushed the fountain area and the playground, and even though things looked grim at first for them, they were able to retake the A site in a 3on3 situation.

Virtus.pro through to the semi-finals

Virtus.pro went on to take the scoreline to 7-3 in their favor, but then their streak came to an end thanks to a Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham double near the A site. Cloud9 were able to cut the gap to two rounds, but a quad kill from Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski stunned the North Americans, who were down 5-10 at the end of the half.

The opening three rounds of the second half also went to Virtus.pro, who were now on the brink of victory. Cloud9 still tried to respond, but the gap was just too big to bridge as Virtus.pro comfortably sealed a 16-10 victory that takes them through to the last-four stage of the tournament.

ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 FinalsBest of 1

Virtus.pro

Matchpage

2nd July 2015

Cloud9

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Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Filip 'NEO' Kubski NEO	24 - 16	+8	-	-	1.31
Paweł 'byali' Bieliński byali	20 - 14	+6	-	-	1.15
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas TaZ	19 - 17	+2	-	-	1.12
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski pashaBiceps	16 - 16	0	-	-	0.94
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Snax	16 - 19	-3	-	-	0.91

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	17 - 17	0	-	-	0.93
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	15 - 19	-4	-	-	0.90
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir freakazoid	20 - 21	-1	-	-	0.89
Sean 'seang@res' Gares seang@res	17 - 19	-2	-	-	0.86
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	13 - 19	-6	-	-	0.75

More to follow...

rip na dreams

2015-07-02 19:00

13 replies

Why? NV vs C9 again

2015-07-02 19:01

12 replies

Luminosity vs nV

2015-07-02 19:03

There won't be an elimination match. Cloud9 ended up being 2nd in the group. Now they'll play fnatic/TSM in quarter-finals

2015-07-02 19:04

10 replies

wrong, its basically an elimination match because they play the same team from their group.

2015-07-02 19:06

6 replies

wut? 2nd seed from Group A meets 3rd seed from Group B in quarter-finals @ BO3

2015-07-02 19:08

1 reply

twitter.com/lurppis_/status/616652847581.. Are you just guessing or something? Lol.

2015-07-02 19:21

Incorrect, Cloud9 will play the winner of TSM-fnatic and EnvyUs will play the loser of CLG-Keyd Stars

2015-07-02 19:09

3 replies

nope.

2015-07-02 19:19

2 replies

vp and winner of keyd/clg go to the semis and then if nV win will face loser of keyd/clg or winner of fnatic/tsm and c9 same.. theyre already out of group to querter-finals.. now the eleimination matches left between tsm/fnatic and luminosity/nV

2015-07-02 19:24

... are you just guessing this shit? because that isn't how its going to work according to all the stuff people have been saying on twitter. twitter.com/lurppis_/status/616652847581..

2015-07-02 19:29

So RIP na dreams?

2015-07-02 19:07

if CLG wins against Keyd, then they'll be in semi-finals

They will play ClG/KeyD. Fnatic/TSM will play Nv iirc.

2015-07-02 19:17

The esl studio is like an inferno. My lawd. twitter.com/LG_anger/status/616651149395.. I was right.

virtus.pro will win this tournament

Virtus Throw

the only team that can win na teams so go and in your corner and cry nip fanboy

2015-07-02 19:18

ok vp fan gay

expected, gj VP

Disband please. Thank you very much

2015-07-02 19:02

VP GO GO ! :D

vp always well prepared when the prizepool is big

easy peasy

Could have been a lot closer if it wasn't for some godlike plays from VP and a few throws from C9. GGs

Snax aggressive leader ;) but i like it

VP playing pretty well

whos the igl for vp?

2015-07-02 19:11

snax

2015-07-02 19:12

snax :P

If n0thing would listen to teamspeak maybe different result\\

neo back in 1.6 form

2015-07-02 19:13

Remember a year ago when people were shit talking neo? Glad he didn't retire

2015-07-02 19:14

7 replies

EXACLLY! <3 NEO

Who the hell listens to the cs community as a whole and thinks what they say is a good idea? 99.9% of them haven't even played in a serious capacity.

2015-07-02 19:20

Who the hell does that? ALL CS pro players do it. Jesus Christ, man. You need to learn how no one (except you, apparently) are immune to critique.

2015-07-02 19:37

"ALL" I see we're speaking for everyone now, at least leave room to admit the possibility of being incorrect. The majority of people that post on these forums (Myself and yourself included obviously incase you missed that) have no idea of the inner workings of a team as they haven't reached that level yet. Maybe once they do they may comment on who can get cut or who can't and for what reason. Saying "OMG minus NEO" after a bad game, or BO3 isn't critique it's just spam. Much like after someone does something good, they get 43 threads made in their honour with "OMG WHAT A PLAY". Perhaps in the future you should stick to small words and visual aids for your points, because this one here is about as sharp as a bowling ball.

2015-07-02 20:17

The only one that should retire is pasha not NEO Maybe even TAZ Now that snax is the IGL in 1 or 2 years they could replace TaZ/pasha with Michu

2015-07-02 19:50

Why should pasha retire? His team is doing fine? LOL

2015-07-02 21:49

it's funny tho, neo is playing much much better than last year, but now snax and byali are kinda underperforming, if they bring their level back i could really see vp up there with tsm and fnatic

2015-07-02 21:13

Expected

2015-07-02 19:25

BOT NA

2015-07-02 19:26

4Head

2015-07-02 19:33

Does this mean that C9 are out of the tournament, or do they still have a chance?

2015-07-02 19:39

lol, they are in q-finals already, only vp advanced to s-finals

2015-07-02 19:51

bald Neo baby

2015-07-02 19:42

Was impressive to see Cloud9's POV, but no... -freakazoid

2015-07-02 20:05

semis? you mean quarters? lol

2015-07-02 20:07

no.. 8 teams, 2 groups - 2 teams advance from each group so semis

2015-07-02 20:37

odd format

2015-07-02 20:42

2015-07-02 20:09

Not bad from C9, but even better from the plow.

2015-07-02 20:22

Im really stoked for American teams to be making a showing of this. We all know who the best teams in the world are and there really is no need to be a dick about it. It seems like there is a huge fear of NA teams performing at tier 1 levels. It's really interesting. I'm a fnatic fan from waaay back in 1.6, SK too when they were a Swedish line up. Many of my NA buddies have love and respect for Euro teams. It would be nice to see some support coming from other countries to our guys too. Either way, happy hunting. This tourney is awesome!

2015-07-02 20:34