Virtus.pro win Crown's Invitational

10-10-2015 12:30

Virtus.pro are the winners of the Crown's Counter-Strike Invitational after seeing off Immunity by a 2-0 scoreline (19-17 on de_overpass and 16-3 on de_mirage).

Virtus.pro came out of the gate looking really sharp, picking up the pistol round thanks to a triple kill from Jarosław "⁠pashaBiceps⁠" Jarząbkowski, the two anti-eco rounds and the first three gun rounds to storm to a 6-0 lead. The Polish team were then caught off-guard by a Tec9 rush from Immunity, with Ricardo "⁠Rickeh⁠" Mulholland taking down an overextending Filip "⁠NEO⁠" Kubski to pick up his weapon before getting two more frags to his name.

Immunity continued to pick up round after round and eventually brought the scoreline to 5-6. Virtus.pro then got back on their feet and strung a series of rounds together to close out the half with a 9-6 lead.

Virtus.pro win Crown's Invitational

In the second half, Immunity picked up the opening three rounds to restore parity at 9-9. The next few rounds were extremely high contested as neither side could stamp their authority on the game, but then Virtus.pro regained control of the proceedings and took a 14-11 lead, putting Immunity in danger of getting blown out. However, the home side crawled back into the game and forced overtime, where they would come up short against the Poles.

Next up was de_mirage, a map both teams are known to be very strong on. However, it was simply a one-way street from start to finish as Virtus.pro cruised to an impressive 16-3 victory after picking up a whopping 13 rounds on the CT side.

Crown's Counter-Strike InvitationalBest of 3

Immunity

Matchpage

10th October 2015

Virtus.pro

Overpass

Mirage

Crown's Invitational Final Standings:

1. Virtus.pro - $25,600
2. Immunity - $7,330
3-4. Renegades - $3,660
3-4. Cloud9 - $3,660
5-6. The Chiefs
5-6. SYF Gaming

eZ VP

2015-10-10 12:30

3 replies

ez win for the top1 world. only TSM can stop VP

2015-10-10 16:20

1 reply

so then how are they top1 if TSM is better? lol

2015-10-10 19:59

C9 overrated as fuck

2015-10-10 22:49

byali god of mirage

2 replies

god of mirage's pistols*. 8 frags in the two pistol rounds, holy hell...

2015-10-10 12:32

When he shows up, his aim is up there with the best in the world, he needs to show up more!

2015-10-10 14:39

nice

GJ Virtus Pro!

GJ VP

2015-10-10 12:31

noice!

WP VP!

Nice boys!

IMMUNITY <3 At the end did anyone else notice there was a guy holding an ipad with a picture of Lord Gaben....

GG wp

RIgged tourney C9 threw becuz paid off to amp up Aus scene

POO IN LOO

A wild Clown 9 fangay has been found in the tall grass

2015-10-10 12:42

ez money my friends

Surprise ?

Well done all involved, teams, ESL, aussie public etc. mvp should be pasha, played two matches with a very serious flu... Kappa

ez 25k$

GGWP both teams. Impressed with our boys' performances, but VP were always going to be too strong. Great day for Aussie CS though.

rip c9

Good effort from the Aussies

gg wp

The only tier 1 team won ... I'm so surprised i might actually poo.. but not really.. GG VP!

2015-10-10 12:35

Eziest 25k Ever

2015-10-10 12:33

gg, great event imo. and Immunity showing good skills.

also, C9 will have flown 15+ hours each way to walk away with 3 grand... WORTH!

they get everything paid by crown

2015-10-10 18:42

omg i fucking know this lol, I'm talking about flying 30+ hours to play 3 maps...

2015-10-10 19:41

VODs?

on the cheque it was written 35.000$, can smn explain me? Is this other value of Australian dollar in comparing to the American dollar?

2015-10-10 12:34

4 replies

yep, aus$ is worth less then american$ 1 Australian dollar = 0.73335 U.S. dollars

2015-10-10 12:36

At least it wasn't 55,555 Vietnamese dong

2015-10-10 12:40

dont you dare underestimate the dong

2015-10-10 14:34

Yep Aussie Dollar to USD conversion. ;)

2015-10-10 12:38

c9 gets a free trip to AUS, loses to tier5 team in the first match and gets 3.6k where do i sign up?

Nice event! Crowd was amazing. Gratz vp and all teams!

GG Virtus.pro , Immunity nice game :) Australia > NA

gr8 b8

2015-10-10 12:56

wait what its already over

ez money

good crowd, too bad mirage wasn't close but still gg

ez 25k

Ez money for VP

2015-10-10 12:37

Congratulation VP, this tournament was fun!! Come back again soon and bring your friends. :D

Fastest lan ever

2015-10-10 12:39

well played vp and gg iM bl

GGWP, really need more big teams playing tourneys in AUS tbh, every team grows so well just from the exposure. Maybe a few asian teams? ;)

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wtf are you talking about. what exposure? this event had the lowest viewership of any event with t1 teams in 2015. and it was all down to the inability of the organizers.

2015-10-10 12:51

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so playing against virtus pro and cloud9 doesnt expose immunity to different playstyles and give them something to practise for/against? ok then...

2015-10-10 12:53

Don't listen to him - He's Swedish

2015-10-10 12:55

no wonder it didnt make sense vikings...

can you plox share the TV viewership numbers?

2015-10-10 13:31

More exposure then they usually get though, good for them.

2015-10-10 17:28

VP top1 again

2015-10-10 12:50

what a joke of a tournament

Typical Swedish elitist faggot

Mad that Swedistan never got invited :C

2015-10-10 12:54

Expected

good crowd

2015-10-10 12:52

Was a rigged tournament anyways. Immunity against VP on overpass, I mean OVERPASS and against VP. Yeah right, "legit tournament" is legit.

well the 16-3 on live television makes you think otherwise they would've at least thrown 8 or so rounds

2015-10-10 13:43

Clown9 still best

ggwp renegades

gj guys! 5 tournaments in this year. 1 CPH 2 ESEA 3 CEVO 4 DUBAI 5 Crown's Invitational + 2 semi MAJORS - really good year :)

2015-10-10 12:57

Tbh if VP are in the same form in Cluj as they were at in Dubai they could win it pretty well.

2015-10-10 13:47

ez free money for VP

2015-10-10 13:03

stats?

2015-10-10 13:04

EU > AU > NA confirmed

2015-10-10 13:16

$66,666 crown tournament inc

2015-10-10 13:19

I'm sure that number would scare off superstitious gamblers. Casinos put a lot of effort into ensuring customers don't feel like they're getting bad luck. Heck I think Crown even had to remove windows pointing towards the Yarra so Chinese patrons didn't think their luck would escape there. So probably $77,777 is a better number.

2015-10-10 13:56

VP <3

2015-10-10 13:26

gz VP beating a litteraly tier 3/4 team that couldnt even qualify for the major when they had to play vs other EU teams and not get a free welfare pass from the asian qualifer.

2015-10-10 13:35

I bet your dad works in salt mine.

2015-10-10 13:46

okay, seems like aussies really deserves 2 major spots..

2015-10-10 13:52

Well only if we can keep beating all of Asia to claim them. We aren't completely gifted 2 spots.

2015-10-10 13:57

not really because they fail to qualify vs EU and NA teams and can only get to the majors when they get welfare spots and free passes from asia qualifier vs DMG level teams.

2015-10-10 14:00

VODs from the final?

2015-10-10 14:02

Crown's international - 2 easy BO3 - 25,600 $ Any major - 2/3 normal difficult BO1 + 1 expected hard BO3 - 25,000 $ That was ez money for VP

2015-10-10 14:07

easiest $25000 of their lives lol

2015-10-10 14:09

Lol 25k for playing against bots

Ez money

2015-10-10 14:44

SHIT9 top5 world based thorin such a big brain :)))))))

2015-10-10 15:09

nice Pasha

2015-10-10 15:10

srsly ? easy 25k :DD

2015-10-10 15:48

easy? they almost got knocked by Renegade, last map 16:14 kk,easy

2015-10-10 16:03

calculated ;>

2015-10-10 21:26

25k for first 7 for second..... Did cloud9 even make enough money from this tourny to cover travel support?

2015-10-10 16:05

they sold a lot of t-shirts.

2015-10-11 07:07

lol? when was this? wtf

2015-10-10 16:06

easy way to make $25k in 2 days :D

2015-10-10 16:17

free money

2015-10-10 16:19

nice <3 VP

2015-10-10 16:28

Immunity played well.

2015-10-10 17:03

Free money for VP. gg

2015-10-10 17:45

c9 last 3 events so good xDDDDDDDD

2015-10-10 18:49

Shame Australia is so far away, it might be one of the top CS:GO countries.

2015-10-10 20:23

is ok, australia moving into europe soon, going to be placed next to UK

2015-10-11 05:13

no comments cloud9

2015-10-10 23:00

C9 Tier 3 team if that..

2015-10-11 02:58

2015-10-11 04:34

clown9 as usual not out of groups

2015-10-11 06:25

Australia isnt around the corner n00bs.. U think its 25k divided by players/managers? What about the hotel/flights/accomodation etc etc. Unless their orga pays for it and only grabs like 10% of the money they win, then this actually was worth for vp.

2015-10-11 20:00