Luminosity send Astralis packing

23-1-2016 19:49

Luminosity Gaming have booked their place in the grand final of DreamHack Open Leipzig after defeating Astralis 2-0 (16-8 on de_train and 16-12 on de_overpass).

The playoffs at DreamHack Open Leipzig opened with a mouth-watering contest between Luminosity Gaming, fresh off a convincing 2-0 victory over FaZe, and Astralis, who had acquitted themselves really well during the group stage, in which they beat dignitas and mousesports.

The first map in the series was Train, and it began with Luminosity getting the pistol round after a no-nonsense B push. Astralis hit back right after, however, thanks to Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen, who picked up three kills with the Desert Eagle before finishing the job with an AK-47.

Astralis controlled the tempo of the match and got out to a 5-2 lead, but then they were caught off-guard by Luminosity's Tec-9 strategy. Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga went huge in the following round with four kills during a B hold, with Luminosity using that momentum to bring the scoreline to 7-5 in their favor. The remaining rounds of the half were extremely close, though, with Luminosity taking a narrow 8-7 lead into the second half.

The second half started with Luminosity winning the pistol round and the following anti-ecos, and even though Astralis still managed to pull back one round after buying up, the Brazilians remained in the driving seat, cruising to a 16-8 victory.

Luminosity move on in Leipzig

Map number two was de_overpass, where Luminosity once again came out the brighter, winning the pistol round thanks to a triple kill from Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo. After losing both ecos, Astralis picked up their first round of the map, courtesy of a triple AWP kill from Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen, but Luminosity hit back right and forced a double eco from the Danes, who then went on a fantastic run despite Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz looking way off the pace.

Astralis got within touching distance of their opponents at 4-5, but then Luminosity ran riot, picking up five of the next six rounds to take a 9-6 halftime lead.

The first rounds of the second half were extremely highly contested as the teams traded literally round for round. Once again, Astralis were able to reduce the deficit to just one round, only to see Luminosity run away with the lead. The Danish team still tried to play for overtime, but the Brazilians held strong and closed out the game 16-12.

DreamHack ZOWIE Open Leipzig 2016Best of 3

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lets goo

2016-01-23 19:49

11 replies

hahaha, to ez for lg.. these odds <3

2016-01-23 19:51

2 replies

easiest skins of my laif

2016-01-23 19:52

1 reply

LG good but not best (jw best)

2016-01-23 19:53

Astralis had clearly no answer. a big strength ive noticed about luminosity is the constant doublesetup, whereever they go, they have someone to tradekill if the aggressor gets picked, the aggressor can also bait for the backup-player to kill the baited guy, its so hard to get a double or triple kill against those guys and they have mastered this playstyle, it almost feels to me that they can use each player as a living decoy... taco is usually left alone on each bombsite, he usually smokes and survives long enough for the rotation to come in. fnx and cold are the aggressive parts and fallen is EVERYWHERE and plays EVERY role, exactly how a modern awper should act. the whole squad is hard to predict, hard to adapt to and therefor hard to counter, i absolutely love watching them.

2016-01-23 20:01

7 replies

fnx and fer are the agressive parts. Cold is more like a passive one

2016-01-23 20:11

In Train Cold is more agressive than fnx

2016-01-23 21:11

astralis had plenty of time and opportunity to work at least on their train anti strats but instead they played their default and got completely shrekt... The problem is astralis is getting too much credit when they are slumping hard for a while now, after losing lans to NiP and even SK people really gotta realize astralis is more likely to lose to a top contender than to beat one.

well wrote my friend

2016-01-23 20:24

Plus they always unexpected. I mean they always go off angle and the enemies didnt expect them. Maybe its a new era of CS playingstyle

2016-01-23 22:53

unexpected thoughtful game analysis, good stuff:) sadly 1 in 10000 on hltv

2016-01-24 20:54

imgur.com/MTdiIYG

hey it's me your brother

2016-01-23 19:50

no its not

2016-01-23 20:20

n1 :D

How is your pizza doing?

2016-01-23 19:57

Papa johns is awful btw I mean, maybe it's because I ate it in Peru, but it was horrible

2016-01-23 20:08

that's why you don't eat from chain corporate restaurants.

2016-01-23 20:15

>Peru The answer is there.

2016-01-23 20:37

expected

expected, astralis should've lost vs mouz in the first place. gg LG!

Agree! So much lucky plays wons that game for them..

HUEHUEHUE BrAAAAzILLLLLL

gg GODZERA

GG WP

who the fuck reads this? I watched the game, I know what happened

19 replies

People who didn't watch the game?

1 person? I mean like "The first map in the series was Train, and it began with Luminosity getting the pistol round after a no-nonsense B push. Astralis hit back right after, however, thanks to Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen, who picked up three kills with the Desert Eagle before finishing the job with an AK-47" Who gives a fuck?

6 replies

I'm guessing that more than one person did not watch the game. Some people simply like a text-based analysis.

5 replies

+1 I was sleeping. Game was 3am here -.-

2016-01-23 22:56

Don't mind him... It's Saturday evening and people have lives instead of staying home to watch CSGO. Why shouldn't we/they get an overall analysis to see how this 'upset'(it isn't so much upset anymore due to previous results, but you can't say that LG and Astralis is on the same level; LG has to win some more tours/matches to achieve that) went through.

2016-01-23 23:12

3 replies

oh you can say that LG is even better, LG already won plenty of matches against, top teams, and Astralis is bad since they come back.

2016-01-25 22:12

A slump is not the only factor to categorize a team as bad. LG has yet to win a big tournament, something that Astralis has achieved in the past. But I agree with you if you see both teams in the last months - LG is better than Astralis in those 2 months; they have to win more in order to be placed above Astralis overall, though.

2016-01-25 22:15

well yeah, but with the update on ranking, LG is on track!

2016-01-25 22:17

toxic muslim

favela ps

don't forget to bring the lub when walking on the streets.

2016-01-23 19:55

"dont feed the animals" is what it says in brazil. Not sure if the mean the people or the animals.

2016-01-23 19:59

4 replies

Shouldnt you be sucking Ahmed's cock right now?

2016-01-23 20:22

no ahmed is sucking mine, no homo

2016-01-23 21:57

+1 no homo

2016-01-23 22:12

H O W M U C H? O W M U C H ?

2016-01-23 20:49

Maybe people who didn't watch the game?

Facepalm yourself

People who missed the game?

2016-01-23 20:03

niceeeee

lets go boyyyz

:D Very noice! Deserved for LG indeed.

EZ, expected

Lets go LG! <3

COLD I FUCKING LOVE YOU

I remember you talked so much shit about Fallen in the past where are you giving him any credit now? lol

2016-01-23 20:14

haha u just exploited him, that true i remenber him trashtalking about fallen, GA , so on.Typical brazilian, criticise his team in bad day instead supporting them!

2016-01-23 20:28

+1 to the "bad day" part. If lg wins they r mentally challenged cause of the hype, and when they loose brazilians always go full retard and pick one player(most of the time the bottomfragger) and flame him to death! how come my brazilian bro?

2016-01-23 20:40

i can't explain u about that, but i think its cuz theyre extremely bipolar which make they cheer and overreact when they win/lose, lose "they are worst", they win "they are only gods on earth!" BTW there is a brazilian cuture called "clubismo" made brazilians toxic, when they suport a team, even after a lose streak of it them cant acept team he support was worse than oposite team...

nope I actually gave FalleN some tips on facebook, thats why they changed their playstyle from yesterday to today

2016-01-23 20:42

yeah bro you totally made a huge impact on their playstyle with your facebook post

hahahahahahahahha

2016-01-25 22:23

Choke

brasil rising!

chokealis bestest semifinale players

Funny you do not support team from your country :)

2016-01-23 21:40

Luminosity send Astralis to the stars, like team rocket in pokemon

Josh Smith back to the Rockets Western Conference finalists+Marcus Thorton and Ty Lawson Warriors and Spurs are shaking!!!!!

2016-01-23 20:00

150$ from Denmark so gooood

I cri every tim

haha niceee go LG

Lets go LG!<3 eZ eZ

i think hltv hate astralis with this titles lol

chokestralis ez

iziii

Astralis needs to make a lineup change. Get a aimstar player.

Big Astralis fan, but this was well deserved for LG. They are really impressive! Potential top 4 for 2016 if they keep up like this. They will lose to Navi I think

Dont say this my friend :( We will win, i hope :D

GODZERA

taco still negative they will never win an event with taco

Taco the New steel

2016-01-23 20:05

are all fnatic players in + every match, say me about that, nothing else ;)

2016-01-23 20:41

Luminosity too good

LG is gonna take this tournament, gratz guys

honestly, there stil NaVi scare to overcome, somehow NaVi is LG's kryptonite! hope they can beat NaVi, that is team to be beaten on this tournament

2016-01-23 19:56

thx for been a nice person :)

E A S Y

device chokinhoo

LG <3

Rofl

2016-01-23 19:54

device -14 top3 world kapparino

You mad cuz cold top 20+?

2016-01-23 21:41

dont care about cold tbh, but device isnt top3 for sure... olof, flusha, happy, krimz, guardian, even cold, are way better

2016-01-23 23:41

its stupid to talk about him now he deserved it in 2015. he was really really good and had great ratings on lan. same like snax now, he played 1 bad game and people are joking about him instantly

2016-01-24 12:16

Yeah I agree, it is just brazil fans again :) I like LG, great team. But their fans, garbage

2016-01-25 18:48

ex-Dignitas packing ex-TSM packing now its time to Astralis packing, nothing new. Packing-boys

Just Device being Device. The most overrated player in CS history.

Choke again ayyyy lmaoooooo

That's what happens with them when device doesn't perform. Tacos bottom fraggin never affects LG :D

expected, chokers gona choke

COLD > ALL

Astralis lost to a better team today. So frustrating to see 70% of all rounds won by force eco's...

+1, as LG fan im pretty happy but i see how bad that is for losing team fans, i mean LG used to lose many round for ecos that really make me upset!

2016-01-23 19:58

I think LG are playing utterly beautiful CS. They have obviously spent a lot of time on strats and tactics and the small nuances in team gameplay. It's very nice to see. Astralis got absolutely outplayed. I don't mind the force ecos as they still demonstrated great strats during them. Device also had a really awful game.

rip in rip danske

Devve must have their most unlucky/awful game ever, wherever him go he always get his head cut off

I agree.... but WP LG...!

2016-01-23 20:26

Astralis to go bankrupt soon!

2016-01-24 09:51

Anyone know the name of the song played at the end of game?

darude endstorm

very funny kappa

Golden rule #1 never bet on Chokenitas in semis

American CS too strong

Brazilian :P Still trying my friend

2016-01-23 20:09

but we are still american, south americans,as arg, chile, so on!

2016-01-23 20:30

they can not face lg in semifinal hahaha, is for granted space for LG in the final

ex-TSM "Lets kick xyp9x, he's burdening us" "device 2 much forconsistent"

danish's always making me richer

device "3rd best player according to HLTV" does it again

GODzera

gj devve, choke of the century

except taco (i have seen him only one time playing great it was on inferno and he was god like as ct in pit ) lg players are all top 20 world level players in term of game sense and aim skill imo

If they keep playing like this during the year I bet all 4 will be on top 25 2k16. Taco is just too young and unexperienced against EU top teams, he will get better but wont make it to top 20.

2016-01-23 20:17

And I missed the damn match.

youtube.com/channel/UCPvn7OUsnyc9hINqbY7.. all the games are being posted here bro ;)

2016-01-23 20:27

Ty darling

2016-01-23 22:20

ayy

expected :]

Top 4 and top 3 was bad on this tournament.

Yes... This make us to think "It is still top4 and top3?" I Think LG will Beat VP on the hltv next ranking

2016-01-23 20:10

VP and Astralis aren't top tier 1 anymore LG will probably be 4th or 5th

2016-01-23 20:21

LG looks now pretty good. I enjoy game they show. This team could be in Top-5 easy. What about Snax and devve, they're really good players, but not on this tournament. I'm sure, both of them will carry soon.

2016-01-24 01:05

Yes Yes, They are so good players, all of us can get a bad day :( i really want to see LG x VP but not tomorrow, i have fear from Guardian haha

2016-01-24 01:48

Yeah, Guardian really dangerous and awesome player :) All Navi team strong last time, just like LG. Anyway, i'm waiting for great game) Gl both teams, and let the best team win!

2016-01-24 03:58

you won my friend hahaha, but 2 big games, dammed 15-14 and not won :( GG WP, see you next tornament

2016-01-24 16:51

Don't worry, my friend. LG show very good game, and deserved to win this final also) i'm sure, in future the will win smth. GG WP! (:

2016-01-24 17:40

"Device is the best player in the world" - Said everyone. Kappa?

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He has one bad tournament while his team is in a slump.. Idiot

he never was the best player, not even close.

2016-01-23 20:04

Have I ever said he was?

it's devve to you

2016-01-23 20:02

device is best Astralis player aim wise, but i think he is way too emotional, he cannot manage pressure!

Dupreeh is the best Astralis player. And mainly because he's consistent. Everybody else but xyp9x - who isn't that good overall - either has a good or bad game. Dupreeh is always top fragging unless device has a great game. Totally underrated kid.

2016-01-23 21:13

Never was

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO LG CARAI

"Idiot" Made my day! oddshot.tv/shot/dreamhackcs-201601231856..

lmao +1

I'm proud of these guys! Forget about the fans, it's about the team! They are all humble and hungry for a title. They deserve it. They are working hard, too hard! Zews is one of the best coachs out there and still told me that everybody has to learn with pronax. Everybody else said that they will work hard to be the best in the world. They are next to the br community right now, I mean, in mibr era they were too stars and far away from us. These guys deserve it! So proud of your hard work, Fln! You are an example! :)

+1 "Confia no verdadeiro" -Fallen

Congratz. They're doing really well... and it's a joy to watch them play!

nice LG =)

#device3rdbestplayerintheworld

Was just gonna write the same when saw his rating...

2016-01-23 20:06

lol

tsm so bad xDxD

haha youtu.be/Qq0ovLGZgT0

that moment...

2016-01-23 20:25

Y U HATE ASTRALIS? :(

28-32

26-40 ;) top 3 player

2016-01-23 20:12

new name same chokers, congrats on 10k dollar / month when you cant beat glue sniffing kids from south america

2016-01-23 20:07

"beat glue sniffing kids" hahah that's secret to beat top team on cs go, try urself...

2016-01-23 20:32

good for LG. I think diz guys can be top3 in 2016 easy

nice LG

well done to lg, what an amazing story

Lol @ astralis. Certain things never change... No matter what org they go they choke...

ColdS 4 kills with the CZ saved the day =D

2016-01-23 20:16

Devve #3 hahhaha so raped

Astralis TCM choke boys team question has never been a top contender. Nice score from world 3rd player ... choke more please.

2016-01-23 20:19

device #3? lel

-Devve +Device

2016-01-23 20:23

wp lg

2016-01-23 20:35

If LG wins the whole shit then the scene is dead. What a way to start 2016. :/

2016-01-23 20:38

n1 finlerino, joelz best, you dont want scene, you want eaz skins, fuck you

2016-01-23 20:43

Joelz sucks, at least we have professional teams unlike your country whatever it is. I don't bet. Fuck you too. :)

2016-01-23 20:44

real "professionals", only once got to Major ? or Twice ? Both times came last palce there too :DDDDDDD

2016-01-23 21:06

you have proffesional teams, but inly for throwing hahahahaha. btw if we have, must be quality not like your contry, when 5 teams disband for one ideal

2016-01-23 21:07