dignitas, ex-Titan to GS Global Cup

1-2-2016 02:08

dignitas and ex-Titan have secured the final two spots at the Game Show Global eSports Cup finals, kicking off on Thursday.

With Astralis and EnVyUs already through to the Global eSports Club finals after reaching the last-four stage of the European division, the final two spots at the event in Lithuania were determined by the remaining quarter-final matches, pitting mousesports against dignitas and Ninjas in Pyjamas against ex-Titan.

dignitas and mouz had recently faced each other at DreamHack Open Leipzig, with the Danes claiming a 2-0 win in what was a one-sided affair.

k0nfig powered dignitas to beat mousesports

Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač and company went into tonight's match looking for revenge, but they were once again outplayed by dignitas, who relied on the fragging power of Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke and Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye to cruise to a 2-0 victory (16-9 on de_cache and 16-3 on de_cobblestone).

Game Show Global eSports Cup 2016Best of 3

MOUZ

Matchpage

31st January 2016

Dignitas

Cache

Cobblestone

Dignitas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	43 - 24	+19	-	-	1.46
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	41 - 21	+20	-	-	1.40
Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel RUBINO	40 - 28	+12	-	-	1.29
Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann TENZKI	30 - 26	+4	-	-	1.05
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	29 - 31	-2	-	-	0.91

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Denis 'denis' Howell denis	36 - 38	-2	-	-	1.01
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong chrisJ	29 - 37	-8	-	-	0.84
Johannes 'nex' Maget nex	28 - 34	-6	-	-	0.82
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	19 - 39	-20	-	-	0.55
Timo 'Spiidi' Richter Spiidi	18 - 35	-17	-	-	0.52

The other quarter-final contest began with ex-Titan overturning an 8-7 halftime deficit on de_inferno to claim a 16-9 victory, with Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom leading the charge for his team. NiP came close to levelling the series as they raced into a 13-5 lead on de_cache, but the French side won a staggering 11 rounds in a row on the Terrorist side to seal a 16-13 victory and an overall 2-0 success.

Game Show Global eSports Cup 2016Best of 3

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Matchpage

31st January 2016

ex-Titan

Inferno

Cache

ex-Titan	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	52 - 31	+21	-	-	1.46
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	41 - 34	+7	-	-	1.16
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	42 - 32	+10	-	-	1.13
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	42 - 35	+7	-	-	1.10
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	32 - 34	-2	-	-	0.90

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	40 - 39	+1	-	-	1.09
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	36 - 40	-4	-	-	0.95
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	38 - 45	-7	-	-	0.80
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	30 - 42	-12	-	-	0.73
Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi pyth	22 - 44	-22	-	-	0.52

This means that the list of participants for the Global eSports Cup finals, taking place from February 4-7 inside Game Show's studio in Vilnius, is now complete. The top teams from the European, North American and CIS divisions will duke it out over four days for their share of a $200,000 prize pool.

Below you can find the group draw in full:

Group A	Group B
EnVyUs	Cloud9
dignitas	Astralis
FlipSid3 Tactics	Method
CLG	ex-Titan

2016-02-01 02:08

1 reply

Fox worst player of FAZE and you are not first comment. Bye

2016-02-01 04:11

Nice

nicee

great news

2016-02-01 02:09

rip nip

2016-02-01 02:10

Titan are finally getting back into form.

8 replies

after 1 online game? rofl

2016-02-01 02:16

7 replies

HLTV logic at its finest

2016-02-01 02:27

well, red dot bo3, star series bo3s, and now this so yeah i would say they are on an upward trajectory. they are not at the level of winning series yet vs top 4 teams but they are closing in

2016-02-01 02:29

Winning against a team 2-0 when they're clearly better than them (despite pyth) And from the stats we can finally see Smithzz and RpK excelling

2016-02-01 02:40

4 replies

still just online game

2016-02-01 02:57

3 replies

Yeah, an online game where they can qualify for a 200k final lol....

2016-02-01 02:59

2 replies

let's wait for their next lan in 2016

2016-02-01 03:01

FailFish

2016-02-01 11:32

pyth

pathetic?

2016-02-01 05:43

lol i just said pyth bcuz there is supposed to be hype but he went -22 lol but sure pathetic works

2016-02-01 05:44

5 replies

yup I am so depressed after yesterday's match. I have seen NIP doing bad before, but never so clueless. When they did bad against e frag I just thought that this was a one-off. Apparently not. It seemed as if they were just winging it. Seriously though, if shitzz is top fragging against ur 'tier 1' team after mindless pushing and playing with smg, u got something wrong. And losing one vs ones against ex6tence Ex6tence EX6TENCE What a shame. NIP did so many mistakes that one might argue that they need to disband and uninstall and rip [*] Wow i m so pissed. PS: Where the hell is this THREAT guy :@ Hope he comes back b4 nip have a match against fnatic/nv/astralis and get 16-0ed. inb4 nip will drop further in this week's ranking. They deserve it.

2016-02-01 06:15

It's true NIP are working with a new player and that they had to change a few roles of their roster to move pyth into it, but ex-Titan is not a team to underestimate. They upset matches very often, and the map pool after the veto favored them greatly. They aren't at a top tier play, but now Ex6Tenz is working with some great talent (btw, Ex6Tenz is actually a good player/aimer, but he is incredibly involved (you could say distracted) in being an In-Game Leader and does his part). "Mindlessly pushing" with SMGs is what (ex)Titan does now if you seen their latest VODs and Demos. It's been working for them (somehow...). eZ Win for Ex-Titan

2016-02-01 07:08

yea. lol

2016-02-01 20:32

He won the headshot% fight against scream.. Hes good /close/ban

2016-02-01 10:02

lol

2016-02-01 20:31

nono. pythetic**

2016-02-02 01:59

Ez for ex-Titan <3

2016-02-01 02:11

CHIKKEN

2 ez 4 nip

2016-02-01 02:12

I'm calling an EnVyUs versus Astralis final.

nope FlipSid3 vs Method Cyka vs Blyat

2016-02-01 08:51

God pyth was shite

Indeed

2016-02-01 07:27

Sign BARBARARARARA!

2016-02-01 02:14

Astralis #1

2016-02-01 02:15

SmithZz <3

Cloud9 will win

2016-02-01 02:19

man pls. I em fan but pls be real

#NEWNIP ayy

2016-02-01 02:20

2016-02-01 02:24

Ez Envy or Ex-Titan. Astralis chokers and Cloud9 = Clown9

2016-02-01 02:26

pyth GOD

81.8 HS %, better than Scream!

2016-02-01 03:16

easy for cheaters cause no one cares

pyth 22-44

Rip Nip,

2016-02-01 02:28

Rip Allu

2016-02-01 02:30

Pyth so gud

2016-02-01 02:33

Wondering if dig can upset for spot in finals

2016-02-01 02:42

Happy for Titan, let's hope they finally find their footing

2016-02-01 02:50

Maybe Titan can finally get out of the groups. Method should be easy win, but C9 is difficult to predict due to long time we've seen them play + new roster. Titan can beat Astralis if they get the right maps. Both teams are strong on Overpass and Train(they have played 3x OTs on those maps in their last 2 BO3s vs each other).

I would expect Titan to beat cloud9. Without Sean C9 will be trying to just do basic setups which I don't think is enough to beat Titan. Unless someone goes big I think cloud9 are gonna have no T side vs teams like Titan and Astralis. Obviously the outlier is stewie and how the team changed with his addition.

2016-02-01 07:51

I personally think shroud and ska have to show up and come big, otherwise it's rip for them.

2016-02-01 20:23

Yeah what I meant by stewie is whether his role in the team will be able to make up for no sean and let the stars go big by being able to get his team in position to trade frag.

2016-02-01 23:03