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Spaniards out, dig & Vexed lose at ESL

20-2-2016 15:11

The two biggest underdogs have been disposed of at ESL Barcelona Invitational, as x6tence and gBots have lost their last life. Meanwhile, Vexed are sitting at one life left and dignitas suffered their first defeat at the hands of a newly-formed coalition.

A new alliance consisting of fnatic, Envy, G2 and seemingly Vexed has taken over the second day of ESL Barcelona Invitational after yesterday's dominion of the Danes.

x6tence were picked apart in the first match of the day by G2, who had no trouble taking de_train following a 16-3 scoreline to take one of the Spaniards out.

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20th February 2016

x6tence

Train

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G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	20 - 7	+13	93.6	89.5%	1.72
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	20 - 6	+14	98.6	89.5%	1.66
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	16 - 12	+4	89.7	84.2%	1.48
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	16 - 11	+5	100.7	94.7%	1.46
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	13 - 8	+5	75.7	84.2%	1.34

x6tence	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Rajohn 'EasTor' Linato EasTor	10 - 15	-5	54.3	42.1%	0.79
Miguel 'Blastinho' Llombart Blastinho	10 - 16	-6	64.0	57.9%	0.75
Alfredo 'enanoks' Alvarez enanoks	9 - 18	-9	56.4	57.9%	0.55
Aaron 'nmt' Awad nmt	6 - 19	-13	54.4	57.9%	0.54
Antonio 'FlipiN' Rivas del Rey FlipiN	8 - 17	-9	54.1	47.4%	0.45

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20th February 2016

x6tence

Train

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	20 - 7	+13	93.6	89.5%	1.72
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	20 - 6	+14	98.6	89.5%	1.66
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	16 - 12	+4	89.7	84.2%	1.48
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	16 - 11	+5	100.7	94.7%	1.46
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	13 - 8	+5	75.7	84.2%	1.34

x6tence	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Rajohn 'EasTor' Linato EasTor	10 - 15	-5	54.3	42.1%	0.79
Miguel 'Blastinho' Llombart Blastinho	10 - 16	-6	64.0	57.9%	0.75
Alfredo 'enanoks' Alvarez enanoks	9 - 18	-9	56.4	57.9%	0.55
Aaron 'nmt' Awad nmt	6 - 19	-13	54.4	57.9%	0.54
Antonio 'FlipiN' Rivas del Rey FlipiN	8 - 17	-9	54.1	47.4%	0.45

The other Spanish team, gBots, was chosen to face off against Envy in the second match, but that time David "⁠Kairi⁠" de Miguel and company couldn't make it as close as in their previous matches with dignitas and fnatic.

Envy powered to a 11-4 scoreline as Terrorists on de_mirage. On the back of Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire's pistol-round brilliance the Frenchmen sent gBots packing with five in a row in the second half.

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Envy

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20th February 2016

gBots

Mirage

Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	19 - 10	+9	123.7	90.0%	1.88
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	19 - 11	+8	86.5	90.0%	1.58
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Happy	22 - 13	+9	105.0	75.0%	1.53
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	14 - 7	+7	74.8	80.0%	1.47
Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey kioShiMa	17 - 13	+4	82.9	85.0%	1.23

gBots	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Christian 'loWel' Garcia Antoran loWel	11 - 17	-6	75.5	60.0%	0.80
Natanael 'kanarito' Ródenas Betancort kanarito	13 - 18	-5	75.4	60.0%	0.77
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	10 - 19	-9	68.0	55.0%	0.70
David 'Kairi' de Miguel Kairi	10 - 17	-7	62.5	50.0%	0.60
Rubén 'TorPe' Jesús Gómez Rodríguez TorPe	9 - 20	-11	57.4	35.0%	0.44

Envy then passed the ball back to their comrades from G2, who took another life from the Polish squad to keep control of the match-ups for as long as possible.

The two battled it out on de_overpass, where Kévin "⁠Ex6TenZ⁠" Droolans repeated his performance from Game Show Global eSports Cup. The Belgian in-game leader brought the best of him and ended up with a 31-15 scoreline (1.71 rating) in a 16-9 victory over Vexed.

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20th February 2016

Vexed

Overpass

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	31 - 15	+16	113.4	88.0%	1.69
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	19 - 12	+7	85.9	84.0%	1.27
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	15 - 15	0	74.8	64.0%	1.07
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	17 - 14	+3	64.0	68.0%	1.06
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	15 - 14	+1	65.8	72.0%	0.96

Vexed	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz rallen	17 - 19	-2	74.7	76.0%	1.13
Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski Furlan	21 - 17	+4	81.4	68.0%	1.08
Bartosz 'Hyper' Wolny Hyper	16 - 18	-2	78.2	56.0%	1.02
Karol 'repo' Cybulski repo	11 - 23	-12	74.8	56.0%	0.75
Dominik 'GruBy' Swiderski GruBy	5 - 20	-15	41.2	56.0%	0.42

Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer kickstarted fnatic's match against Dignitas with an impressive quad-kill in a 2-on-4, which also included a 1-on-1 at the end. fnatic stormed to a 6-0 lead before Dignitas picked up the pace and took seven of the following nine rounds to make it a solid 7-8 half as Terrorists.

fnatic didn't get a say until it was 13-8 in Dignitas's favour, however it didn't seem to be quite enough as dignitas made it to match point at 15-9. A poor forcebuy fired the Swedish squad up, and dignitas failed to overturn a number of clutch situations and fnatic took the game to overtime.

It came down to the wire even there, as despite initial struggles Dignitas took it to the last round possible, where fnatic won another key clutch to come out victorious at 19-17.

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fnatic

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20th February 2016

Dignitas

Cobblestone

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	29 - 23	+6	91.4	63.9%	1.19
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	27 - 21	+6	78.2	72.2%	1.19
Dennis 'dennis' Edman dennis	27 - 24	+3	73.0	86.1%	1.13
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	19 - 28	-9	68.0	83.3%	0.96
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	20 - 21	-1	63.3	55.6%	0.88

Dignitas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	33 - 21	+12	77.5	75.0%	1.34
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	25 - 26	-1	81.1	77.8%	1.18
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	25 - 28	-3	84.6	77.8%	1.03
Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel RUBINO	19 - 26	-7	66.8	61.1%	0.88
Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann TENZKI	15 - 21	-6	55.6	66.7%	0.84

The teams' lives now look as follows:

Team	Matches	Lives
Astralis	2	3
fnatic	4	2
G2	3	2
Envy	3	2
Dignitas	3	2
Vexed	3	1
gBots	3	0
x6tence	3	0

Four more matches are left on day two of ESL Barcelona Invitational, starting with Astralis up against Envy as another move of the new coalition.

RIP DANES

2016-02-20 15:11

2 replies

rip 1-12

2016-02-20 15:13

1 reply

LMAO RIP THOSE NIGGAS

dig pls..

GOD olof

agreed

2016-02-20 15:33

Fnatic n1. NO ONE CAN UNDERESTIMATE THEM

I can

2016-02-20 15:21

Finally lows from spain out.

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gbots > vexed

2016-02-20 15:16

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I agree that vexed are weak, but come on, this is just stupid.

at least Vexed qualified for a major once

2016-02-20 15:18

8 replies

gbots are like 1 month old team? they changed a player 2 weeks ago or so, we will see i'd rather compete against the best than qualify for a major and get pooped on in the groupstage

2016-02-20 15:20

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"i'd rather compete against the best than qualify for a major and get pooped on in the groupstage " Then you probably are the only player in the world, but not a surprise comming from NA :)

Vexed picked repo on 3rd February this year... vexedgaming.com/articles/news/gaming/11/.. Sure, they played about a month with him as a test but that's nothing.

2016-02-20 15:32

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they didnt when they qualified for the major.

gbots picked kanarito this month too

2016-02-20 16:19

Exactly? "pls hltv stop banning me" said that gBots changed a player "2 weeks ago or so". So I have replied that Vexed had done the same.

2016-02-20 22:22

I thought they qualified for the last two majors

2016-02-20 15:44

oh ye, you're right, forgot because they were eBettle in the first one.

2016-02-20 16:15

actually true

2016-02-20 16:14

kek

Why everyone want to be the first commenter? :D

because they have small dicks

Spanitards LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Ex6tenZ wtf?

2016-02-20 15:12

kewl

god flusha 80% HS

2016-02-20 15:15

x6 31 frags ? wow.

konfig to many stupid/pug pushes, faceing cost dignitas. kjaerbye insane performance since 2k15, its his year to show his potentional

2016-02-20 15:17

OLOFGOD

2016-02-20 15:19

15-9 and lost map :|

4 replies

VP style

2016-02-20 15:25

More like fnatic style comeback. No team but nV can handle it. Na'Vi loses, Astralis loses, VP loses, dignitas loses.

Agree. Everyone knows fnatic can Come back anytime, so they defeat themselves.fnatic just has to Play their game and the opponent does the Rest for them

2016-02-20 15:53

yeah true , typical VP style + lost rounds vs.eco in every game.

2016-02-20 15:35

Kj probably top 20 this year.

2016-02-20 15:22

hahah gtfo spanitards

flusha 80% HS percentage :D

2016-02-20 15:24

Expected........... gg youtube.com/watch?v=T1URv0CVeSY&feature=..

2016-02-20 15:34

Spaniards wtf have some respect...

vexed was a bit coward, other teams helped them to not end in the last 2 positions. gBots without help, fighting against fnatic and envyus, very happy cuz they had no help and did a nice matches

2016-02-20 16:07

I don't see how that makes them cowardly... but I do think gbots are better than them. It's a shame they bombed out in the bottom 2 but they had a pretty good showing, be proud of those boys! Seem like a good team to keep an eye on.

2016-02-20 16:56

Doe im fnatic fan,gBots got some serious potentional..might aswell start betting on them I mean 16-13 on INF against fnatic and 16-14 against DIG on cobble..doe envy is other story,sometimes they're good sometimes they're bad..more depending on the individual play then on teamplay honestly.

2016-02-20 18:09