Na`Vi, NiP garner Group A wins

2-3-2016 21:48

In some of the final games of the first day at IEM Katowice, Natus Vincere took down TheMongolz 16-6 on de_cbble while NiP scored a surprise victory over Luminosity with a 16-13 score on de_mirage.

For the next two group stage matches at IEM Katowice's Group A, Natus Vincere looked to improve their 2-2 record in the group by taking on the weakest team of the bunch, The MongolZ.

On the other hand, Luminosity of Brazil who remained undefeated in the group faced off against Ninjas in Pyjamas, who stood at 1-3 and therefore had no chance of advancing to the playoffs of IEM Katowice, marking the first time the organisation will be unable to play in the Spodek Arena.

friberg played a big part in the Luminosity takedown

Despite being fan favourites as a team who struggled to obtain visas from the event and won the Asia Minor, The MongolZ had to concede with an eventual 0-5 record as their game with Natus Vincere started with a promising 6-9 half for the Mongolian team on the T-side of de_cbble, but saw Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács & co. run away to a 16-6 victory on the second half.

IEM Katowice 2016Best of 1

Natus Vincere

Matchpage

2nd March 2016

The MongolZ

Cobblestone

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	28 - 12	+16	116.5	72.7%	1.78
Denis 'seized' Kostin seized	21 - 10	+11	92.0	86.4%	1.51
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	19 - 8	+11	85.6	86.4%	1.42
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	18 - 13	+5	82.4	81.8%	1.24
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Zeus	11 - 16	-5	87.4	68.2%	1.04

The MongolZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tsog 'Tsogoo' Mashbat Tsogoo	22 - 15	+7	86.8	63.6%	1.30
Enkhtaivan 'Machinegun' Lkhagva Machinegun	12 - 20	-8	80.2	59.1%	0.80
Otgonjargal 'Menace' Ganzorig Menace	8 - 22	-14	61.1	50.0%	0.59
Bold 'ncl' Batsukh ncl	8 - 20	-12	46.5	50.0%	0.50
Temuulen 'Zilkenberg' Battulga Zilkenberg	9 - 20	-11	50.1	40.9%	0.48

The second match meanwhile delivered up quite a surprise as Luminosity went up 12-3 on their CT-side against NiP but a strong performance from Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg and his teammates somehow brought the Swedish team back into the game and gave them a map win at 16-13.

IEM Katowice 2016Best of 1

Luminosity

Matchpage

2nd March 2016

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Mirage

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	28 - 18	+10	99.1	86.2%	1.51
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	25 - 19	+6	81.0	75.9%	1.20
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	21 - 16	+5	71.7	72.4%	1.15
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	15 - 21	-6	74.0	69.0%	0.90
Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi pyth	17 - 21	-4	57.2	69.0%	0.89

Luminosity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	20 - 20	0	74.8	69.0%	1.15
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	20 - 21	-1	79.0	79.3%	1.11
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	20 - 21	-1	84.0	75.9%	1.05
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	19 - 23	-4	76.7	65.5%	0.90
Lincoln 'fnx' Lau fnx	16 - 21	-5	53.3	65.5%	0.69

The table for Group A therefore appears as follows (with fnatic versus mousesports set to end soon):

#	Team	W	L	Diff	Points
1.	Luminosity	4	1	+18	12
2.	fnatic	3	1	+16	9
3.	Null element Natus Vincere	3	2	+12	9
4.	mousesports	2	2	+5	6
5.	NiP	2	3	+1	6
6.	TheMongolz	0	5	-52	0

Group B of IEM Katowice will kick off tomorrow and determine the second team to automatically advance to the semifinal as well as the two teams which will move on to the quarter-finals.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

LET'S GO MOUSESPORTS <3

2016-03-02 21:48

16 replies

So LG-NiP game was useless ? NiP out and LG top1 in group anyway ?

2016-03-02 21:58

15 replies

2016-03-02 21:59

Same as Fnatic and Mouz game.

2016-03-02 22:08

11 replies

why they then even played those games.. who even want to see game which doesn't have any meaning ?

2016-03-02 22:13

7 replies

So NiKo can practice on bots.

2016-03-02 22:14

1Win in group stage = 1000 dolars for the team.

2016-03-02 22:18

I do, thanks? Like I care if those teams win or not - I'm here for good CS and watching Niko vs fnatic has been glorious.

2016-03-02 22:24

3 replies

who cares what you care ?

2016-03-02 22:31

2 replies

Everybody here but you.

2016-03-03 00:29

1 reply

Not really

2016-03-04 02:30

wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/NaNiwa's_..

2016-03-02 23:48

if mouz would have won they would be on 9 points, and fnatic on 6. so in what way was that usless?

2016-03-02 22:16

Hmm, i actually don't know what would then happen. Because Fnatic beat NaVi, NaVi beat mouz and Mouz would have beaten Fnatic. Interesting, too bad it didn't happen.

2016-03-02 22:17

sorry, all 3 teams would have been on 9 points, creating a tie-triangle, and then I think the round diff. would decide who would advance

2016-03-02 22:20

But in the format here on HLTV it says quarter finals, which means 8 teams, aka. 4 from each group, right? So Mouz/NiP is still in it?

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bye mongolz :(

..............W.L.Diff.Points 6. TheMongolz 0 5 -52 0

2016-03-02 22:00

I had higher expectations.

2016-03-02 22:38

Well done NiP

FUCK MAN! FUCK!

2016-03-02 21:57

lg choke

2016-03-02 21:49

The match didn't matter for LG at all, saying they choked when they didn't care too much is silly.

2016-03-02 21:50

6 replies

I'm sure they still cared, it's not like they weren't trying, Taking pauses and such.

5 replies

Doubtful, they had nothing to gain from trying hard, they were guaranteed the group win regardless. Any tactics they used would be used against them in the semi's, literally no point to even try.

2016-03-02 22:04

4 replies

no, you're wrong. you're phrasing it as LG didn't try and therefore NiP got the ez win. LG did try obviously and got defeated by a solid NiP.

Thing is they came into playing with NiP from 4 straight games very stressing with 3 very good teams, they were obviously exausted and that took its toll on them.

2016-03-02 22:22

Same with NiP. Can't act like they weren't having tough. To lose against 2 teams by 2 rounds.

2016-03-02 22:34

Doubtful? They win 1000 dollars for every game they win....

2016-03-02 22:32

THREAT master please teach old dogs new tricks!

NIP respect

rip nip

admin kick the favelas

fatberg

RIP NIP

LGdex

NiP beat LG so gooood :)

that lost against mouz cost nip so much

Yea man...

loss*

i would sya, that lost versus fnatic, cuz they were so close to win it 16:13, but they throw it :( Respect for them, they have a potential, pyth got unlcuky, maybe nervous at the start of the tournament, would be better if they played versus mongolz first, would have a nice warmup :)

2016-03-02 23:02

noice

Rip Nip :c

Good job NiP! I'm proud!

Ty Godberg

isnt there a decider game between nip and mouz ?

Would be nice...

2016-03-02 22:01

NIP did something, who didnt so far in this group. They destroyed Luminosity. They are winners for me. <3 NIP

2016-03-02 21:51

Are you totally that clueless ? LG had already secured top1 spot and spot as only team to Semi-Finals LG of course saved tactics

They destroyed? LG was playing for fun.

2016-03-02 22:10

+1 Those NiP fans are so clueless they thought that this match mattered and that LG was playing seriously when in reality NiP was already out and LG had already secured spot to semi-finals :DDDDDDDDD

nip wasnt?

2016-03-03 17:34

Totally agree, NiP so far ahead any team, top1 in the world! Just go suck a tailpipe fucktard.

2016-03-02 22:19

go FRIBERG !!!!

mouz out <3

GO LG!!!

2016-03-02 21:52

Kinda good performance from NiP in this tournament, but they still need so much change. Time will tell.

-52 nt

thank mr friberg

LOOL when i first saw the score 12-3 i was like "rip my skins", but never stop believing in the magic :3

2016-03-02 21:55

If fnatic win this, their round balance from this game will count as 0 from 15-15 or the difference in OT?

So to LG #1 = Fnatic must win by max 2 rounds vs mouz? If they win 4:0 in overtime Fnc will be 1#? or priority is head 2 head match?

head 2 head

taco top frag, is this real life?

2016-03-02 21:56

GO NIP!U have to admit it they almost defeated fnatic in inferno and navi in overpass and won against lg on mirage I think is pretty respectable.I know the game against mousesports was shit but witouth that they did pretty well.

2016-03-02 22:12

they did super

How the fuck is LG at top seed with 4-1 and +14 round difference? Fnatic won 19-17 over Mouse so that counts as 0 round difference because it went to OT?

LG won fnatic, that's why they're 1st in the group.

RIP NIP :(((( You were standard on every major..

Nip did an amazing job and u can see pretty clearly that theyve changed alot since 2015. This wasnt their day and I would say that they might have underestimated Mouz a bit. Hopefully they will continue their good work for the future! Congrats to the Braz! Looking forward to see Tempo!

2016-03-02 22:35