EnVyUs edge out Tempo Storm

With many purported favourites and elite teams falling by the wayside on the third day of DreamHack Masters Malmö (i.e. Luminosity and Astralis), the final match of the day was a rematch between Envy and Tempo Storm, with the Brazilian team having triumphed 16-14 on Cobblestone two day's beforehand.

With the first map being Dust2, things immediately got off to a fiery start was Lucas "⁠LUCAS1⁠" Teles won a one-versus-three on Tempo's T-side pistolround to put the Brazilian team on the board.

nV waited until the first gunround to begin their counterattack and it was Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire who led the way on both the first gunround and in a successive few rounds, as the French team managed to shut down Tempo's attacks and pull ahead to a 4-3 lead.

Tempo Storm regained control of the mid-half economy and pacing and used a few clever executes to move ahead in the score; a few crucial plays by Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt (particularly while jump-Scouting)  and nV towards the end of the half however brought the French team to within a round of Tempo (who finished the half in the lead 8-7).

With EnVyUs looking much more spirited than the team of the past few offline games, and with apEX continuing to hit his stride in the second half, the French team flew off to a pistolround win and continued to pick up ensuing rounds, moving up to a 14-9 score (a hold by Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass and João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos gave Tempo one round up to that point in the second half).

Tempo decided to call a technical pause but continued aggression by the Boys in Blue meant the Brazilian team had no respite and in the end it was Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer and his men who took the first map 16-9.

Inferno was the second map of contention and nV leapt like a horse out of its gate into a thunderous first half, taking the pistolround and the first gunround on a map that has traditionally been considered heavily CT-sided.

Tempo Storm tried to get momentum rolling on the seventh round as boltz and co. woke up and began to play defensive, but it was on the ninth round that the team's star AWPer Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles came alive with a lightning-fast quad kill on the A-site.

In general, the rest of the half played out in nV's favour, with NBK- leading the way to a domineering 9-6 half for the French team.

The second half continued to piledrive the old adage of Inferno being CT-sided into the ground however as Tempo Storm picked up the first pistolround and the first gunround in turn.

With the score at 12-11 for Tempo, apEX picked up three Five-Seven kills at mid but in the same round LUCAS1 won a one-versus-three and sent the Brazilian players into an adrenaline rush.

The rounds started to go tit-for-tat (and by coincidence, started to get messier and messier as is the case with close offline games), but it was a Tempo Storm round pulled out-of-the-bag that gave the Brazilian team a 14-13 lead. 

In classic nV fashion, a force-buy and some Five-Seven work on the B-site by NBK- and Happy gave the French team the equaliser and stopped Tempo's economy and momentum. Off of the back of this play, EnVyUs managed to exploit Tempo's focus and won the map in close fashion, 16-14.

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016Best of 3

Envy

Matchpage

2

0

14th April 2016

Tempo Storm

16

Dust2

9

16

Inferno

14

Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	52 - 38	+14	100.7	70.9%	1.42
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	46 - 33	+13	83.5	70.9%	1.24
Vincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerHappy	43 - 38	+5	86.4	69.1%	1.17
Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS	35 - 33	+2	73.7	76.4%	1.04
Timothée 'DEVIL' DémolonDEVIL	25 - 34	-9	60.8	72.7%	0.89

Tempo Storm	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ricardo 'boltz' Prassboltz	41 - 34	+7	82.1	74.5%	1.17
Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1	39 - 41	-2	82.2	69.1%	1.10
Lucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLUCAS1	39 - 41	-2	68.7	54.5%	1.00
João 'felps' Vasconcellosfelps	32 - 46	-14	68.6	65.5%	0.86
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' GonçalvesSHOOWTiME	25 - 40	-15	60.5	63.6%	0.75

Tomorrow will be an off-day for players as the DreamHack Masters Malmö tournament kicks off again on Saturday with the playoffs inside of the Malmö Arena.

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