Luminosity, TS to DH Austin semis

7-5-2016 07:09

Luminosity and Tempo Storm continue their advance to domination in North America by making it early into the DreamHack ZOWIE Open Austin semifinals following respective wins over Cloud9 (16-3 on Mirage) and Liquid (16-10 on Cobblestone).

Four teams advanced to the best-of-one winners' matches at DreamHack Austin following respective wins in their groups: Luminosity, Tempo Storm, Cloud9, and Liquid.

The Group A winners' match kicked off on Mirage as the Alec "⁠Slemmy⁠" White-led Cloud9 tried to continue a new-found wave of momentum following a shutdown victory over CLG earlier. Unfortunately, Luminosity, the second best team in the world, had other plans and quickly pulled off a 15-0 CT half on the map.

Luminosity beastmoded C9 on Mirage

Despite Cloud9 winning their CT pistolround on the second half, all it took was a single gunround from Luminosity, which happened to be the first one, and the Brazilian team advanced to the playoffs early with a 16-3 victory.

DreamHack Austin 2016Best of 1

Luminosity

Matchpage

7th May 2016

Cloud9

Mirage

Luminosity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	19 - 6	+13	110.7	94.7%	1.84
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	17 - 6	+11	75.9	84.2%	1.53
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	17 - 11	+6	94.1	78.9%	1.50
Lincoln 'fnx' Lau fnx	15 - 11	+4	83.8	89.5%	1.35
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	14 - 9	+5	84.1	84.2%	1.31

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	19 - 17	+2	96.7	52.6%	1.14
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	8 - 17	-9	59.0	63.2%	0.68
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	5 - 16	-11	44.3	42.1%	0.44
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	6 - 16	-10	32.9	36.8%	0.41
Alec 'Slemmy' White Slemmy	5 - 16	-11	24.4	42.1%	0.37

Liquid went into the second winners' match and tried to give the hometown American crowd more to cheer about compared to the previous game as they faced off against Tempo Storm on Cobblestone.

Careful defense by the American team gave them the CT pistolround as Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin was able to close out a one-versus-two, but a standard "no respect" aggressive Tec-9 buy from Tempo quickly broke down Liquid's economy and equalised the game.

Off the back of this round win, Tempo Storm surged ahead and it was only a 3K from Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski to bring the score to 6-2 for Tempo Storm that gave Liquid some space in the game but, following two accrued rounds, Tempo continued to power forward to a 11-4 half.

With Lucas "⁠LUCAS1⁠" Teles far in the front for his team in terms of impact, the twin brother of Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles was able to get three USP kills and give Tempo Storm the second pistolround of the game, moving the score to 12-4. However, Liquid paid Tempo Storm back in kind for their second round Tec-9 buy with a similar Tec-9 buy that paid off and gave Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag & co. some breathing room.

Liquid were ultimately able to get as close as ten rounds in before the Brazilian side buckled down and closed out the game, 16-10.

DreamHack Austin 2016Best of 1

Tempo Storm

Matchpage

7th May 2016

Liquid

Cobblestone

Tempo Storm	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles LUCAS1	26 - 17	+9	113.5	76.9%	1.57
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles HEN1	19 - 14	+5	76.6	76.9%	1.26
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	22 - 20	+2	84.3	69.2%	1.18
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	16 - 17	-1	65.7	65.4%	1.05
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves SHOOWTiME	13 - 19	-6	59.8	53.8%	0.74

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	27 - 19	+8	98.0	65.4%	1.36
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	17 - 18	-1	87.7	88.5%	1.28
Eric 'adreN' Hoag adreN	16 - 22	-6	87.4	61.5%	0.90
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Hiko	15 - 18	-3	56.8	69.2%	0.78
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen koosta	12 - 19	-7	53.0	69.2%	0.72

The second day of DreamHack Austin will be devoted to four best-of-three games, two elimination matches and two decider matches, to determine the other two teams who will advance to the playoffs, i.e. the semifinals.

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TEMPO STORM VS LG EZ FINAL

2016-05-07 07:10

1 reply

mt legal

2016-05-07 17:00

EZ FAK, 4secs away ;-;

Expected

nice

BR > NA

Cheering for a braziliano final (yn)

2016-05-07 07:17

3 replies

It'll happen unless c9 can beat tempo storm in semis.

2016-05-07 22:56

2 replies

i think c9 can't take 1 map from TS

2016-05-08 02:14

C9 took one map but TS still in finals. Gg Brazil :)

2016-05-08 23:01

Djxlhwfljgj

2016-05-07 07:11

first

2016-05-07 22:57

Ts vs LG really in final

15-0, never forget i.imgur.com/lXjg9Uv.jpg

MAX5 Invitational had higher level of opposition

hehehehehehe true

2016-05-07 07:12

true dat

LG are insane and TS decent, definitely deserved!

oddshot.tv/shot/steel-tv-201604305475785 oddshot.tv/shot/steel-tv-201604305543431.. oddshot.tv/shot/steel-tv-201604305817553

LOL

2016-05-07 07:14

i love steel

2016-05-07 07:27

I really want to see Lg v TS ;)

2016-05-07 07:13

Damn, those Brazilians are insane on LAN. NA teams should take note. Hard work and motivation will pay off. I hope there is an NA team in the finals, but sadly that's probably not going to happen

4 replies

I think the problem NA teams is that the best players do not get on the same team, is one in each team, so can not have a fixed team to be considered the best, just with each NA team has its phases as better and not a constant, while in Brazil the best players are between TS and LG. Srry for my bad english.

2016-05-07 07:19

No no. They just need Hard working.

2016-05-07 07:21

No, I think the problem is the work ethnic. Alot of people don't realize that NA players get paid a pretty nice salary, regardless of how well they place at tournaments. It is a business after all, and as long as the orgs get name recognition and views, that's all they care about. The players don't care about becoming the best, because they will get paid good money either way

2016-05-07 07:24

hi (sorry for my bad english)

2016-05-07 16:20

Hard work pays off :) Congrats!

2016-05-07 07:15

Congratz to #LGLOYAL and #TSWIN! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! ;D

2016-05-07 07:20

ez pz

Brazilians barely met any resistance today, they just completely out-classed their opponents. Probably really frustrating for NA teams to play against such monsters in their own region, well, it was a Bo1 after all, maybe they have some chances in Bo3 series.

I believe in bo3 series will be even worst since Brazilians map pool is very good for both teams.

BO3 against LG will be torture for any NA team. But TS's map pool isn't as deep so a BO3 can work out better for NA perhaps.

2016-05-07 07:23

I mean, Bo1 maps veto system puts NA teams on a good map for TS\LG preemptively because of a bigger map pool, but in Bo3 there is only one ban for each team and third map supposed to be chosen randomly, so NA teams should have a good shot at least at one map.

2016-05-07 07:29