NiP edge out Liquid in overtime

11-5-2016 19:25

Ninjas in Pyjamas got off on the right foot at the ESL Pro League finals with a hard-fought 22-18 overtime victory over Team Liquid on Dust2.

After fnatic's convincing victory over Cloud9 in the Group B opener, the ESL Pro League finals, live from Leicester, continued with another intercontinental battle, this time between Team Liquid and Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Kosta "⁠kosta⁠" Pantelić opened the game with a trio of kills in catwalk before Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin finished the job with two kills of his own. After winning both anti-eco rounds, the North American side went on to dominate proceedings in gun play, forcing NiP to call a timeout just six rounds into the game. NiP still tried to come back into the game, but the rounds they edged out were few and far between as Liquid took a 13-2 half-time lead.

NiP overturned a 2-14 deficit

Liquid put added gloss on an already one-sided scoreline by taking the pistol round on the Terrorist side, with Suen denying Jacob "pyth" Mourujärvi the chance to win a 1vs3 clutch. Many believed that the North American side would soon close the game out, but Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg gave NiP a lifeline with a trio of Scout kills from Lindberg. That win sparked a massive comeback from the Swedes, who turned a 2-14 deficit into a 15-15 tie, forcing overtime.

The first overtime could not decide a winner as both teams took three rounds on the Terrorist side. In the second overtime, NiP took a 21-18 lead after playing on the offensive side then picked up the first round as CT to seal a dramatic 22-18 success.

ESL Pro League Season 3 FinalsBest of 1

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Matchpage

11th May 2016

Liquid

Dust2

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi pyth	38 - 29	+9	91.5	75.0%	1.34
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	30 - 28	+2	89.0	80.0%	1.22
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	29 - 26	+3	71.6	67.5%	1.05
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	23 - 24	-1	58.0	75.0%	0.94
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	17 - 28	-11	60.1	62.5%	0.78

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	36 - 29	+7	98.8	77.5%	1.36
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen koosta	29 - 29	0	70.3	65.0%	1.10
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	30 - 28	+2	80.8	77.5%	1.09
Eric 'adreN' Hoag adreN	21 - 27	-6	67.8	67.5%	0.84
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Hiko	19 - 24	-5	44.5	67.5%	0.78

2016-05-11 19:28

13 replies

heheehhee

11 replies

cant believe im the first

2016-05-11 19:29

10 replies

its like a dream come true :)

2016-05-11 19:30

4 replies

ik, and its a big thread as well <3

3 replies

ez for nip

2016-05-11 19:43

1 reply

Kosta "kosta" Pantelić

2016-05-11 22:08

fag

2016-05-11 20:09

why do people care about being first lol

2016-05-11 19:38

It's ridiculous. Your comment caught my eye before mr. Firsts.

2016-05-11 19:48

2 replies

4Head S1mple 4head was 4head the 4head problem

2016-05-11 19:51

There is a slight difference between us. I myself don't spend all my time awake watching other people play videogames and spam stupid shit, because of this i litteraly understood nothing of that. Get help dude.

2016-05-11 19:53

its my wish to be the first on a thread since i started browsing hltv xD. its an achievment as a hltv user

2016-05-11 20:17

#JustLiquidThings

EZ 4 ENCE

wow that was so fucking boring

Um... ok? If a 2-14 comeback is boring, then I don't know what is entertaining

2016-05-12 01:43

Amazing comeback by NIP. But what in earth how can liquid choke like this AGAIN

NiP is better team. They had unlucky at the begining

2016-05-12 07:27

omg... 14:2 => 15:15 => 18:15 => 18:18 => 18:22 xD

BIG XD

2016-05-11 20:11

lol, really?

2016-05-11 21:28

you didnt see the match?

2016-05-11 21:56

No man, gotta work... Fucking shit. This dudes from Liquid can't even handle a 8 rounds difference.

2016-05-11 23:06

s1mple was the problem

sds

BEST COMEBACK N I P

youtu.be/RLZUKqpXYzU

2016-05-11 20:45

nice comeback from 2to13 :E

not even close

eaease

lolo

riP

CHOKE

what a shame liquid

NA PS

RIP

yeeeee

haHAA

lel

wp Liquid

gg NA cs

liquichoke

ez for ENCE

what a comeback

chokequid

#1 NIPMAGIC

EU>>>>>NA

EZEZ

hahahahahh it was good

NA CHOKE

jeez

terrible game tbh

classic NiP

SWE > NA

Choke Inc

c h o k e

rip na

Liquid Choke LUL

14-2

NiP the legends, the masters of comebacks

Lel

last

Classic NiP Comeback

Nice choice of words MIRAA

13-2* not 14-2

13-2 and then Liquid won the pistol. 14-2 vs a force buy actually.

2016-05-11 19:33

Liquid won the 2nd pistol so 14-2

14-2 with the second pistol?

2016-05-11 19:40

sad

Go ninjas!

TL pls disband you are choking harder than Danish teams which should be impossible lmao

Magic

Disband liquid

Gj team chokelid Once again....

This is maybe worst waste of my bet ALL TIME... Liquirt, now can't win with map advantage, 5v4 (BOT_friberg), 15-2 lead, 3-0 overtime, worthless day

2016-05-11 19:31

To be fair, it was still a 5v5. Pyth was a fucking god the whole match

For sure. pyth is performing and has probably been NiP's best player over the past few weeks.

2016-05-11 19:54

BOT_friberg was the one getting all the entry kills to get his team in to site. It was his team who couldnt hold everytime in t site. You should stop betting you before lose everything you have. You have no idea about cs.

liquid i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy251/greatb..

Not even close.

2016-05-11 19:32

Why is friberg so shit ??

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Liquid disband or change the lineuo +TARIK -ADREN GG BEST TEAM IN DA WORLD

looool

HAHA HAHAHA, FUCKIN REKT, TWITCH CHAT WAS SOOO SALTY. So glad to see a bit of old nip, making huge comebacks and winning from a deficit.WOOOOOOOO!!! tense match

ez for god pyth

-adreN

2016-05-11 19:34

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

2016-05-11 19:35

This was so fun to watch :D I thought it was over so many fucking times lol

2016-05-11 19:36

what an emotional roller coaster :D

2016-05-11 19:49

Insane comeback from NiP... as insane as choke from Liquid. Friberg back to underperforming again, that's not good.

twitter.com/ScoobersTheOne/status/730448..

whew, nail biter. gg liquid, looking sharp, keep working hard, gl in elimination. wp nip, kept hanging around winning the big rounds, kept grinding.

2016-05-11 19:39

All the people making fun of NiP because they were 14-2.... FeelsGoodMan

Is there any solution for this Liquid roster? wtf Choke with s1mple, choke without s1mple atleast they make a comeback vs HR on dust2 @ MLG qualifier but... there is something wrong

2016-05-11 19:42

Even if i also say sometimes that Friberg should be kicked, he's been playing well recently. Let's just think this was a bad game and keep an eye on him

rip skin betters who started laughing and trolling nip xDDxxDxDxD

2016-05-11 19:44

holy fucking bad. liquid needs to man up and take some aggression they play the respect game WAY to much and it constantly fucks them over. GG nip great comeback you should have never gotten. Liquid fuck off with c9 somewhere else

how much?

2016-05-11 19:47

nip tried so hard to lose but you cant lose to NA team

2016-05-11 19:45

lol astralis did

Wp nip rip liquid. They always lose on a great advantage.

2016-05-11 19:46

get_right is a rock

lol how do you lose from 2:14 ahahahahahahaha gj nip

2016-05-11 19:50

14 - 2 --> 18 - 22

2016-05-11 19:52

14-2 = 15-15 = 15-18 = 18-22 ez NiP. so fucking best. game real top 1 team and champions. go to rekt fnatic and will rekt everyone

Ez for pyth

2016-05-11 19:55

LMAO

2016-05-11 20:03

NIP MAGIC BABY!

2016-05-11 20:04

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

na choker > ea choker

2016-05-11 20:05

Absolutely unbelievable.. 14-2 up against an eco/force buy and can't win just 2 more rounds.

Liquid biggest chokers in CS history at this point

2016-05-11 20:19

wow pyth, siiiick

Friberg back to his standards

2016-05-11 20:20

looool rip $1000 bet on liquid when they were up 7-0

2016-05-11 20:39

stopped watching the stream at 14-2, came back now and found that nip actually won this game, what happened to liquid? 0.o

2016-05-11 20:41

wrong kosta lol

2016-05-11 20:42

14-2--->15-6--->15-15--->18-15--->18-22 gg liquid s1mple was the problem EleGiggle

2016-05-11 20:46

It was s1mple's decision to go...

2016-05-11 21:08

haha i know right, it's not like they choked with simple on back to back maps or anything

2016-05-11 21:37

Comeback from 14:2. Just NA stuff.

2016-05-11 21:14

someone make a video "When I'm NA"

2016-05-11 21:19

pathetic. constantly force buying up 10 rounds, jumping through smokes for no reason, just pathetic

2016-05-11 21:24

CHOKE MOFOS CHOKE

2016-05-11 22:13

Did someone say choke

2016-05-11 22:22

Who the hell is Kosta Pantelic lmao

2016-05-11 22:29

didnt know koosta was serbian lmao

2016-05-12 01:13

ez for kotsa

2016-05-12 01:20

Rofl Kosta "kosta" Pantelic no no its Kenneth "Koosta" Suen morons even I know that

2016-05-12 12:29

NA Choke 4Head

2016-05-12 13:05

Everyone who's dissing friberg here are absolute fools, in the following match versus Fnatic on Train, Friberg was the top fragger.

2016-05-12 13:09

NiP edge out Liquid in overtime

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