G2 eliminate NiP in London

25-6-2016 14:11

G2 sent NiP packing as the French team beat the Swedes 2-0 in Group A's elimination match in London (16-4 on Cache and 16-10 on Dust2).

The first elimination match at the ECS Season 1 Finals was between Ninjas in Pyjamas who lost to Luminosity in their opening match and G2 who got upset by Liquid to kick off their tournament.

Cache was the opening map of the best-of-three series and the Ninjas started on the CT-side. Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon showed up in the pistol round as he usually does as he clutched a 1vs2. G2 got a bomb plant in the first weapon round, securing it to extend their lead to 4-0.

RpK with a phenomenal performance on Cache

Ninjas in Pyjamas managed to secure the sixth round of the map but failed to string together more rounds. Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy's ace was the breaking point of the half and the match as G2 got their 11th round and led 12-3 at halftime.

Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro and Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom found the first kills of the second half and G2 won their CT-side pistol round. Although they gave up one more round, the French team won the map 16-4.

The second map was Dust2 and the CT-sided Ninjas in Pyjamas grabbed the pistol round. the Ninjas failed to pick up the anti-eco and then gave the lead to G2 (3-1).

pyth's effort on Dust2 wasn't enough

As the score was 5-2 and G2 seemed to be running away with the series, Jacob "⁠pyth⁠" Mourujärvi clutched a 1vs4 to get the ace and kept his team alive. That didn't help the matter much though as G2 won six of the last seven rounds of the first half and were in front with a 11-4 as the half ended.

G2 defused the bomb to kick off the second half but the Ninjas retaliated and went on a six round streak to reach to double digits (12-10). RpK and Edouard "⁠SmithZz⁠" Dubourdeaux came on top of an after plant situation and defused the bomb to give their team their 13th round and G2 went on to win the match 16-10 and the series 2-0.

ECS Season 1 FinalsBest of 3

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25th June 2016

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Dust2

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	44 - 23	+21	94.3	78.3%	1.55
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	42 - 26	+16	102.7	80.4%	1.51
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	36 - 20	+16	79.1	82.6%	1.45
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	31 - 26	+5	65.4	73.9%	1.12
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro bodyy	26 - 29	-3	66.8	78.3%	1.06

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi pyth	31 - 34	-3	76.0	56.5%	0.99
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	27 - 36	-9	69.3	58.7%	0.83
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	26 - 37	-11	77.9	56.5%	0.77
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	22 - 34	-12	55.2	58.7%	0.71
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	17 - 38	-21	61.5	58.7%	0.61

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Rating of the most choking teams in the world: 1) Astralis 2) G2 3) NiP 4) Na`Vi

2016-06-25 14:14

5 replies

Liquid?

2016-06-25 14:25

1 reply

not anymore

2016-06-25 14:28

pffffff VP? Orbit? HR?

2016-06-25 14:29

2 replies

VP are just bad. HR are just not good enough. Orbit? Who???

2016-06-25 14:44

lol new here VP are king of choking since 2014

2016-06-25 14:46

Wp g2, poor performance by nip

2016-06-25 14:15

fuck whats wrong with this team.They better go to semis in Cologne go NIP!

Maybe achievements will be not enough but shox and scream must be in top10 players of 2016. If they actually manage to win 1 or 2 events one of this 2 deserve a top5 spot.

2016-06-25 14:20

35 replies

lol

2016-06-25 14:26

27 replies

What is so funny? Especially shox deserves a place there!

26 replies

olofmeister, flusha, GuardiaN, flamie, FalleN, coldzera dont see shox yet

2016-06-25 14:30

25 replies

shox is definitely up there are you drunk?

2016-06-25 14:37

17 replies

what exactly has he done this year?

2016-06-25 14:38

16 replies

kicked Ex6TenZ to become an IGL

carried his team to top 5. almost singe handley beating LG at ESL PL Finals

2016-06-25 14:50

10 replies

In a bo1?? Ok..

2016-06-25 16:43

9 replies

grand finals bo1? nice try faveltard

2016-06-25 17:43

8 replies

almost means nothing, liquid would be the best team if ALMOST, gtfo

2016-06-25 18:32

7 replies

u r dumb as fuck arent u

2016-06-25 18:38

6 replies

nt baguette

2016-06-25 18:39

dumb as fuck

2016-06-25 18:40

4 replies

i can be as dumb as you or smart as your sister when chose me, choice is yours

2016-06-25 18:46

3 replies

still dumb

2016-06-25 18:48

xaxaxaxa ok smart "g2 fan"

2016-06-25 18:50

dumb

2016-06-25 18:54

Thorin said he's one of the best in world riight now, he made an article after eleague. Only problem is they haven't made it to many events but both him and scream are putting up huge numbers

2016-06-25 17:48

Your argument is Thorin?

2016-06-25 17:50

And what's your argument putting Flamie, Olof and Flusha. They've done nothing. What a stupid guy

2016-06-25 20:00

haha

On lan Shox has delievered more than Flamie. Ofcourse you can say that Flamie has played in more Finals but its because they are a better team than G2. But tbh your list isn't that bad.

2016-06-25 14:39

If NaVi keeps sucking then I guess shox > anyone from NaVi but right now? I arent think that.

2016-06-25 14:41

flamie... ehm i think shox is in top 3

2016-06-25 15:27

shox is better than flamie and flusha right now

2016-06-25 16:37

of 2016

2016-06-25 16:42

flusha and flamie both struggle this year

2016-06-25 17:32

flusha struggeling? LUL

Shox has to get top5

2016-06-25 14:27

Obviously! But I guess he has to carry his Team in 1 Major atleast for the Quarter Finals.

They'll have a hard time at Cologne though

2016-06-25 14:34

Exactly the group...

2016-06-25 14:35

Typical for them to get the hardest major group ever just as they start to play really well

Yes that is such a Shame and its annoying. Because for their time now they do deserve the Quarters. But if they can carry their form CONSTANTLY then they can make it out.

2016-06-25 14:53

This could be the best or the worst thing. Best scenario is that they win both bo1 and qualify for Quarters and don't meet the top 2 teams until final. Worst is that they are on this group xD

2016-06-25 15:32

Grats.

2016-06-25 14:24

rip nip last place

ez G2

NiP > G2 they said.

GeT_RiGhT is in his real first slump, which was very long time ago last time he had a slump. This two last tournaments everything seems to be off for him, his timing is horrible. He used to be one of the best when it came to make timings work. I don't know if it is his new role as entry-fragger that have made him lose his "timings" he used to have. Sure he have the hardest role in NiP, but it's not okey for him to play like this for two tournaments in a row now. Maybe they need to switch up the roles again, because every team is reading how GT often play his agressive t-side nowadays on cache etc for example.

taco really rekt him round after round in the exact same manner yesterday on train. He simply had no impact at all.

Well LG knew that NiP only played one guy inner bombsite on train. And taco with good timing went out higher when GT wasn't peeking there. One of those rounds it was because he threw a moltov higher and started peeking lower while taco ran out higher. And it was like 3 rounds or something, NiP couldn't hold anything on train. They got rekt outside while being four players there xDD

he is losing many aim duels as well.That horrible spray on shox when they were up 5v4 lost them this game.He had perfect timing tehre.Its just an example,but really he is losing many aim duels.

No Get_Right, no win.

2016-06-25 14:40

RIP! G2 show the force!

Scream is really da k1Ng

RpK wasn't that bad and G2 won... NiP lost me a couple of bucks xD I thought they weren't trying hard when losing to G2 in the groups at ELEAGUE, but they're just inconsistent as F, both of them actually are...

G2 vs liquid will be a good match to watch

2016-06-25 14:32

get_bot with the casual 17 bomb

Put him in another role and even with his slump atm he will perform much much better. I don't think people realise how hard the role GT is having atm really is.. THREAT have really put too much on GT's shoulders atm.

Rip Nip lul

g2 <3

nip wasted spot !!!

-12 and -21 washed up

2016-06-25 14:43

well deserved victory

2016-06-25 14:45

Gtr in slump

2016-06-25 15:02

pyth is trying his best to carry those t3 players

2016-06-25 15:29

GTR IN SLUMP

2016-06-25 15:30

Poor pyth. Ended up with these grandpas and carrying their ass like allu was. Well at least they do decent on Swedish soil.

2016-06-25 15:34

ez nip bot

2016-06-25 15:38

BoT RiGhT

2016-06-25 15:44

I hope G2 win the whole thing now that they've beaten NiP. I think their odds are really good now that they've made it to the semis.

2016-06-25 15:51

You forgot kappa

2016-06-25 16:21

they have to beat TL in a bo3 before they are in the semis lol, and that will be hard. I'm a G2 fangay but I think they will struggle against Liquid :\

2016-06-25 16:31