VP beat Astralis, to Major semis

8-7-2016 13:11

Virtus.pro defeated Astralis 2-0 to become the first semi-finalists at ESL One Cologne. (19-17 on Overpass and 19-15 on Train).

Virtus.pro and Astralis faced in the first quarter-final at ESL One Cologne in a best of-three series. With Danny "⁠zonic⁠" Sørensen as their stand-in Astralis started Overpass on the T-side.

The Danes picked up the pistol round after Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz's opening kill but couldn't stop a triple kill by Paweł "⁠byali⁠" Bieliński in the following round, losing the anti-eco. Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski's 1vs2 clutch gave Virtus.pro their sixth round and they made it 9-1 before Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen brought a round to his team with a triple kill.

TaZ & co. become semi-finalists

After getting one more round, Astralis' struggle continued and they trailed 3-12 at halftime. The story of the second half was much different as Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth & company grabbed the first seven rounds of the half to come within two rounds of Virtus.pro (12-10).

Astralis even got a match point buy failed to close out as Jarosław "⁠pashaBiceps⁠" Jarząbkowski's quad kill took the match to overtime. The CT-sided Astralis were overwhelmed in the first half of overtime, losing all three rounds. Virtus.pro eventually stopped the scary comeback and won Overpass 19-17.

Train was the second map and Astralis won their third pistol round of the series with zonic picking up a triple kill. Virtus.pro answered in the third round with an early weapon purchase and went on a three round streak, taking the lead.

It was another rough game for zonic

Astralis responded harshly, grabbing nine of the ten remaining rounds in the half in a dominant fashion. The Danes led 11-4 at halftime.

The Danish team won yet another pistol round but lost the third round of the half as Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas secured a triple kill and the round (13-5). Virtus.pro's comeback effort kicked off after this point and they managed to make it 14-11 but a 2vs3 victory by karrigan and device gave the Danes four match points. Virtus.pro ultimately were able to take it to overtime with a four round streak.

After giving up two kills in each three first half overtime rounds, Virtus.pro closed out all three of them and finished the match 19-15 and the series 2-0, eliminating Astralis and becoming the first semi-finalists in Cologne.

ESL One Cologne 2016Best of 3

Virtus.pro

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8th July 2016

Astralis

Overpass

Train

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski pashaBiceps	56 - 47	+9	83.4	67.1%	1.15
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas TaZ	53 - 47	+6	73.2	65.7%	1.08
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Snax	42 - 43	-1	72.7	71.4%	1.05
Paweł 'byali' Bieliński byali	45 - 46	-1	74.4	70.0%	1.02
Filip 'NEO' Kubski NEO	46 - 46	0	73.3	68.6%	0.99

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	68 - 43	+25	94.5	67.1%	1.38
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	55 - 51	+4	84.9	64.3%	1.09
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	45 - 49	-4	80.5	78.6%	1.06
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	36 - 46	-10	51.5	61.4%	0.84
Danny 'zonic' Sørensen zonic	25 - 53	-28	53.7	58.6%	0.65

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vp wouldnt have a single shot against normal astralis squat

2016-07-08 13:12

24 replies

virtus pro would have lost 0-2 if astrals had dupreeh... Sad to admit but true :( Overall poor showing from VP and godlike play from device.. WP!

10 replies

Now time for them to get rekt by SK. :(

2016-07-08 13:14

6 replies

Yes and mouz is T2

2016-07-08 13:15

Thats if sk beats f3 :)

2 replies

f3 doesn't stand a chance vs SK

2016-07-08 13:20

1 reply

no chance my friend

2016-07-08 13:21

Let me fix that for you: Now time for them to rekt SK. :)

2016-07-08 13:16

VP fTw

2016-07-08 15:17

Astralis so close... But now I hope vp will make it to the finals, good luck

2016-07-08 13:31

Thx bro it will be hard vs SK

2016-07-08 13:53

TAZ THE MAN! #Respect

2016-07-09 09:16

That's the thing you'll never know. That's not a math equation.

2016-07-08 13:17

but i know it. you should know it too. what are we going to do now?

2016-07-08 13:42

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2016-07-08 13:43

8 replies

5/6 online XD

2016-07-08 13:49

7 replies

VP worst top 1 online team but they gonna win this major VP is Love

2016-07-08 13:55

tell me last time vp achieved something offline xD

2016-07-08 14:06

5 replies

SLI?

2016-07-08 14:21

3 replies

wat

2016-07-08 14:53

Starladder, they won it =P

2016-07-08 14:58

1St place after beating navi in the final

2016-07-08 15:00

well, maybe fuckin 3-4 weeks ago

2016-07-08 17:40

Not even one shot?

2016-07-08 13:19

they were really poor today that's the fact. but the question is whether that was a poor day in the office or they simply can't play better. sometimes you just have to grind the result and that's what they did. if they have a stand a chance they need to play their asses of tomorrow against sk and snax needs to be on his prime. great game by device. he's definitively top 5 in the world atm.

wtf

2016-07-08 13:11

expected

GOD PAPA

rekt

nice

GG WP VP

congrats vp

hue

The choke is real

CHOKE

undeserved

19 replies

lol 2-0 ezz

18 replies

ezz? standin + coach lmao they sux hard

17 replies

gla1ve still the best in astralis lmao, bet kjaerbye would perform like this if not worse

gla1ve played ok but coach_zonic 0.53 rating and still 2 overtimes ez? I arent think that.

4 replies

ok maybe not ez but if pasha and taz keep playing like that and snax could step up they might win vs sk (prolly)

sk will rekt them hard lol

2016-07-08 13:22

you do realize zonic has like 6 hours in the past two weeks, including playtime at this major. He has like 700 total hours in csgo.

so? im saying same, they make it with standin and coach

2016-07-08 15:35

2016-07-08 13:23

<3 virtus pro lol

9 replies

gr1nch so mad lol

2016-07-08 13:24

Why i should be mad? cuz some <3 virtus pro is happy for team who sux? i didnt even watched both maps + im not betting so overall i dont give a fuck about this match or these teams just undeserved win at major

2016-07-08 13:27

O K

2016-07-08 13:28

Stupid armenian no scene why are u talking?

2016-07-08 13:46

sorry mr great scene

ouch why do you need to be so savage :-(

cuz ur so gay IKSDE

2016-07-08 13:51

Lol, just shows how stupid you are.

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2016-07-08 13:47

fucking retards

chokeatralis

VP best

Congrats VP and of course congrats the great country of Poland

дщд

Cucked

show of horror

If only they had their full lineup astralis would have won. But congrats anyways.

2016-07-08 13:13

If astralis had their full lineup, they would play fnatic. :)

Nope

Are you saying they would lose to Gambit?

2016-07-08 13:48

You haven't seen how they have been playing lately.

How who played?

2016-07-08 13:57

He's saying Astralis wouldn't even have lost to Gambit in the first place. And thus would have topped their group and have to have played fnatic (cos the latter came 2nd in their group) in the quarter finals. However yes, I agree, Astralis with Kjaerbye and Dupreeh probably would have beaten VP.

2016-07-08 14:54

gla1ve deserves another major

God Papito, TaZ and Neo!

NT :(

wp Pasha

well done, and ty for drop :DDDDD

"VP struggle hard to even beat Astralis with two stand-ins"

one of which played better than KJB ever did for your team, and Karrigan same ADR as Zonic gg..

2016-07-08 13:26

You are still vastly limited in your execution, compared to the strategies that has been drilled together. Instead people can only do basic stuff and rely on their aim. Hence the entire team suffers.

Astralis are CT team. They don't have crazy T side tactics. Of course they suffered tactically but at the same time they had nothing to lose, no pressure whatsoever.

2016-07-08 13:59

except astralis never relied on 'drilled' executes, their entire 2015 success was amazing CT sides and today they proved it again... Their T side wasn't execute heavy either, simple stuff...

2016-07-08 14:04

We don't know how Kjaerbye would've played, but dupreeh would've played a lot better than zonic, which isnt even zonic's fault as he didnt know before hand that he had to play

2016-07-08 15:01

but at this stage it's coulda woulda shoulda in this match, astralis didn't give a fuck, laughing off every lost round, usually they would tilt and choke like no other team... at this point you can't say what would;ve happened...

2016-07-08 15:14

still kinda disappointing when nearly losing a 4.2v5

2016-07-09 16:47

Respect Astralis !

nice try astralis, and it was good to see old zonic one of my fav :D

zonic was just too much of dead weight vp got lucky to play a wounded astralis

25-53

Naprzód VP!

gg ez keepo

3v5 ! botgan 36 kills zonic 25 kills . what do expect :) ?

karrigan is the igl, but at the same time, he still needs to step up his game. But zonic is the coach, the guy barely has 700 hours in csgo.

2016-07-08 15:02

chokeastralis

karrigan totally useless .... + gla1ve pls..

Unless karrigan goes as an IGL coach, never. Look at how many good reads astralis did, how much their stacks worked.

i saying device overrated but this match he playing so good

Hard game for both teams, it's hard as fuck to adapt to teams with standins and it's hard as fuck to play with standins. Great match overall, but snax needs to step up against SK.

Exactly! But those Users won't understand! Thank you. Especially when Gla1ve is having a stellar performance, winning both pistol and having a Device like this! Pasha needs to keep the form same with Neo and Taz! Byali and snax needs to step up tomorrow!

zonic isn't best stand-in (-28 KD). Not a fan of astralis, but it is sad to play without main player

God pasha <3

He had a nicd gym!

And he played very well !

I really knew it. That he would have his vintage Performance! And the thing is they need it vs SK! Neo, Taz and Papa need to keep their form and snax and byali needs to come back to their form. But at the end they had alot impact on train

2016-07-08 13:33

Really, they have a opportunity to qualify to the final. It would be great :)

2016-07-08 13:40

IKR! But they need a better T SIDE which they are known for it! It will be tough! But it would be a stellar story to see VP in the FINALS after their begin this year. But i am afraid that they won't show up for somereason :-(

It's not that easy to play with 2 stand-ins, and it's not that easy to play against 2 stand-ins, cause the style of team is completely different than normal. GG & WP to Astralis and Virtus.Pro

Exacty look comment #66 and 72

Virtus PLOW

Came to se astralis choke, was not disappointed.

+1 LOL

2016-07-08 13:45

Tbf hardly a choke when you're at such a disadvantage to begin with.

14:5 on train was not an advantage. ok mate. keep writing.

2016-07-08 18:44

hot game

What a comeback, love those guys. Still, great game from Astralis.

2016-07-08 13:30

Nah this VP won't win a map vs SK if they don't step up, they struggled so hard vs a team with stand-in. This is not the VP that could destroy teams on majors. Easy 2-0 for SK if they don't improve

I thought it was pretty obvious that VP will take this easy considering Astralis had two stand-ins but..what a game! Imagine the difference if Astralis had dupreeh instead of zonic..

2016-07-08 13:34

But the other hand, it's hard to play against 2 stand-ins :D

The ease of playing against a weakened team with two stand-ins severely outweighs the difficulty of playing two stand-ins. I wanna see VP do well, but I don't think they would have beaten the full Astralis line-up.

Eastern european whiners can say what they want, Zonic has close to no hours prior to this event. Impressive performance, worlds best manager. Valiant effort by Astralis, they and the rest of Denmark can be proud of their performance, with such a massive handicap to miss two players from a core of 5.

2016-07-08 13:36