Heroic fend off dig to win Power-LAN

27-8-2016 23:42

Heroic defeated dignitas 2-1 in the grand final of the Power-LAN to win the Danish tournament (19-16 on Cobblestone, 11-16 on Dust2, and 16-10 on Mirage).

Dignitas, who used Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup instead of Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel in this tournament, started on the T-side on Cobblestone and secured the pistol round with Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke's 1vs1 clutch. Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså and Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander stepped up in the second round to win a 2vs5 and HEROIC started a six round winning streak. HEROIC was not fazed after losing a round, securing six rounds in a row again. The last round of the half went to Dignitas but HEROIC led 12-3 at halftime.

gla1ve's 1vs3 win in the second half pistol round basically guaranteed a HEROIC victory but Dignitas mounted an incredible comeback to take twelve rounds in a row. HEROIC answered with two of their own to take the match to overtime and won the map 19-16 thanks to their performance in overtime.

valde & gla1ve make their marks

HEROIC kicked off Dust2 on the T-side and merely grabbed five rounds in the first half. valde & company's effort in the second half was not enough as Dignitas closed out the map with a 16-11 score.

dignitas took charge on the T-side on Mirage with René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg's superior AWP performance but their opponent came alive to win the half 8-7. valde's triple kill in the pistol round gave the round to HEROIC who made it 12-8 after resetting their opponents' economy. valde & company won the map 16-10, and the series 2-1 to secure the Power-LAN tropy.

Power-LAN 2016Best of 3

HEROIC

Matchpage

27th August 2016

Dignitas

Cobblestone

Dust2

Mirage

HEROIC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	75 - 64	+11	93.4	70.5%	1.22
Michael 'Friis' Jørgensen Friis	61 - 56	+5	80.1	76.1%	1.17
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså valde	69 - 58	+11	83.3	68.2%	1.15
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Snappi	51 - 64	-13	66.8	70.5%	0.98
Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh MODDII	52 - 63	-11	67.2	69.3%	0.94

Dignitas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	79 - 58	+21	87.5	70.5%	1.23
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	60 - 58	+2	80.3	71.6%	1.10
René 'cajunb' Borg cajunb	62 - 60	+2	71.2	65.9%	1.02
Philip 'aizy' Aistrup aizy	51 - 63	-12	72.0	75.0%	0.99
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	53 - 69	-16	67.9	63.6%	0.84

Final standings at Power-LAN 2016 are below:

1. HEROIC - $14,750
2. Dignitas - $6,640
3-4. Astralis – $2,215
3-4. Rogue - $2,215
5-6. Tricked
5.6. Singularity
7-8. Isak
7-8. Alpha

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

gg, well played

2016-08-27 23:42

24 replies

Astralis disband ples

2016-08-27 23:43

21 replies

Astralis in 2015 top 3-4 Team in world Astralis in 2016 Top 3-4 Team in Denmark

2016-08-27 23:49

20 replies

own org... no pressure... no performance since they are not forced to train and play

2016-08-27 23:50

16 replies

Heroic own org as well.

2016-08-28 00:00

8 replies

Playing good to get sponsors :D

2016-08-28 00:11

not even one week, so that doesn't count tbh..

2016-08-28 00:55

astralis players make $9k/month, heroic players not making anywhere near that if anything at all.

2016-08-28 01:16

5 replies

if I made 9k a month playing CS I would be playing practicing 12 hours a day all week lmao

2016-08-28 01:51

4 replies

doubtful

2016-08-28 04:59

2 replies

Not everyone is lazy, you know.

2016-08-28 10:40

1 reply

2016-08-28 17:23

in the beginning maybe

2016-08-28 13:58

Ofc there is pressure, sponsors will back off if they continue to shit the bed = no more salary They are often bootcamping too, they are really trying but keep being shit

2016-08-28 00:18

they just had vacations, came back a couple of days before their online matches vs x and navi, dupreeh said, almost zero of them touched cs, on those vacation weeks. in the meantime, x/heroic, have been in china, playing and bootcamping. ofc they got the better form...

2016-08-28 12:33

twitter.com/KjaerbyeCS/status/7696572843..

2016-08-28 21:54

2 days bootcamp 20 hours. aint much

2016-08-28 23:24

Astralis has a huge fan base, they won't lose sponsors.

2016-08-29 02:00

they are not a merch selling company like Fnatic is (ast is not even selling their merch themselves, but through ESL Shop) Hence having a fanbase is a bit meaningless to sponsor. What is meaningful is how much they will get exposure AKA lans, which means they have to qualify or get invited. If they keep playing bad (for month/years) they will not get invited anymore and will hardly qualify, then they will loose sponsor and the Astralis brand would die. Though, i don't they will go that bad, since they are still Majors legends and they are still a top 10/15 contenders and they can put up a fight against Top 5 teams. So unless they become very shit and device and dupreeh leaves, i can't see anyway they would loose sponsor.

2016-08-29 02:28

Excuses Excuses Win 2k or 14k? Hmmm.... fk 14k - it's too much.

2016-08-28 10:00

+1 :D

2016-08-28 11:14

+1 well observed

2016-08-28 14:22

And still top 8 In World. Ofc they didnt gave any fuck to This Lan, lol.

2016-08-28 17:16

nice

2016-08-28 11:00

K0nfig too good for the rest of dignitas

2016-08-28 13:03

ok gl

Great job!

noobstralis

567458th

best danish team <3

Heroic best in Denmark

nemt

Upset is reality

EZ AF FOR MODDII

rip nignitas

The danish casters are MVP's

ASTRALIS))))))))

Astralis disband plz

cool

Im glad that they did it.

hahahah

skål

first tournament for their new org, first win ^^not bad and GL to them :D

Congratz Heroic ! Really well played and deserved

1. Heroic - $14,750 2. dignitas - $6,640 3-4. Astralis – $2,215 Astralis 3-4 Top kek of the year in a danish tournament.

wow unexpected, great job ex-SK!

heroic new danish nr1?

It was alot of very entertaining matches, great casting

Ez luck

Glad Heroic are getting better , gg

Great job Heroic

Expected that Heroic would win this tournament with the current state of danish CS. =)

2016-08-27 23:44

deserved

First they beat Astralis today and now Dignitas. Pretty good first lan for a brand new team.

2016-08-27 23:46

3-4. Astralis LUL

2016-08-27 23:47

hahaha wtf

2016-08-28 03:50

-Snappi +Konfig -Friis +Cajunb =top5 really impressed by valde.

Snappi is IGL though

2016-08-28 00:01

isnt gla1ve the IGL?

2016-08-28 00:43

3 replies

Snappi is

2016-08-28 01:04

Nope it's Snappi, source Twitter

2016-08-28 01:06

awesome good to know!

2016-08-28 04:13

At least this tournament provided interesting matches. Also well deserved for heroic. gla1ve is in sick form atm with calling strats and still topfragging

He isn't calling strats though. Snappi is.

2016-08-28 00:57

BOT MSL

inb4 astralis swap two xyp and karri for glaive and valde 4Head

2016-08-27 23:51

4Head Magiskb0Y 4Head was 4Head the 4Head problem 4Head

2016-08-27 23:52

congrats heroic, wp

2016-08-27 23:59

It was obvious that Heroic will win this lan since they defeated only threat - Astralis. Rogue could finish this tournament on second place, but no higher than that.

Nice Heroic top 10 before 2017 !!

2016-08-28 00:02

2016-08-28 00:03

Astralis 3rd-4th LUL

2016-08-28 00:05

Heroic #1 team in Denmark then? Winning against Astralis 2 times in a row and now dig in a final. Epsilon has beaten Heroic (Team X) every single time. Swedish 3rd-4th best team = better than Denmarks best. Hmmms ... what happens with csgo nowadays

2016-08-28 00:09

Wtf is wrong with Astaralis...

Astralis =(

Botralis

2016-08-28 00:13

wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/Astral.. Poor Astralis.

2016-08-28 00:15

when will they kick msl? lol

2016-08-28 00:44

mirage was such a fun map to watch, think heroics is a team capable of going top5/7

astralis and dig cant even win a domestic event. jesus

2016-08-28 03:12

konfig beastmode

2016-08-28 03:34

Valde was a great find! Really surprised me at least. Heroic has been playing really well after getting him and getting dumped by SK.

2016-08-28 04:33

******TROPHY*****

2016-08-28 08:25

gg i'm glad for gla1ve. gla1ve > pimp nice that he could take a shit on aizy and kjaerbye too.

2016-08-28 08:30

Who would have thought that Heroic would take it. Astralis? LMAO. No comment.

Heroic to take #4 for biggest chokers in CSGO History

2016-08-28 10:02

-karrigan +gla1ve

2016-08-28 10:11

Congrats to the boys

2016-08-28 10:20

lol astralis will lose sponsorship soon

2016-08-28 10:58

what sponsorship will they lose? :D

2016-08-28 15:50

where do they get the money from? because it's their own org, they can't just pay themselves

2016-08-28 17:32

Astralis as an org makes money from several places - including sponsors, i'm sure.... but a few bad events is not going to change that. now if they drop off completely as a top team, that is a different story. but it's way too early to tell what's going to happen.

2016-08-30 14:02

valde has turned out to be a massive pickup for the team, he is really good.

2016-08-28 11:29

wow congrats

2016-08-28 11:43

danish cs almost as pathetic as french cs

2016-08-28 17:13

Is NA cs any better?

2016-08-28 17:28

yea it clearly is

2016-08-28 17:30

Well liquid couldn't really do much without simple and im not sure about TSM, C9 is probably going to be #1 NA team ( #2 if you count SK as an NA Team) But its not like they're all that great