NiP defeat HR in Kiev

NiP defeated HellRaisers 16-10 on Cache in the opening match of Group A at the SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 Finals.

The first match in the $300,000 event in Kiev, Ukraine was between Ninjas in Pyjamas who are using Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill as a stand-in and HellRaisers who lost their star player Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný and brought in Sergey "⁠smike⁠" Sklyarenko.

HellRaisers had a thunderous start on Cache as Kyrylo "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow picked up the ace in the pistol round and his CT-sided team went on to win a 2vs3 in the third round in which Ninjas in Pyjamas had an early weapon buy. The Swedes were able to get their first round to make it 1-6 but the Ukrainian team reset Ninjas in Pyjamas's economy, making it 7-1.


NiP made a huge comeback 

Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström clutched a 1vs2 in the eleventh round to get his team their second round and the Swedes trailed 6-9 at halftime after going on a five round streak.

HellRaisers kept getting bomb plants in the first three rounds of the second half but couldn't convert them to round wins as Ninjas in Pyjamas tied the game at 9-9. Ninjas in Pyjamas took full control as they won the map 16-10 thanks to their fourteen round winning streak.

 Ninjas in Pyjamas K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
19 - 20 -1 94.5 65.4% 1.19
21 - 15 +6 64.2 80.8% 1.15
17 - 17 0 74.8 73.1% 1.13
15 - 21 -6 70.8 73.1% 0.93
16 - 19 -3 60.3 65.4% 0.90
 HellRaisers K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
28 - 21 +7 116.7 76.9% 1.61
18 - 14 +4 79.2 73.1% 1.14
18 - 14 +4 60.3 69.2% 1.07
14 - 19 -5 60.8 76.9% 0.88
14 - 20 -6 55.7 61.5% 0.74

The second match of Group A will be between GODSENT and Dignitas and the streams for this match can be found on our match page.

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

Ukraine Kyrylo 'ANGE1' Karasiow
Kyrylo 'ANGE1' Karasiow
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
968
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.70
Sweden Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Age:
25
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
987
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.64
Sweden Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill
Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill
Age:
25
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
443
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.63
Ukraine Sergey 'smike' Sklyarenko
Sergey 'smike' Sklyarenko
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
138
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.69
Czech Republic Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.17
Maps played:
374
KPR:
0.81
DPR:
0.66
#1
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World sergioff
EZ
2016-09-07 11:14
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Bad signs for the Ninjas against a very weak team. Wake up Friberg.... Nip will never be the team which we want them to be until friberg hits his awesome form once again, with consistency. f0rp and gtr may play Godtier CS if they want, Nip will keep struggling until magikerN lays dormant.
2016-09-07 11:36
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#42
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World chlenixon
Not very weak. Just awful T-sides
2016-09-07 12:01
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tbh, I expected Nip to suffer on CT side as Maikelele (who was actually decent against my expectations) might have been a weak link in the defense. However, without pyth, disco and with a not-in-form friberg, it was the T side that lacked the firepower to create entries into bombsites.. Also, lets not remember that this match was with a very weak HR who very doing barely ok even with oskar in team. Now he is gone, but still ange1 gets a 1.48 rating against the ninjas; and that too on cache. What will happen when Nip comes up against the teams like GODSENT, NaVi or SK.
2016-09-07 15:35
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3 replies
HR isn't that bad, definitely capable of upsets against high T2 and T1 teams
2016-09-07 16:59
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1 reply
Oh yes, that's actually true; no one can debate that. But today that HR wasn't there.
2016-09-08 06:32
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we all saw what happened to godsent so...
2016-09-08 13:36
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#43
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Sweden Kasidro
nip has been shit in the first game every single lan the past 3 years, hope it is the same thing here
2016-09-07 12:08
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That is actually true. I remember the match against dig in malmo.
2016-09-07 15:36
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HR are not some tier 3 team any more, you know. They are playing very close with top teams. 1-1 vs fnatic 14-16 vs envy won against epsilon a bunch of times I don't think it's surprising at all for them to get 10 rounds against NiP. I would even argue that this game ended strongly in NiP's favor, as I expected HR to get at least 12 or 13.
2016-09-07 13:26
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HR was not playing well today, that's all I know. They might have done a 1-1 against fnatic but if you see today's match, they did many mistakes that even they would know could/should have been avoided. Also, HR are now weaker after oskar left. However, my point was based more on how Nip played the first half, and I wasn't very happy. But as many have pointed out and its true too, Nip are slow starters. But what I said is still true. Nip need friberg to be much more consistent. He keeps showing up in 1 out of 8 matches and again gets back to his usual slump in the other matches. Ninjas need magikerN back.
2016-09-07 15:51
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good games & bad games are things like you said NiP got creamed by Dignitas then followed to only drop 2 maps against VP and GODSENT , even though they lost 10 rounds doesn't mean it's bad sign...
2016-09-08 13:40
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that's so true xizt has been great as of late, we just need adam to step up and carry his weight
2016-09-07 20:42
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World baryga007
OK, awesome
2016-09-07 11:15
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#4
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Portugal itz Sh1z
GJ
2016-09-07 11:14
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#5
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Sweden CursedJonas
Too easy
2016-09-07 11:15
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'leleleleleleel'
2016-09-07 11:15
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#7
i am | 
Andorra lagcats
I knew they wud win
2016-09-07 11:15
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#9
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Netherlands Mohammed_Jansen
First
2016-09-07 11:15
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Lol
2016-09-07 11:15
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lele
2016-09-07 11:15
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expected boysss!!!
2016-09-07 11:15
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What a comeback...
2016-09-07 11:15
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ez
2016-09-07 11:16
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#17
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Bulgaria VIKILITEXX
Lelelele
2016-09-07 11:16
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#18
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France t3r4byt3
HR with the choke 9-1 to 10-16
2016-09-07 11:16
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#19
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Estonia rYm
typical HR :D
2016-09-07 11:16
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#20
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Turkey powergs
Angel :( Nip shit btw they wont pass group if u ask me but we will see they re also extremely lucky team (nip magic :P)
2016-09-07 11:17
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BOTelelelelele but still glad to see this NiP lineup back :-)
2016-09-07 11:17
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Kazakhstan Laggy
9-1 -> 10:16 HR is a trash
2016-09-07 11:18
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What else could captain Karas do?
2016-09-07 11:18
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#24
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f0rest | 
Vietnam Bladeknight
Well done bois <3
2016-09-07 11:19
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#25
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China qwe8706
ez comeback
2016-09-07 11:19
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#26
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Sweden svempa
Nice comeback boys!
2016-09-07 11:20
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Would be fun to see ange1 in a better russian/ukraine team like gambit/flipside
2016-09-07 11:21
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3 replies
#41
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World chlenixon
Said that 100 times. People still thinks markeloff or blade is better tho
2016-09-07 12:01
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2 replies
I dont think they should replace markeloff but i would definently like to see -blade +ange1
2016-09-07 13:02
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1 reply
#47
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Turkey powergs
Angel just inconsistent af.I think he dont have motivation if he joins potential,promising team he can old Angel (like this match) also HR can build full czech team ? Zeus Markeloff(im fan :P) Angel Smike And 1 more Ukrainian player Full Ukrainian team a lot of experience and young talent smike.Seems not bad
2016-09-07 13:59
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nice comeback
2016-09-07 11:22
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#29
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Austria t47ED
sure NiP wins cause they play now 5vs5 and not 4vs5
2016-09-07 11:23
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4 replies
pyth > xizt,friberg,maikelele...
2016-09-07 11:26
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2 replies
#31
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Australia JonoMate
+1 pyth has been playing super well lately (before the injury)
2016-09-07 11:29
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1 reply
a lot of guys underestimate him but he was playing quite good before he got injured
2016-09-07 13:14
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#40
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Norway Jokki5
Wtf
2016-09-07 11:50
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#32
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Reunion IPMBG
Botelelelele
2016-09-07 11:33
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#33
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Reunion IPMBG
ez
2016-09-07 11:34
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#35
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Spain chanSw0w
-Bondik + Random player
2016-09-07 11:37
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#36
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Russia houpps
Start from the 9:1 now 10:16 GG
2016-09-07 11:39
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#37
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Russia Co5Mofr0g
bondik fat
2016-09-07 11:42
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#38
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Russia Mustache
bot bondik actually
2016-09-07 11:45
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gjgjj
2016-09-07 11:47
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very ez
2016-09-07 14:49
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how is it possible to lose by 6 rounds when you have more frags than the other team? lul
2016-09-07 18:24
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#54
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Brazil hugoooo
These stats looks very off... HR had way better team ratings.
2016-09-07 20:00
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