NiP defeat HR in Kiev

7-9-2016 11:14

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.

SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 FinalsBest of 1

Ninjas in Pyjamas

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7th September 2016

HellRaisers

Cache

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	19 - 20	-1	94.5	65.4%	1.19
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	21 - 15	+6	64.2	80.8%	1.15
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	17 - 17	0	74.8	73.1%	1.13
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	15 - 21	-6	70.8	73.1%	0.93
Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Maikelele	16 - 19	-3	60.3	65.4%	0.90

HellRaisers	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kyrylo 'ANGE1' Karasiow ANGE1	28 - 21	+7	116.7	76.9%	1.61
Patrik 'Zero' Žúdel Zero	18 - 14	+4	79.2	73.1%	1.14
Sergey 'smike' Sklyarenko smike	18 - 14	+4	60.3	69.2%	1.07
Martin 'STYKO' Styk STYKO	14 - 19	-5	60.8	76.9%	0.88
Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk bondik	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.

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2016-09-07 11:14

12 replies

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

11 replies

Not very weak. Just awful T-sides

2016-09-07 12:01

4 replies

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

3 replies

HR isn't that bad, definitely capable of upsets against high T2 and T1 teams

2016-09-07 16:59

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

we all saw what happened to godsent so...

2016-09-08 13:36

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

That is actually true. I remember the match against dig in malmo.

2016-09-07 15:36

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

2 replies

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

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

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

OK, awesome

2016-09-07 11:15

Too easy

'leleleleleleel'

I knew they wud win

First

Lol

lele

expected boysss!!!

What a comeback...

2016-09-07 11:16

Lelelele

HR with the choke 9-1 to 10-16

typical HR :D

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

BOTelelelelele but still glad to see this NiP lineup back :-)

9-1 -> 10:16 HR is a trash

2016-09-07 11:18

What else could captain Karas do?

Well done bois <3

2016-09-07 11:19

ez comeback

Nice comeback boys!

2016-09-07 11:20

Would be fun to see ange1 in a better russian/ukraine team like gambit/flipside

2016-09-07 11:21

Said that 100 times. People still thinks markeloff or blade is better tho

I dont think they should replace markeloff but i would definently like to see -blade +ange1

2016-09-07 13:02

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