NiP defeat Cloud9, on to the final

11-9-2016 13:39

Ninjas in Pyjamas cruise past Cloud9 with a 2-0 score (16-9 Dust2, 16-7 Cobblestone) to secure a spot in the StarSeries Season 2 grand final.

The match started off on Dust2, Ninjas in Pyjamas's pick, with Cloud9 winning the pistol round as CT's, but the Swedes responded the following round with a pistol-armor force buy.

Coming into the first few buy rounds, it was Mike "⁠shroud⁠" Grzesiek and Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham picking up key frags to give their team the early lead before Ninjas in Pyjamas got back in the lead with their slow and methodical Terrorist side.

Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta made a good play on round 14 by pushing the B tunnels while Ninjas in Pyjamas was executing a B-split, caught the bomb carrier off-guard, but Cloud9 was unable to clutch out the round in the end.

Ninjas in Pyjamas finished the first half with a 9-6 lead and took the momentum into their CT side, with Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg and the stand-in Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill combining for clean pistol round win.

GeT_RiGhT showed up massively on Dust2

When the full buys came in, Cloud9 were able to consistently get plants, but were unable to hold off the retakes by Ninjas in Pyjamas - with a Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund M4A4 double kill on A site allowing a crucial one in round 21.

The Ninjas closed out the map with a comfortable 16-7 score before moving on the Cloud9's pick - Cobblestone.

The first two rounds were a carbon copy of what we saw on Dust2, with Cloud9 winning the pistol but not being able to hold against the force buy push from Ninjas in Pyjamas - even though they had four players stacked on the correct site.

Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström's team took that opening to build a strong lead, abusing the weak economy of the CT's and switching between fast and slow rounds to catch Cloud9 off guard.

The North American team managed only four rounds on their CT side, and once again couldn't get the Terrorist pistol round to kick-start a comeback on the second map of the series.

shroud showed up in round 19 with a couple of key kills, Skadoodle clutched out a 1v1 against Maikelele in round 21, but the efforts were ultimately futile as Ninjas in Pyjamas closed the match 16-7.

SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 FinalsBest of 3

Cloud9

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11th September 2016

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Dust2

Cobblestone

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	49 - 27	+22	107.2	85.4%	1.69
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	40 - 25	+15	86.0	81.2%	1.33
Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Maikelele	35 - 27	+8	82.6	75.0%	1.27
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	37 - 29	+8	80.8	75.0%	1.27
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	24 - 32	-8	54.2	66.7%	0.84

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	34 - 37	-3	81.6	70.8%	0.96
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	26 - 38	-12	75.4	64.6%	0.93
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	33 - 38	-5	70.6	54.2%	0.87
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	24 - 38	-14	64.0	62.5%	0.81
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	23 - 34	-11	43.8	60.4%	0.65

Coming up next at SL-i League StarSeries Season 2 is the second semi-final match between G2 and Dignitas.

gj nip, nip #1

2016-09-11 13:39

3 replies

c9 didnt deserve for rekt:/

2016-09-11 13:40

1 reply

c9 has to git gud

2016-09-11 13:42

OMG with Maikelele team NiP got amazing chemical reactions, Maikelele = catalyst ? Friberg killed less but still important for the team,feel like a trusted teammate brings more than frag.

2016-09-11 13:53

FAK 2nd =( POSTED SAME SECOND FKN HAX. TIER 1 NA EZ FOR T1 EU. THANK YOU COME AGAIN.

its unlucky man, maybe you get next time.

2016-09-11 13:43

1st

Man skadoodle and stewie's movement is absolute crazy . Still ez win from nip , let's go nip vs g2 final!

ez for GeT_RiGhT

ty nip

Clowns lul

2 replies

Xantares lul

2016-09-11 13:44

fox lul

2016-09-11 16:43

first 1st

rip dream

NiP one love

dsa

nice

Fuck i knew it miss click so hard

What?

2016-09-11 23:55

rip c9

...

rip

YAY!

2016-09-11 14:09

lol xddd rip clown9

Skadoodle is the worst awper in NA. NiP smashed C9. Plz kick Skadoodle. That stupid, silent noob

4 replies

2016-09-11 13:46

Criticize is always the best option right? Only 1 month together and look what they archieved... Wait till next event or even major ;)

2016-09-11 13:48

Lul wat are u talking

2016-09-11 16:13

witmer > Skadoodle. Shahzam > Skadoodle /s

2016-09-11 18:41

n1 NiP <3

Nice

fak

RIP

dat face gtr xD

-friberg pls

+11111

2016-09-11 14:07

Friberg new Fifflaren confirmed

Yet fragged consistently high all tourney and top fragged the other day.. harsh cunts with goldfish memories

2016-09-11 15:34

lol ez. They better not kick pyth, he's much better than friberg

2016-09-11 13:41

maikelelelele is standin 4 pyth

2016-09-11 14:27

Hope friberg step up for upcoming grand final

Wanned to see c9 but gj nip now hoping they finally win an event

5 replies

Ez for G2

Useless reply i couldnt care less who wins if g2 wins im happy for them if nip wins im happy for nip but id be happy to stand out more, wanna see their happy faces for the first time after awhile but if this wont happen then be it :) so keep those useless 12 year old replies for you 12 year old friends somewhere else boy :)

Relax putin drink vodka

2016-09-11 13:49

Grow up

2016-09-11 13:50

Nt xantarrs

2016-09-11 21:23

friberg won dust2 for them

shroud vs nip

GeT_RiGhT is seeing easy frags when looking at c9's lineup lul

-Pyth +maikalele pls

Why not -friberg?

2016-09-11 14:18

gg wp

2016-09-11 13:45

Nip signing pyth=Win DH malmo then back to mediocrity Nip getting Maikelele=win SLTV maybe? and then?

2016-09-11 13:47

DH Malmö was in April, while they signed pyth in 2015 december. So not really. Get ur facts right then come back and h8. fakeflagger USA.

2016-09-11 13:54

it was their first lan with him this is what i mean.I dont count IEM Katowice,because it was like 8 teams invitational.

2016-09-11 15:15

It was 12 teams 4 qualify 8 invited. Almost the same as SLTV

2016-09-11 15:33

C9 vs good team? I are think not

-pyth +maikelele

RIP C9 dream! Congratz to NiP! good luck in the final!

-friberg +maikelele

streamer9, back to pugging

everybody rekt cry9

2016-09-11 13:56

This wasn't NA C9, this wasn't China C9, this wasn't a low tier EU team like F3, now you see the immense difference between you and a Tier 1 team :)

2016-09-11 13:57

Outclassed. Expected. It's like 2013 all over again. NiP gets Hellraisers in the groups. Then the danes in the quarters. And Clown9 in the semis. And likely VG (shox, ScreaM, SmithZz and RpK) in the finals. Even god damn gla1ve is in the playoffs again. While this is all funny, it really does not say much about NiP. Well, I do think they are better with Maikel than with pyth even beyond the short term, but these matchups are easy for NiP and always have been. Let's see whether G2 can show that they really did improve from 2013. Not sure Cloud9/Astralis really are more complete teams now than they were back then (they are, but still, this is just sad).

2016-09-11 14:03

clown9

2016-09-11 14:00

nip better remove friberg and bring lelelelelele

Totte & f0rest the golden duo unbeatable :333

nip is back bois

2016-09-11 14:10

just kick pyth annoying to look at , anooying discsuker on twitter and no impact in games

imagine get_right, f0rest, xizt, pyth, maikelele, that would be a top 3 team for sure

2016-09-11 14:11

Yea friberg is too inconsistent to be in a top team anymore and I wish they would make this swap happen.

2016-09-11 14:20

imagine gtr, f0rest, xizt, dennis, olofm :O

2016-09-11 14:36

Gtr olof Dennis f0rest flusha

2016-09-11 15:10

GTR, f0rp dennis, jw, pronax! RIP all other teams!

2016-09-11 16:16

sad

2016-09-11 14:13

Cry 9

2016-09-11 14:26

The legends are back!

2016-09-11 14:29

Maikelele is the perfect fit for Nip, it worked before and it works now. If they can solve their shit and If friberg gets replaces by pyth they'll start contending for that top1 spot again

2016-09-11 14:33