dignitas eliminate F3 in Bucharest

FlipSid3 and Dignitas, who lost to Cloud9 and FaZe in their opening matches, respectively, faced off in the Group B elimination match. The best-of-three series started out on Train with Dignitas on the CT-side.

Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke left his mark in the pistol round by getting a quad kill as his team went on to win the anti-ecos (3-0). Although FlipSid3 managed to pick up the weapon round after Jan "⁠wayLander⁠" Rahkonen's entry kill they lost the following one.

Dignitas' early lead melted away as FlipSid3 tied it at 5-5 with Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy's quad kill and took the lead after Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin's quad. Dignitas closed out the half with a four round streak, leading 9-6 at halftime.

René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg's opening kill with a Deagle opened the way for Dignitas to secure the pistol round and the Danes quickly marched to a 16-7 victory with k0nfig leading the pack.

B1ad3 opened Cobblestone, which his team started as the Terrorists, with a 1vs2 clutch and FlipSid3 extended their lead to 4-0 after winning the first weapon round. Dignitas didn't let FlipSid3 get away and tied the game at 5-5. Just when it seemed like the Ukrainians were running away with it, Dignitas won an eco round and trailed 7-8 at halftime.

Although k0nfig won the second half pistol round thanks to k0nfig's 1vs2 clutch, FlipSid3 won the eco to start a five round streak (13-8). A triple kill by wayLander was enough to put an end to the map which FlipSid3 won 16-9.

cajunb kicked off the Mirage beatdown with an ace in the pistol round on the T-side as Dignitas secured the first seven rounds of the last map. Dignitas finished the first half 12-3 ahead, going on to win the map 16-6, and the series 2-1.

DreamHack ZOWIE Open Bucharest 2016Best of 3

FlipSid3

Matchpage

1

2

17th September 2016

Dignitas

7

Train

16

16

Cobblestone

9

6

Mirage

16

Dignitas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Emil 'Magisk' ReifMagisk	61 - 43	+18	95.6	82.9%	1.40
René 'cajunb' Borgcajunb	59 - 37	+22	84.3	78.6%	1.37
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wieneckek0nfig	55 - 41	+14	94.5	64.3%	1.24
Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelRUBINO	52 - 42	+10	75.9	71.4%	1.17
Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenMSL	33 - 49	-16	55.1	67.1%	0.82

FlipSid3	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinWorldEdit	50 - 52	-2	79.7	74.3%	1.12
Yegor 'markeloff' Markelovmarkeloff	42 - 48	-6	69.5	62.9%	0.96
Andrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyB1ad3	45 - 53	-8	74.9	64.3%	0.93
Jan 'wayLander' RahkonenwayLander	42 - 53	-11	63.0	57.1%	0.84
Oleksandr 'Shara' HordieyevShara	33 - 55	-22	62.7	61.4%	0.64

HEROIC vs. Envy will be the next match in Bucharest as the two teams will fight for a spot in the semi-finals.

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