GODSENT defeat Epsilon 2-1

Epsilon who finished Group B in the first place, and the Group A second-place finishers GODSENT faced off in the first upper bracket semi-final at PGL Regional Minor Championship Europe.

The first map—Train—started with Epsilon on the CT-side. André "⁠BARBARR⁠" Möller & company were able to win the pistol and first gun rounds to take a 4-0 lead. GODSENT replied with a round of their own but their economy got reset after they lost the following round. After Epsilon extended their lead to 8-1, Andreas "⁠znajder⁠" Lindberg clutched a 1vs1, paving the way for a 6-9 score at halftime.

The second half was all about GODSENT at the beginning as Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell's team secured the first five rounds. When the score was 12-12, William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin won a 1vs2 to take the lead for Epsilon but GODSENT came back from 12-14 to win the map after Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson's quad kill in the last round.

Epsilon started the second map on the T-side and pulled ahead of GODSENT in the first three rounds. Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist & company recovered in the gun rounds and led 9-6 at the end of the first half.

The score was tied at 12-12 in the second half, just like it was on Train, but this time the map went to overtime as Fredrik "⁠REZ⁠" Sterner got a quad kill in a 2vs4 situation. Epsilon were fairly comfortable in overtime and won Cache 21-16.

The last map started out like a bloodbath as GODSENT couldn't get it going on the T-side and trailed 2-13 at halftime. The tables turned in the second half and GODSENT were the ones who dominated. After having a 13-2 CT-side themselves, they took the match to overtime where they managed to win the map with a 21-17 scoreline.

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GODSENT	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha	83 - 68	+15	88.0	66.7%	1.20
Andreas 'znajder' Lindbergznajder	72 - 69	+3	76.5	71.4%	1.07
Jonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonLekr0	68 - 75	-7	79.9	69.5%	1.02
Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW	70 - 75	-5	71.9	60.0%	0.95
Markus 'pronax' Wallstenpronax	55 - 70	-15	48.9	61.9%	0.78

Epsilon	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fredrik 'REZ' SternerREZ	84 - 70	+14	80.7	73.3%	1.15
William 'draken' Sundindraken	72 - 65	+7	69.7	64.8%	1.05
Fredrik 'freddieb' Buöfreddieb	73 - 70	+3	74.1	64.8%	1.05
Karl-William 'kalle' Haraldsenkalle	63 - 70	-7	65.9	70.5%	0.99
André 'BARBARR' MöllerBARBARR	65 - 74	-9	78.1	61.9%	0.93

GODSENT will play the winner of the match between Space Soldiers and HellRaisers for a spot at the Major qualifier while Epsilon will face the loser to stay alive at the Minor.

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