DreamHack Leipzig 2017 Day 1 recap

The action in Leipzig kicked off with HEROIC taking on the Swedes of qwerty. In their LAN debut, the newly formed Swedish team built around Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill and Faruk "⁠pita⁠" Pita wasn't able to put up a fight against the Danes, falling 16-8 on Cobblestone.

It was a similar story in the other opening match of group A, as the ESEA Global Challenge finalists LDLC dispatched of an Aleksandar "⁠jayzaR⁠" Zarkovic-less fnatic Academy with ease.

The two victorious teams moved on to the winners match on Cobblestone, which turned out to be quite a thriller. Both teams were in the lead at some point, but it was HEROIC that managed to steal it back one last time, getting eight rounds in the row to win 16-13.

HEROIC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangsåvalde	24 - 19	+5	92.9	79.3%	1.38
Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferSnappi	23 - 18	+5	75.8	72.4%	1.19
Michael 'Friis' JørgensenFriis	18 - 15	+3	62.3	75.9%	1.07
Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII	18 - 19	-1	66.7	69.0%	1.05
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensenniko	16 - 18	-2	61.0	75.9%	0.99

LDLC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' DroolansEx6TenZ	27 - 19	+8	92.8	75.9%	1.35
Alexandre 'xms' Fortéxms	20 - 17	+3	79.3	75.9%	1.18
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekinALEX	16 - 21	-5	73.4	72.4%	0.91
Valentin 'mistou' Balbastromistou	14 - 21	-7	51.7	62.1%	0.68
Antoine 'to1nou' Pirardto1nou	12 - 21	-9	44.7	62.1%	0.66

Going into day 2, group A looks as follows:

Team	W-L
HEROIC	2-0
LDLC	1-1
qwerty	0-1
fnatic Academy	0-1

In group B, we saw another team have a LAN debut - BIG. The team with notable German players such as Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz and Kevin "⁠keev⁠" Bartholomäus put up a decent showing against FlipSid3, but the Russian star Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov was too hot for them to handle - 97.8 ADR and 1.51 rating in the CIS's side 16-11 victory.

The surprise of the Major Qualifier Vega Squadron was up next, taking on the Danish-Bulgarian mixture Rogue. With Sergey "⁠keshandr⁠" Nikishin and Nikolay "⁠mir⁠" Bityukov on point and Dmytro "⁠jR⁠" Chervak getting 11 AWP kills, Vega Squadron managed to upset Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller and co. - picking up a 16-14 victory on Overpass.

Two CIS sides were matched up to decide the first place in Group B and the veto ended up on Nuke. After a bad start to their CT side, FlipSid3 were able to consolidate their defences and started shutting down Vega Squadron, with Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin and Jan "⁠wayLander⁠" Rahkonen standing out for FlipSid3.

It was still close after the switch, but Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy's team was able to get the last four rounds of the game to edge it out 16-14.

FlipSid3	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinWorldEdit	31 - 19	+12	100.0	70.0%	1.46
Jan 'wayLander' RahkonenwayLander	27 - 21	+6	88.8	66.7%	1.21
Yegor 'markeloff' Markelovmarkeloff	21 - 23	-2	71.8	66.7%	0.98
Andrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyB1ad3	16 - 22	-6	64.1	83.3%	0.93
Denis 'electroNic' SharipovelectroNic	13 - 19	-6	59.2	63.3%	0.86

Vega Squadron	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakovchopper	26 - 22	+4	87.9	60.0%	1.11
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukovmir	23 - 23	0	76.5	70.0%	1.06
Pavel 'hutji' Lashkovhutji	22 - 18	+4	70.7	60.0%	1.06
Sergey 'keshandr' Nikishinkeshandr	17 - 24	-7	67.5	73.3%	0.89
Dmytro 'jR' ChervakjR	15 - 21	-6	67.1	66.7%	0.85

The action in group B will continue tomorrow with BO3 matches being played in the classic GSL system:

Team	W-L
FlipSid3	2-0
Vega Squadron	1-1
Rogue	0-1
BIG	0-1

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