SK 2-1 FaZe for a place in the semis

28-1-2017 18:59

SK Gaming defeated FaZe 2-1 (Mirage 7-16, Train 16-3, Overpass 16-5) in the last quarter final of the ELEAGUE Atlanta 2017 Major and will be moving on to play Virtus.pro in the semi-finals.

FaZe got off to a cracking start on Mirage as Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey clutched a miraculous 1v2 on the B bomb site to get their first round in the series against SK. The Brazilian side got two round in a row to make the score 4-2, showing good signs early in the map, but were shortly shut down by FaZe who got on a roll on their Terrorist side.

With a 9-2 lead, FaZepulled off a fake that will probably go down in history. Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard made his way into the A site and then pushed connector and got a kill on Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga who was spotting mid from window. After frags were traded on A, kioShiMa and Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli entered the B bombsite while SK was stuck trying to retake the wrong bombsite.

Nothing was going SK's way on the CT side of Mirage, after losing the fake round they couldn't clutch out any of the 1v1 or 2v2 situations and finished the half 12-3 down. Despite fer's attempt to start a comeback on the Terrorist side, FaZe closed out the first map with a comfortable 16-7 scoreline.

FaZe took Mirage with ease

SK's pick Train followed, and the Brazilian team showed why they were known as the best Train team right from the start. After picking up the pistol round with an A main and ivy split, SK outpicked FaZe double AWP setup in the first gun round and clutched a 3v4 on B to make it 6-0.

FaZe replied with an eco round win and secured the following round to make it 6-2, but SK replied with a few close rounds again to extend their lead to 9-2 on the Terrorist side. After losing a round due to the time running out, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo and co. turned up the pace and rushed the A bombsite, taking it over with ease.

With a 12-3 advantage moving into the more favored CT side, SK had an easy job closing out the map 16-3 after winning the second pistol round.

TACO lead with K-D difference on Train

Another great start for SK followed on Overpass where the Brazilian side got a 6-0 lead by shutting down FaZe with early aggression. The European team adapted by hitting B early two times in a row with extremely fast rushes, using utility to break SK's defenses, but weren't able to follow it up with a third round to break SK's economy.

7-2 down and in a 2v5 situation after fer and FalleN picked off three of their teammates, kioShiMa and Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen managed to pick off the defending CT players one by one and clutch the round in the end to start their comeback in the first half.

At 7-5 FalleN played a key part in SK retaking the A site by staying alive in the bathroom area to allow his team to retake the site and close out the half 10-5. The Brazilians took the momentum over into the second half, winning the Terrorist pistol round and following two to go 13-5 up.

The first gun round came down to a 2v3 after plant on B, but SK clutched it out to make it 14-5, allowing them to close out the map and the series shortly.

ELEAGUE Major 2017Best of 3

FaZe

Matchpage

28th January 2017

Mirage

Train

Overpass

ELEAGUE Major 2017Best of 3

FaZe

Matchpage

28th January 2017

Mirage

Train

Overpass

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	68 - 44	+24	113.6	81.0%	1.60
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	48 - 39	+9	84.0	77.8%	1.30
Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco fox	44 - 32	+12	77.6	82.5%	1.28
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	46 - 31	+15	72.1	73.0%	1.19
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	43 - 37	+6	74.8	81.0%	1.18

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey kioShiMa	40 - 47	-7	81.0	63.5%	1.01
Philip 'aizy' Aistrup aizy	33 - 52	-19	61.6	61.9%	0.84
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli allu	36 - 47	-11	61.5	66.7%	0.81
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	40 - 51	-11	65.4	57.1%	0.75
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	32 - 53	-21	66.7	57.1%	0.71

Professeur writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

What a great match grats to SK for making it to semifinals once again. FaZe played their pick mirage absolutely good meanwhile for SK only fer and fox was there. When your standin performing better than your 3 players you can't blame him for losing map. Kio played insanely well on all maps and proved that he wasn't problem at all for french scene. What makes me wonder if rumours true will SK do better when felps joins instead of fox. I know felps is more versatile than fox but fox was playing role player and doing what they told him to do. Karrigan should banned train instead of cobblestone, if he did maybe FaZe would be in semifinals instead of SK now. Back and forth it was nice match and like TaZ said FaZe is always hard to play. Let's see will SK make it grand finals once again over Virtus.Pro.

2017-01-28 19:00

13 replies

LOL

SK's cheats are so obvious (facepalm)

2017-01-28 19:01

2 replies

P1mple agrees with you, crying is part of it.

2017-01-28 19:23

1 reply

sh1tple is not a topic here.

2017-01-28 19:25

so many times in a row, well player

WE SMART WE LOYAL WE TOP4 WITH STANDIN WE ARE BRAZIL XDDDDDDDDDDD

name checks out

whats up bro

fox MAJOR CHAMPION INCOMING

2017-01-28 19:02

Yeahhh foxinho is playing very well. I hope he keep going like this

2017-01-28 19:33

may the force be with him

2017-01-28 22:15

I'd keep with fox and kick TACO

2017-01-28 19:24

sure keep the awper stand in (when you already got falleN and Coldzera) and kick one of the bests entry fraggers out there

2017-01-29 08:11

Faze is the best team i the major SK has aimbot cheats to help them. also fox is bad

2017-01-28 19:06

Agree with cheats statement

2017-01-28 19:05

Good Mirage by FaZe!

aw yeah

BOT rain

Nice

Astralis gonna win it anyway

good

lol nope

Vp vs Astralis final

god WalleN is back !

Expected dude

Impressive stuff by sk w/ a stand-in

3 replies

How does it count as a stand in, they have played together for 2 months

How can I say. Everybody already knows he's not permanent in the team, even fallen said he was just completing the team. There's no way he will stay after the major, and the next player is already known. And they are together for only 22-23 days. He is a stand-in, bro.

2017-01-28 19:27

they haven't played for 2 months because they were at vacation on December and the only real the they got to practice was the bootcamp and maybe somedays before the major. they played for 3 weeks counting with ECS

2017-01-29 08:13

choke karrigan once again LUL

EASY :D

ez4vp

Faze stayed strong on the first map, but soon as i saw Overpass and Train in this BO3, i knew sk would win. Even with fox i thought sk would play a very clean and good train as always, and overpass i think i have no doubt to say they masterpiece this map.

FaZe got off to a cracking start on No team

is professeur revealing his animosity against SK???

Bye SK, Virtus will win.

SK <3

BOT ALLU

LUL very easy for top1 and top2 2016 players

Fer was the mvp of the match

2017-01-28 21:13

niceee good job sk <3

BRASILLLLL <3 <3 <3 #GOSK!!!!!!!!!!!!

ez for sk.fox

Whatever, fox won't win a major anyway.

but SK era is over hahhah FerGOD too strong

last 2 maps so disappointing from faze

Rlx man. SK x VP will be a fucking good game. GL

2017-01-28 19:37

honestly who gave thorin this job? he probably called all sk games wrong

GG SK! Semis AGAIN, great job! FaZe is just not structured enough OR experienced enough to win a BO3 against a team of SK's caliber! What it boils down to, is experience (especially major-experience) endurance and ice in your veins. FaZe won their best map, but had NO chance on train and overpass, which just goes to show exactly HOW good SK-Gaming is atm, even after all their turbulence. FalleN is great at keeping his team's calm when they lose rounds. GG, WP!

SK aka ez3majors?

i will feel sad when fox is dropped for felps :( he is actually starting to play well

2017-01-28 19:18

So true. Hopefully he join a good team and keep improving on.

2017-01-28 21:03

idk how did this happen but I guess faze were just bad

2017-01-28 19:03

So ez... give us hardest bots to kill

"TACO topped the scoreboard on Train" no fer did

and all the comments after 1st map oh kids

2017-01-28 19:04

EZ!!! VP is next!

This game is exactly the reason why karrigan got kicked from Astralis. When his teams starts to lose some rounds in a row/starts to lose the game, he doesn't come up with a solution. Idk why everyone overhypes him so much.

The better team won. Gratz SK, gg

FaZe got off to a cracking start on No team as Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey clutched a miraculous 1v2 Huh?

2017-01-28 19:08

godzera? what about fergod well played cheaters kappa

cry is free

2017-01-28 19:11

we loyal we are from brazil #runskg

sk haters 4Head

FerGod

faze sucks

What a game! Congrats FaZe! Now, the rest of you keep saying s**t about SK and cheering on us! #RunSK #TACO #GODzera #FallenZAO #FerGOD #Fox

best team ever, already top4 in the major with stand in, cry more haters, cryy keep crying please! We apreciate thatz! xd sk best team ever. #RUNSKG

2017-01-28 19:10

FERGOD EZ <3

2017-01-28 19:12

FERGOD vintage

Too ez for VACO!

2017-01-28 19:13

guys how we pick a team in a pickem challenge ? i pick in quartes and never can pick to de semii

2017-01-28 19:14

bb FaZe ;DDD

Good for fox, he exceeded all expectations and is actually playing great.

2017-01-28 19:15

wp sk

2017-01-28 19:20

wp FaZe but SK was very good. What do you think about grand final? Astralis - Vp/SK

2017-01-28 19:21

Pretty much 3 way tie on paper fine margins that decide rounds could be the difference ? super hard to split them, each has positives and negatives. Rock paper scissors ? :D Astralis has the stronger map pool but momentum especially on the T side makes more of a difference due to how fragile the CT economy is in this game. I'm cheering for SK but all 3 are deserving champions and I think Astralis is finally set to win If fnatic somewhow win this I'll laugh tho..

BOT fox ? i think not. ferGOD .. literally.. FalleN coming good with more games, sure he's been super busy integrating fox so makes sense for him to come into the group stage a bit down on form. Didn't disappoint in so many crucial battles in that match, Overpass still his playground

The Karrigan tactic on Mirage wtf :D

Really nice.

2017-01-28 19:28

Im really proud of this sk boys!

In my opinion karrigan should have banned train, i see no reason for not banning train against sk.

Maybe a bit influenced by Astralis beating them on it at the end of the fnx era, but fnx was never a huge part of SK being so good, fox only had to hold his own and not play stupid to be a good standin. SK didnt have to lose many tournaments to show the hunger they have to excel.. they look rejuvenated and no surprise to see them do what they did in this series.

2017-01-28 19:36

Really disappointing performance from rain and aizy while fer stepped up his level a lot. Deserved results and ending for FaZe

fox is very lucky... best team, most important league, no pressure.. everyone knows that he is just completing... he is doing well

2017-01-28 19:31

Fox rekting faze kids, this was so nice xD

2017-01-28 19:29

I cant place sticker on SK... why ??? picks is locked... :(

2017-01-28 19:30

Yeah but don't worry you can buy heaps tomorrow for 25c on sale :D I'll be getting 10 or 20 as usual :D and the 25c auto capsules

2017-01-28 19:38

We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL!

2017-01-28 19:43

Semi /w stand-in hu3

2017-01-28 19:46

nice already silver medal) 15 points to gold

2017-01-28 19:58

Very EZ, FaZe sucks :X

2017-01-28 20:21

EZ FOX <3

2017-01-28 20:39

what the fuck was that series.

2017-01-28 21:16

News report imortals moving to Portugal and kicking FNX (reason unknown but aparently some players been complaining about personal divergencies) Foxj will enlist imortals on their new EU debut replacing FNX Xd

2017-01-28 22:19