Misfits send Heroic packing

Day two in France kicked off with the Group A elimination match which featured HEROIC, who lost their opening game MOUZ, and Misfits who got crushed by Natus Vincere.

The vital best-of-three series started on Mirage with the North Americans on the CT-side. The pistol round saw Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen get a marvelous 1vs3 clutch and a quad kill. Misfits lost the eco rounds but recovered nicely in the first weapon round, trailing 1-3.

Back-and-forth weapon rounds resulted in a 8-7 lead for Misfits at halftime after David "⁠devoduvek⁠" Dobrosavljevic clutched a 1vs2 in the last round. HEROIC had a strong start to the second half, winning the pistol round with Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen's double kill and picking up the anti-ecos to lead 10-8.

Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså's otherworldly quad kill in Middle delivered the first weapon round to the Danes but a quad kill and a 1vs1 clutch during a force buy put Misfits back on the board as they trailed 9-11. valde showed up again, this time with an incredible Deagle quad kill to extend his team's lead to 12-10 but Misfits took the following round to make it 12-11.

The Danes made it 13-11 thanks to Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridh's heroic performance in a full eco round and then went on to acquire four match points but the unyielding Misfits won four rounds in a row to take it to overtime. Misfits got the job done in double overtime with a great performance by Hunter "⁠SicK⁠" Mims (22-19).

The second map was Nuke where the North Americans started on the CT-side. HEROIC won the first three rounds on Nuke and led 7-2 after nine rounds during which the Danes reset Misfits' economy twice. HEROIC won the first half 11-4. HEROIC stopped Misfits with ease in the second half pistol round and closed out the map 16-4, tying the series at 1-1.

The teams moved on to Train to decide who would stay alive in Tours. The CT-sided Misfits secured the first four rounds of the map but HEROIC managed to tie the game at 5-5 with successful weapon rounds. Misfits led 9-6 at halftime.

The Danish team grabbed the second half pistol round with JUGi's triple kill and tied it at 9-9 after winning the anti-ecos. SicK's two entry kills in the first weapon round gave the lead back to Misfits (10-9). Misfits, not letting HEROIC start a streak on the CT-side, won the match 16-12 and became Natus Vincere's opponents in the decider match while HEROIC exited the tournament.

DreamHack Open Tours 2017Best of 3

Misfits

Matchpage

2

1

7th May 2017

HEROIC

22

Mirage

19

4

Nuke

16

16

Train

12

Misfits	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Hunter 'SicK' MimsSicK	69 - 63	+6	81.7	66.3%	1.11
Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanShahZaM	63 - 60	+3	73.4	70.8%	1.09
François 'amanek' Delaunayamanek	54 - 60	-6	67.6	66.3%	0.95
David 'devoduvek' Dobrosavljevicdevoduvek	52 - 64	-12	72.3	68.5%	0.93
Sean 'seang@res' Garesseang@res	49 - 63	-14	64.3	68.5%	0.86

HEROIC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangsåvalde	71 - 63	+8	95.9	74.2%	1.26
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensenniko	61 - 57	+4	69.2	78.7%	1.17
Jakob 'JUGi' HansenJUGi	66 - 56	+10	75.5	73.0%	1.16
Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII	55 - 55	0	70.0	70.8%	1.04
Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferSnappi	57 - 56	+1	62.8	71.9%	0.99

The next game at DreamHack Open Tours will be the Group B elimination match between Envy and G2.