BIG win ESL Meisterschaft Spring

7-5-2017 18:45

BIG have won the Spring edition of ESL Meisterschaft after defeating ALTERNATE aTTaX 2-1 in the final (16-12 on Cache, 13-16 on Train and 16-14 on Inferno).

The top four teams of the online portion of ESL Meisterschaft, Germany's premier competition, travelled to Duisburg to compete in the season finals, with over $19,000 and a spot in the closed qualifier for ESL One Cologne on offer.

Powered by a strong display from Johannes "⁠nex⁠" Maget, BIG beat PANTHERS 2-1 in the first round, while ALTERNATE aTTaX moved past Planetkey Dynamics without dropping a map.

nex put in a master class of a performance in the final

nex went huge in the final as well, especially on Cache and Inferno, to inspire BIG to win their first domestic title and succeed ALTERNATE aTTaX as German champions.

ESL Meisterschaft Spring 2017 FinalsBest of 3

ALTERNATE aTTaX

Matchpage

6th May 2017

BIG

Cache

Train

Inferno

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Johannes 'nex' Maget nex	85 - 54	+31	106.7	80.5%	1.53
Nikola 'LEGIJA' Ninić LEGIJA	65 - 53	+12	82.1	67.8%	1.15
Fatih 'gob b' Dayik gob b	56 - 56	0	69.6	77.0%	1.03
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	58 - 65	-7	77.8	64.4%	0.99
Kevin 'keev' Bartholomäus keev	45 - 59	-14	50.2	66.7%	0.85

ALTERNATE aTTaX	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Lukas 'ecfN' Kauer ecfN	69 - 63	+6	99.4	70.1%	1.22
Christian 'crisby' Schmitt crisby	55 - 60	-5	70.7	63.2%	0.97
Florian 'syrsoN' Rische syrsoN	54 - 62	-8	61.5	60.9%	0.94
Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch tiziaN	53 - 61	-8	64.6	64.4%	0.92
Oskar 'oskarish' Stenborowski oskarish	55 - 63	-8	64.5	65.5%	0.89

ESL Meisterschaft Spring 2017 final standings:

1. BIG - $8,800 + ESL One Cologne qualifier spot
2. ALTERNATE aTTaX - $4,070
3-4. Planetkey - $1,760
3-4. PANTHERS - $1,760

BIG are the fourth team confirmed so far for the ESL One Cologne closed qualifier, scheduled for May 21, joining Outlaws, k29 and Polaris Gaming.

ez4BIG

2017-05-07 18:45

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amazing BIG will win PGL Major

1 reply

Good bait

2017-05-07 19:14

amazing

legija +12 WTF

against germans not hard tho

2017-05-08 07:40

don't they qualify to ESL Cologne then?

KING GOB B!

2017-05-07 18:46

ez nex

they were pretty bad. They should consider changing one or two of their team in order to step up the game. They're not progressing at all.

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Quote out of todays coldzera interview: "It's normal, when you're competing, playing and winning a lot of tournaments, it happened with us, fnatic and now Astralis. All the teams study the top one in the world because they are always winning." You can convert this easily to the german scene, BIG is the team to beat, so they have a strategic disadvantage.

2017-05-07 19:03

They were not outsmarted nor have the other teams made their homework. And it's not only concerning the german scene. They're losing ground internationally, too.

2017-05-07 19:06