SK overrun fnatic; NV beat C9

30-5-2017 23:18

SK Gaming have extended their perfect start to life in Dallas with a comprehensive 16-3 victory over fnatic, while EnVyUs have picked up their first win after defeating Cloud9.

The battle for the first spot of Group A began with a flying start from SK, who cruised to an 8-0 lead as they gave fnatic very little room to operate. With no bomb plants and only one of their players having more than one kill, fnatic were forced to call a timeout to discuss their strategy.

The Swedish team then finally got a round on the board with a quick force-buy execute towards A, and they followed that up with another round thanks to two entry frags from Dennis "⁠dennis⁠" Edman inside B. But the Brazilians, powered by the in-form Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo, would quickly regain control of proceedings, taking 12 rounds into the second half.

SK made easy work of fnatic

A flawless pistol round from SK piled even more misery on fnatic and put the Europeans with their backs against the wall. With little money to work with, fnatic were helpless to prevent the Brazilians from locking down the map, 16-3, and securing their third win of the tournament.

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fnatic

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30th May 2017

Cache

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	24 - 8	+16	128.7	94.7%	2.06
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	17 - 8	+9	96.9	89.5%	1.60
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	20 - 8	+12	94.4	89.5%	1.53
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	11 - 6	+5	63.8	84.2%	1.27
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	10 - 9	+1	72.4	84.2%	1.11

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	8 - 16	-8	62.9	57.9%	0.63
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	9 - 16	-7	55.3	42.1%	0.61
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	7 - 16	-9	48.2	42.1%	0.57
Dennis 'dennis' Edman dennis	10 - 18	-8	58.2	42.1%	0.51
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	5 - 17	-12	42.4	42.1%	0.38

Cloud9 went into the match against EnVyUs hoping to build on the stunning victory over G2, but they were unable to fend off the challenge of Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer's men, who took nine rounds on the Terrorist side following two big win streaks.

The North Americans came from the break looking much livelier and won four of the first six rounds to bring the deficit to a minimum. That was when EnVyUs' defence finally flourished as they won three rounds in a row to make it 14-10.

EnVyUs bounce back after two defeats

Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta then gave Cloud9 fans some hope with a quad kill, but Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom pulled off a 1v2 clutch to put his team on match point. That round left Cloud9 in complete disarray, and the Frenchmen took advantage of that to take the map, 16-11.

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Envy

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30th May 2017

Cloud9

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Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	27 - 16	+11	112.1	77.8%	1.67
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	25 - 20	+5	83.4	74.1%	1.26
Alexandre 'xms' Forté xms	20 - 19	+1	79.1	81.5%	1.22
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Happy	18 - 19	-1	91.9	63.0%	1.11
Christophe 'SIXER' Xia SIXER	14 - 14	0	47.7	77.8%	0.90

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	23 - 19	+4	89.0	63.0%	1.22
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	21 - 24	-3	91.3	51.9%	1.00
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	17 - 19	-2	70.0	66.7%	0.93
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	16 - 19	-3	62.4	70.4%	0.90
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	8 - 23	-15	37.8	55.6%	0.49

Why are these games so late. Again American event. Just stupid

2017-05-30 23:19

12 replies

This is a joke right? Now you know what we deal with all the time.

2017-05-30 23:32

6 replies

Nope, all the tournaments have been in NA lately. All the bigger ones at least. We need to restore the era when all the important tournaments were in EU. Where all the good teams and their fans are from

2017-05-30 23:37

5 replies

stop being selfish. you guys get all the majors for 3 years straight and america is just starting to host. now you won't take it for granted when you get good match times :D

4 replies

Come on, you guys already have COD Tournaments!!!111

2017-05-30 23:39

3 replies

this is hltv dot org. any mention of cod and you will be banned!

2017-05-30 23:46

2 replies

:D aye

2017-05-31 00:03

cheers this guy !!

2017-05-31 00:06

I don't understand why Europeans are so self-centered about this. We get bad times usually.

2017-05-31 00:12

You used to get bad times. Now only EU gets bad times...

2017-05-31 00:23

It used to be us only getting bad times. Never saw as much complaining, funny enough. Don't worry, Cologne among other events are still going to be on EU time.

2017-05-31 00:25

1 reply

You know, because it's not a problem for people until they're actually affected by it.

2017-05-31 01:36

Good part to be in Brazil is that EU or NA give us good schedules, at last in these months

2017-05-31 18:24

sk to strong

omg

fer is a beast

Great display by NV, they deserve more.

lol

Fnatic is dead

ez sk

lul

well, C9 isnt making the playoffs

2017-05-30 23:20

24 replies

If they end up 3-2 I think they are.

2017-05-30 23:23

23 replies

yeah but they wont beat both fnatic and IMT, beating nV was their only chance

2017-05-30 23:28

16 replies

Why not? Imt is looking awful with kng, the only problem here is fnatic, and they just need to stay away from inferno, fnatic's best map, and they have a clear shot.

2017-05-30 23:29

they never beat IMT im not confident in their ability to beat them regardless of if they have a stand in

2017-05-30 23:30

Well, if they don't beat imt this time, they don't deserve to go through.

2017-05-30 23:31

they wont, believe me, I plan on betting around $200 on IMT tmrw

2017-05-30 23:33

Dont do that, you gonna lose your money.

2017-05-30 23:43

meh I got plenty, why not roll the dice

2017-05-30 23:44

They can def. beat IMT

2017-05-30 23:34

C9>FNATIC

8 replies

hell nah, as long as shroud is on C9 they will never be a good team again

7 replies

This is true. It's past C9 to change Shroud. Maybe put Elige, Rush or someone from Europe.

they need to add Brehze from NRG, hes really good and under the radar on the international stage and hes another Asian and C9 is 2/2 on Asians so far

2017-05-30 23:36

maybe NAF-FLY or Tarik too?

I think Brehze is better than both of them and I like OpTic as well and I dont wanna see them disband

Please C9, kick Shroud after this tournament

if swag was in shroud's place c9 would be better then na'vi probably.

2017-05-31 00:43

fnatic is tricky though. I'm sure C9 can beat IMT (but they always lose to them on LANs lul). Doesn't look bright..

fnatic is pretty good on inferno and mirage, but I don't think they're that good on any other map.

That's why I said it's tricky. Every team right now is vetoing like retards...If C9 lets inf or mirage in then ...they'll lose.

Autimatic is really dumb if he let fnatic play inferno.

im sure theyll try and get it to Cache or Train, I hope C9 isnt baited into letting Inferno through based only on how well they did against G2 on it today

2017-05-30 23:38