Liquid to EPL semi-finals over EnVyUs

2-6-2017 00:44

Liquid came from behind to beat EnVyUs 2-1 and progress to the last-four stage at the ESL Pro League Season 5 finals.

The series kicked off on Cobblestone, Liquid's map pick, and it was the North Americans who came out the livelier of the two as they stormed to an 8-1 lead. EnVyUs' defence then finally came to life as they picked up two rounds in a row, the second of which thanks to a quad kill from Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom, but Liquid kept the Frenchmen at bay and closed out the half with a commanding 11-4 lead.

With the sides now reversed, EnVyUs took control of the game. A triple kill from Christophe "⁠SIXER⁠" Xia in the pistol round set his team up for a massive run to tie the game at 11-11.

Liquid then brought EnVyUs' streak to an end on a force-buy, with Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski getting three kills with the CZ, and they followed that up with another round. Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer immediately called a tactical pause to keep the momentum from swinging to the opposing side, and the move paid off as they won five of the next six rounds to take the map, 16-14.

Liquid through to the semi-finals

Train was the map that followed, and here EnVyUs got out to a fast 3-0 lead on the Terrorist side. After building up their bank, Liquid won four rounds in a row, with EnVyUs restoring parity thanks to three very important kills from Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy. Liquid responded by taking three rounds in a row, but EnVyUs did not let their opponents run away with the lead and brought the deficit to a minimum at the end of the half.

The second half began with Liquid taking the pistol round with a B execute, with Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz picking up three kills. After losing both eco rounds, EnVyUs finally got a few rounds on the board on the CT side, cutting the gap to 11-10. However, Liquid were unwilling to let their lead slip and won five rounds in a row to lock down the map, 16-10.

SIXER put in a great display, but it was not enough

It all came down to Nuke, where Liquid jumped out to a 5-0 lead on the CT side. After calling a timeout, EnVyUs almost secured their first round of the map, but Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano clutched a 1v2 situation, leaving the Frenchmen frustrated.

Liquid continued shutting EnVyUs down, with the scoreline blooming to a 12-0 advantage for the North Americans. It was only then that EnVyUs finally managed to get a round, courtesy of a 1v2 clutch from SIXER, but they were unable to follow it up, with Liquid ending the half with a dream 14-1 lead.

EnVyUs found a lifeline by taking the pistol round as CT thanks to three quick headshots from Alexandre "⁠xms⁠" Forté in the lower bombsite. The following anti-eco also went their way, but once Liquid got money in the bank it was all over for the Europeans.

ESL Pro League Season 5 FinalsBest of 3

Envy

Matchpage

1st June 2017

Liquid

Cobblestone

Train

Nuke

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	63 - 48	+15	101.0	78.9%	1.40
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	66 - 46	+20	78.8	76.3%	1.30
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	58 - 46	+12	87.3	81.6%	1.29
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	59 - 50	+9	83.1	78.9%	1.22
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	50 - 42	+8	65.0	75.0%	1.02

Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	56 - 60	-4	76.4	69.7%	1.03
Christophe 'SIXER' Xia SIXER	48 - 51	-3	69.3	60.5%	0.98
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	46 - 61	-15	68.7	57.9%	0.85
Alexandre 'xms' Forté xms	44 - 61	-17	66.5	64.5%	0.83
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Happy	36 - 63	-27	66.1	53.9%	0.65

so ez for Liquid, NA reigns supreme as always

2017-06-02 00:45

32 replies

Liquid dropping trash na squad, picking up ex-tricked come july 1st

7 replies

Liquid will never pick up a EU team for CS:GO. Especially one that's even worse then what they have now. Nice bait!

2017-06-02 03:51

6 replies

no shit sherlock

2017-06-02 04:31

Get your head out of your asshole you stupid American

2017-06-02 07:59

4 replies

Awww someone got their fefees hurt :(

2017-06-02 13:25

3 replies

Prattatat more like proletariat

2017-06-02 15:47

2 replies

Tendies more like Wendy's

2017-06-03 04:29

1 reply

Be they crispy or from Wendys

2017-06-03 13:15

inb4 Liquid beats North and ruins yet again another amazing grand final same thing happened in ESL Cologne 2016

2017-06-02 00:48

17 replies

I mean we wouldn't want SK Gaming to lose twice to an NA team in the grand finals of ESL ESEA Pro Leagues Final... Wouldn't we?

2017-06-02 02:00

15 replies

2017-06-02 02:45

2017-06-02 05:10

2 majors

2017-06-02 06:42

epl sao paolo

2017-06-02 23:10

you just confirmed it, NA is braindead.

2017-06-03 05:16

hopefully whoever goes against sk won't choke and give them an easy final

2017-06-02 07:19

NA CS lul

2017-06-02 08:04

8 replies

Bosnian CS... LULULUL!

2017-06-02 12:22

At least we have one top-class player, you don't have any lelelele

2017-06-02 14:14

... EliGE, Stewie2K, Twistzz, Autimatic, Jdm64... Anymore excuse?

2017-06-02 18:43

5 replies

Almost died laughing. I hope you were joking.

2017-06-02 19:33

I hope you were

2017-06-02 21:50

He actually gave a statement that elige twistzz and jdm are better players then NiKo of FaZe? Those players are not even top-class players...Go see a doctor, both of you.

2017-06-02 22:05

when did niko reach a grand final major, oh yea

2017-06-02 23:11

He can end his career now and will still be better player then all US players ever.

2017-06-02 23:18

Lol if they win then they clearly deserve the final more making it a better grand final, the fuck is this logic?

2017-06-02 13:31

Against rank #25, now let's see when they play against the big boys. No chance for Liquid anymore, this is where their run ends

2017-06-02 00:52

LOL so liquid won huh?

2017-06-02 01:46

2017-06-02 01:10

as always xDDDD

2017-06-02 01:48

Beautifully done by TL, nice job showing the world you aren't the choke artists you used to be (before and after s1mple).

Liquid going to make it to the Finals.

Would like to see that

2017-06-02 00:59

ez 4 liquid

My boys

Disband EnvyUs ffs

How much?

2017-06-02 00:50

Fantasy squad :((

2017-06-02 00:56

XDD

2017-06-02 02:28

What went wrong envy, what went wrong?

Nothing went wrong. They actually played better than expected and have played really well lately. They just don't have a deep enough playbook. They will get better as time goes on as long as they stay with what they have. Hey, they beat C9 and G2 the superteam got crushed by them. It's a win win situation.

2017-06-02 03:54

They lost to G2, but they did a good play against G2.

2017-06-02 06:26

they beat G2 a few times...

2017-06-02 09:28

in online matches, yes, but not at lan event

2017-06-02 09:54

Yep. But, it showed they could potentially beat a GOOD ASS LINE UP. Maybe... maybe if they work hard --- really hard.

2017-06-02 13:20

GG Liquid!

TL ARE BACK BOYS

This is the real nV

2017-06-02 00:46

happy -27 xDD

EliGE showing he's still top 1 NA player by far, and twistzz right behind him with nitr0 coming back into form and jdm starting to come back with stanislaw calling

9 replies

Thefak?

2017-06-02 02:29

Sorry bud but Elige is far from the top NA player. While he is good in Liquid in the position he plays, it wasn't always that way. A great team would be him, stewie, auti, twistz and mixwell with autimatic calling. And before anyone says autimatic doesn't IGL, he does now and has been for the last month or two with C9.

2017-06-02 03:56

I think a better lineup would be: Elige Nitr0 Stanislaw Twistzz Jdm Easy to tell you're a C9 fan because of how you defended auti being igl over someone like stanislaw. Who do you think is the top NA player if it is not Elige? My guess is you answer stewie.

2017-06-02 06:17

A motivated Stewie2k is better than Elige, he can do what Elige can do + more. IGL (a mid level, if have to --- not saying IGL, just showing he has some brains of his own), Entry, Rifle (along with Pistol/SMG), Lurk, Awp, Scout with ease.

2017-06-02 09:30

my theory why everyone thinks stewie2k is a better player than elige is coz he's a highlight player, elige on the other hand doenst have the highlights but is always dropping 30 against euros

2017-06-03 05:30

Elige is better currently no doubt, Team Liquid seems motivated and fixed with Stanislaw and new teammates. Stewie2k obv sees Cloud 9 teammates doesn't give a shit so why would he? If I could I would put Stewie2k on TL and take off either JDM (to get a complete awper when the awp isn't available he turns to bot) or replace Stewie with nitr0 (but nitr0's motivation is coming back) and nitr0 has high potential himself. I dont know... I still put Stewie2k > Elige for the fact he can do more. but right now Elige is a better player (better stats)

2017-06-03 07:44

It's true though, stewie is a better player. I'm not a c9 fan, but stewie is really good. Best NA awp even, though he's to good with rifles to not rifle and his team already has an awper. And the only one to challange him over the top 1 awping spot is mixwell. If you don't agree you probably just looks at history which tells SKA and JDM are the number 1 and 2 awpers, this isn't the case anymore. Stewie makes the plays when his team needs it the most, never chokes and pretty much always has a good game. Elige is great, top 3 NA for sure, it's just that noone is better than stewie currently is, in north america. Don't know why it's even a discussion? Anyone with some kind of knowledge about the scene would agree that stewie is currently the number 1 in NA, no question. Anyway Stan would be the IGL in a NA ''superteam'', free up autimatic and let him roll, make stewie and mixwell switch up the awping and put twistzz in there as the entry fragger or second entry. As support I'd say NAF or someone like that could take the spot. NAF wouldn't even have to be a dedicated support player, just not be the starplayer and he would set up the team to succed, which he has shown he can do. He can also frag like a beast so that's no problem either. RUSH also has a place in this team but then you'd have to replace twistzz. so that's a tough one to call. That double awp and with the firepower + stanislaw would just be too much for any NA team to handle and could potentially do extremely well internationally. Greetings from Sweden.

2017-06-02 13:15

NA only team tho,

2017-06-03 03:18

nah elige about to show you why he should be considered #1 NA Player today for you

2017-06-03 16:58

"Envy better than G2" they said

2017-06-02 00:47

who said that?

Some people yesterday after Envy beat SK

G2 is still going to get buttfucked when it comes to FaZe or Astralis. And in casr you haven't noticed, all H2H have been pretty close, G2 ain't doing shit either, they're massively overrated and potentially winning this ain't proving shit.

2017-06-02 01:01

What if I told you Faze and Astralis aren't in this tourney?

2017-06-02 01:17

Seriously?? Seriously?? Noo... Seriously?

2017-06-02 02:30

Are you fucking serious my eyes

2017-06-03 16:35

NA HOPE. GOOD JOB GUYS

I like this Liquid <3 GL vs North

TL vs. North*

2017-06-02 06:18

LOL

2017-06-02 06:56

huehuehue*

this cant be true

2017-06-03 05:27

How are semi-final matchups dictated?

2017-06-02 00:49

SK vs G2 and North vs Liquid.

2017-06-02 00:58

It will be North x Liquid and G2 x SK

yeah, i just saw it.

NICE LIQUID!! ELIGE É BR, Sk x Liquid at finals ;P

don't forget there are still demi-finals to pass. A fast advice : Don't see you already in finals. We don't know what North and G2 have yet.

2017-06-02 04:24

nice boys! Congratz! ZELAOOOO PORRA, Parabéns meu brother! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-06-02 00:51

wow go liquid

jdm was absolutely insane with the awp. What a player he is. Twistzz and ELiGE are great as well. They are a really hard working team and I really want them to beat North in the semi-finals now. They deserve it.

2017-06-02 00:57

nice match

Easy.

2017-06-02 01:02

Liquid to beat SK in the grand finals just like C9 did :)

2017-06-02 01:05

Not likely, but we can hope

2017-06-02 04:19

nah, now sk will beat Liquid in THEIR home turf. C9 often matches up well vs SK, but Liquid just hasn't got the mindset to play SK. The biggest choke in CSGO history, a major final win, something like 17 straight map wins over them last year (as a matter of fact I don't remember LG dropping a map to liquid on LAN ever since that tournament with the hiko incident) that being said, i'm glad to see jdm is improving, maybe Liquid can win a map like Train if they start as CT (which I doubt would happen)

2017-06-02 05:00

your tears will be welcome when SK gets curb stomped ;)

2017-06-03 16:44

by g2? not impossible. north? still unlikely. by liquid? yeah well

2017-06-03 17:22

great for the NA fans :)

2017-06-02 01:06

wasted spot

2017-06-02 01:07

2017-06-02 01:21

happy trash LUL

2017-06-02 01:25

Awww yesss! Well played TL

2017-06-02 02:10

hope liquid wins the finals vs sk as revenge for the coldzera jumping awp double.

How can they win over SK in the final when G2 will beat SK in semis? Oh and yea.. G2 will win the event

2017-06-02 04:53

We'll see about that! God of Blocks and Pixels!

2017-06-02 06:21

+ Ender & Wither slayer!

2017-06-02 06:22

let's go Liquid <3

2017-06-02 03:21

nV fluke confirmed

2017-06-02 03:39

lol beats 2 shitty NA teams and a fluke win over north who doesn't care about the game since they have nothing to play for, and the weakest opponent in the quarters in envyus and goes to semi finals. what a joke of a tournament and a joke NA team getting by on luck...

2017-06-02 04:00

Salty

2017-06-02 04:08

Envy getting to the semis would have equally qualifyed as a joke. It can never be considered as a t1 tournament to begin with with no astralis and faze

2017-06-02 04:23

Envy actually had to beat a few good teams to get to the playoffs,in comparison to liquid

2017-06-02 05:48

the fact that liquid beat them convincingly in a bo3 is encouraging though

2017-06-02 06:39

+1, cobble was the only fluke here, Envy shouldn't have got more than 12 rounds there xd

the salt is real

2017-06-02 06:43

Ever notice that sixer almost always has the least deaths on his team?

2017-06-02 04:18

That would be happy typically

2017-06-02 06:20

Yeah him and happy. But that's cos happy lurks. How does sixer avoid dying that much?

2017-06-02 16:57

He's learning from happy ;) jk idk probably because he is awping

2017-06-02 16:59

Its because he awps, hes almost never is the first one to push onto the site, if all 4 of his teammates die and its like a 1v 3+ , then he usually saves.

2017-06-03 03:22

yeeerz

2017-06-02 06:48

so ez for liquid

2017-06-02 07:37

ESL rules are the biggest joke in the world. We can't see Astralis and FaZe there only because of some stupid shit made up by retarded brains among rule creators, instead we're forced to watch pathetic teams like nV (bo1 heroes), NRG (because NA should be equal to EU no matter what, right?), and shitton of other weak pieces of shit. The whole tournament can be described in 2 sentences: 1) Many bo1 fails that decided who should go to playoffs. 2) SK rape everyone in bo3 again on their way to ez victory. ESL, KYS.

2017-06-02 11:01