Cloud9 edge Na`Vi, to ESL One Cologne final

8-7-2017 18:36

Cloud9 survived a nail-biting finish to their series with Natus Vincere (Mirage 16-13, Overpass 16-14) to advance to the ESL One Cologne grand final.

The first semi-final battle between Cloud9 and Natus Vincere began with the latter picking up the pistol round before the North American side took over the gunrounds on the offense. Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin's squad kept saving weapons over and over after they lost one of the bombsites until it was 7-3, when Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács stepped up with a triple up against a quick split towards A.

Cloud9 replied right back and got to double digits, while the last round went the other way for a 10-5 half in favor of Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip and company, who then added a pistol round to their name for 12-5.

A bomb plant in a full eco gave Na`Vi the chance to buy in the third round and start climbing back with a couple of A executes. Surviving a couple of scary anti-ecos, with a big triple from Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev on B turning around the gunround in between, Natus Vincere lowered the deficit to just two rounds.

Cloud9 take Na`Vi by surprise and advance to the grand final

GuardiaN then put up four kills in a slow 2v5 to extend the streak to seven in a row and an even scoreline at 12-12, but Cloud9 stopped it with an eco win on B on the back of Mike "⁠shroud⁠" Grzesiek's two openers and Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta's three kills.

Natus Vincere went B again and equalized the score at 13 apiece, but yet another half-buy win on the A bombsite allowed Cloud9 to retake the lead and soon afterwards close out the map at 16-13.

shroud kicked off Overpass in style, getting a triple in the pistol round, an ace in the following anti-eco, and a quick 1v3 clutch in the fifth round, powering Cloud9 to a 6-0 lead as CT.

Natus Vincere then got their first round on the board, while the North American team got two more for 8-1. Na`Vi started turning things around, also thanks to GuardiaN's three kills in the 11th round to break Cloud9's economy and secure six rounds in the end, as Stewie2K closed out the half with three of his own on the A site.

The score was even once Natus Vincere came out on top of the next pistol round. The following two rounds were split evenly on the back of autimatic's solo triple on B short and a 1v1 clutch from seized, before another one of shroud's 1v3 clutches tilted the scales.

Cloud9 picked up a 14-10 lead and soon reached match point at 15-11, but the match wasn't over just yet, as GuardiaN saved a 1v3 attempt from Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham and proceeded to defuse the bomb inside a smoke in a 2v3 situation on A. Na`Vi were unable to take the match to overtime, however, as Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert put his team into the grand final with a smart 1v1 clutch for 16-14, 2-0.

ESL One Cologne 2017Best of 3

Natus Vincere

Matchpage

8th July 2017

Cloud9

Mirage

Overpass

News tags:

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	42 - 34	+8	75.1	66.1%	1.19
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	39 - 39	0	77.2	71.2%	1.04
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	40 - 41	-1	69.5	66.1%	1.03
Denis 'seized' Kostin seized	35 - 44	-9	70.0	74.6%	0.93
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	38 - 42	-4	76.1	64.4%	0.92

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	45 - 46	-1	92.2	71.2%	1.24
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	40 - 32	+8	68.1	72.9%	1.18
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	45 - 42	+3	82.2	78.0%	1.12
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	38 - 36	+2	65.4	79.7%	1.02
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	32 - 39	-7	65.4	66.1%	0.89

ESL One Cologne 2017Best of 3

Natus Vincere

Matchpage

8th July 2017

Cloud9

Mirage

Overpass

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	42 - 34	+8	75.1	66.1%	1.19
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	39 - 39	0	77.2	71.2%	1.04
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	40 - 41	-1	69.5	66.1%	1.03
Denis 'seized' Kostin seized	35 - 44	-9	70.0	74.6%	0.93
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	38 - 42	-4	76.1	64.4%	0.92

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	45 - 46	-1	92.2	71.2%	1.24
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	40 - 32	+8	68.1	72.9%	1.18
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	45 - 42	+3	82.2	78.0%	1.12
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	38 - 36	+2	65.4	79.7%	1.02
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	32 - 39	-7	65.4	66.1%	0.89

GG as predicted in the match thread: A quick and easy 2-0 for Cloud9. Ridiculous odds considering all. NAVI managed to catch G2 on one of their bad days and people made too much of it. C9 has been looking great throughout the entire tournament and smashed NAVI. If Skadoodle and Shroud keep firing they can win the finals and will have a good chance to win the major as well. Let's go C9!

2017-07-08 18:36

36 replies

Izi revenge

2017-07-08 18:37

5 replies

still ez for sk mark my word

4 replies

Really sad

2017-07-08 18:44

2 replies

Let's go c9 woot

2017-07-08 18:59

told you ez prediction

2017-07-08 20:12

Revenge incoming!!!

2017-07-08 20:07

holy shit that last round was intense

2017-07-08 18:53

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but senpai n0thing saves the day. creds to na'vi for giving us such a great game to watch

2017-07-08 18:55

EZ FOR GOD9 #GOD9 #WEAREINFINALBOYZ #NAHYPE #NAHOPEOFNACS #SROUD9 #SKADADDY #YUNGSTEW #AUTIREKTIC #n0thing^G #WALENS

No ez #CLOWN9

2017-07-08 19:00

3 replies

said turk. nt

2017-07-08 19:01

STFU. Said silver ruski kid. NT

2017-07-19 22:05

are you sure that im silver? Buy better inet 3lvl

2017-07-20 04:23

C9 win the major? Please.

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FlipSide Fan ^

2017-07-08 18:46

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Well flipside certain my aren't winning the major

But don't worry, they will be back next year

2017-07-08 19:15

2017-07-08 19:20

And? I like a number of teams. I'm not claiming F3 will win the major xD

2017-07-08 20:15

nothin wrong with that

2017-07-09 12:17

Flipsid3 will win this major LOL BRO EZ

2017-07-08 21:47

Esl pro league season 4 v.2 incoming baby!! Lets go cloud9!!

2017-07-08 23:00

win major? xdd

2017-07-08 18:40

Yeah idk about winning it just yet but they'll get out of groups finally. I can see them possibly making it to semis.

2017-07-08 20:05

lol

2017-07-08 20:36

Totally right. My guess is that it was too early in the tournament for G2 to perform well : and you might need to remember NaVi's last terrible performances (5th-6th at DH Tours losing to Misfits's new roster) and Cloud9's decent performances these days.

#RUNC9G #FALLNAVI #MAKENACSGREATAGAIN

Quick and easy? Are you kidding? xd

Score was closer than it should've been but C9 was in full control on both maps. Don't even kid yourself.

2017-07-08 18:41

Yeah no rofl

2017-07-08 18:42

>16-13&16-14 > Quick and easy Pick one

2017-07-08 18:47

16:13 and 16:14, alright, I undestood you tard

2017-07-09 04:57

2017-07-09 10:34

NaVi suck again? As always

2017-07-09 15:57

shroudGOD top1

s1mple's overpeaking lost overpass for Na`Vi. When you're 2v1 with GuardiaN against shroud, just stay where you are and watch, no need to rush him. But s1mple is just being s1mple, he still thinks it's FPL and you need to run'n'gun. What a wasted semifinals spot, lol. G2 would easily rape Cloud9, but chokers are being chokers, and Na`Vi are being Na`Vi - defeat a team that can do damage to SK just to suck it to some T2 team. -Edward, he's nowhere near T1, and pick Zeus or B1ad3 cuz a team needs an IGL, 5 brainless fraggers can't be T1, proven by fnatic. I'm glad all those fanboys overhyping Na`Vi after their lucky bo3 against choking G2 got brainraped.

He was baiting a shot for GuardiaN but NAVI have shit communication as always and they ended up playing 1v1 because of it. It's not only s1mples fault tbh.

2017-07-08 18:39

Triggered

2017-07-08 18:43

Cloud9 is not a T2 team if G2 is T1

2017-07-08 18:54

I'd not call G2 a clearly T1 team. For me T1 means a team can defeat everyone within the same tier, G2 still showed nothing against Astralis and FaZe, so they might be T1 only on paper.

Yeah you're right on the paper they are t1 , but if in paper they are t1 , they can be t1. They just need to work a lot and look astralis they took 1 year to become good ;)

2017-07-08 19:08

For the Danes it took -FeTiSh +karrigan to get much better and then -karrogan +gla1ve to come back to T1 :-) Time can't fix anything for G2, they need to work harder on counter-stratting teams, they have everything they need - SmithZz and shox for making up strats overall, apEX to think of opening sites strats, and NBK to help with midround calls sometimes, they have a top3 sniper, but it's not enough sometimes, and to me it looks bad that shox is forced to focus on strats rather than on madfragging, but... it was his own choice.

2017-07-08 19:13

it's quite silly to say "g2 would rape c9" when c9 and g2 3-3 in bo1s, and c9 lost I think one close bo3. Sure G2 would be favorites, but to automatically assume G2 would fare better than Navi with Navi on 2 of their best maps, is silly.

2017-07-09 07:29

Rush 9

it worked tho

2017-07-08 18:49

true true

2017-07-08 21:26

Finally shroud is wake up. Skadoodle is back better than 2015. Shroud also back and better than the past he was.

2017-07-08 18:38

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That fake flagging fam

2017-07-08 19:03

Bruh AU scene. Plus aren't you supporting SK?

2017-07-08 19:06

What does the Au scene have to do with his 5th worlder English lmao

2017-07-08 19:12

Oh lol I just noticed how broken that London is

2017-07-08 20:45

better than the past it is.

2017-07-08 20:50

There's nothing wrong with his English. shroud is just wake up bro Kappa

2017-07-08 21:16

gyazo.com/14a8d198b049e6e04e857b6819e7ea.. #213 100% proved he's fakeflagging xd

2017-07-09 04:40

LMFAO You aren't AU xD

2017-07-08 19:44

What? Australia is my city.

2017-07-09 04:28

LOL

2017-07-09 12:19

YEAAAAAAAA

Clooooud

EZ CLOUD9

You're a liquid fan and we all remember

2017-07-08 19:07

I'm just a bandwagon NA fan. Whichever NA team really looks like they've put the work in and are succeeding I'm a fan of. Cloud9 has always been overrated and underwhelming until now :)

god nothing

What a game.

-SEIZED FFS

MAP OF THE YEAR BOYS GG

gg wp cloud9 top 5

CRY IS FREE!!!!

20 replies

u will be beated in finals so it just pyrhov's win

19 replies

at least we got there...

17 replies

+1 but lucky af gl in finals cloud 9

where is the luck? c9 just played better the feels go out to CARRYIAN tho, -allu +guardian on faze

No Navi was way more lucky. S1mple hitting 2 noscopes and flamie lining up 3 just spraying plus guardians ninja

2017-07-08 18:56

"We" Ahhhhh the cringeee

13 replies

It's a term used by fans to represent their teams. It's used in basketball soccer and esports. Stfu if you don't know anything.

2017-07-08 18:57

12 replies

yeah ofcourse, i forgot that you're the part of the team

2017-07-08 18:58

11 replies

I'm sorry you don't understand that not everything in English is literal.

2017-07-08 19:05

It doesn't make sense that you've used a hyperbole and then tried to talk about being literal. Also, it's actually cringe when you use "we" to refer to a team you're not part of. It's like you're trying to take credit for their efforts and use it to shit on other people when in reality you did nothing.

2017-07-08 19:50

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I did say not literal and I see the we reference a lot. I Know fans don't do shit but the we is more like a shortcut in a fans brain.

2017-07-08 20:49

Wtf are you talking about cunt

2017-07-09 04:20

Whoa there straya....

2017-07-09 07:02

So are you going to actually explain your retarded logic without using stupid shit like "shortcut in a fans brain" or "the we reference" or not?

2017-07-09 08:03

#238 as said by your fellow countryman

2017-07-09 21:49

Did a better job at executing a simple explaination than your monkey-brain did

2017-07-10 05:04

#128 I'm sorry you don't comprehend English aussie.

2017-07-10 05:05

First of all in #128 all you do is call it a "term" which is the vaguest thing to describe it under the sun, calling it a "word" has just as much weight. Second of all you don't give any explaination, all you do is describe the word in its context unlike #238 where they give a clear example of the use of the word. And finally Australians weren't the ones who went and simplified all the words in the English language and did stupid shit like turning "mum" into "mom", it's you amerifats who can't comprehend English.

2017-07-10 05:12

"We" as in cloud 9 and all their fans. It's common in Aus.

2017-07-09 14:58

"pyrhov's win" looool I'm fucking dead fam slavs lmao

Lucky as Fuck

GJGJGJGJ, NAVI DISBAND

BOT Kostin

navi still not getting things to work for them :/

xD NA > CIS

FeelsBadMan

gz cloud 9

Memes aside, probably some of the best CS I've seen in a while

s1mple ruin another team... Sad. -s1mple + someone

Guardian ruined the game, dafuq u're talking about?

Where were s1mple and flamie on mirage? Also in that situation vs shroud on overpass - why s1mple went for kill? They had the bomb. s1mple died and GuardiaN fucked it too with that misses. But it's not only GuardiaN's fault...

1v2 1v3, 1v1, omg NaVi fucking shit team

No IGL... thats how you lose those situations...

NaVi needs to work on their coordinations. It's off...

what a match!!

G2 lost to NaVi, what a waste of a spot :/

g2 would lose to c9 either

u mean wouldn't

2017-07-08 21:57

mouse is a waste wtf ut alk about

2017-07-08 19:31

is mouz in semis?

2017-07-08 21:56

Impressive! where are the shourd haters now? Congratz c9! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

gg izi

gg wp

Does NaVi communicate? If yes, then FATIAN should know n0thin'gs low HP...then he does all the worst possible positioning in that scenario and gives n0thing chance...Pls retire GuardiaN PLS

CRY IS FREE EU USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

I am from EU and I cheered for C9

ur r not my friend, u r my brother my friend

Navi is from CIS

Lately Ukraine didn't want to be part of CIS, and Slovakia haven't been CIS

2017-07-08 20:18

Yeah but they play under the cis flag

2017-07-08 20:20

USA USA USA

nice. shrud is back

Cloud9 makes NA scene great again! I hope that they'll destroy monkeys in the final.

don't worry FaZe will be the finalist ;)

GZ to all Na'Vi bettors, it was so obvious that C9 will win this. C9 is in a great form right now and Na'Vi just got to the semis because they had few lucky matches, that's all. Na'Vi has no map pool. This match was 60-40 to C9.

very well deserved win fellas. It's summer time!

C9-FaZe rematch in the final would be glorious, with FaZe winning the whole thing which would provide a great storyline for the Major.

EZ FOR MY BOII STEWIE

So sad for Guardian

Doesnt matter who wins semi 1, the semi 2 winner wins the whole tournament!

EZ CLUTCHES FOR SHROUD

nice game! gl to both teams for major

SHROUD <3 SKA <3

Summer9 PogChamp

gj cloud9 in the grand final when they face SK , they will be destroyin... ofcourse FalleN will smash them!

Wowww really impressed by c9... mentally the strongest team in the world right after SK... Shroud is one of the best aimers in the world atm... Those reflexes and perfect shoulder peaking won c9 this series... Seized needs to leave... on Mirage b bombsite was free for c9 every time they pushed.. I think Na Vi also noticed that on overpass, sending Seized to lurk on their T side while rest of them played together...

+1 -seized +ange1 agree?

2017-07-08 23:07

if sk beat faze c9 have a real good chance of winning the entire tournament. sk for some reason have a really hard time against c9

GZ C9!

Many kills by both teams were made in crazy timings. The luckiest one won. This kind of cs is not deserved to be in the final, too many mistakes

U a bit salty there russker? How much??! :3

2017-07-08 18:48

he is right

2017-07-08 19:30

from 0-2 at the groupstage and 2 match points down against mousesports at 2-2, they're in the final now

GET SHROUDED

2017-07-08 18:45

C9 winning it from 0-2 down in the group stage would make for a great story. Impressive stuff from them.

ez for Shroud9 Cologne 2014: Nip win Cologne 2015: Fnatic win Cologne 2016: SK win All Cologne winners have had an era (SK era is debatable since they only won 4 tournaments) Cloud 9 era inc?

"C9 era inc?" has been what people have been saying at the start of the last 3 summers now.

I'm just making a joke about all the cologne winners having eras. I'm not actually serious

2017-07-08 18:50

Ez c9 major winners go ez, but ofc after astralis

Cloud9 Makes NA CS Great Again

They nasty Its summer bois

GO GOOOOOO C9999 vs SK i hop and who ever win's ill still be happy :) GO boyz Nothing , Deserve it what a ppl and a such a cool dude

it makes me happy seeing shroud and n0thing happy. they have struggled for a long time

2017-07-09 12:35

still cant believe how navi eliminated g2. they actually suck. almost no teamwork, no organised pushes on ct side, nothing. they are playing just like fpl games. GO C9 GO

Or C9 just played really good??? Why is it whenever C9 beats good teams people get salty and start saying "Lul X team threw/sucked". Aside from Seized, Na'Vi played really good, C9 just was superior and hit a really high level navi couldn't compete with.

2017-07-08 19:04

navi cant compete anyone. they are shit except simple and guardian's individual skills.

2017-07-08 21:37

Well Played Cloud9 ... will be a fcking grate final .... Cloud9 vs Faze !!! Clash of Titans !! Let's Goooooooo!

g2 will perform well at major we all know it : )

2017-07-09 12:36

Happy for Cloud9 + CS:GO needs the North American scene to step up. This only does good for everyone (albeit, I'm not too sure it'll last that long).

Nice to see Shroud playing decent.

2017-07-08 18:51

SK will avenge you

i believed in c9 hope they can make final interesting

This C9 victory was like when Rocky Balboa crushed Ivan Drago in Rocky 4.

C9 vs. SK. Revenge for São Paulo incoming boys.

2017-07-08 19:02

Oh.... please! SK still have FaZe to get through and I'm pretty they want revenge after that luck final in ECS - those two lucky overtime wins by your SK. Stay tuned!

All those people: "Ez for Na'Vi" and "No hope for C9" bet you guys feel stupid now

2017-07-08 19:10

GG, deserved

2017-07-08 19:22

GODSHRIMPP

2017-07-08 19:25

Called it

Wow gg cloud9

2017-07-08 19:48

ITS HAPPENING

2017-07-08 20:01

shradoodle ftw

2017-07-08 20:14

no doodle. just doodle

2017-07-08 20:17

tbh both Navi and C9 dont deserve to be in the finals but Cologne isnt really a big tournament anymore

It had every top team but astralis

2017-07-08 20:48

Tyloo top team

2017-07-09 04:21

Oh, look - CSGO, the most inconsistent competitive game ever, just had a shitty NA team reach a final of a tournament for the first time in forever. Not like they're beating SK or FaZe now, but grats anyway, Muricans.

awesome

2017-07-08 20:41

"edged navi" lol wtf? c9 2-0 raped navi, not edged

16-13/16-14...yeah i don't think it's a rape. if navi wasn't braindead and it was any other tier 2 team c9 would have been the usual choke 9 and lost this easily. this was a match of who can throw more and c9 is lucky they got the retarded chickenheaded version of navi today. waste of slot, they get lucky just so fans can see a boring final of sk smashing a bad team

2017-07-08 23:35

hey guys so i have a theory that cloud9 will beat navi 2-0

2017-07-08 21:48

Gotta love when C9 beats any of the top team, it's "luck" or "edged out" lmao. Such heavy bias.

16-13 16-14

2017-07-09 05:42

watch the matches though. Navi was always hanging on by a thread, on the verge of being blown out.

2017-07-09 07:38

Nice C9! Congrats!

2017-07-08 21:59

Where the fuck did the clown9 spam came from ffs. First cry9 now this. Its really losing effect if it had any

2017-07-08 22:13

-seized +any

2017-07-08 23:11

Ah well, Finally it's something different than watching a EU team play vs some brazilians... Took quite a while no? I'm guessing SK already had a party to celebrate the win in the finals, obviously it will be a brazilian stomp over c9

2017-07-09 04:44

The revenge for EPL in Sao Paulo is incoming Cloud9!!!! C9 fans and C9, 09/07/17 will be the worst day of C9!!!! Ez 4 sk #RUNSKG #VAMOSSK #REVENGE #2-0

2017-07-09 07:19

i think one of their worst days would be a tourney going out in groups. they will be happy with just getting to finals even. they have improved in a short amount of time

2017-07-09 12:41