SK to ESL One Cologne final over FaZe

8-7-2017 21:43

SK have secured their place in the ESL One Cologne grand final after defeating FaZe 2-0 (16-4 on Overpass and 19-16 on Cache).

Starting out as Counter-Terrorists on their map pick, Overpass, SK picked up four rounds before FaZe managed to grab their first with a nearly-flawless A execution. However, for the next seven rounds, the Brazilians continuously denied their opponents.

Down 10-1, the European squad finally managed to break through SK's defence once more, but Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's men would not let FaZe string any rounds together as they picked up a dominant 13-2 half-time lead.

Despite FaZe winning the pistol round, thanks to Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač finding two clean kills, the European team were shut down in an anti-eco as SK aggressively pushed A with Tec9s. From that point, the Brazilian squad were in control, and they easily locked down the map with a 16-4 scoreline.

SK have made it to the grand final

As for Cache, FaZe's map pick, Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard opened it up with two kills of his own. Still, SK turned the pistol around in their favour and picked it up without losing any more players.

After losing the subsequent two rounds, the European mixture got to a 3-3 stalemate with rain finding an important quad-kill in the sixth round. Both teams then traded rounds back-to-back before SK broke FaZe's economy with a crucial split second 2v2 clutch to reach a 7-5 lead.

rain then almost pulled off a last second defuse, but FaZe would only respond in a semi-buy that saw NiKo finding three kills and rain other two in yet another 2v2 clutch situation. However, SK won the last round of the first half and grabbed a three round half-time lead.

With a flawless CT pistol round, the Brazilian men eventually picked up a comfortable 12-6 score. FaZe did not want to throw in the towel and picked up the gun round, but could not follow it up.

rain had an impressive performance on Cache

However, Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli and co. seemed to be back to the game as they won the next round with pistols and also other three, but SK stopped their streak to reach their 14th round.

A back and forth round was followed with FaZe coming out as victors, breaking SK's economy to reduce the deficit at 13-14. From that moment onward, despite FalleN's men reaching match point, it were the European men who won three rounds in a row to take the map to overtime.

Although FaZe picked up the first round of extra-time, SK were the ones who got the lead before switching sides. As Terrorists, the Brazilians were flawless and closed out the map, 19-16, to book a spot in the ESL One Cologne grand final.

ESL One Cologne 2017Best of 3

FaZe

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8th July 2017

Overpass

Cache

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	44 - 38	+6	80.0	63.6%	1.12
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	32 - 39	-7	63.1	54.5%	0.83
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli allu	29 - 40	-11	56.2	60.0%	0.82
Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey kioShiMa	22 - 43	-21	67.4	50.9%	0.68
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	20 - 46	-26	50.8	54.5%	0.58

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	48 - 34	+14	104.4	80.0%	1.45
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	48 - 29	+19	90.7	80.0%	1.38
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	38 - 27	+11	84.6	70.9%	1.24
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	35 - 24	+11	57.3	65.5%	1.06
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	36 - 33	+3	68.8	67.3%	0.96

OMG FIRST AGAIN! lul But easy for SK vs. rain, but why'd you expect anything else in a 5v1 LUL PS. WALLEN somehow always does something amazing to give SK the advantage :PPP

2017-07-08 21:43

35 replies

faze is much worse. only team that can win is nip.

2017-07-08 21:44

2 replies

LOL!

2017-07-08 21:52

Only in Cache hahahahaha

2017-07-08 21:58

rain 40k, he was 10k short to win xD

Why does it matter if you're first. Are you 12 or something?

2017-07-08 21:45

1 reply

Yes he is

2017-07-08 21:47

CRY IS FREE So satisfying watching pansy so sad after SK rekt her team and her stupid bias towards FaZe FaKe UP 4Heat

2017-07-08 21:46

27 replies

chillax, almost satisfying knowing how angry you are as a person.

2017-07-08 21:48

25 replies

cry is free get rekt #keepemcoming #HELLOEU #cryonthestick

2017-07-08 21:49

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yes cry is free in favela, not in Europe thou.. but you wouldn't know that since you dont even own a bike :D REKT CRY IS NOT FREE IN EU #GETYOURSELFABIKE #LEARNTORIDEABIKE #YOUCANDOITMR.CRYISFREE

2017-07-08 21:51

23 replies

I dont know how to ride a bike... but you mom know how to ride... me 4Heat #FaZeDOWN

2017-07-08 21:55

22 replies

wow looks like vicTHOR really got the last word there...

It is true that our European moms can afford trips to brazil but they sure as hell won't fuck with a little teenager in the slum whos mom sadly died due to gun violence. #RunSKG But seriously SK is cool but all the Brazilians that think they are better then Europe now because they have a good team its just annoying and ridiculous

2017-07-08 22:01

19 replies

kkkkkkkk you shud bow to us we made your org champion again ffs EU our dick isnt that flexible jump carefully #FaZeDOWN

2017-07-08 22:04

10 replies

Yeah, this is their level.. pathetic

2017-07-08 22:09

9 replies

Agreed faze's lvl is low af... getting 2x0'ed in semis is really pathetic

2017-07-08 22:11

Stop with that, you look like a retard. Sorry for the toxic brazilians

2017-07-08 23:46

Np. I actually think most of them are fakeflaggera :^)

2017-07-10 00:23

haHAA you so mad dude just get on the train of SK HYPE TOP 1, like literally is Brazil vs the world.

2017-07-08 23:17

5 replies

look.. his girlfriend showed up.

2017-07-09 11:44

4 replies

getting into an argue with a clear bait in HLTV and you calling him pathetic, i guess that you are new in internet, am i right?

2017-07-09 11:51

3 replies

Yes, It's my first day here Mr internet hero. butthurt much?

2017-07-09 11:53

XD ok i'll help you on this one. "/close" will help you a lot when you want to finish something, like i would show you why you are a hater and a cunt but like people say, "you can't kill something that is already dead" /close

2017-07-09 11:56

So easily offended mr Internet. Please dont end yourself, It's all a joke. Ask yourself, what if ppl really want to argue with a clear bait? Ever thought of that before entering an argue and playing a hero. Stop wasting my time 3rd worlder, don't get triggered.

2017-07-09 12:01

Haha man, your country became an massive of rapes and terrorism by muslims and your people dont do anithing. Shut your fucking mouth

2017-07-08 22:26

I bet you there are many more rapes in Br then in Ger and fuck you with your Muslims are rapists and terrorists 3 of my closest friends are true muslims and they are the most honest and loyal people

2017-07-10 08:20

BR as a whole is rather annoying. Gotta love back in the beta days of DotA all the retarded br's with potato internet hogging us servers... I like SK, I don't like the typical BR gamer, the guy saying eu poor is from Brazil? Nice meme bruh you probably got a potato for a PC

NA with good PC's and still bad kkkkkk XDDDx

2017-07-08 23:18

Dude, we love the American scene, because of you SK has become the best. But you hate us for being a little playful with everything. Actually our country is not one of the best, so we are so happy when Brazilians are recognized worldwide for something.

2017-07-09 17:12

There's no BR that believe that Brazil is better then Europe, but europeans rage brazilians for free, and is funny see you mad. Than if europeans rage us for free, why not give to you a reason?

2017-07-08 23:29

Braziliam community is VERY toxic, If you didn't knew It, now you know ;)

2017-07-09 00:35

But we still the best crowd

2017-07-09 00:38

woah, bringing the classic mom's joke to the table. I believe you're 12

2017-07-08 22:02

Yeah, I generally prefer to watch the global stream @ESL_CSGO rather than @esl_brazil because they are more worried to give the best intricate analysis and promote hype in each and every big play... however, with pansy I felt she was indeed rooting for FaZe, actually, she was clearly biased in so many rounds with the excuse that "she wanted to see a spectacular game between the two teams", specially after Overpass, "because a third map would be great", on Train she was even yelling "YES!" each time NiKo or rain did anything besides dying, in which moments she was all "Awww, noo!". That wasn't entertaining for any SK fan, but that's ok, we won anyways and we had our own stream with all the bias we could have.

Yeah and when karrigan plays like absolute garbage look at his k/d double the amount of deaths

2017-07-09 04:20

hope cloud9 trashes you SK #FALLSKG

How they trashed nip? Nah ...

2017-07-08 22:33

2017-07-10 14:18

SK!!!!!!!

Don't be fooled this was the final. SK ESL One Cologne 2017 Champions. Rain was a beast in Cache. #RUNSKG

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but sadly a bot on overpass :/

Lol just like the tourney in Brazil? Remind me who won that? I'm not even a c9 fan... I truly think of HIV Everytime I see idiot br's running their mouth. The winner of SK v. Faze is who I picked. C9 looked good but sadly Idk what to expect from shroud and ska. If they had swag Id have a bit more faith in them.

2017-07-08 22:31

Remember MLG Columbus champion? I'm not an SK fan but still. Remember last year Cologne's champion? Yeah it was SK. remember the winner of every ESL pro league season on NA? yeah it's SK, cry is freeeeeee

2017-07-08 23:21

Yeah they even won Season 4 with only one map lost.. oh wait that was c9

2017-07-09 09:51

they can afford lose events and still number 1 no haterino plz ravioli ravioli SK top oneoni

2017-07-09 09:54

ok little D, just keep the facts right

2017-07-09 13:40

LoL NA wins 1 tournament against Br about a year ago and you think they are god?? Haha Go sleep

2017-07-09 00:48

They said the same in epl s4 finals too

2017-07-09 10:11

Allu plz

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why crying to allu, why not karrigan?

Because Karrigan is doing his role so good. Allu has a role...AWPing which has stopped doing that for months

2017-07-08 22:27

u think allu should be like kenny? Rushing? No. Allu's role is to support their agressive players rain and niko

2017-07-08 22:50

Support by missing his shots so NiKo and Rain can clean up Allu his mistakes?

2017-07-09 01:52

lul +1

2017-07-09 10:12

Ok so if I was the only one who is saying that. Even on his tweeter with many fans, people is saying the same thing. When he played the last final against SK on train, that was a good performance. On cache he fucking panics and give away the site so easily. I am not surprised that SK was taking control of the site where allu was holding cause they knew he sucks and the rotate could have been slow and that worked and won

2017-07-09 11:26

why not k1o then? or niko? isn't he supose to be carrying the team?

2017-07-08 22:52

Kio is a support player, NiKo is doing his job really well just didn't show up today surprisingly. But an AWPer should always show up.

nice logic

2017-07-09 02:24

That doesnt make sense...

2017-07-09 02:48

yes ur right lol, i meant that NiKo, Rain and the AWPer should almost always show up. I fucked up my sentence lol

2017-07-09 12:49

Wtf, when team have good player and you still lost. It's certainly poorly decision maker on the team. And karrigan who was at fault, just because you're an IGL it's not mean you can play like a shit. There a lot of 2vs3 1vs3 or so where bom has been plant and yet. Karrigan make a call to save weapon, what the poin if u have the like of niko and rain if u don't use it at situation like that to make a cluct h

2017-07-09 03:24

Can you write that again in a decent English please?

2017-07-09 11:21

Should be easy for sk in the final against clown 9

2017-07-12 07:08

EZ for C9

2017-07-12 19:01

WalleN too good for EU to handle

Rain vs 9 players...

SK are just dominating this game :O

THE SECOND MAP WAS INSANE, HOLY SHIT. WP FAZE #RUNSK

gg godspeed faze

Fer beast.

EU CS LUL #RUNSKG #CRYISFREE #FALLENISBACK #FERGODTOP1

Gfallen, never disppointed

Still some people say: "kennyS is better then FalleN" Really?!

ikr fallen rekt kennys so hard in this match

Yes, fallen has activated the wallen mode in these playoffs

2017-07-09 00:29

u took the bait u idiot kennys wasnt even in this match

2017-07-09 14:47

flag checks out

2017-07-09 00:23

Cologne 2016 Throwback SA VS NA

*EPL S4 Finals throwback Just had to say it lol, hoping for a good game.

2017-07-08 23:01

Don't remind that, thanks

2017-07-09 01:32

Poor FaZe always being raped by SK

Cache was SK's pick

And they won anyway

2017-07-08 21:54

Poor Rain

EZ SK

lets hope shoudie will trash them

EXPECTED

This is a complete fail by Karrigan... his inability to boost his team morale and really bad calls... like the worst calls ever! Not to mention 20 frags in 2 maps...

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lel karrigan and niko are the reason faze is playing semi finals on the most important tournaments, faze without karrigan = trash

2017-07-08 22:19

Karrigan always chokes in semis. Dating back to his days with Dig, when I actually rooted for him.

He might be, who knows, but without him faze becomes trash tier like navi, fnatic but probably worse. FaZe is right now one of the best tactical teams in the world and all thanks to karrigan. I still remember fox days on faze and how bad they were. If thats what u want back...What faze needs is a better awper to start with.

2017-07-08 22:38

Stupid comment. He is one of the big reasons why they have succes.

2017-07-09 11:12

well i didnt say that he should be dropped or anything... i just said that this series was his fault... so read pls..

2017-07-09 13:15

Oki, sorry. But i think it is hard to put all on him.

2017-07-09 14:45

karrigan stats ! omg

hope shroud becomes Cloud9's rain

When your teammates are already dying, everyone should be impressed.

Gringos accept, Sk is the best team of the world! I really think that Sk, Faze, Astralis and G2 can win the next major, but the favorite, and best team, is Sk!

One of the best? Sure but sadly nobody will ever top nips run. I don't mind SK I personally think their fanbase is a bunch of 60 iq HIV infected plebs....I really like Fallen , anyone else on sk I don't really care to follow (not saying they are bad) but yeah they are one of the best , they won major after major but their run is not nearly as impressive as NiP back when they won 82 straight matches and GTR was the best player in the world the birth of the 4:3 stretched era. Idk it was right before csgo blew up it seemed, just revolutionizing the scene. I'm not a fan of either nip or sk, but fans of a team tend to lose objectivity and are really biased, glad to see SK out of there slump its good for the scene. They are lucky VP isn't in the final , those vets on that team own sk, people act like SK wasn't in a pretty deep slump and they been owning since Columbus 2016. Honestly if they lose the BR tears would be spilled all over twitch and hltv since they already won apparently lmao.

2017-07-08 22:42

87* nt this isnt the nba

2017-07-09 00:25

2017-07-09 01:58

GG wp for both Sk and Rain

kkkk nice one

2017-07-09 00:21

Stupid german crowd cheering for Faze on a german organization match. What a pleasure to see them being rekt by SK. FAZE DOWN!!

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why wouid u cheer for some brazilians just because they are in a german org instead of cheering for a german player?

2017-07-08 21:59

Faze Clan don't have german players dude.

2017-07-08 22:03

niko

2017-07-08 22:06

*facepalm intensifies*

2017-07-08 23:02

lol... Yeah, right. How we didn't notice before Niko was German *facepalm*

2017-07-08 23:11

ikr how do people not notice these common things wtf

haahahah +1

-1 for you for not getting a joke

2017-07-08 23:22

who is German in Faze clan dude?

I guess what he means is a lot cheer for them because of Niko's days in Mousesports.

2017-07-08 23:03

Nothing was better than watching those br's blow the tourney in Brazil to a team y'all call clown9

2017-07-08 22:44

EZ Best team in the world !!!! SK <33 NiP <333

yeah just like everyone said sk will win in ESL PL S4 hahahahah

Sk Is another team now

nobody believed in c9 since quarterfinals and they are in finals just like in esl pl s4

You really wanna compare that slumping sk with this one?

2017-07-08 23:25

slumpimg ? if you always make finals and top 4 and this is slumping then i dont know what is dominating...

2017-07-08 23:35

Faze lost 2 pistol on cache, and anti-eco not good…only rain fiight!

Congrats for reaching another finale, but honeslty fuck off and twist a wrist. How boring it is to have another one sided finale.

2017-07-08 21:50

the same was said at epl s4 pls dont jiny ty :)

overpass: rain 5-17 kio 4-17 cache: kio 18-26 allu 16-23 -kio +valde -allu +s1mple

Overpass allu 13-17

2017-07-08 22:28

But mah international team with all different countries!

2017-07-08 23:04

team would go to shit without kio

2017-07-09 02:26

Fer mvp tournament

NT Rain :D

-Allu +Xantares Karrigan AWP NIKO 2nd AWP

XD NT

2017-07-08 22:29

Fake flag?

2017-07-08 23:05

Good game. As a FaZe fan SK did deserve the win. They played much better than FaZe in Overpass but Cache could have gone either way. Still a bit sad FaZe didn't go to the finals but whatever. GODRAIN.

Rain was really insane. One of my favorite players. And people still get all hyped on Niko. Rain is the real deal on Faze Clan.

2017-07-08 23:15

+1, rain was on fire today.

2017-07-09 02:57

People were talking shit about Cloud9 vs Na'Vi, and what did they do? 2-0 Na'Vi. I'm hoping C9 can pull out some clutches and win :D GLHF

HAHHHHAHAHAHAHAH REKT

SK TOP 1 CRY IS FREE

2017-07-08 21:56

RUN SKG

2017-07-08 21:57

Bo3 >>>>>>>>>>>Bo1 Where is SS now? Lol

Bot allu

tomorrow's results: SK vs C9 16:6 16:8 16:7 C9'll choke... a wasted spot in the playoffs. Hope to be wrong anyway

2017-07-08 22:00

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They will do better than faze at least.

2017-07-08 22:12

C9 cant win cuz shroud playing so bad

2017-07-08 22:30

LOL

Lol has this retard watched the tourney? Shroud & ska have actually stepped up imo, when they aren't doing well the team doesn't get out of groups. Shroud has been unlike typical lan shroud , not even a c9 fan but they have been impressive

2017-07-08 22:47

2 good events and you forget that shroud has been dogshit ever since 2015. Just gtfo shroud dickrider, will you ?

2017-07-08 23:58

I'm just gonna tell you to go to r/global offensive and leave

nah

2017-07-08 23:40

Gj SK! America Finals in Cologne! Rip EU CSGO!

Expected

NOT SURPRISED TO BE HONEST

#FaZeDown! Most overrated team in history. Stupid crowd, so happy to see that OpTic butthurt guy sad.

U happy when someone is sad? U sadist???

I'm indeed happy for seeing that guy sad, after his main team(I assume by his shirt) OG, then the most overrated team in the history of CS:GO, #FazeDown

2017-07-09 02:56

> Top 2 world > Overrated Pick one

2017-07-09 03:40

TOP 1 x TOP2 4Head 4Head

Good job guys! Let's climb the top once again!

2017-07-08 22:08

It's too bad this wasn't a bo5, inferno is my favorite map by far to watch. Good cs regardless, catch the first game later.

bo5 semi finals? no way dude

2017-07-08 22:10

Yeah ik would be too many games, tbh I just like games on some maps more than others. Overpass is so large that there's not much action vs. inferno/nuke/mirage, you don't see the kind of spraydown or flanks as much. Either way, no complaints.

2017-07-08 22:16

There is always room for a BO5 semis. 10 maps maximum to be played in a day, whereas sometimes it's 12 (4 BO3 quarters)

2017-07-08 23:30

rain 1v9 this game

nt 5-17

2017-07-08 22:32

C9 win 3-2 somehow in final EPL S4 Flashbacks

Fer top fragging every game for SK last couple of months.. New top1?

Damn FaZe are also bad af lol

2017-07-08 22:15

SK true gods of csgo! Going to be a boring final tomorrow!

2017-07-08 22:34

Karrigan once again terrible. no surprise.

2017-07-08 22:35

Wasted spot.

great job sk, ggwp faze

2017-07-08 22:41

sorry for faze i like then . GG SK

gogo SK

good job sk gaming u the best ty ez skins ez life

2017-07-08 23:26

Probably the best that ever existed on csgo

SK will defeat the title of IEM Cologne !! Cratz , monsters !! <3

So ezzzzz

2017-07-08 23:34

Hope c9 can fix the mistakes they've done against Navi today and give some trouble to SK. There's a chance to be honest but will require everyone's best and even some mistakes by the best team.

2017-07-08 23:41

Can you think of 3 maps C9 can take from SK?

2017-07-08 23:49

1 mirage 2 cbble 3 overpass

2017-07-09 00:27

even train is possible, more than cobblestone imo, since its a good map from sk still but its not like they're almost unbeatable there, like they were with fnx. C9 has to show the agressive gamestyle in most of the rounds, they have lower chances and nothing to lose at all.

2017-07-09 13:52

its a BO5, Cloud9 needs to delivery their best and play out of their hearts, they have a big chance to win this... this match will be insane !!

2017-07-09 15:12

It is good that SK as a brand have such a great and successfull team. Never a bad thing to see this CS legend shining.

2017-07-08 23:53

Kioshima almost getting outfragged by karrigan smh So many inconsistent individual performances this tournament Prepare well for Krakow my boys, and all will be forgiven

2017-07-08 23:59