Astralis beat Immortals in overtime

17-7-2017 00:30

Astralis have picked up their first victory at PGL Major Krakow following a 19-17 win over Immortals on Overpass.

The last match of the day started with the Brazilian side picking up the pistol round with an A execution as Terrorists. Astralis could not do much in the eco rounds, but after buying up they managed to equalise the score.

Immortals kept falling short against by their opponents' strats, forcing them to call for a tactical pause after losing their fifth round in a row. Despite not being able to grab the following one thanks to a 1v2 clutch from Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander, the Brazilians halted their opponents' momentum with a three-round streak to bring the scoreline to a 6-6 stalemate. Still, it was Astralis who got the lead before switching sides as they won the last final rounds of the first half.

gla1ve and co. managed to close out the game in overtime

Now as Counter-Terrorists, Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz and co. easily got out to a 12-6 lead after winning the pistol round and the corresponding anti-ecos. Then, Immortals won the first full gun round thanks to a triple-kill from Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe with the AWP in a retake situation, inspiring his team to reduce the deficit to 9-12 and to break Astralis' economy.

Despite winning the next two rounds, the first of which armed with nothing but pistols, the Danish fivemen would lose to a semi-buy as well, with Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles stepping up for his team with a trio of kills with a Scout. From that point, Immortals took control of the game and eventually reached match point with a six-round streak. However, Astralis managed to finally break through their opponents' defence to take the game to overtime.

The first half of overtime ended with Immortals securing a 2-1 advantage, with Astralis' round coming on the back of a triple-kill from Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen. The Danes then put up a flawless CT display to secure a hard-fought victory.

PGL Major Krakow 2017Best of 1

Astralis

Matchpage

16th July 2017

Immortals

Overpass

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	32 - 23	+9	95.7	72.2%	1.41
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	31 - 22	+9	86.8	75.0%	1.34
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	24 - 21	+3	66.8	83.3%	1.19
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	19 - 24	-5	56.4	69.4%	0.87
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	18 - 25	-7	67.6	63.9%	0.83

Immortals	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles LUCAS1	28 - 27	+1	97.6	77.8%	1.24
Vito 'kNgV-' Giuseppe kNgV-	27 - 25	+2	77.0	66.7%	1.06
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	24 - 28	-4	82.9	66.7%	0.94
Lucas 'steel' Lopes steel	20 - 22	-2	60.1	75.0%	0.92
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles HEN1	16 - 22	-6	51.4	63.9%	0.78

With Day 1 now over, here's how the Swiss group stage looks:

1-0
Gambit	fnatic
Virtus.pro	SK
BIG	Cloud9
G2	Astralis
0-1
MOUZ	FlipSid3
Vega Squadron	PENTA
FaZe	North
Natus Vincere	Immortals

2017-07-17 00:35

6 replies

when Astralis start losing rounds you can bet that there will be a "tech" pause, it was like what? 3 or 5 tech pauses from them lol xDD

2017-07-17 00:36

5 replies

No communication is allowed during tech pauses though

2017-07-17 00:50

4 replies

its to break the other team momentum tho, every time that Immortals put some rounds together Astralis would call for a tech pause, i expected Astralis to stomp IMM but that was shady as fuck by Astralis.

2017-07-17 00:52

3 replies

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that... Simply unfair.

2017-07-17 00:59

Do some collection of these moments and show me, would love to see them. And it makes more sense when you remember that immortals is a very emotional team. Ps. Didn't actually watch most of the match

2017-07-17 01:03

or maybe something was actually wrong, all these conspiracy theories..

2017-07-17 05:18

wow

rip stream

luck

that was close

gla1ve just had it in there :)!

god dupreeh

Nice stream

2017-07-17 00:37

as always Astralis winning using the same timeout strategy bullshit. But yeah, I couldn't expect something different coming from them

obviously that astralis won, ggwp but suffocating against a tier 2 team, i didn't expected that

2017-07-17 00:38

9 replies

All teams within the top10 can win against eachother right now.

2017-07-17 00:44

8 replies

yep, you're right but i was expecting a lot more from astralis since they have saving strats for months

2017-07-17 00:46

7 replies

yea Astralis was not very convincing, maybe the map idk.

2017-07-17 01:16

It's their best map lul

2017-07-17 02:11

lol seriously?

2017-07-17 03:07

sk was suffering against penta and could have lost that game, and penta is without doubt weaker than immortals.

2017-07-17 05:22

why are you guys talking about sk? idk and no, 16-13 its a normal score now a 19-17.... this is a suffering

2017-07-17 05:28

2 replies

16-13 is a normal score, but a very close score. and sk was up 10-0 at one point. on paper sk should have won that game 16-5ish.

2017-07-17 05:30

1 reply

yep +1

2017-07-17 05:31

I honestly think that these "TECH PAUSES" need to be more clear for the viewers. At least on majors and 250k tournaments, there should be a rule where they should write on the screen exactly why the tech pause was needed and what is happening. Also, booths should be obligatory, along with not wearing caps. All these fishy situations need to stop, make it 100% transparent for the fans.

2017-07-17 00:39

+100000

2017-07-17 07:08

2017-07-17 08:48

+1 ... so annoying

2017-07-17 11:10

nt:( It was a 1 lucky moment on 15:14:((((

2017-07-17 00:40

That OT was so fishy ...

IMT starts to get a round streak what do we do? TECH ISSUES! They were like 3 or 4 on this game? Plus tactical timeout off course! Astralis is a sad sad team lmfao...

2017-07-17 00:41

easiest prediction of my life KAppa

2017-07-17 00:42

imt cant win in OT weak mentality

2017-07-17 00:43

PGL trust level is close to none. WP Immortals, if wasn't the tech issues always happening in crucial moments (like the screens shitty in IMT win streak) i think it would be totally possible. Edit: I miss ELEAGUE, MLG and ESL. No more PGL, please

2017-07-17 00:51

If Astralis suffered to win a very fishy OT against Immortals, then they no chance to win a BO3 against SK. And I also think they might lose to Faze.

2017-07-17 01:51

Oh yeah Every time IMT get a round streak it is tech issues,man fuck you astralis and fuck PGL too..i miss MLG and ELEAGUE

2017-07-17 03:20

PGL has been one big tech pause! How many break downs have you seen the first day? Every match had problems.

2017-07-17 09:45

stop crying astralis shouldve won earlier when it was like 14-8 and they lost 5v3 vs force

2017-07-17 10:08

Dude PGL seems to be organized by my primary school, how the fuck can you have so many tech issues on what is supposed to be one of the biggest event of the year?

2017-07-17 12:44