Liquid defeat Astralis; to ESL One NY semi-finals

16-9-2017 03:55

Liquid have progressed to the semi-finals at ESL One New York after defeating Astralis 2-1.

The best-of-three Group B decider match between Astralis and Liquid started on Inferno where the Danish team started on the T-side. Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz & company won the pistol round without losing any players but Liquid responded in the second round with Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano's triple kill.

The North Americans made it 7-2 after coming up top in the early stages of the half but Astralis went on a six round streak to lead 8-7 at halftime. Liquid picked up the second half pistol round but couldn't win against Astralis' force buy in the following round as the Danish squad led 9-8.

Despite having a 13-9 lead, Astralis crumbled, losing six rounds in a row which gave Liquid two map points. Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski's team converted the second map point into the victory to take the lead in the series (16-14).

Liquid beat Astralis in a three-map series

Astralis got the first four rounds on the CT-side on Cache but lost the fifth round. However, they responded and made it 5-1 in their favor. Liquid were unfazed and won eight of the last nine rounds of the first half to take a 9-6 lead.

After winning the first three rounds of the second half, Astralis lost the first weapon round as Liquid led 10-9. The rest of the half was a very close affair, with Liquid wasting two match points as they allowed Astralis to take the map to overtime, in which the Danes would come out victorious.

Astralis fall in the group stage

It all came down to Mirage, which saw Liquid get out to a 4-0 lead on the Terrorist side. Powered by Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen, Astralis went on a massive run, taking eight rounds in a row as they kept their defense very tight. Liquid would still react before the end of the half, winning two more rounds to keep their hopes alive.

Now on the CT side, Liquid won the pistol round and the following anti-eco. A third-round buy from Astralis failed to bear fruits, leaving them with no money in the bank and giving Liquid the lead for the first time since the early stages of the first half.

Astralis tried to find a way back into the game, but they struggled to break through the North Americans' defense. The rounds won by the Danes were few and far between, which propelled Liquid into a 15-11 lead. After calling a tactical pause, Astralis found a lifeline with an all-out B push, but Liquid fought back immediately to send the Europeans home empty-handed.

ESL One New York 2017Best of 3

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Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	71 - 57	+14	81.5	66.0%	1.17
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	62 - 60	+2	76.0	75.5%	1.11
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	66 - 63	+3	80.3	63.8%	1.07
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	61 - 54	+7	71.7	69.1%	1.04
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	46 - 64	-18	51.1	66.0%	0.81

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	79 - 59	+20	91.1	74.5%	1.33
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	73 - 59	+14	81.1	69.1%	1.18
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	68 - 61	+7	82.8	66.0%	1.12
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	40 - 60	-20	49.5	62.8%	0.76
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	37 - 67	-30	52.9	59.6%	0.69

GG to both of the team, again great run by TL. SK den VP now Astralis, best out of all 3 of em.

2017-09-16 04:03

3 replies

NA finals, C9 vs Liquid

2017-09-16 03:56

2 replies

ez Luxembourg ez Liquid

2017-09-16 03:58

No chances

2017-09-16 04:02

RIP

2017-09-16 03:55

1 reply

EU sucks, holy shit.

GGGGGGGGGG

TEAM LIQUID 2-0 SK - ESG MYKONOS 2-1 VP - ESL NEW YORK 2-1 ASTRALIS - ESL NEW YORK 2ND ESG MYKONOS IF TEAM LIQUID DOESN'T SCREAM TOP 10, IDK WHAT DOES!

8 replies

2-1 VP...

They are indeed playing like beasts, but please don't include vp on this, they're done

4 replies

Still, no matter what VP has always been considered the true enemies of NA. Team Liquid has finally beaten them.

2017-09-16 04:04

VP should be include for not just #38's reason, but because VP can still unexpectedly show up during games like these.

2017-09-16 05:31

VP has not showed up in 100000 years

2017-09-16 06:14

DH Las Vegas and the ELeague major was less then a year ago.

2017-09-18 18:36

Team Liquid really is fine! Twistzz and EliGE for me were the most evolved on the team!

2017-09-16 04:01

agreed - twistzz is fantastic

2017-09-16 04:30

Good for Liquid that they made they home crowd pround

england first language?

Nein

2017-09-16 07:27

Twistzz is INSANE

Is my team good now?

11 replies

Let's see what bo3 against SK has prepared for us, Mr. Northamerican

2017-09-16 03:59

10 replies

Lol they won the last Taco was sick tho

9 replies

In hindsight, that ESG win seems like a fluke. SK didn't seem like the SK they usually were. My excitement blinded me from that. This is the REAL test for Liquid

2017-09-16 04:12

Liquid is a good team in terms of aim. Elige and twist are insane aimers, JDM is a good awper, only nitro is kinda slow but it's ok he does good entry fragging But they were missing a good IGL. Let's be honest Hilo wasn't a good IGL. He was a streamer more than anything... When liquid got Stan I was very happy for them because Stan is probably the best NA IGL. He carried OpTic to win Eleague season 2 against astralis. Oh and there is zews, a excellent coach, SK won 2 majors with his help Tldr: liquid have all the right pieces. They have a good future in top10

2017-09-16 04:17

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I who have been watching them since they had daps and NAF know this better than anyone. Don't get how this ties into my point of SK having an off day at Mykonos. I thought the team could make top 5 for the longest time after Stan joined. The results at the time went against it though. Tier 1 quid is starting to show up now

2017-09-16 04:23

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Just pointing it out that even if they love to SK it doesn't mean it was a fluke they are a great team regardless.

2017-09-16 04:25

daps tha fkin baddie LUL

daps hasnt had good results at all post OpTic but I still think he or FNS should get a spot on Cloud9.

2017-09-16 14:41

daps/FNS in C9 LUL

2017-09-17 18:31

Why not? Who else do you recommend? Another fragger? We see how that worked out. FNS isn't seeing much success. daps is even worse. RUSH wasn't seeing much success either. tarik too. They still signed them. I think a guy with a brain deserves a spot on the team for once. They tried Slemmy and it didn't last long, and it's sad that once that didn't work, they just quit going after IGLs and went back to looking for killers.

2017-09-17 23:22

If it was up to me I wouldn't have any of those baddies on the team to begin with.

2017-09-17 23:25

Expected

NA cs era

Murica

Stan and nitro got fucking hard carried all series lets fucking go liquid

2017-09-16 03:57

It's ok Stan is IGL so as long as he is getting good strats it's all good Nitro is entry so as long as liquid is getting bomb plants it's all good

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stan wasn't calling... lol nitr0 has been calling since ESG

2017-09-16 04:11

What? How come? Stan is a excellent igl, why would they change this?

It was something about how stan plays lurk role and he said it was hard for him to call while he plays that role. To me he was getting frustrated by his stats so he wanted to see if anyone else wanted to try IGL and Nitr0 stepped up. Didn't really help considering -30 k/d and he wasn't even igl'ing lol

yeah. i wonder what the future holds for stan if hes not igl and keeps having sub 1.0 ratings.

2017-09-16 10:10

Stan just suck

2017-09-16 06:36

someone named _SaltY doesn't know that there's more to cs than just stats.

2017-09-16 04:07

expected

GODislaw

Stanislaw -30?? Wtf monkaS

I'm glad they won, want to see more

Mr van Dulken is beasting

Let's goooo

2017-09-16 04:00

Batistuta on suicide alert

For him, always Dane teams were in bad days and opponents were lucky

rip astralis

GG congratz to Liquid very well played

Ex zews

ggez

EZ 4 SK

Kjaerbye's game ratings since December 2nd hltv.org/stats/players/8394/Kjaerbye

2017-09-16 04:06

And people said SK fell off heheehe

NA CS PogChamp

Team Liquid has not been doing well in the championships since the time of Hiko and S1mple, they are improving a lot, they will evolve a lot!

Impressive performance Team Liquid! Congratz, ZEWS! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

Congrats to just zews?

2017-09-16 04:13

of course not, to all the team, but he is my brother, so, directly to him

2017-09-16 04:16

Understandable

2017-09-16 04:24

Stanislaw was seangares levels of bad and Liquid beat the third best team in the entire world. WAKE UP C9. YOU NEED AN IGL

third best team? they might not even be top 5 atm

Astralis is always top 3 no matter what you are basing it on.

2017-09-16 06:33

Current form: North, g2, liquid(?), faze(?), sk(?), gambit(?) are better Recent achievements: g2 north and gambit are better

2017-09-16 06:46

But he's not even igl

2017-09-16 17:40

But he's a secondary caller. He IS helping nitr0 call. nitr0 isn't doing that all on his own. And his lurks are fucking fantastic. Even if he wasn't IGL, his lurks alone earn him a spot on Liquid. Im sure everyone forgot because of the Astralis series

2017-09-16 17:41

-stan -nitro +steel +boltz

2017-09-16 04:14

Zews work is absolutely nuts

zews and stan made this team

2017-09-16 17:52

Jdm finally coming to life as a awper he can have some really good games but even when he is not beasting with the awp and has a bad game the frags he does get r still very key frags

The real na superteam

How do you win with stan -30 and nitro -20 HOW SWAY??

I havent been watching many games, but it looks like na is finally getting work done! Impressive results from liquid recently. Btw, did kjaerbye cure his parkinson? His stats have been terrible lately

2017-09-16 04:28

No hacks no win, no shake shakey no major, no 30 bombs every game

2017-09-16 07:52

More people thinking Kjaerbye is cheating :DDD

2017-09-16 08:47

Lets go N.A. Home turf. Give em a taste of some freedom.

2017-09-16 04:32

ASTRALUL

2017-09-16 04:35

This is Zews' magic.

2017-09-16 04:36

when your bottom two go neg 50....

2017-09-16 04:53

great job na

2017-09-16 05:20

Time to replace kjaer?

2017-09-16 05:23

-kjaer +konfig

2017-09-16 17:35

Astralis LUL

2017-09-16 05:26

holy shit they defeat asstralis after choking horribly on mirage today? amazing..

2017-09-16 05:34

Nice

2017-09-16 05:37

Astralia era has be gone!

There was no era....

2017-09-16 10:28

Wow, a smart A-fan :thinking:

2017-09-16 15:10

It's not that I am smart, I am just realistic. Sadly, many on HLTV isn't exactly anywhere near that, but ty :)

2017-09-16 17:36

-30

2017-09-16 06:02

KB played poorly. Hope he backs up and win next tournament! Good games!

2017-09-16 06:31

Cant wait to see vs cloud9

2017-09-16 06:52

Astralis too busy building a brand than a team

2017-09-16 07:37

what the fuck, they went out in quarters in malmo, now in groups.... probablty roster changes incoming soon if this keeps up

2017-09-16 07:45

Ez pz astralis the new na'vi

2017-09-16 07:46

Feels bad :(

2017-09-16 08:04

:( No gg

2017-09-16 08:05

Inc changes..

2017-09-16 08:09

Batistuta, whatcha doing?

2017-09-16 08:56

omfg

2017-09-16 09:25

lmao n1

2017-09-16 10:32

Crytistuta is not here when they lose

2017-09-16 11:12

-Kjaerbye +k0nfig

2017-09-16 11:41

BATISTUTA??

2017-09-16 15:11

Kjaerbye has been horrible for a few monthes now.. He used to be almost konfig like skilled wtf happened ? They'll need to make some changes soon if nothing changes but I doubt Konfig will switch team , wouldn't be a good move atm. North are on the rise and Astralis on the fall...

2017-09-16 16:38