Heroic shock SK, advance to ELEAGUE quarter-finals

1-10-2017 03:09

Heroic have pulled off a massive upset in ELEAGUE Premier's Group D decider, sending SK home following a 2-1 win (Overpass 8-16, Inferno 16-5, Mirage 16-8).

The deciding series of Group D at ELEAGUE began on SK's pick, Overpass, where the Brazilians got off to a great start on the back of Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo's great play in the first pistol round. HEROIC were unable to find the right defense for the B attacks, which allowed their opponents to go up 6-1.

SK then switched things up with a play on A without success, and even their B explosions stopped working as they ran into a red-hot Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridh over and over. At that point, the scoreline was even at 6-6, when the B bombsite defense finally gave in and SK ended up switching to the CT side with an 8-7 lead.

Another important move from TACO saw him claim two crucial kills from the flank in the second pistol round, helping his squad swiftly seal the deal, with HEROIC only getting one round in the second half.

Heroic will battle North in the quarter-finals

Inferno followed and it was HEROIC who picked up the pistol round that time, with Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen and Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen pulling all the weight in the B play. Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David responded with a 1v2 clutch in the following forcebuy, however, and SK went up 3-1.

A close retake scenario on the A bombsite set off a flurry of rounds going in favor of the Danes, who continued to batter on the defense with well-rehearsed tactics for six in a row. Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's quick double that allowed SK to win the next round did nothing to stop HEROIC, as Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer & co. grabbed three more before the half ended at 10-5.

With the second pistol round in the bag, Denmark's third-best team emerged victorious, as Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen's triple closed out map two at 16-5.

The map to decide it all was Mirage. Starting as Counter-Terrorists, HEROIC picked up a massive lead from the get-go, winning the first seven rounds without a response from SK.

The Brazilian side clinched a round amongst chaos, but the next three went the other way. A close-quarters fight in middle cost HEROIC the following anti-eco, and SK went on to grab two more rounds by the end of the half, much thanks to FalleN's 1v2 at the end.

A fast A split sent HEROIC to 14-4 despite two scary rounds up against low buys, but it took the Danes a while before they could close out the series. SK held on for four rounds, but then niko turned up with a mouth-watering triple in an eco round, which helped his squad complete the massive upset at 16-8, 2-1.

ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017Best of 3

HEROIC

Matchpage

1st October 2017

Overpass

Inferno

Mirage

Broken tag

After HEROIC clinched the last spot in the playoffs, taking place from October 10-13, here is what the finalized single elimination bracket looks like:

Cloud9	vs. G2
Astralis	vs. fnatic
FaZe	vs. Envy
North	vs. HEROIC

expected

2017-10-01 03:10

23 replies

Not a shock if SK is playing worse than NiP

15 replies

have fun changing your flag

8 replies

He won't change his flag you newbie

2017-10-01 03:11

7 replies

YEEES BOISSS LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO TOO EZ FOR HEROIC

2017-10-01 03:12

6 replies

"haters will suicide of envy/hate/jealousy and have their tongues burned after seeing us on ELEAGUE" - TACO I used google to translate this: i.imgur.com/eELOvpU.png source: twitter.com/renatocquela/status/91429749.. Apparently TACO expected SK to stomp everyone on ELEAGUE xD

2017-10-01 03:42

5 replies

-baldo +boltz

2017-10-01 04:13

2 replies

Baldo lmao

2017-10-01 07:42

Nice one

2017-10-02 17:56

He meant fans

2017-10-01 07:27

Looool

2017-10-01 10:50

Brazillian soon to be danish flag

1 reply

he has always had a brazil flag since 2014 so i dont think so

2017-10-01 09:38

wow something is wrong when a Brazilian has to like nip now xD

2017-10-01 12:38

2017-10-01 23:38

LOL Brazilians actually love NiP and had always loved them(dont even ask me why cause I also really dont know, but our fans seem to like NiP a lot)

2017-10-02 04:54

-TACO +boltz -FELPS +Lucas1

3 replies

The twins are gonna stick together sooooo nah

2017-10-01 04:55

- taco + kng its done Sk no 1

2017-10-02 04:46

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ARE U KIDDING? HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSJKSKSSKWOKWFKPQOWEKAKWKDKAKSKDKWJAJ

2017-10-04 17:12

I wonder how SK orgs feels when they replaced current heroic with Luminosity - being eliminated by them - wahaha that and VP getting to ECS over space soldiers made my day ;)

2017-10-01 09:45

ahm, they must feel good. Sk won most events in 2017, it was a better choice. Heroic are better than SK atm, but that doest wins trophies

2017-10-01 18:52

They couldn't care less. When they were SK roster they didn't win shit.

2017-10-02 04:01

Really impressed by these danes

4 replies

+1 I hope they play well against North

2017-10-01 06:18

Sadly for Heroic. I think they would've had bigger chances if they would've faced Cloud9 or even FaZe than North. North knows them too well, and they also have a revenge after their miserable day at the ECS-qualifier where they went 0-4 vs. Heroic and SS.

2017-10-01 14:17

7/8 teams in play offs from Europe LUL. Also SK top 1 LUL.

2017-10-01 10:52

It will be 4/4

2017-10-01 13:18

3rd :O SK are DONE

They got eliminated?

2017-10-01 03:15

yep, the teams in the playoffs are North, Astralis, FaZe, G2, Cloud9, Heroic, Fnatic, and Team EnVyus

2017-10-01 03:17

easy

lmao "Nikola "NiKo" Kovacs" 6th paragraph

2017-10-01 03:13

Kkk

3 danish teams in elague xd

Anders must be having a KreyGasm xD

2017-10-01 05:16

Yeah, but Heroic are meeting North in first match, right?

2017-10-01 09:40

yes

2017-10-01 10:16

yeah just incredible how good danish scene is right now.

2017-10-01 09:55

Also 30/80 players :)

2017-10-01 11:09

10 replies

15/40 you mean... Never heard of 10 players per team... :)

2017-10-01 11:21

Sorry im retarded. Just woke up and still got da booze in my veins. >_<

2017-10-01 11:44

16/40?

Isnt it 15? AST+North+(heroic-moddi) +karrigan. Did i miss someone?

MODDII isn't Danish, just to let you know. Since you don't seem to be aware of that.

2017-10-01 16:07

Moddi is clearly danish.

2017-10-01 16:58

Moddi is from sweden and lives in Denmark

2017-10-01 17:58

You dont know how it is, moddi is 100% danish Maybe even 101%

2017-10-01 23:47

he speaks swedish when mad... so no :P

2017-10-03 23:23

110% then, even i speak sweedish when im mad! ;b

2017-10-03 23:35

wtf

This is so LUL

Bye bye br.

Cloud9 vs G2 - Cloud9 Astralis vs fnatic - Astralis Faze vs Envyus - Faze North vs Heroic - Heroic

13 replies

i think G2 Astralis Faze North

G2 vs North 100% win. G2 vs C9 is 50/50.

2017-10-01 03:18

50-50? are u kidding me? its atleadt 70 to g2, c9 is pure shit lmao

2017-10-01 09:57

C9 will win. See and learn.

2017-10-01 11:11

I also think C9 could win it, they have acc look really good this eleague and G2 have had their issues sooooo 50/50

2017-10-01 12:44

Watch and learn *

2017-10-01 12:57

See and learn.

2017-10-01 13:02

2017-10-01 03:19

G2 FNATIC ENVYUS NORTH

2017-10-01 04:16

Envy beating faze lmao

2017-10-01 15:00

Not sure about C9, but with how G2 is doing in EPL S6 C9 has a high chance of progressing, FaZe I agree (not because I'm a fan, because theyre just better), Astralis definitely, Heroic I aso agree considering how strong they are atm.

2017-10-01 10:55

Online

2017-10-01 11:04

Yea, but that doesn't mean the bad form in EPL won't transfer to ELEAGUE.

2017-10-01 11:06

Relaxa, o próximo é nosso by FalleN

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

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Vai se foder

2017-10-01 03:16

ahushuashuashua vai tomar no seu cu filho da puta lul

2017-10-01 03:29

Kkkkkkkkkkkkk eu amo o brasil

2017-10-01 16:52

Huahuahauhauhaua

2017-10-01 19:40

SK is really bad currently, despite a great mid year. It looks like SK got the same VP boat.

11 replies

Is this south american kebab?

honestly they were better with fnx. felps has added nothing

It's hard to say. SK Gaming won a lot of tournaments in 2017 with felps. It's a psychological problem, like lack of motivation and confidence. Watch semifinal and final of ECS. SK was very consistent. In Cologne as well... And fnx is never gonna be part of SK again.

2017-10-01 04:00

true. with fnx the decline also came after player break so maybe its motivation for the whole team. but imo fnx was key to winning some Lan series' vs strong opponents in his time. felps just exists in the background whilst cold,fer and fallen have had to rise to the challenge

fnx was an incredible lurker, no one will ever replace him.

2017-10-01 08:26

Exactly on sk he had overall 65% 1v1 clutch success and on the map cobble it was 72% success. He was god like

2017-10-01 23:25

Honestly, felps should go to a different team (like back to IMT, they really could use a player like him) and develop more. And yea the break screwed SK up I agree.

2017-10-01 10:58

I totally agree, steel boltz,Lucas + YeL and showtime The would be a nice imt lineup. Shame it won't happen

2017-10-01 23:26

rhaegar was a cunt

2017-10-01 09:59

agree, RIP two most enjoyable teams to watch :/

2017-10-01 13:01

make changes FFS

they just need to remove felps and bring fnx back

2017-10-01 03:43

Fnx bad karma and like fer make bad descession

2017-10-01 04:01

bad karma i can agree with but for decision making he was good, his 1v1 clutch ration when on sk/luminosity was 65% overall and 75% on cobble.

2017-10-01 04:08

towards the end of sk his form did decline but he improved it again on imt. i just think he has a higher level than felps

2017-10-01 04:09

LUL xd

yeah the fucking bois

DISBAND SK

KICK BALDO SK LUL LUL LUL

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA CYA SK

SK just horrible looked so lost in 2nd and 3rd map

EXPECTED NOT SHOCK Noob journalist ahahahhaha

lol a sorryass Chinese talking shit

2017-10-01 03:36

gyazo.com/aeb8490ae2657309ca23255677518f.. ?????? FOUND THE BR FAKEFLAGGER AAAAAAHHHHAAHAHHAHAH

Rip sk era

Era?

2017-10-08 11:39

Ez for renegades

"massive upset"

kick taco felps pls

“Are you mad? Cause I'm not.” You got cancer Taco?

first

ez 4 fake medkits

Ggwp, really exciting game!

That's the wrong Niko.

Crise no sk

Very good, sad days for Brazilians continue though with so many disappointments they faced, with immortals, tempo storm and now SK getting ripped by teams that on paper wouldn't be the favorites, but its good! to see! :) gg

Calm Down boy Villa Mix E-sports is coming Number one team in cs and parties Fnx Hen1 Lucas1 Kng +1

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First of all i bet u r 10 years younger to call me a boy and second of all where do u see me being all excited and stuff? :) i just said what i said without any feelings but as for u, i think u need to calm down :) its all gonna be ok dont worry! Life is good!

Man , talking boy it's my way of speaking. i think the brazillian teams really sucks after the major . and i'am calm and happy and sad because liquid lost

2017-10-01 03:22

Do you think you sound thug when you say "boy" everytime? BR life must be so depressed

2017-10-01 10:15

Toxic much

2017-10-01 10:56

He called someone "Boy" once?

2017-10-07 16:48

LUL

Embassey won’t approve kng’s visa

2017-10-01 03:23

they will play on the br and go to the parties on villa mix. Villa mix it's top 1 brazillian nightclub

2017-10-01 03:24

Br is done

2017-10-01 14:21

K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K K E K

disband SK

Kick TACO ffs. People talk about felps and I agree he makes some mistakes, but TACO just isn't at SK's or T1/T2 level AT ALL. He wouldn't fit anywhere.

Agreed, especially when you've got a fantastic player like boltz just begging to be picked up from the Immortals bullshit

2017-10-01 20:55

3 danish teams. 7 EU teams. 1 NA team. I'm sad.

After Grand Final will be 0 Danish teams 0 NA 1 EU Ez for F a Z e

2017-10-01 09:29

Faze te fak ap

2017-10-01 09:53

Virtus Premier

2017-10-01 10:36

Srly tho im a faze fan But i prefere vp

2017-10-01 11:10

already, sk have to wake up, kick taco! and focus on pistol rounds.. lost 4/4 pistols on mirage against (Heroic,Liquid)

no need to kick taco, felps instead of fnx has fucked up the team balance. felps has added nothing to sk

2017-10-01 03:46

Taco won sk a bunch of important rounds while felps did the opposite

2017-10-01 09:51

good work by Heroic to make SK think about another roster change

Wrong niko tagged in article @hltv

Moddii setting a new standard He was a rock Jesus Christ Individual plays from Niko and jugi were really good too

Yeah gotta say that all of Heroic stepped up

2017-10-01 10:57

Rip SK top1, cry fangays

They won't, because the fangays always stay away from posts that involves SK losing lmao :D

2017-10-01 12:59

yeah, they are innumerable..

2017-10-02 03:39

Exactly xDDD

2017-10-03 02:56

Danish domination LUL

2017-10-01 03:14

brazil stick to murder and rape cs is game for big men not little baboon

2017-10-01 14:23

Stomped by CLG on Cache Stomped by Heroic on Train Stomped by Heroic and Team Liquid on Inferno Great map pool SK, it seems like you guys now what you're doing.

ez for everyone else LUL

2017-10-01 13:00

Danish domination n1

"shocked" they just had to play a lengthy game against liquid... its only normal

Don’t try to find excuses for them

2017-10-01 11:47

its just an observation

2017-10-01 14:48

They're professionnal players, it's their job to play this game

2017-10-01 14:57

WTF? Nice excuses, #1 shouldn't lose to #16, deal with it. Felps and TACO again played like MM scrubs. SK = done.

u ever tried focussing for 2,5 hours and then another 2h right after?

2017-10-01 14:49

Yep! And I managed.

2017-10-01 16:47

SK lost on train vs Heroic. Astralis beat Them 16-2 After. Its not about that, Its all about SK being fucking shit.

2017-10-02 13:41

Taco played good actually

I don't think so sadly.

2017-10-01 16:48

Felps to quit SK

Good luck with "winning more than half the 8 tournaments" LUL

-felps

Disband pls

LOOOOOOOOOOL

That JU-Gi-oh my god. TACO 0 dmg. Hfhf heroic .

nt botzera! hahahaha xD

ez for best aimer in 1.6

Whos shocked? wtf did anyone even expect sk to beat liquid

Danish CS

disban you shitters.

rip SK lol, Rise of Danish Cs eh? lel

2017-10-01 03:20

2017-10-01 03:21

Expected because sk only can win on tier 2/3 event. And sk era they said.

They didn't even won mykonos and that was gabarge tier 2/3

so true

2017-10-01 10:44

SK FINALLY OUT IN GROUPS, IM SO HAPPY :D

2017-10-01 12:56

Finally? This is the 3rd time this year

2017-10-01 14:43

Yeah but still. Everytime they do, I cheer.

2017-10-01 16:46

TAco and felps were the problem

2017-10-01 03:25

MACACOOOOOOOOOOOOS :(

2017-10-01 03:26

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

heroic tier 1 confirmed

2017-10-01 03:30

Expected. If Liquid didn't choke, SK would've not been here in the first place. Very solid performance by Heroic, GGWP.

2017-10-01 03:32

Heroic era incoming

efect fnx in coming

2017-10-01 03:40

Is this 1.6? MODDII damn...

2017-10-01 03:41

New vp

heroic screaming it up! that was the best!

sadreactsonly

2017-10-01 03:56

Out of the merits for Heroic (they played much better again today), Liquid's complicated game had already shown that SK needs to review some concepts, such as the possible addition of a coach and try to reuse Nuke in a few moments ...

2017-10-01 03:57

BOTzera under 1.0 rating lmfao noobshit

2017-10-01 03:59

Denmark strong!

2017-10-01 04:02

When Moddii fucks you so hard you keep screaming "que ota!"

Not shocked heroic isnt that bad of a team Rip my brazilian bois

2017-10-01 04:04

Felps playing worst than Taco that is impressive

2017-10-01 04:14

IKR? Felps can't even be measured on a scale anymore, holy shit he was bad

The effect of overconfidence by SK, especially Fallen who said that SK will win majority of csgo events this year.

2017-10-01 04:44

sk ded 4Head

2017-10-01 04:49

the danish era

2017-10-01 04:54

2017-10-01 05:13

jugi to Astralis -kjaerbye +jugi device back to rifle

lol its troll i guess

-cajunB +jugi Would be better imo

2017-10-01 12:21

Yeah jugi on north would be a good move. he should replace either Cajun or aizy.

2017-10-01 14:44

That was the lowest rating Coldzera has ever had in a tournament, and also only the 2nd one where he was negative. SK #1 y'all!

2017-10-01 05:39

That's a very nice #1 team, kappa :D

2017-10-01 12:55

heroic bullshit. Comeback SK pls

2017-10-01 05:58

Biggest throw in CS history

Throw in $1,000,000 tournament k

2017-10-01 18:04

Oops that's right I forgot

2017-10-01 18:48

2017-10-01 06:21

Deserved! I mean Sk deserved to lose it.

2017-10-01 07:29

Now will hltv remove sk from the #1 spot or what? It's time...

2017-10-01 07:44

2017-10-01 08:11

Ye, this is really annoying. Seems like no matter what, they still have the #1 spot which is really inaccurate and has been for most of this year

2017-10-01 10:41

they dont just choose the points idiot they are calculated by a formula...

2017-10-01 20:57

Group Denmark! gg bois

2017-10-01 08:17

#1 North #2 Astralis #3 G2 #4 Faze #5 Heroic

2017-10-01 08:25

nice flag m8

2017-10-01 12:00

Astralis > FaZe? LUL

OMEGALUL

2017-10-01 16:40

+1 :D

Faze 4 lul

2017-10-01 14:14

Wait clara, WHAT THE FUCK?!

2017-10-01 08:28

SK lul

2017-10-01 08:29

Wohooo \o/ super well done Heroic!

SK in 2017 LUL

2017-10-01 08:41

fallen:we will take 5 champions. lol

2017-10-01 08:46

LOLLLLL

2017-10-01 14:03

ty for money sk fangays

2017-10-01 08:49

2017-10-01 12:54

FalleN :- “We will destroy ‘em” LUL PogChamp

HAHHAHHAHAH TRUE :DDDDDD

Shock ? really? Kappa

2017-10-01 09:04

Shock? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA SK is shit

2017-10-01 09:18

OMG

2017-10-01 09:23

youtube.com/watch?v=CnVf1ZoCJSo this fits well with the title

2017-10-01 09:25

Expect3d

2017-10-01 09:32

Rise & Fall of SKG. Coldzera can't deal with weaker aimpunches & jump-snipe. 1.6 players are now the comeback Kings!

2017-10-01 09:46

the end of an era

2017-10-01 10:02

COLDZERA BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD omegaLUL

2017-10-01 10:03

Thank god the Brazilians back to tier 3 where they belong #nosmart #noloyal #nofriendly #nobrazil

2017-10-01 10:10

2017-10-01 10:18

gr8 hashtag m8

2017-10-01 11:59

If HLTV keeps SK on No 1 in the ranking after this I’m gonna shave my head, my chest and my balls.

2017-10-01 10:27

It's allright, they've learned now hopefully. SK will probably do some major restructuring with their strats & playstyle, and come back from this. GG.

2017-10-01 10:46

Kick felps ffs

2017-10-01 10:51

im shocked gyazo.com/acf625596a9030c5fe1ddd614a01ea..

2017-10-01 11:07

Dont worry guys sk is still top1 no matter what , according to hltv rankings

2017-10-01 11:13

8 teams, 40 players, including : 15 Danes 9 Frenchies 7 Swedes I guess we know relevant scene of CS, thanks to Eleague.

2017-10-01 11:16

I dont think heroic will maintain that level of CS, at least against North, but who knows

2017-10-01 12:05

Heroic has been improving all year and this is not the first time at all they beat tier 1 teams

2017-10-01 20:58

Taco lost so many critical rounds

documentary about Heroic: youtube.com/watch?v=k3If8-K49Wo&feature=..

2017-10-01 11:51

I didnt know wtf I was watching yesterday, it was rape :s I just saw mirage from beginning to start it wa slooking tier2 vs tier5 they lost like 2 vs 4 's and shit, simple duels evne from Coldzera :s dont know whats happening in SK but they went botmode

2017-10-01 11:53