Astralis take down Cloud9, to ELEAGUE Premier final

12-10-2017 23:46

Astralis are the first grand finalist of ELEAGUE Premier 2017 after defeating Cloud9 on three maps(12-16 on Mirage, 16-14 on Overpass and 16-4 on Inferno) in the last-four stage.

The first semi-final of the ELEAGUE Premier playoffs started on Mirage, Cloud9's map pick, and saw Astralis win the Counter-Terrorist pistol thanks to a quad-kill from Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz. The Danes should have seized the chance and taken a sizeable lead, but the North Americans hit back immediately and strung five rounds together.

After getting their second round of the game on the board, the Danish giants were reset once again. Down 2-9, Astralis finally tightened up their defense, securing three rounds in a row, but then Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik gave Cloud9 their 10th round of the game with a 1v2 clutch.

In the second half, the North American squad won the first two rounds, but bomb plants from Astralis on both occasions allowed the Danes to be fully equipped in the next round. And even though Cloud9 found the two opening kills, Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen and Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth clutched a 2v5, with the 24-year-old getting four frags to his name.

Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander's men were only able to follow it up with three more rounds, but then Cloud9 responded with three rounds in a row to hit match point. In the next round, the North American team came close to finishing off the map, but a 1v3 clutch from Xyp9x kept his team in the race. Still, the North Americans were not fazed by Astralis' attacks, and closed out the map with a tight B hold.

device's Astralis lost the first map despite an impressive performance from him

With a three-man stack up at long, Cloud9 grabbed the Counter-Terrorist pistol on Overpass, courtesy of a quad-kill from Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta. Astralis would turn things around by winning a force-buy, but the game would turn out to be a keenly-contested affair as neither side could stamp their authority over the other.

Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip denied dupreeh a 1v3 clutch in the 13th round, leaving the Danes strapped for cash for the final stages of the half, Still, they managed to win the remaining two rounds, taking a narrow 8-7 lead into the break.

An impressive ace from autimatic in the second pistol, which included a 1v3 post-plant clutch with three clean USP-S headshots, set his team up for a 10-8 lead. Astralis then won the first full gun round, but they could not follow it up, giving Cloud9 the chance to string three more rounds together.

Cloud9 could not close out the series on Overpass

Astralis then found a lifeline as Xyp9x clutched a 1v2 situation. That key action swung the momentum back in Astralis' favour, with the Danish giants winning six of the next seven rounds to seal a hard-fought 16-14 victory and take the series to a third map.

The decider map was Inferno, where Astralis got off to a flying start on the CT side as they cruised to an overwhelming 14-1 lead after giving Cloud9 very little room to operate throughout the half.

The North Americans refused to throw in the towel, and picked up the CT pistol and the subsequent two rounds. But after buying up, gla1ve's squad regained control of proceedings, winning back-to-back rounds to take the map, 16-4, and seal passage to the grand final.

ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017Best of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

12th October 2017

Astralis

Mirage

Overpass

Inferno

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	54 - 57	-3	76.8	73.1%	1.05
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	56 - 56	0	74.0	71.8%	1.02
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	49 - 55	-6	73.8	66.7%	1.00
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	49 - 54	-5	67.8	55.1%	0.92
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	29 - 57	-28	50.5	53.8%	0.67

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	65 - 48	+17	96.7	78.2%	1.43
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	63 - 43	+20	87.4	78.2%	1.30
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	53 - 48	+5	72.9	70.5%	1.07
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	55 - 51	+4	78.7	71.8%	1.05
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	43 - 47	-4	52.5	69.2%	0.92

Thought C9 was gonna win it, strong comeback by astralis

2017-10-12 23:46

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fak

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Rip C9, valiant effort.

2017-10-12 23:47

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-Skadoodle

2017-10-12 23:48

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Man i was so confident

2017-10-12 23:53

Indeed, Skadoodle is a fucking bot

2017-10-12 23:55

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Replaced by who? To keep a whole NA team that would mean Ska replaced by JDM who wouldn't leave liquid

2017-10-12 23:59

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Honestly the fix is a BR player or an EU player. They do not have to be fully NA. At least not if they want results, no use having an awper who is more inconsistent than a standard global player.

2017-10-13 00:00

Koosta maybe, or maybe a young awper with some hidden talent, like Wardell or something

2017-10-13 00:57

Was always easy win for Astralis.

16-4 LUL

fk u cloud9..i lost my flip knife cause of u....cloud9 best bot team in d world.u should cng ur name 2 bot9 fkkkkkkkkkkkkkku

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Damn that's a lot of money to lose for someone from India FeelsBadMan

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Inb4 ip ban for 1 month

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Because of what? The average yearly income in India is 1.8k $ The cheapest flip knife is 65 $, which is 43 % of the monthly earnings for the average Indian? Why would I get banned for my comment? Please don't be a stupid libtard/sjw who get's triggered by facts.

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I dont, just that hltv gets triggered by facts, or do you want to know how i got these bans? Edit: and how the fuck did you get 43% lmao

2017-10-12 23:54

Mb, why would I even ever think a Serbian would be a sjw-libtard.

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If such a miracle ever graced the planet earth we would know that the end is coming soon

Yeah, the chances of the Balkans to start loving each other is higher than the chances of someone from there being a sjw :D

2017-10-12 23:56

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2017-10-12 23:57

u fuking racist denis

2017-10-12 23:58

43 %: 1800 $ a year is 150 $ dollars each month. (43 $/150$)* 100% = 43.33 % Lawyered. Edit: Damn, someone got there a bit before me ^^

2017-10-13 01:00

Yeah well, math is clearly not your strongest side

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1.8k/year = 150/month. 65/150 = 43,33 %. Did you even pass math in elementary school?

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The real question -> did he made it to elementary yet xD

2017-10-13 00:04

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Maybe he just though I fucked up because he didn't realize how poor India really is on an average :D

2017-10-13 00:05

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Indian scammers earn a lot LUL

2017-10-13 00:07

all indians r not scammers bro.......scammers r everywhere

2017-10-13 00:19

I was saying everybody is, I'm just saying that the average money goes to 1.8k cuz scammers... 400 for fake program? I bet they earn a lot... Nothing against India!

2017-10-13 00:22

I read is at 1.8k/month :(

2017-10-13 00:09

It's okay :)

My mistake :D

2017-10-13 00:10

That's why you read it twice xD

2017-10-13 00:23

I actually did :o

2017-10-13 00:27

I guess your isn't... 1.8k is yearly, so 1800/12 is 150, 43% a.k.a. 0.43*150 is 64.5. it's the closest you can get... You done f**t up!

2017-10-13 00:03

Yours is evidently worse.

2017-10-13 10:02

i know :(

2017-10-13 11:24

Lol betting pixels in a video game on aforementioned video game lol

Nice bet dumbfuck lmao

Rip india rofl

2017-10-13 00:53

Not their fault that you are very idiot and bet skins. When you put the bet you should've known that you could lose that knife. It's betting, they didn't steal your knife.

2017-10-13 06:27

lmao choke9 is the most over rated team ever. They are never good but are always ranked like top 10 in the world. Just remember NA doesnt have a major because of stanislaw. The man ruined the na scene gg.

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Big companies ruined the na scene, the players just dont feel the same motivation to win a premier tournament and put in the hours when they wipe their ass with money

2017-10-12 23:49

lmao ok....stan is all to blame for the na troubles.

2017-10-12 23:50

2017-10-12 23:51

Cuz he left optic?

obv. ruined Best na team in history.

Probably But maybe its not only his desicion to leave :/

2017-10-12 23:52

it was his sole decision. It was a scumbag move. The other 4 and org owner pleaded with him for hours straight and he said that he wouldnt leave. Then he didnt even tell them and just signed with TL. Now look at where na is at.

I heard like there was not good conditions in optic (org)

the org treated him well, the player said that they didnt practice enough even they they were top 2/1 in the world (them in astralis had a good rivalry going on). So he left in january and his team is still tier 2 like the rest of na teams.

2017-10-13 00:39

OG is a very transparent org. You know everything that happens inside and out when it comes to the players and moves the org makes.

Optic were shit at the major i dont see what you think would of happened

lmao so the roster had one chance to do good at a major. Lol ok good logic.

The roster wasnt good enough to win a major and never would of been

2017-10-13 09:22

sure, but was good enough to knock out g2 and astralis from esl new york 2016, beat g2 again in northern arena montreal, won eleague and came in second at ecs? The ladder two had the same T1 teams that show up at a major. They were very close to last years esl new york playoffs and lost to vp 14-16. With this being said Optic got really bad draws and went against astralis and then vp in the first two rounds of groups. These two both won and made it to the grandfinal. One bad tournament does not = disband. They were first or second in the world at the time. But you can be ignorant, thats fine...i guess my team and yours had a bit of a rivalry at the time. It is cool to not like a team, but now you are just biased.

2017-10-13 20:45

No i definitely liked the team and they did get a bit unlucky at eleague major those are some decent achievements but that was after g2 fell of form and before astralis got glaive correct? Maybe i shouldnt assume they couldnt anything is possible i just dont think they would of kept form all the way to the next major

2017-10-13 21:28

well g2 was still top 3 in the world atm. also glaive joined in oct, before eleague and ecs (he won at ecs) but you are right, glaive was not at ny.

2017-10-13 22:20

I have no idea why you are saying c9 sucks, they are clearly nr1 team in na, they are really good... But people have bad games... We aren't saying sk is shit cuz they are having bad time right now... Think about it

2017-10-13 00:40

Bro c9 is the best NA team rn they have made top 4 in tournaments two times in a row with a new roster. Optic fanboy, optic isn't good and never was.

2017-10-13 01:37

lmao tl is obviously the best na team right now. Why would i care about the na cs scene being an optic fan right now. Also old optic was the best na team ever. Cloud9 fanboy, Cloud9 isn't good and never was.

2017-10-13 02:18

You can't call a team great if they can't get 5th player LUL

2017-10-15 12:55

we had 5 for a long time and then when stan left we picked up multiple different 5ths to try to see if someone would work. Nothing was working out, doesnt mean the team wasnt great. With this being said THIS team you speak of that had trouble finding a fifth was not great and in fact awful. Thats why i said that when stan left he ruined the best na cs team ever. So they had a lot of fifths because a lot of people wanted to be a part of the org and with the other 4, just none of them were working out.

2017-10-16 23:05

Sk is shit

2017-10-13 00:55

You must not have followed the pro scene for very long, and I can tell because you are an OpTic fan. But NA doesnt have a major because of LG/SK.. not because of Stan.

2017-10-14 07:25

lol i followed the cs scene before optic came in. Optic are just a great org and i was really pumped when they came into the scene. I only watch their cs team, nothing else. Their vision series is great and the owner is a really cool guy. You cant say the reason we dont have a major is because another team beat us. That just means that the na teams werent good enough to win one. Then when na finally had a team with enough talent, stanislaw left and took that away. Lacking team talent is the obvious reason why na does not have a major, but the fact is that we could have won one and stanislaw took that away.

2017-10-14 18:17

Good game c9

1-0 14-10 Lead and blow it, classic C9 choke, no matter who you kick C9 will forever be dumpster

Ikr, even if c9 switched all their players for the best team in the world the new c9 would choke

Ska had a bad game, and then there liquid choke that everybody forgets and starts blaming c9

TOO LATE

choke9

The best <3 North, your turn now, #RoadToDKFinal

Rip the NA dream, cry is now :c

Expected, ez 200 us

Faze is going to chew up that ASTRALIS booty

No :)

Ska :(

if only ska had made a bigger impact, c9 might've won on overpass

-ska surely?

-skadoodle +Cerq

#BACKTOTHESTARS

Ouch ska. Keep ur head up we all have bad days

Ez for devveking #1 player in csgo history

- skanoodle + any rank A esea awper and they would be so much better.

good match, astralis woke up at the last moment and never turned back.

BOTDOODLE, EXPECTED

Why is ska so bad? He seems to be quite depressed irl, maybe that?

they tried oh well

Its a shame skadoodle sucks the 80% of the time he isnt absolutely nutting

2017-10-13 00:02

If only Ska showed up in the most important matches...

NS skadedle

2017-10-13 00:08

Xyp and clutch, the most iconic duo

2017-10-13 00:28

c9 and never checking the corners

2017-10-13 00:30

loool

2017-10-13 02:29

ska played with his monitor turned off right ?!

2017-10-13 00:32

Lol. Ska is over hyped player. Giving reasons for poor performance.

2017-10-13 06:48

C9 should have won but choked. Astralisa lucky af as always

2017-10-13 00:34

Astralis lucky? 16-4 is not being lucky, it's literally tearing C9 apart my friend.

2017-10-13 06:49

ska always puts up numbers in unimportant games and goes full bot mode in any match that truly matters smh I don't know who is a better replacement though. JDM isn't really an upgrade tbh

2017-10-13 00:36

2017-10-13 06:50

29 frags in 3 maps, as a sniper, is a fucking joke.

2017-10-13 00:43

2017-10-13 01:20

Everyone is saying Choke9 and I agree for Overpass, but can we just all talk about how fucking Vega beat Na'vi 2-1....

2017-10-13 00:54

ska is toxic compared to device as a sniper

2017-10-13 03:22

fat americaaaans

2017-10-13 06:03

Did ska even play ?

2017-10-13 06:33

Astralis- FaZe is gonna be new El Clasico in cs

2017-10-13 07:27

C9 should give ShahZam another crack at it.

2017-10-13 19:31

Why do people believe that kicking skadoodle is the best answer when it's clear he has skill and can excel in a system. Although he does lack in terms of individual creativity, Ska can thrive in a system and when utilized correctly, think IBP and Seangares days, can be the best awper in NA. Thoughts?

2017-10-13 22:00