LDLC defeat BIG to win ESWC 2017

3-11-2017 19:00

LDLC have won the 2017 ESWC edition after defeating BIG on two maps in the final.

Following the end of the round-robin stage, the top two teams squared off in a best-of-three match, with LDLC touted as favourites after defeating BIG twice on Thursday by hefty scorelines (16-2 and 16-8).

But the Francophone team had to work hard for the victory in the title decider. The first map of the series, Mirage, began with BIG cruising to a 12-3 lead on the Terrorist side. After switching sides, however, LDLC turned up the heat and won 11 of the first 12 rounds to overcome the deficit. That was when BIG's defence finally shined, with the Germans scraping two rounds to take the match to overtime.

LDLC win ESWC 2017 after finishing in second place last year

The first overtime could not determine a winner as the teams cancelled each other out, but in the second one LDLC managed to pull through, picking up two rounds in both halves to secure a hard-fought 22-20 win.

Carrying their momentum into Inferno, LDLC stormed to a 12-3 lead on the Terrorist side despite losing the opening round of the map. A successful A retake in the second pistol round powered Kévin "⁠Ex6TenZ⁠" Droolans's to reach championship point, but BIG refused to throw in the towel. The Germans managed to string five rounds together to build up a strong economy, but then a 1v3 clutch from Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez on the B site gave LDLC the final round they needed to become ESWC champions.

ESWC 2017Best of 3

LDLC

Matchpage

3rd November 2017

BIG

Mirage

Inferno

LDLC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez Maniac	55 - 46	+9	91.1	71.2%	1.30
Antoine 'to1nou' Pirard to1nou	45 - 42	+3	65.4	71.2%	1.09
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin ALEX	46 - 47	-1	80.6	65.2%	1.07
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	45 - 41	+4	68.8	68.2%	1.03
Timothée 'DEVIL' Démolon DEVIL	35 - 39	-4	68.0	66.7%	0.95

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	52 - 48	+4	90.3	63.6%	1.15
Kevin 'keev' Bartholomäus keev	49 - 45	+4	71.3	66.7%	1.08
Johannes 'nex' Maget nex	41 - 47	-6	76.2	65.2%	0.98
Nikola 'LEGIJA' Ninić LEGIJA	35 - 44	-9	60.5	68.2%	0.91
Fatih 'gob b' Dayik gob b	38 - 43	-5	63.1	69.7%	0.90

ESWC 2017 final standings:

1. LDLC - ~$29,150
2. BIG - ~$17,490
3. aAa - ~$8,745
4. ARES - ~$2,915

Nice

2017-11-03 19:07

17 replies

BOT DEVIL +Scream Top 2 baguette team

2017-11-03 19:08

11 replies

DEVIL only baguette on team

2017-11-03 19:13

8 replies

i forgetti to remember taht it wasnt a french line up anymore

2017-11-03 19:14

7 replies

if scream joined instead of devil they would have belgian flag xD

2017-11-03 19:17

6 replies

Think this team should be like: Ex6tenz ZywoO hAdji k1o Alex

2017-11-03 19:20

5 replies

who is hadji?

2017-11-03 19:37

1 reply

Playing for Envy acd

2017-11-03 20:30

Kio and zywoo is great duo, great to see if they find team together

2017-11-03 19:40

kio zywoo amanek devoduvek/hadji maj3r better than nv & ldlc

2017-11-03 19:50

Alex is gonna be the first UK player to make it to a major I swear

2017-11-04 03:05

ScreaM? *barf*

2017-11-03 22:40

WTF i am also a big fan of ldlc why no streaming in english fuking illetrate shit piece of people..BTW well done ldlc.LDLD IS NO1 T SIDE TEAM IN D WORLD .. .lv u Ex6tenz....ex6tenz maniAC u r god.. kick devil buy scream at any cost and ezyyy top5 team in d world fr ldlc... .fuking nub silver devil he is even not silver he is plastic..fuker always run back never takes fight

2017-11-03 22:48

ESWhat?

2017-11-03 19:30

3 replies

wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/Electr..

2017-11-03 19:34

2 replies

I know this tournament was great a long time ago but now puf... shit

2017-11-03 19:45

it's at the paris games week , just show

2017-11-03 19:47

I remember when ESWC was a MAJOR....not some tier 3 turnament with teams like aAa....in top3

2017-11-03 20:11

Xkacken

biggest win in Ex6TenZ's history, no joke

4 replies

Local lan with tier 3 teams :( Felsbadman

30k still

2017-11-03 19:10

big major legend so this win is incredible : >

ERRRRRRMMMMMM.....

2017-11-03 19:44

izi

very ez for SourceGOD Ex6TenZ

What this tournament showed us: LDLC still bad and BIG only did good on the major cuz #InfernoIsLife

HAHAHAHA no bugs no win

2017-11-03 19:09

cry is free XD

2017-11-03 21:36

Thats only practice for BIG. gotta save strats for major

i hope so

2017-11-03 20:15

LDLC best european subtop team <3

2017-11-03 20:18

lol BIG just threw it away so hard lmao

2017-11-03 19:12

BOT DEBIL

Devil still negative k/d whilst playing against BIG, goddamn BIG, the team who needed to abuse a bug to win matches on a major, dissapointed in ldlc, WHEN ARE THEY GONNA GET KIO THE PROBLEM jesus christ

Stupid xp

2017-11-03 19:19

hltv.org/matches/2316739/big-vs-ldlc-esw.. :thinking:

2017-11-04 14:07

youre really dumb haha

2017-11-04 20:06

2017-11-04 21:23

ESWC used to be a big thing :(

BIG LUL disband pls

2017-11-03 19:15

Sad to watch what ESWC became :<

2017-11-03 19:16

devil 4head

no bug no big expected :-)

lul ESWC completely displaced by WESG. not even national teams any more at the Electronic Sports World Cup. sad. ESWC, WCG, CPL... last of the big tournament orgs...

2017-11-03 19:18

PogChamp

2017-11-03 19:21

ESWC not that good and popular event nowdays. Ofcourse when price isnt that good for tier tournaments. And also bad condition

2017-11-03 19:24

top prize 30k....ESWC used to be the biggest tournament tgt with WCG...how much it has fallen now.

NO BUG NO WIN

2017-11-03 19:25

you stupid or what? how they got final without win? typical ruski brain

2017-11-03 19:36

Andi this from Brasil. Nice bro

2017-11-03 19:59

i like tabsen ty

2017-11-03 20:00

I remember the days when I was on ESWC 2005 one of the best touraments in that time beside CPL and WCG , now ESWC looks like tier 3 tournaments , they should rise again

2017-11-03 19:26

LDLC was strong during the whole tournament, great victory

1. Europe LDLC - ~$29,150 2. Germany BIG - ~$17,490 Here is the part that i don't understand : They played vs 2 shitty tier999 team and went to final. Basically they didn't do anything to get $46,640. How do organizators of events like this profit ?

last years ESWC was bigger and had 75k $ prizepool. So they have their sponsors I guess.

2017-11-03 19:51

"2shitty tier 999 team" stfu they are good team but cant rival BIG and LDLC dude

2017-11-03 23:40

congrats LDLC

2017-11-03 19:31

No bug no win

just disband big... >.>

Omg, i remember when ESWC had Major status in 1.6...

2017-11-03 19:38

what eswc became :(

2017-11-03 19:41

Great series! Maniac actually playing like he did in 2014, nex stepping up to the big plate and that last map of Mirage was super good to watch. :D Congratulations to LDLC. :)

2017-11-03 19:43

13-4 -> 15-15 kkkkkkkkkkk

2017-11-03 20:01

Yes... it was an amazing comeback.

2017-11-03 22:07

well done, i dont like fat big

2017-11-03 19:48

BIG losing all the finals lol

2017-11-03 19:49

cool to see maniac playing good :D

2017-11-03 19:53

Mr Ex6 i love you

2017-11-03 19:57

ESWC in 2017 LUL

2017-11-03 20:14

This tournament is so small compared to what it was during 1.6 times...

2017-11-03 20:20

congratz ex6

2017-11-03 20:28

nice ldlc

+rep schwizer

2017-11-03 20:50

Well played LDLC

2017-11-03 21:03

Rip ESWC went from 1.6 majors to this and clash Royale tournaments feelsbadman

2017-11-03 21:12

10 years ago this would be major news!!

2017-11-03 21:31

UK CS, champions.

2017-11-03 23:00

ESWC 2003-2008 <3

2017-11-04 00:20

Gobb crying on twitter... Ayyyy

2017-11-04 00:34

Guess you could say that is a BiG win for them.......

2017-11-04 01:56

Man what happened to ESWC :(

2017-11-04 08:22

They get more money from doing it at the Paris Games Week

2017-11-04 11:17

Used to be a tier 1 event, I guess time changes :((

2017-11-04 11:28

Go check the production from 2015, absolute garbage. It's been going down exponentially ever since.

2017-11-04 11:31

big can't get atleast 11 round without a bug ................... GERMANS PIGS

2017-11-04 08:29

What's this bug everyone is talking about?

2017-11-04 11:30

when you jump and crouch behind a wall or some shit people couldnt see you they fixed it but there u can see how bullshit it was youtube.com/watch?v=g-xGzxxkoaE&feature=..

2017-11-04 12:09