SK pull off comeback against NiP; Cloud9 defeat TheMongolz

14-11-2017 22:55

SK have picked up their second win at IEM Oakland after defeating NiP 16-13, while Cloud9 bested TheMongolz, 16-9, in their first match of the tournament.

SK kicked off their match against Ninjas in Pyjamas on the right foot, winning a near-flawless CT pistol on Cobblestone. Still, much thanks to two Deagle entries from Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg, the Swedes would turn rally back immediately, setting themselves up for a three-round streak.

The Brazilians then got their second on the board, but Ninjas in Pyjamas kept racking up rounds and cruised to a commanding 11-4 halftime lead.

FalleN's men managed to beat NiP after being down 4-11

SK did not want to throw in the towel, and came into the second half with all guns blazing, winning the pistol, both anti-ecos, and the first full gun round thanks to a 1v3 clutch from Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo.

And even though Ninjas in Pyjamas then won a full eco, the Brazilian squad kept finding gaps in the Swedes' defense, losing just one more round before completing the comeback, 16-13, to secure their second victory in Burbank.

IEM Oakland 2017Best of 1

Ninjas in Pyjamas

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14th November 2017

Cobblestone

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	30 - 19	+11	113.0	86.2%	1.73
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	21 - 20	+1	86.9	79.3%	1.22
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	19 - 19	0	77.4	75.9%	1.10
William 'draken' Sundin draken	18 - 20	-2	53.6	58.6%	0.79
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	10 - 24	-14	56.2	58.6%	0.71

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	23 - 17	+6	91.1	69.0%	1.31
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	25 - 21	+4	98.4	72.4%	1.28
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	21 - 19	+2	73.5	72.4%	1.10
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	21 - 21	0	75.2	69.0%	0.93
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	11 - 20	-9	48.6	69.0%	0.73

Cloud9 and The MongolZ faced each other on Mirage in what was their first match in the tournament. The North Americans got off to a great start, picking up a quick 4-0 lead as CT, but the Mongolians responded with rounds two of their own to break their opponents' economy.

On a shoddy buy, Cloud9 returned to the driving seat, with the North Americans following that up with three more rounds. Tsog "⁠Tsogoo⁠" Mashbat then came up huge as he clutched a 1v4 situation, paving the way for his team to reduce the deficit to 5-7.

From there on out, however, Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip and co. did not concede any more rounds until half-time, and went on to reach match-point after winning the second pistol. The MongolZ then kept themselves in the game by stringing four rounds together, but Cloud9 crushed the Mongolians' hopes with a semi-buy win to lock down the map, 16-9.

IEM Oakland 2017Best of 1

Cloud9

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14th November 2017

The MongolZ

Mirage

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	23 - 18	+5	100.0	76.0%	1.28
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	22 - 16	+6	87.4	72.0%	1.23
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	17 - 15	+2	68.0	76.0%	1.15
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	19 - 13	+6	72.1	76.0%	1.12
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	16 - 17	-1	87.5	68.0%	1.08

The MongolZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Enkhtaivan 'Machinegun' Lkhagva Machinegun	23 - 18	+5	105.9	76.0%	1.36
Tsog 'Tsogoo' Mashbat Tsogoo	17 - 19	-2	71.5	60.0%	0.99
Bold 'ncl' Batsukh ncl	14 - 22	-8	65.4	60.0%	0.78
Temuulen 'Zilkenberg' Battulga Zilkenberg	12 - 17	-5	47.6	60.0%	0.77
Erdenedalai 'maaRaa' Bayanbat maaRaa	13 - 21	-8	62.9	56.0%	0.75

2017-11-14 22:55

2 replies

sweden cs in 2017

2017-11-14 23:07

haHAA

2017-11-15 06:55

Nice nip

#freemachinegun #machineguntoliquid

2017-11-14 22:56

izi

lol

NiP is playing quite well, as is envyus. It will be a close finish for the group Machinegun and tsogoo both impressed me as well

2017-11-14 22:57

GG! Both team played very well, NIP just really unlucky in the end! Have a nice day! -VeryNiceGuy

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wow your actually very nice VeryNiceGuy

2017-11-15 15:09

SK continues to not looking good this event yet.

agreed

2017-11-15 15:14

SK PULL OFF LUCK AGAINST NIP

Expected.

3rd

Fuck

SK save my car

sk the masters of come back also the best team in the history of cs go

fnatic from a couple of years ago were better lol

2017-11-15 00:44

Probably tilting for NiP to have such a nice advantage and then loosing 6 rounds in a row. Never the less, they are looking good as they have beaten 1 of the potential finalists, and made it close between the current worlds #1 (The group stage includes round differentials).

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They are indeed

2017-11-14 22:58

Astralis were playing with its coach on dev1ce's place dude

2017-11-14 23:18

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And they still get the upper hand against SK. Your point?

2017-11-14 23:20

My point is that SK don't practiced for almost 3 weeks and Astralis were playing with a stand in, just read TACO's interview and Stewie2K's.

2017-11-15 01:24

It's true that SK have been playing/pracitcing with boltz for a few days. Let's remember that they won EPICENTER with boltz. If I recall, coldzera said at EPICENTER that boltz had allowed him and fer to become more open and free with their roles in the team, which obviously gave them a confidential boost to their mentality. Overall SK look strong at the moment with boltz abling fer and cold to go nuclear.

2017-11-15 09:14

GG EZ SK Gaming <333 Top 1

The best team won. Logic

WHAT A GREAT DAY, AND PLUS, TOMORROW IS HOLYDAY HERE IN BRAZIL.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA UNFORTUNELY WE DIDN´T BEAT ENGLAND.

Taco being carried that hard? Strange, I almost don't get to see that...

"FalleN's men", something tells me mr eZIo had something else there until he posted it. Cuz why would he put MEN there, never seen that shieeeeeeeeeet b4, EZIOOOOOO iz BUSTEDDDDDDDDDDD, Nomad/Jonathan/etc will soon call ya up, iz over mr eZIo!

2017-11-14 22:59