FaZe advance to semis, OpTic & Gambit to quarter-finals

16-11-2017 04:13

The last round of Group B saw FaZe grabbing first place and a spot in the semi-finals following a confident win over Liquid, while Gambit and OpTic defeated Renegades and G2, respectively, to advance to quarter-finals.

Gambit secured the first three rounds as Terrorists on Inferno, while Renegades came out on top of the first two full buys. The Kazakh team didn't allow Noah "⁠Nifty⁠" Francis's team to rack up more, however, locking down the first half 12-3 with every one of their players contributing well.

Renegades replied with a pistol round as well as the first two gunrounds to go on a streak of six rounds, closing the gap to 9-12. That was all they could do, however, as Mihail "⁠Dosia⁠" Stolyarov's 1v1 clutch broke the streak and Gambit ran away with the match 16-9.

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Renegades

Matchpage

16th November 2017

Gambit

Inferno

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	14 - 21	-7	68.8	72.0%	0.94
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	14 - 17	-3	60.0	72.0%	0.89
Noah 'Nifty' Francis Nifty	14 - 17	-3	58.7	64.0%	0.85
Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac USTILO	14 - 19	-5	64.3	60.0%	0.77
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	13 - 19	-6	69.9	56.0%	0.72

Gambit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Rustem 'mou' Telepov mou	24 - 11	+13	85.0	84.0%	1.56
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Dosia	21 - 12	+9	92.1	80.0%	1.42
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov HObbit	19 - 13	+6	91.5	88.0%	1.37
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev AdreN	17 - 17	0	82.7	64.0%	1.07
Bektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov fitch	12 - 16	-4	55.7	80.0%	1.01

Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard's quad-kill in the first pistol round sent FaZe to a 5-0 start on the T side of Inferno, and the European mixture continued to dominate the first portion of the half before it was 8-1. Liquid then slowly recovered and, much thanks to Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski's triple with a CZ-75 along the way, secured four out of the remaining six rounds.

FaZe move on to semis with four wins in the round-robin

Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač's triple allowed FaZe to edge closer to victory as they went up 13-5, while rain's three kills in a 3v3 secured match point for his team at 15-5. Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's team clinched the 16-5 victory shortly and picked up first place in the group with a total of four wins in five matches.

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Liquid

Matchpage

16th November 2017

FaZe

Inferno

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Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	17 - 16	+1	80.0	66.7%	1.04
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	13 - 18	-5	78.0	47.6%	0.73
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	10 - 18	-8	48.3	52.4%	0.58
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	10 - 18	-8	53.3	52.4%	0.49
Lucas 'steel' Lopes steel	5 - 20	-15	48.3	33.3%	0.35

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	23 - 9	+14	97.0	76.2%	1.74
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	20 - 12	+8	99.3	85.7%	1.56
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	17 - 11	+6	92.1	85.7%	1.42
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	14 - 11	+3	83.5	81.0%	1.31
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	15 - 12	+3	63.8	71.4%	1.10

IEM Oakland 2017Best of 1

Liquid

Matchpage

16th November 2017

FaZe

Inferno

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	17 - 16	+1	80.0	66.7%	1.04
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	13 - 18	-5	78.0	47.6%	0.73
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	10 - 18	-8	48.3	52.4%	0.58
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	10 - 18	-8	53.3	52.4%	0.49
Lucas 'steel' Lopes steel	5 - 20	-15	48.3	33.3%	0.35

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	23 - 9	+14	97.0	76.2%	1.74
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	20 - 12	+8	99.3	85.7%	1.56
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	17 - 11	+6	92.1	85.7%	1.42
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	14 - 11	+3	83.5	81.0%	1.31
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	15 - 12	+3	63.8	71.4%	1.10

OpTic started their match against G2 on Overpass with a 6-0 lead on the offense, but their opponents managed to go on two separate streaks to give themselves a chance going into their own T side with six rounds to their name at halftime.

Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon and Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro combined for five in the second pistol round, helping their team equalize the scoreline at 9 all and even reach their first lead in the match in the next round. The tables turned again once OpTic surprised the French squad with only pistols and capitalized on it with five rounds in a row.

bodyy's heroics saved G2's chances for the time being, but Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif's solo triple in bathrooms in the following round gave his team match point at 15-11. A scrappy buy which included two pistols then worked out for G2 as bodyy continued to impress, this time with a 1v2 clutch. That allowed G2 to claw back to 14-15, but Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli's triple in the last round gave OpTic the much-needed win to advance to playoffs.

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Matchpage

16th November 2017

OpTic

Overpass

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro bodyy	33 - 21	+12	107.2	66.7%	1.52
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	20 - 21	-1	75.7	76.7%	1.16
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	18 - 22	-4	67.2	73.3%	0.98
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	17 - 24	-7	62.6	56.7%	0.80
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	17 - 22	-5	70.0	60.0%	0.80

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	28 - 26	+2	111.7	86.7%	1.38
Kevin 'HS' Tarn HS	24 - 19	+5	83.3	76.7%	1.20
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	20 - 21	-1	69.7	70.0%	1.06
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli allu	21 - 19	+2	65.6	70.0%	0.96
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	17 - 20	-3	66.5	66.7%	0.95

After the last set of matches, here are the final standings of Group B:

	W	OT W	OT L	L	P
1. FaZe	4	0	0	1	12
2. OpTic	3	0	0	2	9
3. Gambit	2	0	2	1	8
4. Renegades	2	0	1	2	7
5. G2	1	1	0	3	5
6. Liquid	0	2	0	3	4

Nice fucking way, my boys :P

2017-11-16 04:14

19 replies

Hard to be G2 fan.

17 replies

hows it hard? they play great cs, it isnt all about winning.. optic was lucky, gg and get over it

2017-11-16 04:15

14 replies

I know they play great cs, but the stupid forces sometimes make them lose matches also a big problem for G2 is shox the star player isn't showing up like he should.

2017-11-16 04:17

13 replies

dont worry they will make changes (reliable sources: -bodyy+rpk... I think it should happen after major)

2017-11-16 04:20

10 replies

Nah that ain't happening, the possible change that G2 might do is remove bodyy for KioShiMa or Ex6tenZ but the problem with Ex6 is that they want to keep a full french team.

2017-11-16 04:21

9 replies

oh fuck i wanted to say that they add kio not rpk... but in my opinion rpk would be the better bet!! btw smooya said that on stream and kio confirmed it in get rights stream!

2017-11-16 04:23

and btw who came up with that bullshit of a "full french team" everyone keeps saying it but there is literally no evidence that they give a shit about nationality! edit: why would nationality matter?

2017-11-16 04:24

7 replies

A couple events require one nationality, don't remember which one's, but g2 wants to play in them.

2017-11-16 04:30

2 replies

Wesg is The only one and g2 didnt participate to it

2017-11-16 04:43

1 reply

exactly, that was my point

2017-11-16 06:43

-bodyy + scream and it would be the best french team that you could possibly get. at least skillwise

2017-11-16 12:10

3 replies

Why are people saying -bodyy +ScreaM, skillwise isn't always a solution bodyy is a support on that team and I don't think ScreaM can fit that role since he's a star player.

2017-11-16 14:28

but nbk support

2017-11-16 17:58

I agree, one support is really enough!

2017-11-16 22:50

I like Shox, but he can't be the star and the igl at the same time.

I really wish they'd save more often for Kenny to get the AWP, or to run the double AWP setup which serves them so well. Either way GG.

2017-11-16 08:27

G2 stick baguettes to each others asses.

Agree

2017-11-16 10:06

Virtus Pro WIN

2017-11-16 15:55

Good shit ez4gambit im not sure about optic

optic is better than gambit atm gambit is just so bad

2017-11-16 12:11

lets GO OG OUT PLACING 3 TOP 10 TEAM (2 TOP 5) T1 TEAM RIGHT HERE.

12 replies

Who couldnt qualify for the minor lmao

2017-11-16 04:19

11 replies

Which team. Optic qualified for the minor and went 3-0 sir.

8 replies

What about the major qualifier ?

2017-11-16 05:58

the tourney where the eu qualifier had 3 top 20 teams, where we lost to a team in map 3 in double ot that we beat in groups? very close. also first lan. also og is clealy better then about half the teams in the major qualifier and arguably better then about over 75% of the teams.

2017-11-16 20:48

6 replies

Kappa

2017-11-16 21:32

4 replies

avangar f3 misfits qb fire seed tyloo vega clearly better then all of these liquid navi rng ss envy (mouz and g2 have also fallen out of form lately) arguably better then these teams

2017-11-25 19:48

You did your research for 9 days ? wtf

2017-11-25 20:12

nah, #134 commented on it and i came back to this comment and saw your kappa.

2017-11-25 20:26

oh ok :D

2017-11-25 20:32

Lol xD

2017-11-25 17:58

Nice :D

2017-11-16 04:22

minor was their first lan tournament, but true. GIve this team time and they can do some dmg

2017-11-16 14:26

Liquid ;(

That was all they could do, however, as Null element's 1v1 clutch broke the streak and Gambit ran away with the match 16-9. ez 4 Null element

S U P E R T E A M

3-16 gambit, nice throw

2017-11-16 05:07

Renegades LUL

2017-11-16 07:09

Null element LUL

eZ OpTic

ez null elements

null element ez 1v1

Null element best player ever omg

LUL "Null element's 1v1 clutch" ez rip bois

Null element best player

Rip G2

2017-11-16 04:16

Gambit win tournament in final over optic

Nice bait

2017-11-16 04:26

How is that bait lol

2017-11-16 04:28

Optic and Gambit aren’t going to the finals FaZe and SK are

LOL Gambit to finals 100% Optic or NiP on the other side Gambit have a great matchup vs FaZe

2017-11-16 04:31

SK not going to finals XD FaZe vs Gambit (Gambit maybe bo1 but not bo3)

2017-11-16 04:32

5 replies

I trust gambit in a bo3 vs faze more than in a bo1. SK is garbage lol.

But FaZe is better in bo3

2017-11-16 04:34

Not. Just look at their past event meetings you bozo, why do you think niko was so tilted playing against them.

2017-11-16 04:55

Idk Malmö was their first lan event together and Epicenter rain was sick

2017-11-16 04:59

faze>sk>gambshit

2017-11-16 10:13

Fuck faze for losing to gambit lmao

Actual dumb mutts, all they needed to do was get more than 3 rounds and make it respectable and Renegades would have went through.

What are sou talking about if faze lost 16:14 it would change nothing in this case gambit would still have one more point (8) than rng (7). Only thing that could faze do was force overtime so gambit get max 2 points.

Tnx

2017-11-16 04:42

or RNG could have just won against Gambit lol, since they didn't they don't deserve the spot over them. better team went through

2017-11-16 07:24

Yeah, that's another option - Gambit isn't a better team though.. Just a stupid veto from Renegades, why ban train and leave inferno in? ugh, makes no sense.

2017-11-16 11:44

cause Gambits Train is stronger than their Inferno. this veto would never go in RNGs favour because they simply have a weaker map pool than Gambit

2017-11-16 13:04

Yeah, well Renegades are a 20x better team on Train than Inferno, they would have had a much better chance than playing on inferno.

2017-11-17 06:16

G2 rip, feelbad for them

Who was "Null Element" supposed to be?

why gambit 0-3 still in playoff?

losing in ot = 1 pt win in ot = 2 pts

this ^

They won 2 times

But 3 loses is out

but they lost 2 games in OT. so it's two points

2 of their losses were in overtime. All the teams behind them also had 3 losses, just less in overtime.

2017-11-16 04:35

+100500

2017-11-16 04:41

Yeah ths overtime rule is what make Astralis out in group stage and Gambit advance from group stage

2017-11-16 04:51

Astralis just played worse

2017-11-16 09:31

This isn't Swiss group stage where 3 losses is equivalent to elimination,this is normal round Robin.

2017-11-16 05:17

Swiss > Round Robin, games that require a high IQ like chess use it.

2017-11-16 06:29

RNG so close yet so far... Very impressive matches by them this tournament, if they can keep up this form, and improve their map pool a bit, I can definitely see them making it to the major. Gonna absolutely cheer for them. GGWP

2017-11-16 04:18

Yeah they also did good match agains the big boys.

GAMBIITTTTT SO CLUTCH

damn i feel so bad for RNG G2 could of forced OT and if they won it would be a three way tie but damn from gambit being at the bottom to finishing third WP

Gambit actually got to playoffs after that frustrating first day. Well done. A lot of luck also though

FaZe vs SK final 3:2 FaZe 16-12 13-16 18-17 14-16 22-20

can karrigan finally beat Fallen?

2017-11-16 04:37

Hope so

2017-11-16 04:40

3rd map 18-17 and then SK just stand up and go prepare for the 4th map

2017-11-16 05:05

I hope the final between SK and FaZe will be close and also I hope FaZe will win

2017-11-16 05:10

I hope u get a sarcasm

2017-11-16 05:12

I dont know man nip in semis will be hard to beat for both sk and optic they been looking good

2017-11-16 06:46

Yeah your right but NiP vs the New SK idk man

2017-11-16 15:52

Lol +1

2017-11-16 14:07

Where can i buy the crystal ball you have?

2017-11-16 10:27

Walmart XD

2017-11-16 15:39

To everyone complaining that Gambit made it through with 3 losses, please notice that all the teams behind them also had 3 losses. It's not like there was another team that won more games but didn't make it through.

2017-11-16 04:38

And also gambit lost 2 maps closely in OT

Happy gambit were able to stay composed after 3 losses and break through in the end gg

that's the spirit, surprised me a lot

2017-11-16 05:04

not surprising really.

2017-11-16 05:01

Feelsbad for my aussie hltv members renegades played so good they should have made it over gambit :( #respectAU

please g2 please - body + ex6tenz don't be so fucking stubborn man...

2017-11-16 05:11

+111111111111111

2017-11-16 14:08

-bodyy +ex6tenz -shox +kio

2017-11-16 15:53

SuperMeme strikes again.

2017-11-16 05:18

this tournament is so weird, shit happens with round robin... and why the hell is there esl pro league format?

2017-11-16 06:18

WHERE AT YOU GEORGE

2017-11-16 07:05

ez for sk

2017-11-16 08:39

Shox needs to stop IGLing it affects his performance too much, and his leading is average. He needs to be relieved of this duty so he can madfrag again like he should. G2 lose tons of very close games they would win with Shox on jesus mode.. Also they really need to stop with this " forcebuy every round " french BS .

2017-11-16 09:13

well done optic!

2017-11-16 09:46

Gambit snd renegades really impressed me as of late

2017-11-16 10:23

Well played gambit. Happy! Also mou is playing well which is so important for them.

2017-11-16 10:28

Im really impressed with how far optic has come on such a short time. Sure they might collapse at times, but mostly they are doing pretty well all things considered. Im excited to see if friberg can grow into his role as ingame leader.

2017-11-16 10:46

And again, why are we still using round robin?

2017-11-16 12:29

why not?

2017-11-16 14:40

Lets go Magisk and Optic :)

2017-11-16 14:56

how the fuck are optic through? they're so garbage

2017-11-16 16:53

Everyone should keep in mind that gambit crushed the 1st place team and also spanked the second place team. If it wasn't for some unlucky chokes it would be very possible seeing them in first. I'm my opinion is say its gonna be gambit in the final and possibly winning the whole thing.

2017-11-16 20:05