SK defeat Gambit; advance to playoffs

22-1-2018 22:41

SK secured their third victory at the New Legends Stage of the Major, beating Gambit 16-10 on Overpass to advance to the playoffs.

With the pistol round and the first gun round going more or less smoothly in their favor, SK were set up to a great CT side on Overpass. In their second buy, Gambit traded Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga early on and Rustem "⁠mou⁠" Telepov went on to take a total of three kills, but the Brazilian side was composed in the late round and advanced their lead.

SK were 7-0 up shortly, with the one-sidedness of the match being reflected in two Gambit players being without a kill at that point. One of them was Dauren "⁠AdreN⁠" Kystaubayev, who finally got on the board in the next one, picking up two kills to get Gambit's first round of the game.

SK had a brilliant CT side on Overpass

After Gambit added another round, making the score 9-2, SK got back in control of the game, with fer's 1v1 clutch in the last round making the score 13-2 for the half.

A fast-paced B push on the pistol went well for SK from the start, with João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos claiming two early kills and the rest of the squad closing it out. However, the Kazakhstani squad replied with a force buy, giving themselves a chance to come back (14-3).

Bektiyar "⁠fitch⁠" Bahytov's smoke play that yielded him a triple kill got Gambit their seventh round, SK switftly replied, but couldn't close it out in the following one and Gambit continued their comeback. Mihail "⁠Dosia⁠" Stolyarov and co. got to 10 rounds before slipping up in a 4v2. The killer duo of SK, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo and Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David, clutched it out and secured SK a place in the playoffs.

ELEAGUE Major 2018Best of 1

Gambit

Matchpage

22nd January 2018

Overpass

Gambit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Rustem 'mou' Telepov mou	20 - 18	+2	77.2	65.4%	1.07
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov HObbit	18 - 17	+1	73.0	69.2%	0.98
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev AdreN	13 - 19	-6	64.0	69.2%	0.89
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Dosia	12 - 16	-4	65.2	73.1%	0.85
Bektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov fitch	8 - 19	-11	39.8	53.8%	0.66

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	23 - 11	+12	84.5	80.8%	1.47
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	23 - 14	+9	90.7	80.8%	1.41
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	17 - 12	+5	82.5	76.9%	1.23
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	15 - 17	-2	62.7	69.2%	0.90
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	11 - 17	-6	51.7	61.5%	0.69

Qualified
G2		FaZe
Quantum Bellator Fire		SK
2-1
fnatic		Natus Vincere
2-2
MOUZ		Space Soldiers
Cloud9		Vega Squadron
Gambit
Eliminated
North		Virtus.pro
BIG		Astralis
Liquid

Very expected result

2018-01-22 22:41

2 replies

Congrats, very well done

2018-01-22 22:42

especially with a strong side

2018-01-22 23:31

good game hotel sleeping now

VAC Sk!!!!! kapp ....... go nip

Well played SK, sad to see such a poor first half from Gambit, could've been a way more competitive game.

1 more chance you can do it gambit

1 reply

This time they did it faster and caught be browsing the forums, xd

2018-01-22 22:43

AdreN: "Our aggressive style against SK's is going to be some beautiful CS" fitch 0-0-14 OMEGA LUL

14 replies

Kick Fitch Zeus>fitch

7 replies

Zeus is smarter, but fitch is more complete. Zeus looks like a bot shooting

2018-01-22 22:45

6 replies

thats why u are a noob, u dont understand CS is a strat game that ends with skill zeus is one of the most awarded players ever and u will never understand his game. peanut brain!

2018-01-22 23:12

5 replies

Maybe his history is victorious ... But today he is playing very bad, he's destroying NaVi, that's the point man

2018-01-23 01:55

3 replies

have u ever had a CS team? i just think u dont have any idea how to built a new lineup and become a team. zeus is one of the most qualified person to do it, stop thinking u can understand what he do just watching a game, CS is way more complicated than what u can see on a match. They guy just won a major and u talk trash like this, OMFG!

2018-01-25 21:30

Suck Zeus's dick, I just sad that he is not playing well

2018-01-26 21:38

of course he is not playing well, his duty is to fix his team and make them play as a team. that is called to be IGL as u never been IGL of any level team u just dont understand how to avaluate a IGL and talk trash about a super winner player like that mark my words, NAVI will make some history this year kid!

2018-01-26 22:23

gambit lost a peak map if you think the gambit is a bad tactic, look: navi vs. gambit-nuke check who is stronger

2018-01-24 17:42

I have to confess, when Gambit started score, I thought they could come back. Haha

I knew they wouldn't comeback, but SK T-side on Overpass is soo bad.

It isn´t bad, dude. I think they relaxed.

2018-01-22 23:49

Actually, SK gave a lecture about CT side aggression on overpass

2018-01-22 22:44

+++ :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Same AdreN he said it and he had 0 0 8

2018-01-22 23:04

Good match Gambit, hard opponent. RunSkg

feelsbadman

Yes

fitch bad game on t-side

nt gambit

Easy for the #1 in the CSGO history

nice bait, heard it before tho, so I'll give you 2/5

Analysts and pro players from europe admitted that already.. So...

2018-01-23 00:04

4 replies

Provide me evidence I'll believe it.

2018-01-23 00:07

I can't find right now but Pimp and Lurpis posted that after ESL pro league finals.. And many others.

2018-01-23 00:18

You failed to provide evidence, I don't believe you.

good for u.. So u can sleep well.. haha Because it hurts you.

2018-01-23 00:19

QBF will win major.

2018-01-23 05:08

Not first

n1 for the best team in the world

Last round its amazing with Coldzera and Fallen :)

Good performance from the best team in the world. Looking forwards it.

not too surprised

Gambit pick overpass

Expected

the best

AdreN: "Our aggressive style against SK's is going to be some beautiful CS" LUL

only overpass best other maps they will suck to gambit)

lol delusional only map SK would suck to gambit is inferno and ofc nuke

2018-01-22 22:46

fitch GOD 0-0-14

Gg gambit brothers! U played well in the second half and i hope that u will keep your legend status too!

Still hope that Gambit can qualify

Well played SK. Good match by felps, it's amazing to see he perform at this level at a major, even not being their full-time player anymore. Gambit played a really good CT side and made the game exciting again,but props to SK for closing the game before it came out of control.

GGWP Gambit

2018-01-22 22:49

Expected, road to the glory. Felps amazing, all the team delivering.

2018-01-22 22:50

We did it again! Holy god! Good job for us <3 We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2018-01-22 22:52

ez 4 the best team to ever touch counter strike. not even a stand in situation can stop this team. godlike cs once again. the salty tears are a common thing to us. #RUNSKG #felpthebrazilianfer #boltthebraziliannutella #follenrazer

2018-01-22 22:53

AdreN: "Our aggressive style against SK's is going to be some beautiful CS" Do you really want to play aggressive vs sk with felps? The team is just about agression lol

2018-01-22 22:54

Well people who said Gambit was going to Destroy SK must be felling agressively ANGRY, they are surely going for a walk

2018-01-22 22:55

Gambit made a bad decision with Overpass. Cbble was so much better for them, and for us $$$$

Gambit agressive style <3

2018-01-22 23:02

Fer acabou com o jogo! Felps ontem jogou mal, hoje jogou muito bem tb!

so ez as i told you all day long

Not impressed..... their best map and let it get that close vs a weaker team. Still bit confused how they let go of 9/1 lead vs Faze.... too many basic mistakes like positioning and greedy 1 by 1 peeks but whatever, they are where they belong

2018-01-22 23:17

Would be more worried if they had their full roster, right now is all about on spot adaptation. Plus they will have some time to work on those.

2018-01-22 23:25

I really think they can make it to the finals, somehow, they play out of their minds when under pressure, this already happened before on ECS S3, were they played in the same day the semis against Astralis (#3) and the finals against FaZe (#2), both with a great comebacks, if you look right now in the Major, they can make their way to the finals in the same day, as you know, the quarterfinals and semis will run on the same day.

2018-01-23 05:28