StarSeries i-League Season 4Cloud9, SK win first games in Kiev
SK and Cloud9 have won their first best-of-three matches against MVP PK and Heroic, respectively, in the Swiss stage at StarSeries i-League Season 4.
The game between Cloud9 and HEROIC kicked off on Overpass where the North Americans were on the CT-side in the first half. Cloud9 picked up the first four rounds and Jakob "JUGi" Hansens 1vs2 clutch in the fifth round put HEROIC on the board (4-1).
Jake "Stewie2K" Yip & company had an indomitable defense and secured ten rounds in a row to lead 14-1 at halftime. Cloud9 planted the bomb in the second half pistol round after Tarik "tarik" Celiks opening kill and had a successful post-plant to make it 15-1. They closed it out immediately, winning the first map 16-1.
The second map was Inferno where HEROIC were on the T-side to start things off. tarik got a double kill in a 2vs3 post-plant in the pistol round to make it 1-0 for Cloud9. After avoiding an anti-force loss in the second round by winning a 3vs5, Cloud9 fell to Andreas "MODDII" Fridhs Deagle kills as HEROIC trailed 2-1.
Cloud9 led the game 7-2 and in control until JUGi clutched a 1vs4 to give HEROIC their third round. The Danes got three more rounds in the half and trailed 9-6 at halftime. HEROIC got the first two rounds in the second half but they lost a 5vs3 and couldnt tie up the game (10-8).
Then, William "RUSH" Wierzba clutched a 1vs4 to make it 11-8 but HEROIC got six CT-side rounds in a row to lead 14-11. Cloud9 came back to win five rounds and secured the map victory with a 16-14 final scoreline. They won the series 2-0.
 Cloud9 |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 - 28 | +16 | 94.2 | 85.1% | 1.49 | |
| 41 - 24 | +17 | 93.0 | 87.2% | 1.42 | |
| 37 - 24 | +13 | 74.7 | 74.5% | 1.19 | |
| 34 - 29 | +5 | 86.1 | 78.7% | 1.17 | |
| 30 - 30 | 0 | 67.6 | 66.0% | 0.94 |
  HEROIC |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 - 34 | -1 | 62.6 | 61.7% | 1.09 | |
| 31 - 39 | -8 | 84.4 | 57.4% | 0.95 | |
| 28 - 38 | -10 | 73.9 | 68.1% | 0.89 | |
| 30 - 38 | -8 | 65.2 | 72.3% | 0.88 | |
| 12 - 37 | -25 | 31.5 | 57.4% | 0.50 |
In the other best-of-three game, SK took on MVP PK. On Inferno, the T-sided Brazilians won a 2vs3 and went on to make it 4-0 with anti-eco and first weapon round victories. The Korean squad managed to stop SK in three rounds to trail 5-3 but Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo's team took off and got to ten rounds before halftime (10-5).
SK continued their good performance on the CT-side and won the pistol round with Fernando "fer" Alvarenga's double kill. fer got at least two kills in each of the following three rounds as SK made it 14-5. Epitacio "TACO" de Melo & co. closed out the first map with a 16-5 final scoreline.
Cobblestone kicked off with MVP PK over on the T-side. Min-Seok "zeff" Park got an entry kill to pave the way for a pistol round victory. After making it 3-0, the Koreans lost the first weapon round but responded in the fifth round to lead 4-1. With the momentum, MVP PK were able to extend their lead to 9-3 but SK got the last three rounds of the half to make it 9-6.
Ricardo "boltz" Prass picked up a marvelous quad kill in the second half pistol round and Marcelo "coldzera" David topped it off with his own quad kill in the following anti-eco round. Although MVP PK won the first weapon round and led 10-9, that would be the last round they win. SK grabbed seven rounds in a row to win the second map 16-10, and series 2-0, to go 1-0 in Kiev, Ukraine.
SKK - D
+/-
ADR
KAST
Rating
47 - 26
+21
103.9
80.9%
1.65
40 - 24
+16
84.2
80.9%
1.36
38 - 27
+11
82.0
80.9%
1.23
25 - 19
+6
64.6
87.2%
1.18
28 - 30
-2
70.9
74.5%
1.09
MVP PKK - D
+/-
ADR
KAST
Rating
27 - 32
-5
64.5
61.7%
0.96
28 - 38
-10
73.9
70.2%
0.88
26 - 37
-11
60.5
57.4%
0.78
25 - 35
-10
55.9
59.6%
0.76
20 - 37
-17
62.0
63.8%
0.72
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