Cloud9 edge past G2 in double OT; NiP beat SK

18-4-2018 16:54

Cloud9 and Ninjas in Pyjamas are off to great starts at DreamHack Masters Marseille after G2 and SK Gaming, respectively.

The second match of the day on the main stream, featuring the new Cloud9 and G2 rosters, began with the French side drawing first blood off of a stunning quad-kill from Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire inside A. That was the start of a phenomenal run from the home team, who cruised to a 6-0 lead, forcing Cloud9 to call an early tactical pause.

The North Americans would be able to find a breach in G2's defence only in the eighth round, thanks to a triple-kill from William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba with a CZ, and they followed that up with three more rounds to finally get some economic stability. However, the rest of the half was all about G2's great defence as the Frenchmen took three of the final four rounds to secure a 10-5 lead.

Cloud9 survived six match points from G2

Cloud9 came from the break with renewed confidence and bagged five rounds straight to restore parity. After a lengthy break due to technical issues, G2 took control of proceedings and secured three match points, but a 1v2 clutch from Pujan "⁠FNS⁠" Mehta rescued Cloud9, who would go on to force overtime.

The first overtime failed to determine a winner as both teams took three rounds on the offensive side. But in the second one, Cloud9 picked up two rounds in both halves to take a close win and seal passage to the group's upper bracket final.

DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018Best of 1

Cloud9

Matchpage

18th April 2018

Mirage

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	37 - 25	+12	83.6	81.0%	1.33
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	31 - 27	+4	74.6	69.0%	1.14
Pujan 'FNS' Mehta FNS	27 - 30	-3	70.7	71.4%	0.98
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	24 - 31	-7	65.6	59.5%	0.86
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	21 - 29	-8	55.6	71.4%	0.80

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	28 - 26	+2	72.7	73.8%	1.17
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	32 - 32	0	89.0	71.4%	1.10
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro bodyy	29 - 29	0	75.5	73.8%	1.06
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	28 - 28	0	77.6	69.0%	1.01
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	24 - 25	-1	60.7	71.4%	0.98

Meanwhile, Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip made his offline debut for SK as the Brazilian team took on Ninjas in Pyjamas on Train. Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's side looked en-route to bag the pistol round after getting three kills early on, but Fredrik "⁠REZ⁠" Sterner and Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg turned a tricky situation around to put Ninjas in Pyjamas in the lead.

SK responded in the first gun round, but then some uncharacteristic missed shots with the AWP allowed the Swedes to rally back immediately and to take control of the economy. Down 1-6, the Brazilian team finally strengthened up their defence, losing just one more round for the rest of the half to take a narrow 8-7 lead into the second half.

draken was NiP's star against SK

Now playing on the CT side, Ninjas in Pyjamas equalised the scored after a successful inner bombsite retake in the pistol round. SK managed to respond on a shoddy buy in the third round of the half, but then William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin came up huge as he picked up three crucial kills with the AWP to keep the ninjas in control.

Ninjas in Pyjamas remained in the driving seat and took their lead to 13-9. It was only then that SK finally managed to string some rounds together, but the Swedes would not let the game slip away and locked down the map with a 1v2 clutch from draken in the final round.

DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018Best of 1

Matchpage

18th April 2018

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Train

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	18 - 21	-3	76.6	69.0%	1.01
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	23 - 22	+1	87.3	62.1%	1.00
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	21 - 19	+2	70.3	51.7%	0.92
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	14 - 22	-8	60.1	69.0%	0.84
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	11 - 24	-13	51.0	65.5%	0.62

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'draken' Sundin draken	27 - 11	+16	78.1	89.7%	1.52
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	21 - 19	+2	86.6	79.3%	1.25
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	22 - 17	+5	78.7	69.0%	1.15
Dennis 'dennis' Edman dennis	21 - 20	+1	75.2	65.5%	1.10
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	17 - 20	-3	68.4	69.0%	1.08

Cum down it's only a bo1, G2 are looking strong and will do damage. shox made a huge mistake. There's no way a team with SmithZz and bodyy would be better.

2018-04-18 16:54

40 replies

+1, if they beat envy maybe they go in a bo3 againts c9 so

2018-04-18 16:55

2 replies

+1, you don't lose to the same twice very often

2018-04-18 17:01

1 reply

Yea exactly. G2 smashed C9 Group stages in the Major then C9 beat them Quarters. I think the hole team to to step up there game.

2018-04-18 17:14

+2 Shox >> smitzz

2018-04-18 17:02

There won't be body in shox's team dw

2018-04-18 17:08

I know, because bodyy will stick with NBK and apEX.

2018-04-18 17:09

Nice bait 1/10

2018-04-18 17:17

33 replies

-apEX -NBK +SmithZz +Ex6TenZ Don't tell me you really think it would improve G2.

2018-04-18 17:18

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Considering Ex6 is an actual IGL and NBK is a wannabe IGL who has bailed on it every time he's tried it before, it's not that ridiculous. SmithZz is obv a downgrade regardless of how you shuffle the roles etc. but they were actually going to make him a pure bitch-support player and not let him touch the awp, maybe he would be sufficient. Just removing shox, adding mixwell and giving NBK the IGL role doesn't feel like a worthwhile change imo, either way you should change two players to create a new team-mentality, otherwise you're still gonna have issues from the last lineup still persisting. Maybe the roleswaps and structure change is enough but idk, I don't have much faith in this one.

2018-04-18 17:34

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You don't need more than 1 support anyway, a support player is usually a guy that can't shoot so he has different aims in a server - to sacrifice himself, to throw grenades. If you have 2 of such guys you will need the other 3 be monsters which is not the case, because Ex6TenZ is a mediocre fragger just like SmithZz, and bodyy isn't much better. To rely on kennyS and shox is stupid. I know NBK gave up the role 2 times but now he actually wants to do it, so he will not give up once it doesn't work.

2018-04-18 17:38

30 replies

Once Shox makes his team, you won't be calling it a mistake. Shox's team is gonna dominate

2018-04-18 17:54

29 replies

a team with 2 carriers and 3 bots can't dominate

2018-04-18 17:59

13 replies

We will see :)

2018-04-18 18:36

12 replies

We hopefully willnt. And name at least 1 team that won a tournament having 3 mediocre fraggers.

2018-04-18 18:43

11 replies

Bodyy won't be in shox's team probably. shox, kenny,apex?, ex6 and smithzz domination for 20 years

2018-04-18 18:54

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shox wanted to kick nbk and apex

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I know. But who else would he get... bodyy also said no

2018-04-18 18:56

8 replies

bodyy said no to kicking nbk and apex there's no info that shox wanted apEX to stay anyway

2018-04-18 18:58

7 replies

whoever the 5th shox/ex6/kenny/smithzz is a good lineup

2018-04-18 20:36

6 replies

they need 1 madfragger in addition to shox&kennys

2018-04-18 21:26

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They don't need another madfragger. An NBK without the bullshit he brings to every team would be good. ex6 as your igl (he gets a frag on passing, aslong as he doesn't 5-22) smithzz is actually a decent rifler and solid support, no issue here. Shox god, Kenny god, I would say... I really wanna say NBK but... and RPK meh... zywoo maybe?

2018-04-18 23:49

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> They don't need another madfragger. Dude, if you look at all the tournament winners, they either had 3 really solid fraggers (SK, FaZe), or they had a balanced team (mouz, Cloud9, Liquid), but neither of them had only 2 good fraggers and 3 mediocre ones. Whatever brilliant strats you have - it doesn't matter, because you should also get frags. Once shox and kennyS are dead - there's nobody left to win a round. It doesn't matter if it's NBK or KIO or RPK or BODYY - they will fail, only the guys like ScreaM and apEX can make the difference. ZywOo? That kid is unproven, while G2 should already win titles, because Ocelote wasted so much on them already, and I doubt he will waste much more.

2018-04-19 00:13

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But G2 had the mad firepower last time... and it failed. I have faith in Shox's system.

2018-04-19 00:14

G2 failed because of fucked up leadership, not because of "too much firepower" which they btw didn't have since NBK and bodyy sucked, apEX was inconsistent and shox was driven by feelings and not by thoughts. shox' teams never worked unless they were led by somebody else.

2018-04-19 00:17

Exactly. That is why Shox wants ex6 back...

2018-04-19 19:38

#66 Dude, you do know what I mean. If it was just -NBK/bodyy +Ex6TenZ I wouldn't say a single bad word about it. But shox wants to replace his most skilled rifler with fucking SmithZz, don't even try to tell me you believe their firepower is enough to win titles.

2018-04-19 19:53

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I do. Smithzz is fine, shox is a beast and kenny is a beast... Just pick up somebody else other than bot bodyy and your fine. Remember the old G2...

2018-04-19 19:54

How do you know? hltv.org/stats/players/events/7170/Smith.. Sucked hard (don't tell me about the AWP because I remember that shox AWPed in the end) being 28 y.o., didn't play for a year and now somehow becomes fine? > Just pick up somebody else other than bot bodyy and your fine. Thanks God, you just baited me.

2018-04-19 20:08

He was a fine player until he was forced to awp... He won't be a star lol, but he won't need to be. Aslong as he can be a stable, 15-14 or so scoreline player it's no issue.

2018-04-19 20:32

Baiting continues, lol. > He won't be a star lol, but he won't need to be. You think that shox and kennyS can carry 3 mediocre riflers?

2018-04-19 20:34

I think the unit is what matters.

2018-04-19 21:01

You think a team with SmithZz, Ex6TenZ and bodyy will win titles over the strongest teams in the world?

2018-04-19 21:04

I think a team with smithzz, shox, kenny and ex6 can win titles easily. Not so convinced on bodyy, but as a UNIT, they can make deep runs and win, sure.

2018-04-19 21:15

I'm saving this conversation and will come back to it to laugh when new G2 fail to defeat any T1 team.

2018-04-19 21:18

Do it. They won't be worse than this lineup.

2018-04-19 21:25

You see, you are not saying that they will be BETTER. "Not worse" = "the same". Tell me they will be better, having only shox and kennyS as heavy hitters ;-)

2018-04-19 21:37

Doesn't mean that at all lol.. You obviously don't understand why a structured lineup with stars and supports is better than just stars and supports all fragging

2018-04-19 21:48