Astralis march on in Dallas after beating SK

16-5-2018 23:51

Astralis are through to Group B's upper bracket final at the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals after defeating SK Gaming on just two maps.

The final Group B match of the day saw two heavyweights go head-to-head in pursuit of a spot in the upper bracket final and a guaranteed playoff spot. The series began on Inferno, where Astralis got out to a 3-0 lead after overturning a 3v5 situation in the pistol round.

Astralis went on to win the first full gun round, and then Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander played the hero as he pulled off a quad-kill, also denying Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo the chance to clutch the round for SK, who were struggled to get into the game. The Brazilians eventually managed to break through the Astralis defence, but the rounds that they won were immediately countered by the Danish players, with the half ending with a lopsided 13-2 scoreline.

Now playing on the Terrorist side, Astralis piled even more misery on SK's players by taking the pistol round on the back of three entry frags from Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen on the B site. It looked like the game would soon come to a close, but Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip had different plans has he single-handedly rescued SK with three quick Desert Eagle kills inside B.

SK kept their defence very tight after that and strung multiple rounds together, but their resistance would be finally broken in the 26th round, in which Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif opened things up with three kills to put Astralis on map point, with the Danes following that up with one more round to take the lead in the series.

dupreeh powered Astralis to a convincing victory over SK

The Brazilian team looked a livelier side on the second map, Overpass, despite losing the opening round of the game. SK were able to hit back on a very shoddy buy and rallied to a 5-1 lead, but the rest of the half was all about Astralis' impressive offence as the Danes took control of proceedings and took a three-round lead into the second half.

dupreeh kicked Astralis further into the lead with a quad-kill in a messy pistol round. That was the start of another great run from the Danish side, which only ended in the 21st round, when Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga clutched a 1v2 situation to keep their opponents off match point.

SK would use that newly-found momentum to make a slight climb back into the game, but there was no stopping Astralis, who will now take on Liquid for the top spot in Group B, while the Brazilians will fight for survival in Dallas against Renegades.

ESL Pro League Season 7 FinalsBest of 3

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16th May 2018

Astralis

Inferno

Overpass

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	33 - 39	-6	86.5	67.9%	1.04
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	38 - 39	-1	65.1	67.9%	0.92
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	32 - 38	-6	60.9	62.3%	0.86
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	32 - 38	-6	73.9	54.7%	0.82
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass boltz	27 - 41	-14	64.2	64.2%	0.77

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	52 - 29	+23	108.5	77.4%	1.60
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	41 - 31	+10	70.4	71.7%	1.20
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	42 - 35	+7	83.1	73.6%	1.18
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	30 - 33	-3	70.7	79.2%	1.07
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	29 - 34	-5	67.0	66.0%	0.93

Expected

2018-05-16 23:51

17 replies

inb4 shakeeh says expected

2018-05-16 23:52

16 replies

ez expected

2018-05-16 23:53

11 replies

2 replies

expected

2018-05-17 00:54

1 reply

2018-05-17 16:39

expected? SK is top1 team nobody expected that. i sad because SK deserved better player than boltz like HEN1

6 replies

0/8

2018-05-16 23:54

ty for rate me

2018-05-17 00:03

The betting odds had a 5 times multiplier, everyone expected that

2018-05-17 00:17

who betting in 2018 dude skin betting is rip every single site closing one by one

2018-05-17 00:35

i did not mean skin betting tho, there is still a whole, legitimate market for that

2018-05-18 23:24

-22/8

2018-05-17 10:28

@shaakeh expected

2018-05-16 23:55

All of you speaking about SK wait and you will when you will come back to SK.Remember my words!

2018-05-17 00:29

nice

too predicted and expected to even want do

3 replies

Too godo of a enlgand

2018-05-17 01:32

i arent think that

2018-05-17 06:34

Enigmaticoglish

2018-05-17 09:49

early

I hope SK loses to renegades

4 replies

They probably will

2018-05-17 08:14

Why?

2018-05-17 14:46

because i like both renegades and optic more than sk

2018-05-17 14:47

Because Sk is lame

2018-05-17 14:49

Waiting NTC/SK...

Hen1+Lucas1 for Stew+Boltz? Doesnt sound that bad to be honest

2018-05-17 09:05

Coldzera is a good awp, -Boltz + Lucas1 would be an interesting change, although there are better players in the same role, but the twins do not separate. Stewie is not to blame for this phase of SK, the problem is communication, it was better to have continued with Brazilian players, Nekiz would only need exp. Chelo would be perfect for this line up, but he is in contract with NTC / SK.

2018-05-17 09:30

Expected af

lucky win

5 replies

yeah totally, i mean Device, their best player was so lucky the whole game. SK would have it in the bag if device played normally.

2018-05-16 23:56

astralis was lucky.so close match

2018-05-17 00:04

AHHAHAHAHAHG Cry monkey.

2018-05-17 14:50

OMEGALUL

2018-05-17 00:20

No.

2018-05-17 06:35

It's easy to win against Tier 10 teams

0/8 sk is tier4

2018-05-17 02:21

expected from world 1

27 replies

astralis fake top1

2018-05-16 23:57

26 replies

SK tier 3 nt 3rd worlder

25 replies

danish cs sucks

2018-05-16 23:58

24 replies

denmark>latino ass country

2018-05-16 23:59

19 replies

denmark 3rd world kkk

2018-05-17 00:00

XDDD you're obviously delusional

2018-05-17 00:01

15 replies

sk will win this tournament

2018-05-17 00:02

14 replies

i'll comment here again when astralis is standing with the trophy while sk waiting in the airport

13 replies

nice dream europoor xD we dont like murica lan.sk gotta be tired or jetlag.sk still top3 team

2018-05-17 00:09

12 replies

8/8 you are professional

2018-05-17 00:27

You must be suffering from a mental disorder 3rd worlder /closed

2018-05-17 00:30

10 replies

Sarcasm /closed

2018-05-17 00:31

9 replies

I was talking to the pleb from trashzilian

2018-05-17 00:33

8 replies

:D I'm feeling thank you mr Arla

7 replies

You're welcome Mr legal drugs :^)

2018-05-17 00:34

No worries i can send some

no druggie in Denmark cuz danish laws are suckie >; (

2018-05-17 00:37

You can go to the hippie park in Kopenhagen. Or i send with mail, we are good at that.

2018-05-17 00:38

Hippie park is called "Staden" XD that aint me tho

2018-05-17 00:39

HAHAHAHA i can imagine it's not you lol

2018-05-17 00:40

nonono its a way of saying "I'm not into that kind of stuff" XD

2018-05-17 00:41

First of all define 3rd world ...

2018-05-17 02:20

+1 also western world >>>>everyone else

2018-05-17 00:57

LuL you think now is the best time to say that? After SK just got obliterated by "danish cs" and SK got way more rounds than they probably should have

close match.asstralis didnt deserve win

2018-05-17 00:05

it wasn't a fucking close match it was 13:2 at halftime on inferno? sk got owned and you just can't admit it monk

2018-05-17 01:27

On inferno when SK were 14-2 down something happened and Stewie started hard carrying SK on B site. The only people who stepped up were Stewie and FalleN. Rest of SK are bots.

2018-05-17 08:21

NA CS OMEGALUUL!!!

BOSNIA OMEGALUUL!!!

2018-05-17 08:22

You watching bosnian best player ever in CSGO history...so :D

2018-05-17 16:25

English, do you speak it? If you mean NiKo is the best player ever in history, no majors, no HLTV #1, not even current #1 or even #2 for that matter Best players in history are cold (he's earned it), shox, get right, olof, etc. Nobody looks at second place :)

2018-05-17 17:37

Yap I speak english, not very well, but Im still learning :D Time has come for Niko and you will see that when he won a major. He definitely need to earn more trophy with his team, and thats the only thing why hes not numb1. But for me he is my proud :)

2018-05-18 11:04

Yeah for your country y'all should be proud

2018-05-18 11:29

Still got hopes that SK will return to its past dominant form...

I used to hate SK when they were top1, now it just feels wrong that they aren't :/

2018-05-17 08:23

lOOOOOLLLL wtf haha that was shit asf lelelelelelellele

I doubt that they will manage to go to the playoffs, hope I'm wrong...

clean and izi

SK played so bad that the score doesn't even reflect it. It could easily be like 16-4. You can clearly see that the addition of Stewie is really problematic, mainly because of the communication issues, you could see this in some rounds that they weren't communicating well. And what's even worse for them, they added an english speaking player AND they switched the IGL role to the player that barely speaks english at the same time. The communication will be an issue that will be impossible to overcome for this SK team, mark my words.

kick boltz pls

+TACO

SK gave more work than I imagined ... lost the 4 pistols ... Many mistakes because of communication problem...

its not like astralis got the benefits from most of their pistols

2018-05-17 00:06

I know... but it's just my criticism about SK... but one pistol round won and normal 3 rounds wons could be different.... Astralis is better

of course they obviously are looking better no mater what the idiots on this site say

2018-05-17 00:10

I'm sorry, I'm a huge fan of SK, but for once the "idiots" are right. The score doesn't actually matter, Astralis controlled the game from start to finish, they were far, far, superior. They outplayed and outread SK since round 1. Don't think SK is getting any better at all...

2018-05-17 00:22

Good think is that what you think doesn't matter shit

2018-05-17 01:46

Nice englando, monkey.

2018-05-17 02:05

Kkkkkkkkkk

2018-05-17 02:12

Seems like at least a slight performance increase from SK

2018-05-17 00:07

Cant even laugh about it....was too obvious

2018-05-17 00:08

sk still tired from the major

Yes

GO FURIA !!

2018-05-17 00:11

SK is good warmup team before playing the strong teams

why astralis fans are salty and toxic sometimes? I mean just type something else like GG or WP astralis, just cheer for ur team, dont need to hit like that

2018-05-17 02:10

Comes from a brazilian. Hard to take serious

2018-05-17 02:29

Like wtf? So u won't take me serious because my nationality...nice mentality seriously i hope u either joking or pretending to be serious

2018-05-17 02:36

So you are getting mad about danish people behaviour, and say that danish people act in that way in general, while the rest of us have been forced to look at "#RunSK" and "Coldzera #1" topic spam for years, while SK actutally won something.

2018-05-17 07:52

Geez grow up.. listen to the man, quit the negativity, they were happy for their team now be happy for yours.

2018-05-17 08:30

One thing I like about Facebook is the chat is more mature. But that's it. Facebook sucks otherwise.

2018-05-17 08:33

Thank you. At least 1 danish that is not blind

2018-05-17 17:58

He didn't say "danish people". He said "Astralis fans". Learn to read please

2018-05-17 08:32

What about 2016/2017 ...I really hope faze just rekt these astralis noobs

2018-05-17 02:24

What the bleep was up with that facebook stream? I saw a combined 8 round because of crash, and Chromecast was impossible

2018-05-17 00:14

There was a time, when SK knew how to play CS, that Taco was a problem. Now the problem isn't player A or player B, the problem is being utterly incapable of reading a single round well. They were being outplayed and read by astralis from top to bottom. Despicable display of mediocrity today.

well played astralis ! very good performance . sk will come back to the top at some point i‘m sure . i don‘t know why people always salty and toxic about cs like there os no point .

Easy

2018-05-17 00:26

2018-05-17 00:46

Pray for Liquid

2018-05-17 00:47

gla1ve: "dupreeh, bruh, step the fuck up and kill someone or we kick ya" dupreeh: "hold my beer"

2018-05-17 00:58

what has happened to sk

2018-05-17 01:19

still tired from major

2018-05-17 01:40

"Dupreeh seu lixo" q saudade

2018-05-17 01:47

I want SK to win tournaments again :((

2018-05-17 02:19

Astralis best team in the world right now so no surprise here Also, Boltz needs to step up big time, dude has been a weight this entire year

2018-05-17 04:05

well he's overweight expected tbh :D

2018-05-17 06:52

lmao

2018-05-17 16:38

He had a lot of impact frags on the first map tho :)

2018-05-17 09:21

SK became so irrelevant in 2018, damn. They only play group stages now.

2018-05-17 05:37

Sk are already playing better then.in Sydney

2018-05-17 07:04

F for SK

2018-05-17 09:04

happy for my boy dupreeh. Good to see him stepping up after a couple of hard events! :)

2018-05-17 09:20

"Sydney showed that Astralis are mortal, after all, and it's Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen in particular who has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to performing in big matches. The 25-year-old has had a worrying tendency to dip in semi-finals and finals for a long time. We've seen plenty of proof of that this year, as he has averaged a 0.87 rating across four out of five such series he played; all except the semi-final against mousesports in Sydney, his only above-average big match in 2018." hltv.org/news/23579/six-key-storylines-o.. I hope that he will step up this tournament and show how good he really is when he has a good day on the server :D

2018-05-17 11:29