Liquid to Pro League final over Natus Vincere

19-5-2018 21:24

Liquid beat Natus Vincere in two maps, their own pick, Dust2, 16-14, and Inferno, 16-10.

The series between Natus Vincere and Liquid kicked off on Dust2, the latter team’s pick, with the American side taking the pistol round on the CT side. Having planted on the pistol round, Natus Vincere went into the third round with weapon advantage, and doubles by Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov got the Russian-Ukrainian side on the board, which would shortly thereafter show a 2-2 tie. On the attacking side Natus Vincere quickly started to show they were the superior side, linking several rounds in a row and resetting Liquid twice for a 9-4 lead. The American team finally got two in a row, bringing the half to 9-6 and leaving the map wide open.

The second pistol round went down to the wire, as electroNic won a 1vs3 clutch to further increase his team’s lead. Natus Vincere got to 12-6 before the first gun round. From thereon out, the roles switched and it was Liquid who took the reins of the match into their hands, doing the same Natus Vincere had done to them before switching sides. Liquid managed to take the lead going into the last round, and with a swift B push late in the round took the first map of the series.

Liquid have earned the first spot in the grand final after beating Na`Vi

The second map, Inferno, started out with Liquid on the CT side, taking their first pistol round of the series in part thanks to three kills from Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken. Liquid quickly started controlling the half, stopping Natus Vincere before they could get comfortable in their late executes. Quickly, the CIS side disintegrated, with Liquid taking 8 rounds, including the last one with four AWP kills by Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella, before Natus Vincere could respond with one of their own. Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko & co. were able to take a few rounds, but it was Liquid who were in full control with an 11-4 scoreline.

Winning the second pistol round, Liquid started getting closer to the final, but Natus Vincere stopped that momentum by taking a third round force by and following it up against an economically maimed Liquid. The North American team finally found a way in to get on match point as they entered A, taking Zeus, electroNic and Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev out before planting and forcing the rest of Na`Vi to save. Liquid didn’t follow it up immediately, allowing Natus Vincere to string several more rounds together before closing it out, 16-10, and clenching a spot in tomorrow’s grand final.

ESL Pro League Season 7 FinalsBest of 3

Natus Vincere

Matchpage

19th May 2018

Liquid

Dust2

Inferno

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	36 - 35	+1	68.7	71.4%	1.09
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	35 - 36	-1	69.2	62.5%	0.94
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	32 - 39	-7	71.1	58.9%	0.84
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	26 - 38	-12	67.6	64.3%	0.82
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Zeus	27 - 41	-14	55.7	67.9%	0.81

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	39 - 30	+9	69.0	85.7%	1.22
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	42 - 34	+8	83.3	71.4%	1.22
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	40 - 32	+8	67.8	76.8%	1.12
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	34 - 28	+6	66.1	71.4%	1.08
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	33 - 35	-2	85.5	69.6%	1.05

Deserved for Liquid

2018-05-19 21:24

52 replies

ez for Józef Jabłonowski Poland > Ukraine + Russia

30 replies

s1mple so overrated loool

2018-05-19 21:25

29 replies

EXPECTED

2 replies

fuck sk

2018-05-19 21:26

expected

2018-05-19 21:40

+10000

2018-05-19 21:30

20 replies

Still s1mple>other trash>coldbuza

2018-05-19 21:34

19 replies

At least cold has won big tournaments:>

2018-05-19 21:36

16 replies

ok but s1mple is one of the best players and known in the pro scene for like 6 years. cold had same status for like 2 and his time is over since he cant bait taco anymore.

15 replies

"Known in the pro scene for like 6 years" Wtf have you been smoking med pack?

2018-05-19 21:56

4 replies

hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/16556/.. Thats 2014 cs go right at the beginning. I dont think he just came in to courage without beeing known in cs 1.6 to. So Maybe get your sh** right before you talk about things you dont know. But yeah Kids who playing cs go for 2 years discusing here

2018-05-20 16:03

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"Known in the pro scene for like 6 years" 2018-2014=4 plus he was a tier 5 player until he joined HR so 1/september/2014 - 20/may/2018= 3 years 8 months and 18 days not 6 years.Have a good day med pack

2018-05-20 18:14

courage tier 5?^^ you dont know shit. And the only reason you missed it is probably cause he vas esl banned at that time you started with cs...

2018-05-20 21:29

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so playing 28 matches in total and only winning 4(with only significant win being an upset against Navi) makes you tier 1/2/3? Hell they were only able to tie against Cplay an italian team ffs

2018-05-20 23:21

2 years: 2 #1 top 20 hltv 6 years: lul

2018-05-19 22:56

9 replies

Cold has never been good enough to get an mvp without even winning the tournament. S1mple did it twice ;)

2018-05-20 05:50

6 replies

Because an MVP mention is more important than the title itself, right? Rehtorical question, no need to answer lul

2018-05-20 06:26

The MVP signifies he is the best player in that tournament. Stupid favela monkey

2018-05-20 06:27

S1mple has never been good enough to get a Major's MVP, cold did it twice ;)

2018-05-20 16:30

So you're saying tarik is better than s1mple since he has a major mvp? Or pasha because even pasha has a major mvp? Stupid br monkey logic

2018-05-20 16:55

You use the mvp logic stupid lul "The MVP signifies he is the best player in that tournament." Yes, if he get the mvp in the major he was better than s1mple in the tournament. You're saying s1mple it's better than cold because he has a mvp without winning the tournament, you really think that it is more important than a major mvp? Try to use the brain, it's very useful ;)

2018-05-20 17:07

That major was 2 years ago you stupid piece of shit. I'm done talking to you, I'm losing brain cells.

2018-05-20 17:13

yeah cool at all but where is he now? 2018 sk watching lan finals only on twitch while all of the other top teams still playing. Get it in your Head sk era is over

2018-05-20 15:57

i agree with you, they're good players but this line up is over, they should separate themselves and search for a new team, just like TACO did

2018-05-20 16:46

Cold: 2 majors 2 times #1 Several mvps.

2018-05-19 23:01

S1mple played a couple of maps badly, and he is overrated, he garbage but cold was good, now he sucks and simple like one hundred percent better than cold

2018-05-20 10:59

Who

2018-05-19 23:00

2018-05-20 11:00

Copypasta from #179

2018-05-20 16:56

yep

2018-05-20 19:29

No, he's just having a bad tournament. Still better than almost anyone on Navi (electronic has been really good lately).

2018-05-20 12:30

Choke BC

Liquid, Astralis, Heroic, and Optic are the only teams who aren't utter shite compared to expectations SK and C9 suck, Faze and mous fell off, fnatic and G2 didnt make it here, NiP has been lacklustre, and Gambit and renegades have struggled to stay relevant everyone is just sitting around being shite

Some of the things you’re saying just make no sense

2018-05-19 21:33

5 replies

I can elaborate if u need friend

2018-05-19 21:43

please don't

2018-05-19 21:47

2018-05-20 02:58

2018-05-20 08:21

damn you sound retard

2018-05-20 00:39

no you retard

2018-05-20 14:32

Heroic? Optic?

2018-05-20 02:59

2018-05-20 08:06

compared to expectations friend

2018-05-20 14:30

Yes but we had no expectations for heroic. They look just ok. Optic need more time before we can actually judge them

2018-05-20 19:49

Don't put this shit my friend, s1mple fanboys always over rating this 2018 era as most competetive even though it's the most random and almost all the best top teams are worse in 2018 than they were in 2017 and on top of that the teams they got replaced by in the ranking are struggling as fuck as well. Only team you can make a case for "improvement" is Astralis but heres the thing, if you don't have a short term memory you would of remembered that Astralis was godlike early on in 2017 imo even better than they are now and then fell off so if they somehow start falling off in 2018 then 100% they had a better 2017. s1mple fanboy arguments stats and trying to down play other players achievements, players like coldzera for example anyway the fact is if you have to rely on stats with no context and talking trash about other players to make the one you like look better than you are insecure and know he isn't the best.

2018-05-20 03:04

it sounds like you agree with me

Navi are pretty consistent top4 same goes to faze astralis and liquid. But cs the last couple of years has become really unpredictable. We dont have a dominant team that everyone else is trying to catch up and thats a same

2018-05-20 11:26

i don't undestand how can it possible

2018-05-19 21:37

NaVi overrated Simple explanation

2018-05-19 21:44

man are you fucking kidding me? who better navi? faze? astralis?

2018-05-19 23:14

Liquid? Lmao

2018-05-20 03:48

Astralis > Liquid in the final. Poor s1mple. -Edward +MIR please.

Poor electronic also...

FaZe >>>>>> Astralis in semis thooooooo

+1 #fazeup

2018-05-19 21:28

expected from poorlak

2018-05-19 21:42

expected form ukrainiec who works in Poland for vodka

2018-05-19 22:45

i agree

0/8

2018-05-19 21:29

Astralis map pool too deep. Probably 3-0 but I’d guess 3-1

NAF will rape Astralis in the final If he doesn't show up then gg

2018-05-20 05:51

S1MPLE OVERRATED

10 replies

Thorin will say it's Zeus fault that s1mple didn't get a 1.50 rating in this match

+999

XDDD

2018-05-19 21:50

Nope

2018-05-19 21:31

Not yet

1 off series and people write this shit WTF

2018-05-19 22:29

cry

2018-05-19 22:30

Good blyat

Unexpected

14 replies

yesn't

13 replies

Can u don't please.

12 replies

I can'tn't.

2018-05-19 21:39

11 replies

2018-05-19 21:41

stop it

2018-05-19 21:51

I acceptn't this request

8 replies

why are you are not requesting are this thread

2018-05-19 21:57

7 replies

That's how it worksn't

2018-05-19 21:58

I disagreen't

2018-05-19 21:59

I are need to go I are sorry I are good knight

Good dayn't!

2018-05-19 22:00

you as welln't

i aren't think that

2018-05-19 22:11

LANquid

Ugh... 22-2 ESL...

2018-05-20 01:15

S1mple LUL

LMAO

Rip s1mple

ez for vaco

yeah sad your shity brazil hope called sk kicked taco instead of baitzera

Deserved!!

US: Won The Cold War Liquid: Beat NaVi Communism doesn't work

"Liquid: Beat NaVi" not in final

Fuck off you communist fuck. Go invade Ukraine, or get raped by some Mongolians.

2018-05-19 22:08

retarded troll :xD

2018-05-20 06:31

retard slav Go starve to death it's the only thing you commies are good at

2018-05-20 16:19

Did US...? As far as I know, USSR was the first one to launch themself in space. Otherwise, cold war ended up with both sides winning, because like Friendship won after ISS was built

Cold war = space race? Lul. Gud education.

2018-05-19 22:07

2018-05-20 06:28

Ez for Astralis

p1mple is one of the losers again, not a surprise. Will he get the rigged MVP tho?

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Why would he? He barely stepped up this event

2018-05-19 21:27

ask hltv...

They gave him MVP awards when he actually had high ratings and deserved it.

Only problem being we had amazing individual performances through all these years from players that were not in the winners team, better than anyone from the #1, and they didn't win the MVP for the same reason

SALTY SK FANS

How can you talkshit about a player that is better than your entire favorite team roster. Shut the fuck up, not much people are talkshiting in HLTV about SK. If faze were in a slump they would be bullied by fucking SK fans. To sum up, don't call someone a looser if you aren't a winner

And what did he achieve by being "better"? Didn't win shit in 2018. In the end he's in the same place as the SK players this year. Stop being delusional

2018-05-19 21:32

SK is the 2nd greatest winner in cs go history. What about p1mple?

best player to ever touch this game coldzera only good 2015-2016 s1mple has been beasting since 2013

0/8 yellow

2018-05-19 21:53

ok monkey

2018-05-20 00:12

Easiest report of my entire existence lul

2018-05-20 02:12

Unfortunately I’m still not banned. You started with the name calling, I just played along

2018-05-20 03:38

I know, m8, rlx.

2018-05-20 04:09

Only MVP for the most rage per round :)

xDD

Expected FaZe 3-0 Liquid

astralis will destroy faze 0/8

-1 0/8

rekt

2018-05-20 00:49

Olof would 16-0 Astralis

Taco Was the problem

r u mad?

taco was the problem? no, taco is solution

Taco > s1mple?

1 series out of 20 yes

well in this series he was better and a 1 series sample size proves my point so you are objectively wrong.

2018-05-20 00:50

FeelsGoodMan to know that s1mple won't get another undeserved rigged MVP

so ez

Bot s-1mple

Expected

"s1mple best player in the world"

He is... But he need one better team...

Nope. Niko is better. Fact

what is fact? xd

Niko is better

2018-05-19 21:54

Ok lets see...

2018-05-20 05:52

“Coldzera #1 2 years in a row”

2018-05-19 22:05

When I have no expectations for Liquid they play surprisingly well.

lol navi can't even get 1 map :(

I have never seen chokers like Navi.If you lose against teams like liquid you don't deserve to be in finals.Such poor performance wasn't expected from them.

Nice TL and wp NAVI

Taco is the problem

Flamie had a terrible day

He bought new mouse today, prob didnt got used to it

Prolly a mouse without chlenix

2018-05-19 23:38

Aleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev 35 - 36 -1 69.2 0.94 wait.. what?!

Hes back broke from carrying those shits 24/7.

2018-05-19 22:32

Simple = xantares ?

SK looks kind of dumb coming out of this. I think the problem was they never really used Taco correctly. Glad he found a home here. He looks great.

Well, baiting him gave them 2 majors and 8 big tourmaments, so I think they did used him correctly, lol

2018-05-19 21:35

then why did you two faced retards cry about taco being the problem for the better part of a year

Because we are 2 faced

2018-05-19 22:10

I'm talking about the end of his time with the team. Not 2016/17. The real problem with SK is Fer and Fallen are playing way worse then they ever have before.

True

the truth is coming out taco in sk = sacrificed himself for the team. k/d ever negative taco in liquid = play free. nice kiils, nice moves. k/d positive sk is the problem

2018-05-19 21:38

Expected to me tbh

i told, fast 2-0

rip

Navi bomzhi

TL is a great team. I love the concept of making roster changes even when things are going well. Makes good players go to your team. With the addition of TACO and NAF this must be the best NA roster of all time. Though I doubt they can make a run like the other c9 roster did in Boston.

Nah best NA lineup was TL in 2016 when they had s1mple

2018-05-20 07:42

Omg they lost in Semis and retarded haters already start to talk shit about S1mple and Na`Vi LMAO

No mvp for simple this time lul

:( fak

s1mple worst stat this year

Witch is still good event overall for any other pro.

2018-05-19 22:33

Na'vi get completely dicked on when s1mple has a bad day

Jajajajajajaja

liquid major winner 2018

Taco is the problem kkkk

Saying simple overrated is like claiming jordan or Messi overrated. LOL

Agreed, so much biased haters after s1mple one "bad" series in a while. Still finished the event 1.19 what would be good performance by any other pro standarts.

2018-05-20 12:16

Deserved

The Real final is Ast vs Faze, winner of that match will win ez in the final.

how do you know?

We could beat Faze. Astralis to good though... Good meme though

2018-05-20 01:18

What's your role in TL ?

2018-05-20 13:45

Wut?

2018-05-20 13:47

lul

2018-05-19 22:01

Unluko maluko mr s1mple

2018-05-19 22:04

SK|s1mple confirmed.

2018-05-19 22:12

Deserved btw

2018-05-19 22:13

Omg can't believe this happened. :(

2018-05-19 22:19

awesome, GL DAUNYLO BOTLENKO <3

2018-05-19 22:41

Steel was the problem

2018-05-19 22:49

2018-05-19 23:06

aww no I'm sad

2018-05-19 23:13

I predict to see tomorrow in this very site: "s1mple elected by HLTV the MVP of the event". And lots os losers saying: "deserved! What a god. Have my children, s1mple. The GOAT that has never won anything in his career". Love this website.

2018-05-20 00:10