ZOTAC Cup Masters 2018 Europe Regional Finals

Imperial to ZOTAC Europe Finals last-four stage over Gambit

22-6-2018 22:21

Imperial are through to the semi-finals at the ZOTAC Cup Masters Europe Regional Finals after defeating Gambit 16-7 on Train.

The match kicked off with Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas and Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković picking up the CT pistol for their team with clean double and triple-kills, respectively. Gambit responded with a successful B execution in the first gun round, but Imperial countered the PGL Major Krakow champions immediately following a triple-kill from Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend.

After losing two more rounds, it seemed like Gambit had found the formula to break through the defence as they went on a three-round streak, but the European mixture regained control and hit the nine-round mark without too much trouble. Before switching sides, however, the Kazakhstani squad still managed to reduce the deficit by winning the last two rounds of the half, the second of which thanks to a 1v2 clutch from Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov.

EspiranTo was far too hot for Gambit to handle

Imperial further added to their lead in the second half, securing their T-side pistol, both anti-ecos and the gun round. Žygimantas "⁠nukkye⁠" Chmieliauskas and kRYSTAL then turned a 2v4 situation around, setting Imperial up for an impressive 16-7 lead, with EspiranTo topping the scoreboard with an impressive 1.77 rating.

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22nd June 2018

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Imperial	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas EspiranTo	26 - 13	+13	109.5	87.0%	1.77
Kevin 'kRYSTAL' Amend kRYSTAL	19 - 12	+7	78.9	91.3%	1.40
Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann TENZKI	18 - 14	+4	92.2	78.3%	1.33
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	16 - 15	+1	80.0	73.9%	1.06
Žygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas nukkye	13 - 11	+2	58.7	73.9%	0.96

Gambit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov HObbit	16 - 19	-3	90.4	78.3%	1.04
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov mir	16 - 19	-3	81.8	69.6%	1.03
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev AdreN	16 - 18	-2	65.7	65.2%	1.01
Rustem 'mou' Telepov mou	8 - 16	-8	39.8	65.2%	0.65
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Dosia	9 - 20	-11	50.4	60.9%	0.59

Not invited to Major minor closed qualifiers btw.

2018-06-22 22:21

8 replies

bcuz probably at the time when invites planned they were not good or idk

2018-06-22 22:27

they tried in 3/4 qualifiers and didnt make it thus werent invited

2018-06-22 22:40

6 replies

no... they weren't invited thus they played the qualifiers

2018-06-22 22:44

5 replies

true but they had 4 chances and they chose to not play the 4th qualifier

2018-06-22 23:18

1 reply

They played 2/4 qualifiers, and they didn't participate in the last one cuz they had DH open Summer at the same time.

2018-06-23 00:32

Paulius where are u from (no joking)

2018-06-23 13:23

2 replies

hmmm did u observe something interesting?

2018-06-23 13:37

Yes your flag is the same as Espiranto and I want to know where are from.

2018-06-23 16:33

nice no challenge again

2018-06-22 22:22

Yes Espi second mvp of tourtament))))

4 replies

this is only quali, w8 for main there will be a lot of good teams :)

2018-06-22 22:24

3 replies

and its gonna be ez

2018-06-22 22:56

hope so, 200k for 1st place

2018-06-22 22:57

ez for despiranto

2018-06-24 02:05

AMAZING

Lithuanian GODS,i think Espi will get mvp of this tourtament💣😀

2018-06-22 22:23

This is a qualifier

2018-06-22 22:43

so, imperial just won LAN event ?

2018-06-23 18:05

still a qualifier...

2018-06-23 19:05

imperial > mouz

2018-06-23 19:06

unexpected

GAMBOT

dosia pro player ahahha

ez for Krystal

krystal 0/8

2018-06-24 01:56

From winning a Major to this... What the fuck is going on with Gambit man...

Zeus left and it happened

2018-06-22 22:26

Zeus and the coach left, they haven't found a decent leader either

2018-06-22 22:29

The individual skill on Imperial is far higher than on Gambit

2018-06-23 18:04

Not really, Gambit has really high individual skill on mir Adren and Hobbit, they're just not showing up at all.

2018-06-23 20:59

they really showed it too... NOT

espiranto to make it top10 in 2019

14 replies

Top 20 probably, because his team will not play versus top teams like Space Soldiers, FaZe, Cloud9, Astralis and others, not soon anyway.

if they win this qual they will

2018-06-22 22:25

You are right, is my mistake, sorry.

ss is tier2 btw and i think imperial will reach tier 1 at the end of this year and if he continues to perform like this i dont see a reason why he wont make it to top10

Yeah but I mena, SS are playing pretty good and that's why I said top teams. I think is still about versus who you are playing, cause I don't know if Espiranto can keep his scoreboard as same versus FaZe, Astralis or Na'Vi. Hope the best for this kid! He is amazing.

agreed btw on ss their only good result since they qualified some good tournament is beating sk 2-0 nothing more they just got destroyed by every good team they play

2018-06-22 22:31

they have potential but idk whats wrong probably motivation or they just need to figure out how do they get woxic instead of ngin

2018-06-22 22:32

Well take xantares as example, top hltv rating always positive K/D but dont play against top teams. Few times maybe and because of that never reach a top 20 ranking. Same will happen with EspiranTo if he continues to play good but against tier2/3 teams.

2018-06-23 16:37

pls espi pls

No way.

2018-06-22 22:49

any reason why ?

2018-06-22 23:58

Well, if he sticks with Imperial that's never gonna happen. Let's say he gets picked up by a better team around the beginning of 2019. That team will not be a top team - no top team will take that big a chance on him - and he probably won't be the star right away, he will be just another player. Besides, we have no idea how he will adapt to different circumstances and/or pressure. Therefore, unless he's an unparalleled prodigy, there's no way he'll be top 10 in 2019.

2018-06-23 15:43

for example ropz he was a fpl star nothing more and he got picked by mouz. btw imperial will be a solid team at the end of this year and you will see that potential on espiranto to make it on top 10

2018-06-23 19:50

2018-06-24 02:06

Espiranto is going more insane everyday.

wow

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2018-06-22 22:28

Inb4 espi will go to someone like mouz and the roster falls apart like it does everytime when krystal is in a Team which is getting better and better I Feel so Bad for this dude

2018-06-22 22:33