MIBR beat MVP PK to secure ZOTAC Cup Masters final spot

25-8-2018 18:35

MIBR are through to the grand final at the ZOTAC Cup Masters after dispatching MVP PK 2-0.

The second match of the day in Hong Kong began with a strong start from MIBR on their opponents' map pick, Inferno, as they got out to a 3-0 lead following a fast A execute in the pistol. A triple kill from Hyun-Pyo "⁠XigN⁠" Lee then put MVP PK on the board, but the Brazilians hit back instantly to restore a three-round lead.

Contrary to expectations, MIBR ended up surrendering their lead. With XigN putting in the work, the South Korean side kept their defence very tight and took an 8-5 lead before the Brazilians secured the final two rounds of the half.

MVP PK further added to their lead by winning the pistol round, only to get caught off-guard by MIBR's CZs in the next round. The Asian team still tried to respond, but they could simply not find a way through the compact MIBR defence, especially on the B site, with the Brazilian side winning nine rounds straight to run out 16-9 winners.

MIBR will take on Kinguin for the ZOTAC Cup Masters title

Dust2, the map that followed, started with MVP PK winning the pistol round but then losing the subsequent anti-eco. Despite their best efforts, the South Korean side had no response to the swift attacking display of MIBR, who closed out the half with a commanding 12-3 lead.

A 1v2 clutch from Seon-Ho "⁠xeta⁠" Son in the second half pistol still gave MVP PK's fans some hope, but once MIBR bought up the pattern of the game changed immediately, with Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's side quickly hitting match point. With no margin for error, the Terrorists upped the pace and started stringing rounds together, but their resistance was finally broken in the 26th round.

ZOTAC Cup Masters 2018 Grand FinalsBest of 3

MVP PK

Matchpage

25th August 2018

MIBR

Inferno

Dust2

MVP PK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee XigN	45 - 35	+10	83.4	62.7%	1.15
Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang solo	30 - 35	-5	69.8	62.7%	0.96
Seon-Ho 'xeta' Son xeta	34 - 35	-1	70.9	64.7%	0.91
Min-Seok 'zeff' Park zeff	27 - 41	-14	69.3	66.7%	0.84
Min-Soo 'glow' Kim glow	15 - 40	-25	36.2	54.9%	0.48

MIBR	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	43 - 28	+15	86.1	78.4%	1.34
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	43 - 31	+12	83.2	78.4%	1.32
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	36 - 33	+3	86.2	74.5%	1.27
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	33 - 27	+6	73.7	72.5%	1.15
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	31 - 32	-1	64.0	68.6%	1.00

Nice

2018-08-25 18:36

14 replies

+1 mibr top1

2018-08-25 18:41

11 replies

tier 8 top 1 pick xaxaxaxaxax

2018-08-25 18:42

9 replies

Triggered xD

4 replies

u? axaxaxaxaxax

2018-08-25 18:43

3 replies

u? axaxaxaxaxaxa

2018-08-25 21:09

2 replies

mad kid LUL xaxaxaxaxa

2018-08-25 21:48

1 reply

u? axaxaxaxaxa

2018-08-25 21:55

U just for baited noooob

2018-08-25 18:44

what no u? xaxaxa?

2018-08-25 18:55

Tier 8 ? HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA Never

2018-08-25 20:33

ok maybe tier 9

2018-08-25 21:06

the mibr era

2018-08-25 19:37

OMG who saw this coming?

niceee

SPOILER: mibr is NOT back, they only beat tier 4 china teams so far!!!! Fans please stop beeing delusional xaxaxaxaxaxax

8 replies

2018-08-25 18:37

They are back

2018-08-25 18:38

The important part is these teams have some really crazy aimers, a team with serious problems would lose to them pretty often.. as they were in their slump It's the more drilled teams that we need to see a bunch of matchups against, especially Astralis, but lets wait until we see them play NaVi Liquid FaZe mouz. Good signs though, they'll get a lot better yet

2018-08-26 00:55

2018-08-26 00:37

LUL delusional xaxaxaxaxa

2018-08-26 00:46

Ez for br

2018-08-26 00:38

Full Focus fast win ggwp

#VAMOMIBR

3:0 for kinguin incoming

2018-08-25 18:39

DZIEKI

2018-08-25 18:59

WOWOWOWOWOWOOWW

GGWP

Go mibr

Fallenzera <3

ez for TaZ

ez for kingtaz

And era of domination of t3 events started for MiBR

Free 200k for MIBR

sk era is beck

Mibr is back.

EZ clap

Now get that trophy!

2018-08-25 18:40

Nt mvp much better than 2017 I hope they will get good results at IEM

Who?

Free 200k

There's no reason to cheer: MIBR looked unconvincing, too often undecided and made too many errors. They narrowly won against a team which is ranked 52 but in their current form they stand no chance against Australis, Faze, Luquid and Navi. It's sad really.

+1. same late lined entries in inferno. sad.

2018-08-26 10:31

2nd tournament they’ll win this year!! Best team in this tournament: Kinguin Best team in last tournament: don’t remember bit another t5 team. What happened to mibr?

Fer again in negative what is going on??

Notice the rating were not under 1.0 either game ? contribution (KAST) and ADR is fine, his play has had a big effect on players following up. He's playing a more difficult role most of the time, eg dust2 CT pistol he's first contact at mid doors virtually no support, getting info and having to be reactive, extremely difficult not to just get flashed and steamrolled then they ambush stew on B for 90%+ round won already He's doing fine, will find his comfort zone as time goes on. He's made a significant role change in the past and became the most troublesome CT aggressor in the world within a year..

2018-08-25 18:53

Ty finnaly response with acual content

2018-08-25 18:52

I will agree he played his role fine and is adapting but 64 ADR is well below his average

2018-08-25 21:40

I actually just watched both gotv demos from his POV. Definitely looked a bit rusty, normally much smoother. I think he is showing signs of what SK were famous for, being rusty after player break and taking great benefit from the grind, eg that run after cs_summit where they won6 out of 7 tournaments in a row, they clearly got better and better. Was surprisingly decent stats considering circumstances in some rounds and how rusty he looked aim wise

2018-08-25 23:32

That's the thing, they were a team who would grind out rounds, close games, win 2v2s and 3v3ish situations. So over long periods when teams are playing the same CS over the course or the tournament season they're going to be able to finish out those games by consistently winning clutches and close situations but after a break they arent going to have that same synergy or ability to always come out on top because they're rusty.

2018-08-26 02:10

yes. really sad. he used to kill like three times his number of deaths by the end of a map..

Sad to see

i was wondering if felps could be able to do more in times like these...

2018-08-25 18:54

He used to have the freedom to make unexpected hard to deal with plays as CT, and be able to value his life much lower than almost any role in the game (except TACO space making, 'entry death' role as FalleN put it) Being able to disrupt the T's on their side of the map for the first 1/3rd of a round and often get a kill, sometimes more, or do damage to multiple players, exhaust T utility and give the other 4 significant info was ridiculously effective at times, e.g Overpass played into this style really well for a long time and the rest of the team were so strong in their positions they could make highly effective, earlier rotates and use less utility controlling the most important points of the map, stifling site entrypoints with utility, crossfires and flanks and so on We'll see how effective the overall formula is over time, but when they had felps I wished for him to become this different type of player, during C9's major run RUSH is a good example of a highly efficient.. "damage and control" player.. a ROCK. If they had let felps do his thing and had fer preserving his life, playing a supporting element imagine how the team could have progressed ? much of the positive effect it could have would have been 18months of other teams analysis mostly going in the bin because they weren't playing the same team at all anymore

2018-08-25 19:02

3 matches free 200k, not bad for mibr

2018-08-25 18:45

FAT FALLEN LUL

2018-08-25 18:50

200k free

2018-08-25 19:21

+1 Where the big boys at? Astra navi etc :<

2018-08-25 22:46

-fer +felps mibr top 5 again

2018-08-25 18:51

yes please felps is more like "never let go your W key" hahahaha

fer is playing support

2018-08-25 18:58

Yep just like I said above, at least someone gets it. felps+fer could have worked because fer is just that good, IMO in this style he will become a dominant midround and damage CT player, and near unstoppable post plant force

2018-08-25 19:05

I watched demos, he looked quite rusty aim wise too, expect him to be noticeably crisper in the final. Wasn't terrible hit some nice shots but just getting warmed up by the end it seemed Kinguin playing pretty good but if mibr don't demolish them it'll be very disappointing effort

2018-08-25 23:34

2018-08-25 19:03

-fer +anyone

2018-08-25 19:15

no , fergod

expected

2018-08-25 19:22

Unexpected.

2018-08-25 19:41

wow only good at t3 events

2018-08-25 19:48

XigN > coldzera ez

2018-08-25 19:52

Good to see Fallen finally getting some groove back !

2018-08-26 00:15

now fer is playing TACO roles? what a waste

2018-08-25 19:57

at least he is playing TACO role better than BOLTZ, and tarik and stew can shine like fer did in 2017

2018-08-25 22:56

boltz was not playing TACO, and fer plays the role of taco better than taco ... ezz mibr. Boltz is an excellent player

2018-08-26 00:18

Taco does really good on liquid i wonder why they cut him.....the americans are pure crap. They should have tried at least brazilians as solutions. The teles brothers lets say

they dont want play with party monsters again

2018-08-25 20:50

Hold your pillows, top 1 is coming again

2018-08-25 21:14

2018-08-25 21:41

MIBR on paper should always be easily beating t3's. If they were struggling then it'd raise so many questions about their form.

2018-08-25 22:00

EZ KINGUIN :D

2018-08-25 22:50

wut fokin tournament is this if u can get to the final by beating some nonamer tier 5 team?

2018-08-26 00:06

2018-08-26 00:25

ezz mibr

2018-08-26 00:43

2018-08-26 00:58

They dominated the CT side of Inferno and they seemed to take their foot off the gas towards the end of Dust 2. Don't let the scoreboard fool you. 1 Sided

2018-08-26 02:07

Bad fallen is back! But what happened to fer?

2018-08-26 03:02

Unlucky day for Asian cs.

2018-08-26 10:40

This is basically free money for mibr. They beat FLASH gaming and MVP.PK two tier 3 team and they are in a grand final against another tier3 team. If they win it's FREE money with 0 effort. And they will win it probably. Disgusting.

2018-08-26 10:42