MIBR sweep past Kinguin to lift ZOTAC Cup Masters trophy

26-8-2018 13:40

MIBR have won the 2018 edition of the ZOTAC Cup Masters after defeating Kinguin 3-0 in the grand final.

The opening map of this best-of-five series was Dust2. Kinguin had been the team picking it, but those watching the first half without knowing the veto certainly thought otherwise. The Polish side were completely outplayed by MIBR for most of the first half and only managed to break through the Brazilians' brick wall defence 13 rounds into the game, courtesy of a 1v2 clutch by Mikołaj "⁠mouz⁠" Karolewski.

Kinguin followed that up with another round, courtesy of a triple-kill by Jacek "⁠MINISE⁠" Jeziak, but MIBR ended the half with a flawless round to take a commanding 13-2 lead.

The second half started with Kinguin keeping their hopes alive after retaking the B site in impressive fashion, turning a tricky situation around. The Polish side went on to add three more rounds to their tally, but Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga finally broke their resistance in the 20th round with a key triple kill.

That round immediately left Kinguin's economy in shambles, and the Polish players were helpless to keep MIBR from running away with the game.

Cache, the map that followed, was much more contested than Dust2. After losing the opening three rounds of the game, Kinguin fought back with full buys and quickly restored parity. MIBR then took control of proceedings, but a series of aggressive moves by Kinguin made this a competitive 9-6 half.

Brazilians win first title under MIBR

A quad-kill by mouz in a B execution earned Kinguin the second pistol of the round and set them up for a three-round streak. After buying up, MIBR kept a water-tight defence, bringing the scoreline to 14-10.

It looked like the Brazilians had the game under control, but Kinguin upped the pace and starting making a climb back into the map. However, two massive blunders from Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas's side, one of them in a 5v2 situation, saw MIBR get a hard-fought victory and take a 2-0 lead in the series.

fer opened up the action on Train with a stunning 1v4 clutch in the pistol round, giving MIBR an early lead on the Terrorist side. That round marked the beginning of a near-flawless half from the Brazilians, who cruised to a 14-1 lead as Kinguin could not keep up with the hight intensity implemented by the Brazilians.

More misery was to come for Kinguin as they could not hold the B site in a post-plant situation in the pistol round, with MIBR following that up with a successful anti-eco to seal a comprehensive 16-1 victory and a clean 3-0 series win.

ZOTAC Cup Masters 2018 Grand FinalsBest of 5

Kinguin

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26th August 2018

MIBR

Dust2

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Kinguin	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz rallen	38 - 52	-14	80.2	68.1%	0.91
Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski mouz	38 - 50	-12	54.9	53.6%	0.80
Jacek 'MINISE' Jeziak MINISE	40 - 61	-21	77.8	58.0%	0.78
Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak reatz	34 - 46	-12	46.5	58.0%	0.74
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas TaZ	28 - 58	-30	53.7	55.1%	0.54

MIBR	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	59 - 33	+26	103.1	81.2%	1.61
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	56 - 37	+19	90.9	73.9%	1.34
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	53 - 29	+24	69.4	79.7%	1.32
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	53 - 42	+11	76.5	78.3%	1.23
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	46 - 37	+9	71.9	75.4%	1.18

ZOTAC Cup Masters final standings:

1. MIBR - $200,000
2. Kinguin - $60,000
3-4. MVP PK - $20,000
3-4. Ghost - $20,000
5-8. TYLOO
5-8. Virtus.pro
5-8. OpTic
5-8. Flash

ez money wtf

2018-08-26 13:40

20 replies

well, this one is goin to be uploaded at xvideos

2018-08-26 13:42

17 replies

Expected

14 replies

Fallen is back

2018-08-26 13:43

13 replies

2018-08-26 13:44

If they start winning many big trophies again, you can easily say they have the best core of all time.

2018-08-26 15:26

3 replies

+1000

2018-08-26 16:30

Many tier 5 trophys LUL

2018-08-26 21:19

1 reply

you need to understand what sre you reading before answering pal

2018-08-27 05:10

Plays a event with no other decent teams lol. I bet even c9 could beat these clowns Rn. Yes I said it, c9.

2018-08-26 18:10

7 replies

C9 couldn't beat eUnited.

2018-08-26 18:36

6 replies

Lol

2018-08-26 18:56

HAHAHAHAHA

2018-08-26 19:46

Not even when C9 was up 1 map by default lmao

2018-08-26 21:00

they made the amazing decision to keep SHYTKO on their team for some retarded reason, but glad he will be gone after this major. Golden is good enough until they find someone better, but the c9 players are so good that made in BRAZIL needed 2 of them to make their team better elegiggle

2018-08-29 02:43

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You guys are weird, huh? First you tell Stewie2K was the worst player of C9 and none of you wouldn't miss him, now he's suddenly a great hero fallen from Clown9. Anyways, MiBR was still shit with 2K and Tarik. What was missing was a coach, and we got it. If both of them leave now to your meme team back again, we couldn't care less. Both our majors we got without burgers on it, and you should be thankful your "made in China/Turkey but born in USA for irony of destiny" had an opportunity to play with a actually good core.

2018-08-29 02:50

I never doubted Stewie. You were lucky that portugal fucking raped the natives in Brazil and allowed for your pathetic favela existence. (thats a joke btw because you said some retarded shit about stewie and tarik being from outside the country even though they were born in the USA) and what is that "MIBR was shit with 2k" They still are. Beating up on lower skilled teams isn't improvement and its still wayy too early to see how much of an impact YANKOFF is doing for them. I know you're just frustrated that Brazil probably won't ever win another even over $500k, but who knows, maybe MIBR will just sign the rest of c9 and win something respactable lol.

2018-08-29 17:51

very expected

So interesting finals ResidentSleeper

Nice

2018-08-26 13:47

wow unexpected

2018-08-26 13:51

expected

2018-08-26 13:41

polak's best team xd

Ago is better

2018-08-26 13:52

2018-08-26 14:07

ezzzz

ez xaxaxa

Astralis still #1

Tier 3 tournament

s1mple 0 majors LUL

10 replies

By your logic Dosia is better than Niko and S1mple.

2018-08-26 14:11

8 replies

Yes, indeed

2018-08-26 14:13

he is better

2018-08-26 14:16

5 replies

We are not talking about sumo wrestling :p.

2018-08-26 14:19

4 replies

but dosia is better than s1mple and niko

0/8 bait

2018-08-26 16:28

dosia 1 major, s1mple and niko 0 major

2018-08-26 16:29

+1 OMEGALUL

2018-08-26 16:57

he is

2018-08-26 14:31

+10000

2018-08-26 16:56

Omegalul

OMEGALUL

2018-08-26 13:58

3rd tier 3 event for mibr lmao

easy work mibr back to the top

26 replies

From beating Flash, MVPPK and Kinguin?? I don't think so

2018-08-26 13:46

25 replies

stfu uk cs

2018-08-26 13:53

24 replies

Coming from an Irish guy?? Mate learn ya place. UK CS> Irish CS

22 replies

Ukraine CS > UK CS > Irish CS

2018-08-26 14:06

18 replies

UA CS >Ukraine CS > UK CS > Irish CS

2018-08-26 14:14

UA = Ukraine

2018-08-26 14:15

Ukrainian cs is bad aswell All you got is simple

2018-08-26 14:20

9 replies

U have only BUG LUL

2018-08-26 14:43

Nah alt attax euronics and sprout(spiidi and denis) can compete with bigger teams(not the top ones of course) But i never said that germany has a good scene Its decent tho

2018-08-26 14:55

Spirit, Na'Vi - 80% and 40% of those teams are from UA. Also in Spirit igl from UA and main carry of the team too. Pro100 - team, which is on the same lvl with Eu, sprout and Attax, so. UA cs better. HR - 2|5 from Ukrain.

2018-08-26 15:24

Navi is 60% ukrainian

2018-08-27 07:01

And spirit only 40%

2018-08-27 08:11

ORG from UA, and coach. BTW in professional CS scene about 10 UA players at all, but all of them solid t1-1.5, so UA cs is grate. And to addition, Na'Vi, Ukrainian team,won a lot of t1 tournaments, and HR, Spirit wonned some Dream Hacks i.t.c. In compare, i cant remember any great German team who wonned smth (with 2< German players)

2018-08-27 11:07

Bro you overrate these players Simple T1 Edward,ZeusT2(zeus bad indv player) Angel and bondik tier 2-3. Spirit guys nah potential is there but not more. And Orga doesn‘t count. Otherwise E.g. Sk gaming,Mouz are german and won much more trophies than na vi

2018-08-27 12:06

Mouz and SK - non German players. And i cant remember what Mouz achived (i mean smth big?). SK were great only while they were LG - after SK signing they started to be shit, slowly but surely. BTW, Na'Vi - T1 team, only one who could compete with Astralis atm. So Edward and Zeus - yes, they are T1. So, Bondik and Angel - lvl of North, NiP itc. atm. So, if this teams t 2-3, im agreed. And Spirit - they are on the Major. All this teams with the most part of UA players (if we count coach, Spirit and HR 50% of UA) Certus and Jonta from UA, we will see, that 3 of these teams are on Major. And only BIG from German, who were lucky two majors ago to go throo group stage, coz of bug, wich has been yoused only by them. So, UA cs > All CS's, except Swedish and Danish, coz of big amount of solid t1-2 teams.

2018-08-27 12:16

Sorry but edward and zeus are not t1 simple and electronic (and flamie sometimes) carry the shit out of them. Yeah spirit is major now but its only an achievment if they can reach the round of 16 Bigs major performances where not really good i accept but we will have to see what they can do but i think you don‘t understand that i‘m agreeing with you when you say that UA scene > German Scene. But only cuz navi is good atm. Zeus and edsard still no t1

2018-08-27 12:37

Swedish CS > all. /Close /Lock

Danish over swedish sry but true Astralis> Fnatic North> Nip Fragsters> Red reserve Heroic is mix so idk Sprout = Chaos

2018-08-27 09:03

+ Optic

2018-08-27 09:04

Optic - losing to Euronics (lul) and to Ghost (omegalul). Thay are even not a solid t2.

2018-08-27 12:21

Acrually, atm NIP> or = North. Astralis > Fnatic - true. Fragsters - onliners, couldnt compete even T2 teams like Valiance and Imperial, so they are < RR. Heroic = RR. Sprout = Chaos, true (or even Sprout> Chaos). BTW. Dans started to be great only with Astralis era. Swedish cs were one of the best from 1.6 to actual time. Swedish CS > all. Im agreed.

2018-08-27 12:20

Don‘t look in the past Future counts Swedish cs lose more and more in quality they were they best cs nation for sure but they are not anymore Although fragsters are onliners they qualified for some dreamhacks smth which rr is not able to

2018-08-27 13:08

not irish mfcker

2018-08-26 14:21

fakeflagger Mcgregor fanboy spotted

2018-08-26 14:40

+1 Fake Flagger

2018-08-26 15:56

LUL Irish CS

2018-08-26 14:12

Reddit pros can STFU now

Tier 3 era ez Moche XL Adrenaline Cyber WESG America And now ZOTAC If they gain more than 10 points from this, system is rigged!

They should get 50-100 for this tier2 tournament

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Tier 3 tournament. For example, Fnatic Academy won a better tournament in 2016 (China Top) and only went from 32 to 49 points. Gaining points in the lower ranks should be easier. Since you gaining points from being better than another opponent in a catergory. And becoming better than for example Pride in "form" at the time was much easier for Fnatic Academy to do than it should be now for MIBR to get a better for example "achivement" rank than let's say FaZe...

11 replies

well idk this site is biased so ur wrong xd

2018-08-26 13:48

Bra71l bias is real

2018-08-26 13:49

I think the way MiBR won it will give them points brother

2018-08-26 14:01

That shouldn't matter though at all. I mean, srsly. In what world would NaVi be able to take Astralis' throne by winning Moche XL, Adrenaline Cyber and WESG CIS LAN Finals? It's stupid. Beating complete unknown teams shouldn't gain you points. And if you beat them quite dominantly, you've just done what you're expected to do... That's it.

2018-08-26 14:05

i dont say they should be top 1 bro but they should get points and maybe move up in the ranking

They wont move up Big#6 with 322 P Mibr7# with 263 P This event win won‘t boost mibr to 320p +

2018-08-27 09:09

its not MiBR’s fault that top teams dont accept the invitations

2018-08-26 14:17

T1 teams want to play serious tournament like major, DH Stockholm, not the ZOTAC

2018-08-26 14:45

2018-08-26 16:27

Mibr wanted holidays in hong kong and took drive by 200.000$

2018-08-27 09:11

ofc it isn't their fault. would you blame anyone for getting 200k for free? ofc not. I'm completely fine with MIBR's approach and all that, the only thing is I'm annoyed with them boosting their points quite a lot from it.

Farming shit tournalents so br fans that dont know a shit about this game are happy, expected

Ez money

Better than nothing lol

2018-08-26 13:45

ofc better than nothing. Still a tournament like this shouldn't be worth a lot of points.

mibr>fnatic every day

2018-08-26 13:55

What exactly have MIBR done better in the last 3 months at tier 1 tournaments? Do not come with any bad argument about MOCHE XL or something. I mean big events, like Cologne or Eleague...

2018-08-26 14:00

still better than fnatic

2018-08-27 03:11

Answer me. At big events. What have mibr done better?

2018-08-27 07:12

these lines have not met, and mibr I think it was only 2 tournaments with that line so I can not say that it is better (or worse) correct? on the other hand 2016 so far LG / SK / Mibr has more victories vs fnatic, so I guess fnatic is who owes something here

2018-08-27 21:51

That's not how the HLTV ranking is done, it's done by the last 3 month's results... At the last 2 big events that both teams were at: ESL One Cologne: Playoffs for Fnatic, MIBR out in groups. MIBR player change, should lose a lot of points because of it. ELEAGUE: Both teams 5-6. MIBR beat #20 C9 while Fnatic beat top 4 FaZe.

2018-08-27 22:09

you forget who eliminated fnatic from the last major lel

2018-08-27 22:20

nice

MIBR ERA

turn on brain

nt yanko

nt prokda

im not prokda wtf

2018-08-26 13:54

ez 200 for shiet compentition

MiBr hype now! Top 1 confirmed lmao.

Winning a Final against KINGUIN LUL

the best final in 2018 so far this emotions hype comebacks this storyline ohhh ahhhhhh

Nah dude kinguin played bad only good 2nd map

Boring

i said it, mibr #1 fallen mvp gg

#1 at zotac cup with shitty invited teams... nothing to brag about. Ez money.

Ez katka

2.Taz 5-8.VP

Farming tier 3 events so their dumb fans that dont know anything about cs are happy

And you're one of them, clueless newfag

Here since the 1.6 days so stfu fake astralis fan

2018-08-26 14:02

nt, newfag

2018-08-26 14:08

fan of mibr too? Ok i see its expected from a retard like you to get hurt by simple facts, get out now

2018-08-26 14:09

tl;dr nt,newfag

tbh 200k$ for first place is a pretty good amount, the thing is top teams got too picky when it comes to events, i'm sure that the event organizer tried to get more top teams to play at their event, its not mibr's fault if other teams aretoo picky.

fluke lul

So happy for the boyss

Ezzzzz

free 200k

farming some money

Tier 5 tournament, who cares

Stewie turned on!!

Easy money xD

Inb4 mibr goes up to like 2nd place in rankings cause they won a tier3 tournament -_-

Nah m8 won't happen these made in banana race will have to work harder

I hope so

Expected Ez mibr

ez for mibr major champion

Expected, hope fallen can be back to the glory days

Ynk will become IGL and falleN will retire You heard it first here (oh and they kick tarik and fer)

2018-08-26 13:50

Bro calm down

2018-08-27 09:16

It's a joke m8 xD

2018-08-27 09:56

I don‘t like this joke And not funny

2018-08-27 12:10

k mate

2018-08-27 12:11

Ez for mibr

no competition

such a display of skill easing past the tier3/4 competition! cant wait to see them in stockholm vs real teams xD

seeing so many ppl trash talking mibr for goin to these events, but i respect them for that, back in the day top teams would give their best in an event that had the prize pool of $ 300k nowdays teams won't even accept invites if they think that an event is not worth their time.

Gonna be eliminated in group stage LULW

Mibr is back baby !

ez money there Next week championship prizes 250k for the whole thing

mibr vergonha nacional

bot in Brazil lul

That game showed that even when you have bots like tarik and fer you can still win the game when the rest are good

Dude!

2018-08-27 09:17

Vergonha nacional MIBR

wow, MiBRUSA is back

Expected mibr <3

2018-08-26 13:57

mibr is back boyzzzz

ez money at t3 tourney

cold mvp?

MIBR IS BACK!!

even if they beat shit teams,still a great start.first tournament with ynk as coach. hope mibr return and do same things on t1 tournaments

Damn 200000dollars for such turny

2018-08-26 14:03

Exhibition match, dressed up as a final.

T3 tournament grats lol

It was rigged for mibr to shining again and getting more invites for tournaments. Final with #7 vs team who isnt even on the ranking xD. Most "powerfull" of them was Tyloo with #12. And ofc ista #4 on the ranking for mibr.

Easy 60k for my boy TaZ tho

imagine getting 200k for farming teams like flash,mvp and kinguin haha xD

And there was a time when people competed in majors for 100,000 $ first place prize .

2018-08-26 14:10

LOL ez 200k vs tier 3 teams

Best team.MIBR Onelove

At least they can beat t2-3 teams LUL

nice final

2018-08-26 14:18

Guys, these players Know more than anyone this was a weak tournament. A glorified bootcamp. But still, I think It is humbling to Win a small tournament when you've been att the top. Means they are not embarassed to grind. First real event with tarik, first event with ynk. Could be the beginning of something great. Maybe, this lineup can win a tier 1 tournament Someday, only time will tell. Meanwhile, I wish them the best of luck. Ggwp

2018-08-26 14:26

That's content. I'm sick of these HLTV kids. Hope the CS:GO community someday to be less toxic/childish. I don't mean competition doesn't have to exist, but, it should exist in a more respectful/based way.

2018-08-26 14:46

this

2018-08-27 15:52

Solid performance for mibr. Can't wait to see these guys on Stockholm.

2018-08-26 14:29

eZ f0r tAz , eZ kiNgUiN tAriK iS ovErRateD ,stEwiE0k LMAO. MIBR is back. :) Well done guys!

2018-08-26 14:33

mibr is shit

2018-08-26 14:50

Taz xD

2018-08-26 14:34

200K for tier 10 tournament win WTF??!??

2018-08-26 14:41

Ez 200 K for fallen and cop

2018-08-26 14:49

now mibr thinks they are good again, god

wait what, 200k with these teams

2018-08-26 15:09

Can’t believe how absolutely delusional MIBR fans are lmfao. Really hurts to see honestly.

2018-08-26 15:18

the mibr era

2018-08-26 15:22

Low move tbh, the ez money farm.

mibr are going to keep getting invited to and winning these tier 3 tourneys and shitting the bed in the tier 1 ones, but theyll keep their top 10 spot because the HLTV rating system is broken

Say this without tears

2018-08-26 16:15

so boring

2018-08-26 16:25

did grampa Taz break his hip before the game or what? someone please show the old man back to his alzheimers retirement home congrats MIBR, if they win a few more tier 4 tournaments they might be a top 20 team some day

2018-08-26 16:32

ez money but it's good for them to start to play good again

2018-08-26 16:36

stewie only can frag against tier 10000 teams lul

2018-08-26 16:47

What are you talking about? I dont see mibr playing bootds

2018-08-26 17:39

kinguin omegalul mad?

2018-08-28 14:47

ez for mibr top1 team in the world ez MIBR era coldzera top 1 2k18 >>> s1mple ez fallen mastermind EZ AF

Wanted to start a new topic at forums but was rejected due to "low activity" so I'm posting it here: Subject: Speaking of HLTV rating system There are hundreds of haters here but as much as HLTV's rating system is being scoffed at and called "stupid", "unrealistic" and "rigged" most matches still result in wins/losses according to the respective teams' rankings at HLTV. And I'm almost sure that the most recent MIBR win won't lift them above MouseSports. MIBR might swap places with BIG but that's it.

Ez win? So why don´t you go and win like them did ? newbs

2018-08-26 17:04

Mibr looking good even if they just won a tier 2 tournament

2018-08-26 17:16

I don't think you know what ''tier 2'' means.

2018-08-26 18:23

Yeah nip tier

2018-08-26 19:32

I really hope that wasn't supposed to be an insult, lmao.

2018-08-26 20:54

In a few weeks this tournament will be off mibr's frontpage. After 8 months of failure, winning this is a fart in a wind. Most miserable overhyped victory of the year.

2018-08-26 17:27

Who's overhyping it?

2018-08-26 18:42

mibr fans

2018-08-26 18:43

Stewie59k

2018-08-26 17:51

200k for beating Flash, Kinguin and MVP. *FUCK LOGIC* It's like everyone in the CS scene is afraid of being called racist if they don't give MIBR free money since they fucking suck against any tier 2 team or above. Like seriously, what a dumbass tournament.

+1 I have no idea how MIBR keep getting into these super low tier tournaments. and they're from the favela too so they don't feel any shame and can't turn down money. they'd crash a local LAN for kids if the prize pot was over a dollar per player and coldzera would still tweet afterwards that the win felt good lmao

2018-08-26 22:02

Good for confidence and moooney obv

2018-08-26 18:41

expected. no chance for kinguin

2018-08-26 19:18

Ez4mibr

2018-08-26 19:23

go mibr

2018-08-26 20:43

Tyloo, optic and vp xaxaxaxaxa

2018-08-26 22:18

gogogogo

2018-08-26 21:42

Free 200k for mibr lolol

SICK

2018-08-26 22:20

Stewie60k

2018-08-26 22:28

2ez for God Taz...oh wait

2018-08-26 22:36

congratz mibr <3

2018-08-26 22:59

taz god

2018-08-27 00:42

tyloo lost to this LMFAO

2018-08-27 01:24

They played really well. Good job!

2018-08-27 03:05

navi weren't really on anyone's radar after the starseries win, but it proved significant in momentum and as a confidence boost..listening to fallen it sounds like he is looking for the same from this tournament for mibr. also, did anyone catch the blowup from taz during and after the first map? seemed really unprofessional and toxic to his team.

2018-08-27 03:33