Liquid through to Major semis over HellRaisers

21-9-2018 20:30

Liquid have beaten HellRaisers 2-1 in the quarter-finals to advance to the semis at the FACEIT Major (16-10 on Mirage, 10-16 on Dust2, 16-8 on Cache).

The third quarter-final at the FACEIT Major kicked off on Mirage with the T-sided Liquid picking up the pistol round thanks to Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken's triple kill in a 3vs3. Double kills by Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo and Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella in the first weapon round made it 4-0 and HellRaisers couldn't get on the scoreboard until the eighth round (7-1).

Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski and nitr0 clutched a 2vs4 to reset HellRaisers and Liquid went on a five round streak to lead 12-1. HellRaisers secured the final two rounds in the first half and trailed 12-3 at halftime. Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker & co. started the second half by taking the first three rounds but Liquid earned eight match points by making it 15-7. The North Americans closed it out with a 16-10 final scoreline.

NAF played a crucial role in the victory

Dust2 started with HellRaisers getting the first four rounds. Liquid secured their first round with Deagles and a single AK-47, trailing 4-1. Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic made it two in a row with a quad kill and his team went on to take the lead (6-4).

Liquid finished the half 9-6 ahead and reached double digits thanks to a 1vs3 clutch by NAF in the second half pistol. woxic returned the favor a round later, picking up a 1vs1 victory against TACO (10-7). That clutch initiated a ten round streak which gave HellRaisers the map victory (16-10).

HellRaisers' Major run has come to an end

nitr0 clutched a 1vs2 to open up Cache where Liquid were on the T-side in the first half. NAF managed to get two entries in the first weapon round which Liquid won (4-0). Their good start was spoiled in the fifth round when HellRaisers won an eco without losing a single player.

The North Americans didn't let their opponents tie the game at 4-4, grabbing six in a row (10-3). HellRaisers found two more rounds before halftime to trail 10-5.

NAF & co. secured the second pistol by defending the B-site and followed it up with four more to earn ten match points. Liquid won the map 16-8 with an eco victory and took the series 2-1 to advance to the semi-finals at the FACEIT Major New Champions Stage.

FACEIT Major 2018Best of 3

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21st September 2018

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Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	64 - 48	+16	94.1	80.3%	1.39
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	58 - 49	+9	84.5	68.4%	1.17
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	57 - 48	+9	72.1	71.1%	1.16
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	52 - 47	+5	69.5	68.4%	1.09
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	39 - 52	-13	62.4	72.4%	0.95

HellRaisers	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Özgür 'woxic' Eker woxic	64 - 47	+17	79.6	71.1%	1.20
Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk bondik	57 - 50	+7	75.2	71.1%	1.10
Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz DeadFox	47 - 54	-7	75.3	72.4%	0.99
Kyrylo 'ANGE1' Karasiow ANGE1	38 - 62	-24	66.1	65.8%	0.78
Issa 'ISSAA' Murad ISSAA	38 - 58	-20	56.5	57.9%	0.70

Wasted legends spots: compLexity BIG HellRaisers Instead of giving more chances to the teams at the next Challengers stage, we will surely have 3 pieces of shit that get to the Legends stage without any qualifiers, it's a fucking shame, Valve should shrink it to just 4 teams that get to the legends stage automatically, because now it's just retarded that bo1 heroes get it after just 3 of those random bo1 wins. Seriously, it must be changed, stop major from being a joke please.

2018-09-21 20:30

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2018-09-21 20:31

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Elige has become SWOLE lol

2018-09-21 21:05

Ez4TACO

Why taco be so pro 😆😆😆

2018-09-21 20:40

2018-09-21 20:38

Wtf so fast

Nerd

u 200iq +1

Rightly said

2018-09-21 20:32

so fast:)

These teams got there for reason, so calm down and drink your milk.

2018-09-21 20:33

I agree.

2018-09-21 20:35

Agreed

2018-09-21 21:04

2018-09-21 21:51

2018-09-21 23:20

yep

2018-09-22 03:04

HR are a great team and they deserved their spot. F off kiddo.

Just shut the fuck up. No matter what the oath these teams all had to win those b01s. Salty fans just want changes because their teams didnt make it. Cry is free bucko that's life. Get over it.

swiss format is shit

2018-09-21 20:34

hellraisers won a bo3 for legend spot and they put a fight against liquid

They were better than their opponents. They deserve their spots.

2018-09-21 20:36

Lul

2018-09-21 20:37

You have to lose 3 games to get knocked out. If you can't at least go 3-2 you don't deserve to be in the playoffs. That being said, I thought some of the draws were somewhat ridiculous as complexity had a really easy route to go 3-0

The joke is teams choking 3 times do teams like this are the best

2018-09-21 20:39

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2018-09-21 21:13

tl dr

2018-09-21 20:41

2018-09-21 20:48

Seems like more of a bo1 issue but they always say bo3 would take too long

2018-09-21 20:51

Looks like those children missed my main point which was to have only 4 legends slots instead of 8

2018-09-21 20:52

But you also said about teams luckily winning BO1's to get to the New Legends Stage.

2018-09-21 21:22

Except HR showed good CS and even if all the matchups were fair they probably could’ve gotten through still. I think BIG and HR weren’t wasted spots and they have ways to go. coL on the other hand I can agree are a bit wasted.

Wouldn't have stopped Clown9 from getting a spot for this major... If you really want to fix that then Valve should come up with some sort of points system for inviting teams or they should at least remove the Swiss system and go GSL Bo3 the whole way so you can't have 1 or 2 bo1 upsets allow a team like Complexity to go 3-0.

2018-09-21 20:53

2018-09-21 21:01

What's wrong with hellraisers megalul? At least they won their pick not like col or big

hr good

2018-09-21 21:19

They fucking lost to these guys you mentioned? WTF you mean? do you have a brain fucking monkey?

2018-09-21 21:20

true words

2018-09-21 21:53

NA TOP 1 WE ARE GONNA WIN THIS SHIT USA USA USA btw kick taco so bad

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lmao cya after finals

Why

39-52, he did played bad

TACO : 2 MAJOR NORTH AMERICA : 1 MAJOR

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PRONAX : 3 MAJOR BRAZIL : 2 MAJOR

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FNX 6 MAJOR

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Hahahaha Counting 1.3, 1.5 and 1.6 as u did now = f0resr 146 major

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LOL +1 HAHAHAHAHA

2018-09-21 20:50

what is f0resr

don’t you know f0rest older brother?? Legend

2018-09-21 21:09

agreed f0resr 146 major at cscz while fnx only 6 in 1.6 and GO

2018-09-21 21:07

Sweden 14 major wins lmao

You need another country glory to jerk off? LuL

2018-09-21 20:59

taco allows elige and twistzz to be unleashed try not being so retarded

Liquid must have atleast one non choker player

Cringe cancer fans..

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" fan of hardstyle "

2018-09-21 21:54

Godstyle > all burgers

2018-09-22 11:21

better than clg :D

2018-09-22 17:06

cya in finals burger

2018-09-22 05:30

I would pay NAF $$$ if he could put on a leather jacket and say "TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!"

+1 LMAO

We are the tunnel snakes! That's us, and we rule!

+1 I'm fucking losing it LMAO

eyy

Ez liq ....liq major...taco 3 majors...Zews 3 majors

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Zews

Thankss

Zeus 1 major tho

2 with sk/lg 3 going to be with liq

Zews has 2 but Zeus has only 1

I mistakenly wrote Zeus man

2018-09-21 20:42

:thinking:

Lul axaxaxaxa

essasito

Ez for ENCE

expected

thanks liquid for not choking

issaa -20

Inb4 Liquid wins this major.

Except they choked on Dust 2 and won Cache only because HR made horrible inexcusable tier 3 mistakes like not using grenades against pistols.

EZ final Navi vs Liquid 0-2 for NA trust me

The first face is AdreN...

2018-09-21 20:54

i started to have flashbacks as soon as i read "The"

You understood anyway

Hahahahhahahah

2018-09-22 00:03

Sorry, but Liquid will be raped by Astralis in semis

NT HR! <3

issa overrated LUL

He's not and you're just stupid.

He's really good, don't say that

2018-09-22 00:04

LOL HR

GG HR

Lost an eco round Wp HR

gg nt HR

Good run by HR anyway, liquid too stronk

w0xic :(( GG WP

ez for fly naf

expected noob hr

NiKo... :DDDDDD

2018-09-22 16:12

niko is also a noob now it is the age of simple

2018-09-23 15:44

not ez for liquid

FIRST

Decent showing from HR, nt!

HR had a chance but they squandered it with pretty stupid mistakes on Cache. Damn!

If they could win 2nd pistol prolly

Also, I don't know what happened to ISSAA. He was too often distracted and his aim was off. :(

WHAT HAPPEND TO ISSAA???

maybe he had a bad day or he choked no idea but he got them this far its a good performance from hellraisers anyway.

Yeah, you are right. No one expected HR as a legend. He carried his team there. Hope he grows on lan untill next major.

2018-09-22 00:19

C h o k e

WTF TACO STATS !!

Let’s go liquid

HR deserves to go longer, but liquid in first stage unluko

w0xic is very good, but not enough..

Most of the time woxic played perfectly but when the rest of the team let him down (specially ISSAA), there wasn't much he could do. In too many cases HR had an upper hand in duels (saw the opponents before they were spotted) but still lost them. There can be no excuses for that. Perhaps they collapsed under the pressure. :(

but woxic had alot of bad rounds on b, (cache map_ct)

2018-09-21 20:57

ISSAA :((

He made just too many mistakes, yeah :(

More choke that old school Astralis when they were TSM/Dig.

2-1 with HR 0-2 with Astralis

NT woxic and bondik ez NAFLY

I'm still glad HR have made it so far. They are champion material for sure.

ez for NAF-FLY

expected btw, liquid faceit major champions

Forever alone

2018-09-21 21:15

btw woxic is beast :3

stil wp hr

“hellraisers bad” -s1mple

Clip or lie

2018-09-21 20:45

youtube.com/watch?v=nWAzzoMmpuo he meant to say "we were bad hellraisers play good" but his englando no good. this was mlg columbus qualifier

Uhh, poor young s1mple :(

2018-09-21 23:52

NA CS BEST CS

2018-09-21 20:46

2018-09-21 20:49

ANGRY go out

very good game f HR Your best match ever

TACO needs to step up! Liquid will need him against Astralis. He must play like in the ESL S6 finals, when he won clutches even against Niko!

So much for ISSAA being supposedly better than shox OMEGALUL

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where is shox? :) in the dumpster

2018-09-21 21:11

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Got there because his team is full of bots but he carried hard. Doesn't change the fact that ISSAA played worst than TACO. ps ; where are Gambot ? :) In the crapper

2018-09-21 22:08

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shox 1.15 rating in 6 maps - out in top 16 issaa 1.14 rating in 10 maps - out in top 8 ahahahaha i love how everyone has to mention gambit for no reason when they have nothing good to say

2018-09-21 22:22

Thank you for confirming shox is better borat !

2018-09-21 22:24

wow shox had 0.01 more rating while playing HALF of the maps that issaa played, gz ;)

2018-09-21 22:28

So 10/6 = 2 in Boratland ? No wonder your economy is struggling :) HR beat bad teams while G2 was matched with Faze and MiBR.. Btw how did HR vs G2 go ? And shox vs ISSAA duel in that match ?? Spoiler : hltv.org/stats/matches/performance/mapst..

2018-09-21 22:42

wow 5 and 6 such a big difference :o why are you saying my economy is failing when you don't even know where i am from LOL at least hr managed to win a map vs a top 2-3 team while g2 got rekt 2-16 by a barely top 5 team HAHAHA

2018-09-21 22:56

Can't know where someone who is too ashamed of his country to put his flag is from, but sure can say you can't do basic maths ! Your country's education system must be tier 3 like HR :) And can't you read either fake flagger ? It's not 5-6 it's 15-8 in favor of shox in their duels..

2018-09-22 00:11

you claim i cant read but cant even understand that i clearly meant there isnt much difference between 10/5 and 10/6 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

2018-09-22 00:12

Barely top 5 team which would have rekt HR. Of course I didn't understand wtf you were talking about because you can't make a full sentence.. I expected an answer to the cold hard fact = shox >>> ISSAA in their duels. Which you conviniently forgot to comment on Gambot fan. Ps : barely top 5 team that just lost 16-14 16-12 against the indisputed #1 team and would have trashed HR LUL

man just admit that issaa is better than shox :/ did shox ever even make it to playoffs of a major?

2018-09-22 00:22

shox 15 - 8 ISSAA... So much better for sure ! And 1.ISSAA didn't play 1v5 to make the quali 2.Swiss round is a stupid system anyway with way too emphasis on luck 3.HR are clearly a better team than this weak G2 side but ISSAA certainly isn't a better individual player than shox. Sorry but winning a MVP in a piss poor tourney like DH Tour doesn't make you an instant legend. He has very good aim but saying he is better than shox is more than stretching it

2018-09-22 00:26