North see out ex-SS; mouz eliminate OpTic in Katowice

North knocked out ex-Space Soldiers with a 2-0 victory while MOUZ sent OpTic packing after beating them with the same scoreline at the Europe Minor.

The Group B elimination game between ex-Space Soldiers and North kicked off on Mirage, with the Danes starting on the CT-side. Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså & company secured the first five rounds, after which Yaman "⁠yam⁠" Ergenekon and Engin "⁠ngiN⁠" Kor got double kills to get their team's first (5-1).

valde kept wreaking havoc with the AUG afterwards, helping his team get three more rounds while he got nine kills in that period (8-1). Ahmet "⁠paz⁠" Karahoca responded with a quad kill in the tenth round but ex-Space Soldiers got reset when they lost a 2vs2 in the following round.

The Danish team finished the first half 12-3 ahead and won the second pistol with a team ace. North closed out the map in the 21st round, winning 16-5.

The series continued on Inferno where Nicklas "⁠gade⁠" Gade got a quad kill in the pistol round to put his T-sided team 1-0 ahead. North were leading 4-1 when ex-Space Soldiers started a seven round streak to make it 8-4.

Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller and valde clutched a 2vs4 to break the streak. Then, North won a 3vs5 and a 4vs5 to win the final two rounds of the half (8-7). North won six of the first seven rounds in the second half to lead 13-9 and closed out the map with a 16-10 final scoreline. The Danes won the match 2-0 and eliminated ex-Space Soldiers.

OpTic and MOUZ squared off in the Group A elimination game and the Danish squad started on the CT-side on Train. Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke & company won the first two rounds but MOUZ replied by taking the following three (3-2).

MOUZ could have had a 9-6 lead at halftime but Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali won a 1vs2 to keep it within one round (8-7). Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool was the star in the second pistol as he got a quad kill to make it 9-7. OpTic came back from 11-7 to tie the game at 12-12 and took the lead after winning a 3vs5 (13-12).

Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen and refrezh both got double kills to make it 14-12 but OpTic couldn’t close out the map as MOUZ grabbed four in a row to win 16-14.

Nuke began with the T-sided OpTic taking the pistol round victory thanks to a quad kill by René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg. After OpTic lost the following three rounds, cajunb showed up once again, this time clutching a 1vs2 to make it 3-2. MOUZ extended their lead to 5-2 but couldn’t establish a strong economy as OpTic won five consecutive rounds to go ahead 7-5, eventually winning the half out 8-7.

The second half started with MOUZ taking the pistol round, and following it up with four rounds in a row as OpTic was unable to build an economy. The Danes were able to get three rounds in a row to get back into the match, but MOUZ bucked the trend and got back to winning ways, making it to 15-11 before closing the second map out, 16-11.