North best Vitality on two maps at Europe Minor

North are through to the upper-bracket final at the Europe Minor after defeating Vitality on Nuke (16-14) and Dust2 (16-12).

The first map played in the series was Nuke, where Vitality won their CT pistol on the back of a double and a triple-kill from Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin and Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut, respectively. North responded with a successful CZ buy, however, and followed that up with two more rounds to take control of proceedings on their map pick.

Still, that did not stop ZywOo's troops, who, with the 18-year-old prodigy leading the way with 22 frags, went on a massive run to bag a dominant 11-4 half-time lead.

The second half began just like the first, with Vitality winning a pistol round, but failing to follow it up - this time around, North would also be able to win the first gun round.

From that moment, the landscape of the game changed drastically as the Danes rallied to the lead, and hit map-point by turning a 2v5 situation around, 15-12. Vitality still tried to take Nuke to overtime, but North managed to deny the Frenchmen, closing out the map in the last round of regulation.

North are one victory away from qualifying for the New Challengers Stage in Katowice

Dust2 kicked off with North winning their first pistol of the series while playing on the CT side. After building up their economy, Vitality levelled the score at 2-2, eventually bagging a 5-3 lead from there.

In the next round, Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller's squad looked set to get back on the board in a 4v4 retake, but Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt denied them with a clean quad-kill that included a 1v2 clutch. Despite Vitality constantly breaking through North's defense, the Danes still managed to win two more rounds to reduce the deficit to 5-10 by half-time.

North started the second half with a three-round winning streak after Nicklas "⁠gade⁠" Gade clutched a 1v2 situation in the pistol. Vitality did not back down and responded with a convincing first gun round, which they followed up with another to go up 12-8.

However, after North broke their opponents' economy on the back of two consecutive AWP double-kills from cadiaN, Vitality were helpless to stop the Danes. The Frenchmen nearly won the 26th round, but Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså pulled a seemingly impossible 1v2 clutch, inspiring his team to seal the deal two rounds later, 16-12.

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18th January 2019
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Nuke
16
12
Dust2
16
 Vitality K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
39 - 40 -1 79.3 60.3% 1.04
38 - 39 -1 61.6 75.9% 1.00
35 - 40 -5 62.9 65.5% 0.89
29 - 44 -15 69.5 65.5% 0.81
25 - 36 -11 52.6 56.9% 0.73
 North K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
51 - 36 +15 87.2 72.4% 1.30
40 - 33 +7 75.2 74.1% 1.17
39 - 33 +6 69.3 67.2% 1.13
35 - 30 +5 71.2 75.9% 1.09
34 - 34 0 61.1 74.1% 1.00
France Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
1451
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.66
France Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.32
Maps played:
298
KPR:
0.91
DPR:
0.65
Denmark Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
712
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.66
United Kingdom Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
682
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.72
Denmark Nicklas 'gade' Gade
Nicklas 'gade' Gade
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
488
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.67
Denmark Casper 'cadiaN' Møller
Casper 'cadiaN' Møller
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
849
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.65
vitality so bad
2019-01-18 18:56
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#5
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Poland Unluko
F5
2019-01-18 18:56
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3 replies
Still never got #1 L M A O
2019-01-18 18:57
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2 replies
MIBR_IS_OVERRATED7_REFORMED 2 good
2019-01-18 19:00
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1 reply
+1
2019-01-18 19:09
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ZyWHO???
2019-01-18 18:57
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F5
2019-01-18 18:58
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5 replies
What is with the username my friend?
2019-01-18 19:47
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4 replies
haha
2019-01-18 20:11
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3 replies
What’s so funny?
2019-01-18 20:11
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2 replies
haha
2019-01-18 20:12
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1 reply
2019-01-18 20:13
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nest step is - rpk + amanek ! Vitality will be really good
2019-01-18 18:58
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3 replies
Lol no. They need a better IGL before that. Try ALEX as IGL like he did in LDLC, trial ex6, then try amanek with NBK- IGL'ing again
2019-01-18 19:14
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2 replies
why ! their strats was not bad ! the only problem is that rpk did no dmg at all ! 25 kill in 2 maps and both map went long distance ! And Amanek can double awp ! a thing they never do because nbk can't awp they should try -rpk + amanek
2019-01-18 19:26
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#80
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tabseN | 
France shoxAttorney
nBK igl team has never worked... thats why
2019-01-18 19:49
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#2
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United Kingdom UKChef
ENCE 2-0 North ez
2019-01-18 18:57
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7 replies
Smh God apex 200iq Giving us fans what we want by letting ence destroy north and qualify then vitality cleans up and takes last slot
2019-01-18 18:58
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3 replies
#38
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United Kingdom UKChef
I REALLY want to see ENCE be successful at the major
2019-01-18 18:59
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2 replies
I jist want the stickers
2019-01-18 19:00
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1 reply
ENCE stickers :o
2019-01-18 19:06
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Haha ence gonna loose to valance and u expect them to win against north
2019-01-18 20:13
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2 replies
#95
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United Kingdom UKChef
hmm
2019-01-18 22:20
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#102
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United Kingdom UKChef
ez4ence btw
2019-01-19 22:37
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easy for Denmark
2019-01-18 18:56
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#6
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France J0riS
Loosing To north in 2019
2019-01-18 18:56
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Unexpected Minor
2019-01-18 18:56
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Cadian is beast
2019-01-18 18:56
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#9
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Poland BAN_ANIME
press f for zywoo
2019-01-18 18:57
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1 reply
#14
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Poland BAN_ANIME
ez #9
2019-01-18 18:57
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#10
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Europe Skraj
ZywOo not hard carrying = Vitality sucks, what a surprise
2019-01-18 18:57
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#11
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France OGFirstFan
Vitality....
2019-01-18 18:57
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#13
Faceit level 8  | 
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Spain mavericko19
ez for mister valdemar
2019-01-18 18:57
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1 reply
#77
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Ukraine magda1ena|
Valdemort
2019-01-18 19:40
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Ez4Juliano'sBitchCadian
2019-01-18 18:57
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Vitality must be sad now. Almost as sad as Happy's facial expressions
2019-01-18 18:57
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#18
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cadiaN | 
Latvia scarytodie
2019-01-18 18:57
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1 reply
GOAT
2019-01-18 20:34
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#19
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Germany Youngnibba
French hope
2019-01-18 18:57
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LUL NORT- oh wait LULTALITY
2019-01-18 18:58
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#22
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Norway Luke Earthwalker
Sad for zywowowowow
2019-01-18 18:58
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Baguette capitulated, not big surprise.
2019-01-18 18:58
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why is it everytime the worsts countrys that talk man , you are really jealous of us <3
2019-01-18 19:17
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God Valde and demigod Cadian
2019-01-18 18:58
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valdemort
2019-01-18 18:58
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edit name of the thread admin
2019-01-18 18:58
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#30
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Macau PRChina
EZ4"NORTH BEST VITALITY" happy is happy now
2019-01-18 18:58
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#33
Faceit level 10  | 
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Finland lasarus
Chokelity
2019-01-18 18:58
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rip
2019-01-18 18:59
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#36
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Europe potatomato
forventes
2019-01-18 18:59
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LULtality
2019-01-18 18:59
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#39
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Turkey CHAMPTZ
F for Fatality..
2019-01-18 19:00
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Lultality
2019-01-18 19:01
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Wp
2019-01-18 19:01
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thzy lost on purpose they will still qualify
2019-01-18 19:01
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1 reply
#98
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Switzerland wdf am u want
nah
2019-01-19 03:01
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beat maybe?
2019-01-18 19:02
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Most disappointing result of the minor so far imo
2019-01-18 19:02
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2 replies
Not eliminated tho
2019-01-18 19:53
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1 reply
Yeah but if Ence loses now they have to play each other and I wanted both to qualify
2019-01-18 19:55
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#49
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Austria disco_doni
For the people thinking that thread title is a spelling mistake: [*]
2019-01-18 19:05
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1 reply
+onse
2019-01-18 19:29
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#52
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France CriiZiX
No Happy, no major. Feelsbadman
2019-01-18 19:07
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#53
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Turkey dcmaster
ZYWHOOO
2019-01-18 19:08
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gj
2019-01-18 19:09
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gg
2019-01-18 19:11
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They were performing good with happy
2019-01-18 19:13
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lmao
2019-01-18 19:16
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#63
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United States Wumbc
Are they still able to qualify?
2019-01-18 19:16
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2 replies
#66
Faceit level 9  | 
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Latvia latvianguy
Trough lower bracket. They have to win 2 games to be able to qualify, if they win one and then lose the other one, they go to the 4 team playoffs, where one team will be the last one to get trought minors (1 from CIS, 1 FROM EU, 1 FROM NA, 1 FROM OCE) - but only 1 from those will go trough.
2019-01-18 19:24
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Y lower bracket
2019-01-18 19:25
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"NORTH BEST VITALITY ON TWO MAPS AT EUROPE MINOR"
2019-01-18 19:19
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2 replies
its proper english. to best someone means to beat them. it might look like a typo but it aint
2019-01-18 19:28
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#75
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Denmark slacking
not their fault you can't speak properly
2019-01-18 19:38
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Anyone else notice NORTH wording on the jersey covered with black tape?
2019-01-18 19:28
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Valde > [Zywoo + (Rp + NB)K + (AL + ap)EX]
2019-01-18 19:28
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2 replies
Thylacyn’s Valdetality Theorem
2019-01-18 19:29
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1 reply
Expand Valde over Vitality :)
2019-01-19 07:54
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Apex should do some deathmatchs sometimes...
2019-01-18 19:40
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poor Valde stuck on a dead team
2019-01-18 19:55
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Zuwoo need better mates
2019-01-18 20:01
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#85
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Portugal maguire
valde >>>>>>>>>> zywoo
2019-01-18 20:02
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#93
flusha | 
Italy HeSY
Unexpected UNLUKO vitality GJ North
2019-01-18 20:36
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Expected
2019-01-18 20:52
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NT vitality, i hope they can to the major
2019-01-18 23:31
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Snbke threw away Zywoo bait, so now he can't shoot.
2019-01-19 00:34
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This is Vitaliy when ZwyOo doesn't go sicko mode
2019-01-19 07:55
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#101
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France PowwneD
Struggling against a top 15 team, fair enough considering North didn't change their roster since cadian arrived and Vitality only got 10 days of pracc with ALEX.
2019-01-19 13:56
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