Astralis repeat Major victory over ENCE; Liquid demolish NiP

23-3-2019 01:45

Astralis have picked up their second victory at BLAST Pro Series São Paulo in a keenly-contested affair with ENCE, while Liquid have earned their first points after breezing past Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Viewers were treated to a rematch of the most recent Major grand final in the second round in São Paulo, this time in a best-of-one setting on Dust2, the same map where the Danes had just squeezed past Liquid.

The Danish giants, who began the game on the Terrorist side, came out the brighter of the two teams and strolled to a 5-0 lead. ENCE were unwilling to let the game spiral out of control, though, and tightened up their defence, twice bringing the deficit to a minimum. Up 6-5, Astralis somehow pulled off a 2v4 clutch, a round that pushed Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander's men to take control of proceedings and secure a 10-5 advantage.

Astralis end day one with a 2-0 record

Astralis picked up where they left off and secured the pistol round in convincing fashion to further add to their lead. It looked like the Danes had the game under control, but Jere "⁠sergej⁠" Salo rescued ENCE with a Desert Eagle quad kill, inspiring a massive comeback from the Finnish side.

ENCE gained control of the tempo and ran all over the Astralis defence, quickly rebounding from a 1v2 clutch by Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif in the 22nd round, and took the lead for the first time in the game. However, the Danes were unfazed by their opponents' comeback and, just like against Liquid, were the better side in the dying stages of the game to pick up their second victory at the tournament.

BLAST Pro Series São Paulo 2019Best of 1

Astralis

Matchpage

23rd March 2019

ENCE

Dust2

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	27 - 17	+10	103.2	73.3%	1.50
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	26 - 15	+11	82.3	76.7%	1.32
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	22 - 18	+4	77.8	70.0%	1.23
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	15 - 18	-3	56.0	70.0%	0.91
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	11 - 21	-10	60.3	53.3%	0.64

ENCE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jere 'sergej' Salo sergej	23 - 18	+5	82.7	66.7%	1.12
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen xseveN	18 - 19	-1	72.4	63.3%	1.00
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli allu	14 - 20	-6	67.4	70.0%	0.99
Jani 'Aerial' Jussila Aerial	18 - 21	-3	61.8	66.7%	0.91
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Aleksib	15 - 23	-8	56.7	66.7%	0.81

Meanwhile, Liquid bounced back from the defeat against Astralis with a demolition job of Ninjas in Pyjamas on Overpass. The early stages of the game were highly contested, but after that the North Americans ran away with the lead, closing out of the half with a commanding 12-3 lead with a strong individual display by Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski, who racked up 26 kills on the CT side.

EliGE dropped a 30-bomb in just 19 rounds

More misery was to come for Ninjas in Pyjamas, who could not get a grip on the game after the break. Liquid took four rounds in a row to seal a much-needed victory, one that puts them closer to the top of the group as day one comes to a close.

BLAST Pro Series São Paulo 2019Best of 1

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Matchpage

23rd March 2019

Liquid

Overpass

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	13 - 17	-4	71.7	57.9%	0.81
William 'draken' Sundin draken	10 - 16	-6	46.2	57.9%	0.64
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	7 - 16	-9	59.1	36.8%	0.60
Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Lekr0	6 - 18	-12	54.6	47.4%	0.44
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	6 - 17	-11	44.2	47.4%	0.40

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	32 - 9	+23	173.4	89.5%	2.71
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	20 - 6	+14	102.2	84.2%	1.80
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	16 - 9	+7	90.0	78.9%	1.45
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	10 - 9	+1	72.4	84.2%	1.05
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	6 - 9	-3	18.7	73.7%	0.70

Group A

TEAM

Below you can find the schedule for the second and final day of the event:

Round three
17:00 - ENCE vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | Nuke
17:00 - Liquid vs. FaZe | Cache
17:00 - Astralis vs. MIBR | Overpass

Round four
18:20 - MIBR vs. Liquid | Dust2
18:20 - ENCE vs. FaZe | Nuke
18:20 - Astralis vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | Dust2

Round five
19:40 - ENCE vs. Liquid | Overpass
19:40 - MIBR vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas | Train
19:40 - Astralis vs. FaZe | Dust2

21:00 - BLAST Pro Series Stand-off | five 1vs1 aim duels

22:00 - Grand final | BO3

EZ4ENCE

2019-03-23 01:45

9 replies

EZ4GODSTRALIS

2019-03-23 01:46

3 replies

#1 Astralis #2 Ence

2019-03-23 01:48

1 reply

2019-03-23 10:52

EZ4ENCE as always, "top 1" team barely beats some noscene boys, astralis fangays cry is free

2019-03-23 11:22

4 replies

Frick thought I was gonna do it this time pepehands

2019-03-23 01:51

Lol

2019-03-23 10:08

mad

2019-03-23 03:39

hahahahah

2019-03-23 04:21

KICK MIBR

MIBR 0-5 TOMOROW IN BRASIL Keepo

not surprising

astralis >ence>Liquid>other

2019-03-23 01:47

ENCE SUX DICK

2019-03-23 01:49

2 replies

Fan of ZywOo lol

2019-03-23 02:45

ZYWHO?

2019-03-23 11:28

Again so lucky

2019-03-23 01:50

16 replies

Cry is free ence tard

2019-03-23 02:56

15 replies

angery astralis fangay lul, where were all the digi, tsm and early astralis fangays when they were raped, absolutely fkn right, were being quiet

2019-03-23 06:24

14 replies

they were fnatic fans back then

2019-03-23 07:26

Angery? Chill dude, take some english class and stop those tears. Get a Friend maybe.

2019-03-23 08:39

8 replies

cue the "Stop It. Get Some Help" Gif for #60

2019-03-23 09:24

Angry***

2019-03-23 10:05

Lmfao this dude doesn't even know what getting memed is, get out of your cave and see some sunshine please.

2019-03-23 14:26

5 replies

So mad :) Chill dude, its Nice Outside. I guess you took my advice, good for you man! Please dont be angery!

2019-03-23 14:30

danes talking about being mad xd

2019-03-23 18:40

Smile my little angery Friend :)

2019-03-23 19:03

I cut throats with anger and smile

2019-03-23 19:14

That is just awesome!

2019-03-23 20:00

You're from Ukraine, so can't take you seriously ,,, what you write say it all, a loser.

2019-03-23 10:18

He is from the country of Simple so respec

2019-03-23 10:27

im a fakeflagger

lol and i tried to protect u

2019-03-24 17:22

Very good try

what happened to gla1ve ? 😎

LUL ALLU BOT

Astralis vs Liquid or ENCE in finals

astralis>liquid>ence>nip

2019-03-23 01:52

Yeah. There's just 12 teams between ENCE and NiP there.

2019-03-23 09:57

its 3? you f*cking dumbass xD Just see when NiP overwhelm ence soon = )

2019-03-23 16:33

xD :-) :D

2019-03-23 16:40

Yeah... That didn't happen did it?

2019-03-27 08:44

Very good effort by ence btw. As fairly young team, They show that they can keep up with astralis. But of course against astralis anyway, just getting close game was pretty good at this point.

2019-03-23 01:54

This is going to be an interesting year for ence. Apart from cologne they did not attend any tier 1 events in 2018. We’ll have to see how good they will be when they get more experience.

2019-03-23 01:57

epicenter

2019-03-23 09:30

Yeah forgot about that completely.

2019-03-23 11:54

Agreed boys! Astralis win the match,but ence won our heart <3 no homo

2019-03-23 01:59

If gla1ve just played a bit better, it would had been 16-10 ez

If magisk played a bit worse, it would had been 16-14 for ENCE

2019-03-23 01:56

Nah keep dreaming and keep your eyes closed LUL

Nah you keep dreaming and keep your eyes closed when ENCE beats the living shit out of Kustralis

2019-03-23 02:00

Nah im not dreaming. You are sadly... Astralis just beat the shit out of Ence at the Major Final and again today. Ence is a good team to compete with astralis tho, but they just can't beat them LUL

2019-03-23 02:07

Could you please clearify to me at which point I was dreaming?

2019-03-23 02:16

"ence beats the living shit out of kustralis" <- keep dreaming fuckland's kiddo

2019-03-23 11:58

+1 That's why I didn't reply to him. That was just stupid. I think he is a dumb kiddo

2019-03-24 02:02

if if if if if

2019-03-23 02:02

I was just mimicking and mocking the original comment by showing him how stupid it is to be if-ing

2019-03-23 02:03

dev1ce shooting his teammate was funny tho and sergey deagle shots were great

2019-03-23 02:34

If canines were vegan I'd buy my dog some tofu

2019-03-23 02:21

if Gla1ve had fix his nvidia.exe, maybe then though

2019-03-23 02:47

If your mom and dad didn't decide to have sex the world would've been a better place

2019-03-23 06:06

They are divorced. Soo they don't have sex. But life would be much better if you delete your life :-*

2019-03-23 10:40

Damn that sucks man. Why did they get divorce tho? Not compatible?

2019-03-23 10:43

Every team can pass tbh, just 3 wins are needed, maybe 2 if you get lucky Except for MiBR LUL

Stop making Twistzz play support roles! Look what it has down to him :(

2019-03-23 01:58

yes but look what it's done to EliGE and Stewie

2019-03-23 02:14

Twistzz is being Nice, I guess. If Liquid does falter in the near future, a Role Shuffle is Necessary, with either ELiGE or Nitro going into support roles, and give Stewie the AWP.

2019-03-23 09:26

Have you seen elige's rating????

2019-03-23 14:18

Tourney contenders Astralis, Ence and Liquid.

2019-03-23 02:04

i agree with this statement, unfortunately. i can take comfort in the fact that its EZ4ENCE, fortunately.

2019-03-23 04:18

Liquid all the way, but I wouldn't mind Ence winning either.

2019-03-23 05:51

NT4ENCE

2019-03-23 02:12

Feelsbad for twistzz

2019-03-23 02:26

Stewie and Elige 52-15 though because of it

2019-03-23 17:43

if anybody can defeat astralis its liquid without a doubt... their match up earlier proved that... Astralis was and I dont use this word often a bit lucky on dd2 against liquid... that device clutch with 1hp could made a huge difference if liquid won that... Liquid are top 5 team at the moment no question...

2019-03-23 02:29

lol lucky? liquid won both pistol round and were 6-0 up astralis made comeback and dust 2 is liquid's probably best map

2019-03-23 02:43

No lol u seen liquids overpass?

2019-03-23 14:19

Only teams looking solid rn are Astralis Liquid and Ence.

2019-03-23 05:52

6 replies

dunno if im overlooking teams but i feel like the top 6 are playing at this tournament right now except navi. 1. astralis 2. liquid 3. ENCE . . . 7.navi 8.nip 9.faze 10.mibr 11. the rest ITS a huge fucking gap between top 3 and the rest.

renegades over nip for sure

2019-03-23 06:11

maybe maybe

2019-03-23 17:16

Honestly though, looking at how Edward and Flanie were playing at Katowice, Navi don't look too bad either.

2019-03-23 12:23

yea well thats why i put them first of the non top 3 teams

2019-03-23 17:17

Ahh I see.

2019-03-23 18:09

damn , both ence and liquid are so close to astralis, good match. sad for faze and mibr

2019-03-23 02:36

Astralis with TWO victories against ANY TWO teams after TWO rounds on ANY TWO maps is no surprise: Only ONE TEAM with 6 points after day 1. The "Overlords" can be threatened, but not beaten. The battle against Liquid was some of the most exciting Counter Strike, I've seen, but the outcome was no surprise. The battle against ENCE was a BIG surprise! i thought ENCE was a one-night-stand, one-and-done, one-hit-wonder, but they turn out to be a SERIOUS opponent to ALL teams at the moment!

2019-03-23 02:39

Mibr Lul

Ence won't be a fluke like gambit, this lineup have some proper team work and fire power. Damn they are nice to watch

2019-03-23 02:49

They do quite alot all kind of ballsy plays i like it

2019-03-23 09:19

+1 yes, great team work

2019-03-23 10:24

As some pointed out gla1ve had bad performance today but even with that astralis won both games, this is not looking good for other teams IMO, even with 4½v5 astralis wins.

2019-03-23 03:07

Magisk was playing for two so it does not matter

2019-03-23 10:36

2019-03-23 14:20

Twistzz 69 lul

2019-03-23 04:08

16-3 win 18.7 ADR What!?

2019-03-23 04:32

support

2019-03-23 04:45

So close

2019-03-23 05:26

Elige with aimlock on...

2019-03-23 07:33

Nice try ENCE !

2019-03-23 08:36

2019-03-23 09:42

Am i the only one thinking that NiPs tactical game is subpar silver plays? As soon they have a setback of any kind, NiP starts throwing

2019-03-23 10:45

astralis won by luck its now Luckstralis

2019-03-23 10:50

did u even watch a game?Ence got so many lucky rounds actually.Would've been 14-1 tside if not dupreeh.

both teams had their share of luck, astralis winning really big gamble stacks 3 stack on b and then 1hp 1 guy on b, winning 2v4, ence lost both pistols etc and ence won with pistols forcebuy and device shot his teammate and got killed himself

2019-03-23 12:29

The Best team won. Nothing wrong with that, and ENCE played very well!

2019-03-23 14:36

elige holy shit

2019-03-23 10:56

Ikr some S1mple level performance

2019-03-23 14:21

Brazil bro's, please whistle whenever Astralis enter the arena ... make all the arena against those piece of shit!

2019-03-23 12:40

Wow so mad? But i dont think there are lots of Astralis fans when they play mibr, obviously :)

2019-03-23 14:35

I am Ence-fan but whistling to other teams is arrogant and disrespectful shit. Brazil is shitty country though. PS. Don't play tournaments at underdeveloped countries

2019-03-25 11:08