Valiance beat Windigo to win UML Finals

31-3-2019 23:14

Valiance won the first season of the United Masters League after beating Windigo 2-1 in the grand final, in Osnabrück.

The Esport Factory played host over the weekend to the offline finals of the inaugural UML season, featuring the top four sides of the regular stage, who were placed in a single-elimination, best-of-three bracket.

In the semi-final stage, Windigo dispatched Sprout in three maps with great individual performances from star duo Georgi "⁠SHiPZ⁠" Grigorov and Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev, while Valiance made light work of GamerLegion, who looked way off the pace as they picked up just 12 rounds total in this one-sided series.

Valiance win the European league and the $50,000 prize

Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković had an incredible performance on Mirage, the first map of the final, racking up 30 kills to help Valiance take the lead in the series following an impressive seven-round streak on the CT side. The 21-year-old also led the charge for his team on Dust2, but it was Windigo who prevailed in the end with a fine all-round performance in a back-and-forth game.

The series then landed on Train, where Windigo were able to recover from a 0-4 start to bring the deficit to just one round before the end of the half. At first, it looked like this was going to be another highly-contested map, but Valiance's defence was too strong to break, leading to a quick conclusion to the match in the second half.

United Masters League FinalsBest of 3

Valiance

Matchpage

31st March 2019

Windigo

Mirage

Dust2

Train

Valiance	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	71 - 41	+30	88.8	81.3%	1.46
Nestor 'LETN1' Tanić LETN1	55 - 43	+12	83.4	74.7%	1.23
Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas EspiranTo	53 - 50	+3	75.1	73.3%	1.18
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač huNter-	46 - 50	-4	77.4	72.0%	1.06
Otto 'ottoNd' Sihvo ottoNd	32 - 43	-11	51.8	69.3%	0.85

Windigo	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev poizon	58 - 46	+12	79.3	62.7%	1.11
Yanko 'blocker' Panov blocker	50 - 52	-2	72.7	66.7%	0.99
Viktor 'v1c7oR' Dyankov v1c7oR	38 - 49	-11	60.9	66.7%	0.87
Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov bubble	40 - 53	-13	67.9	65.3%	0.86
Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov SHiPZ	41 - 57	-16	59.4	62.7%	0.75

United Masters League final standings:

1. Valiance - $50,000
2. Windigo - $25,000
3. GamerLegion - $15,000
4. Sprout - $10,000

Ggggg

2019-03-31 23:14

6 replies

Nice news

4 replies

F5*

2019-03-31 23:15

3 replies

No hes a good guy

2019-03-31 23:16

2 replies

ok, F5*

2019-03-31 23:22

Nt No #2 no F5 Unluko Kid

2019-03-31 23:27

Valiance doing what they can do best

ggwp

nice and not april 1st joke

nice let's go guys

ez 4 hunter

nice

2019-03-31 23:17

Valiance > M16R

Astralis never beat Valiance

1 reply

true valiance > astralis

2019-04-01 07:52

2EZ

xpctd

2019-03-31 23:18

ez nexa

i enjoy these tier 2 tournaments more than tier 1 xd

2019-03-31 23:19

2019-03-31 23:28

yeah agree

2019-04-01 00:30

so valiance became the owner of the uml?

Good job my country also lithuania and finland!!!

2019-03-31 23:21

Yes men )))

2019-03-31 23:23

Yes mens )))

2019-04-01 06:22

Gg Vali

Imagine playing in a 4-month event only to win 50k

2019-03-31 23:35

8 replies

The majority of matches were played online so it’s not a big deal for the players

2019-03-31 23:39

its still practice + without any LANs its hard to rise in the rankings. this was their second LAN with full lineup (first being EU Minor in January). if they do well in dreamhack open rio and get more invites maybe they wont need to play UML again

2019-03-31 23:42

10k euro in Serbia is like yearly wage so its worth it lel

2019-03-31 23:55

Really bro?

2019-04-01 06:23

Yes the monthly salary is between 300 to 600 Euro

2019-04-01 07:20

200$ to 400$ depending on what you do*

2019-04-01 11:42

3 of these guys are basically auditioning for top teams niko already said his cousin would be a great IGL. wouldn't be surprised if it happened

2019-04-01 00:38

I am sure that sooner or later Hunter will join his cousin. I hope that Nexa and Espi will get their chance to prove themselves too!

2019-04-01 01:51

+FaZe Hunter

2019-03-31 23:36

huNter is insane. Been saying this since Binary Dragons days.

ottoNd probably the most onliner player in the whole universe

2019-03-31 23:37

5 replies

after Cerq

2019-04-01 00:10

after xantares

2019-04-01 00:14

After xantares? But I think otto has a problem with confidence too

CeRq is pretty good on lan

2019-04-01 07:05

true

2019-04-01 14:43

Already burned through that 500k in Big Mac meals

2019-03-31 23:44

Hell yeah ! GG

2019-03-31 23:45

Yey

2019-03-31 23:51

nice PogChamp, finally Valince won something

2019-04-01 00:23

wtf nexa MVP

2019-04-01 00:39

Is this a joke ;)

2019-04-01 01:39

windigo just f****up my strafe win streak.

2019-04-01 01:55

-Ottond +poizon I'm sometimes tempted to say Zywoo to Valiance, but while nexa & hunter certainly belong at the top level, not sure if letni can be a caller for a top team.

2019-04-01 02:11

People who criticize Ottond dont understand support role at all PLEBS

2019-04-01 07:48

Men you need new name for more success))

2019-04-01 14:44

he's awp of the team, wtf u talking about?

2019-04-02 11:35

Read his name

2019-04-03 01:24

:) ty

2019-04-03 08:36

VASIL BOYANOV TROYANOV ))

2019-04-01 05:09

Fingers crossed it all goes well and they get paid.

2019-04-01 05:28

Ukrainian BanKs? If it's you. Nice to meet you. Do you know anything about GAMERZ season 3?

2019-04-01 11:30

Gg wp Nice valiance

2019-04-01 09:20

2019-04-01 14:37

cool

2019-04-02 11:28

EZ 4 NEXA, for me the best and most complete player in this roster, people just don't realize how valuable he is for this team since he doesn't have flashy positions people here on hltv obviously have hard time to notice that, it is hard indeed especially when you only value certain things when you look at CS...

2019-04-02 17:45