Liquid defeat Astralis; book grand final spot in Miami

13-4-2019 20:44

Liquid are through to the grand final at BLAST Pro Series Miami after defeating Astralis 16-14 on Overpass to secure their fourth win in the group stage.

The round four game between Astralis and Liquid took place on Overpass where the Danes started on the CT-side and won the pistol round as Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif got a double kill. Liquid hit back in the first weapon round but couldn't make it two in a row after Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander picked up a triple kill in the following round (3-1).

Liquid found themselves in a tough spot as Astralis secured three more rounds to lead 6-1. The North American team turned things around by going on a four-round streak but Astralis finished the half with an 8-7 lead.

NAF's exceptional performance got Liquid over the line

After gla1ve kicked off the second half with a 1vs2 clutch, Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic got a triple kill with the CZ-75 to cut the deficit to one round (9-8). Liquid went ahead thanks to NAF's excellent performance and extended their lead to 13-9 after Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip clutched a 1vs2 in the 22nd round.

Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella's triple AWP kill in the following round made it 14-9 but Astralis came back, tying the game at 14-14 with a five-round run. Liquid earned one map point after winning the penultimate round and took the match victory thanks to Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken and Stewie2K's double kills in the final round. With the 16-14 win, Liquid have guaranteed their place in the grand final.

BLAST Pro Series Miami 2019Best of 1

Astralis

Matchpage

13th April 2019

Liquid

Overpass

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	27 - 18	+9	96.7	76.7%	1.42
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	24 - 20	+4	77.3	70.0%	1.20
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	18 - 19	-1	69.6	76.7%	1.04
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	15 - 22	-7	70.6	76.7%	0.87
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	16 - 22	-6	57.3	66.7%	0.85

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	31 - 19	+12	99.8	83.3%	1.43
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	21 - 18	+3	72.8	73.3%	1.11
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	16 - 21	-5	62.6	70.0%	0.98
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	17 - 20	-3	64.9	66.7%	0.96
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	16 - 22	-6	72.4	60.0%	0.87

Group A

TEAM

BO1 FLUKE ENJOY LIQUID FANBOYS BO3 EZ ASTRALIS

2019-04-13 20:45

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Liquid top 1

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^ p

2019-04-13 20:46

Unluko_F5_and_still_7th

+1 so bad

2019-04-13 20:52

Astralis needs to beat faze and mibr need to lose for them to make final

It's probably going to happen tho. Liquid is destroying everything, so they can go through MiBR even easily, and FaZe isn't that hard to beat.

Pretty sure they cant get in final they are 2 - 2 now

mad

2019-04-13 20:50

OMEGALUL RIP ASSTRALIS ERA XDDD

Like RIP Astralis after Blast Copenhagen 18? Blast is a BO1-show tournament. No need for trolling. They are not good today, however :-)

First!

2019-04-13 20:44

6 replies

ah no

Name checks out

Pray for me boys

2019-04-13 20:48

Unluko

2019-04-13 20:51

LMAO SO BAD

2019-04-14 02:10

lol

🦀🦀ASTRALIS IS GONE🦀🦀

🦀🦀nice🦀🦀

lel

Pog

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

5 replies

Imagine hyping bo1 match

Why imagine. You're witnessing it. Biatch

3 replies

Inb4 32 0

2019-04-13 20:55

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I mean that's not even realistic :( goodbye

2019-04-13 21:41

Hi,youre good?

2019-04-14 09:23

Lmfao

ggwp by naf

Astr2l16 era over lol, NA taking it's place, all too easy for my boy NAF

there's a long run ahead tho (._.')

16-14 too ez LUL

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! FINALLY THEY CAN WIN SOMETHING!!!!!!! #LETSGOLIQUID

big oof

ASTRALIS XAXAXAAXAX

yayayayayaayyayayayayaya

Astralis to join N♿rth soon

2019-04-13 20:47

this is the End of an era!

#YTNABOYS

Nice

now imagine they finally go to a final without astralis and lose to mibr or faze, who are utter bad atm xD

Did happen

2019-04-14 05:14

yeah, wtf. How can liquid choke so much at this point. Only big tournament they won was season first, wth.

2019-04-14 07:18

RIP ASTRALIS ERA

So now Liquid can lose on purpose vs MIBR and make sure they can't meet Astralis in final.... Sad :(

I hope they dont do that, i mean you wanna win by beating the best

2019-04-13 20:49

Imo they feel confident enough to put all in against MIBR so they can face Astralis on a bo3 (._.)_b

I think I speak for all liquid fans and likely the team itself when I say we are only interested in a final vs Astralis. We have so much unfinished business

well, guess the team indeed wasn't into not facing astralis.

2019-04-14 07:19

If liquid loses vs MIBR we'll have a Liquid Mibr finals 👀

Final Astra vs Liquid bc Astra win vs Faze and Liquid win vs Mibr

Liquid was very good in that match. I doubt Astralis will make the same mistake(s) 3 times. Overpass was Astralis's worst map. Both mibr and liquid knew that's why they made it to be left out. Astralis will still be dominant unless they take on overpass again. Well for C9? I really don't expect anything much in this new roster. They surprised everyone which is good. But even take a 16-0 they still had a chance against the 2 best teams.

Stop trashtalking if its they worst mal why they ban everything else..?? astralis can onliy play inf and nuke rip bots

C9 won't able to have any chance to give a new surprise. Bo3 I will be convinced of Astrails won't absent and definitely they will win against to liquid.

2019-04-13 21:02