Astralis eliminate NiP at ECS S7 Finals

7-6-2019 13:22

In the ECS Season 7 Finals group A elimination match Astralis secured a dominant win over Ninjas in Pyjamas, 2-0 (16-5 Inferno, 16-6 Overpass), to move on to the decider game against FURIA.

Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander powered Astralis to an early lead on the CT side of their map pick, Inferno, with the Danish side comfortably going up 6-0. Ninjas in Pyjamas managed to get onto the A bombsite in the following round and get on the board, however, no momentum was built as gla1ve shut down Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson's 1v3 attempt, getting his team back in control.

After the score was 9-1, Ninjas in Pyjamas lost the opening picks in back-to-back rounds, but still managed to win the rounds with sharp entries onto the B bombsite. That broke Astralis' economy and allowed the Swedes to get five rounds on the T side.

Following the switch, Ninjas in Pyjamas wasn't able to secure the all-important pistol round as their mid push was denied, and their first round buy was also promptly swept aside with Astralis barreling onto the B bombsite. Being 14-5 up, the Danish team didn't waste time and convincingly concluded the map, 16-5.

Astralis will play a rematch against FURIA for a place in the playoffs

Ninjas in Pyjamas had another slow start on Overpass, 0-5, this time starting on the CT side though, but finally got in the game after Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg and Lekr0 slowed down a B rush. Astralis extended their lead further by dominating the early-round, but Fredrik "⁠REZ⁠" Sterner kept his team in the game with some important frags in the bathroom area.

The Swedes were set to end the half with seven rounds as Astralis was on a low buy, but Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif begged to differ and took down three with the Deagle on the B entry. Astralis built on that with their fourth pistol round win of the series and played a safe anti-eco to go 11-6 up. In the first rifle round, Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund and co. opted for an A execute in a 4v4, but got completely locked out.

The rest of the Terrorist side from Ninjas in Pyjamas looked similarly uninspired and Astralis closing out the game 16-6, without a single bomb plant going down after the pistol.

ECS Season 7 FinalsBest of 3

Astralis

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7th June 2019

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Inferno

Overpass

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	41 - 17	+24	94.0	88.4%	1.62
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	35 - 16	+19	87.6	86.0%	1.47
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	37 - 16	+21	79.2	83.7%	1.46
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	35 - 24	+11	97.0	83.7%	1.45
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	24 - 21	+3	60.3	81.4%	1.07

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	20 - 34	-14	55.6	55.8%	0.71
Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Lekr0	23 - 35	-12	64.9	60.5%	0.69
Dennis 'dennis' Edman dennis	23 - 34	-11	53.3	55.8%	0.68
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	16 - 32	-16	39.7	46.5%	0.52
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	12 - 37	-25	54.8	39.5%	0.47

What a blow-out. Astralis is the best team in the world. Don't @ me NA-fanboys.

2019-06-07 13:22

20 replies

NiP disband

2019-06-07 13:23

4 replies

holy moly that was bad

2 replies

If get right is 1st in the team something must be wrong

2019-06-07 13:25

1 reply

Expected from London

2019-06-07 13:26

+1 kick nip

2019-06-07 13:38

They lost Vs Furia on nuke so delete this

You can't deny it isn't at the moment

2019-06-07 13:28

astralis is not the best team in the world, you dumb or what?

2019-06-07 13:29

8 replies

Yes they are? BuT nOT RaNk 1, but liquid losing to vitality, ENCE and MIBR so pls gtfo

2019-06-07 13:37

3 replies

Astralis lose to furia ence

2019-06-07 13:45

I am getting the fuck off, but Astralis isn't top 1.

2019-06-07 14:16

manseEZ is mad af jesus what if i told you that they lost alot of game you would say it is the danish honor to loose AGIAN AND AGIAN IDIOT

2019-06-07 18:31

Is there an argument to your statement?

Yes

2019-06-07 14:17

Don't worry they will be again after ECS EPL ESL One

2019-06-07 13:51

Nein, I don't think so

FURIA > Asstralis

2019-06-07 14:06

*Furia >>> Blasstralis

2019-06-07 14:42

Liquid are #1 in the rankings.

2019-06-07 16:16

Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner 12 - 37 -25 54.8 0.47

3 frags per halves ffs

Astralis is back for sure

obviously

NiP who?

Ez for the #2 team in the world :))))

Who is the Best :)?

2019-06-07 15:24

Liquid Cuz astralis dont play any tourmanents

2019-06-07 15:34

They beat a disfunctional nip team and suddenly they are they best? Hand down lose to either furia or north and every Dane can proceed to bow down to god jugi.

2019-06-07 16:00

Shameful, wake up management

13 replies

Time for BoT_RiGhT to go!!! 3 years too late but it’s better late than later

2019-06-07 13:39

12 replies

4 years

2019-06-07 13:42

#18 in 2016

I would kick Lekr0 and either dennis or GTR Along with pita

9 replies

+1, but who will igl? Hampus Is busy with scream and ex6tenz

2019-06-07 14:12

Golden is the most realistic option flusha would be my first pick to try but he's already declined NiP

2019-06-07 14:23

I really hate what so many teams are doing lately by making their star players igl like valde in North and niko in faze but atleast those teams are making an effort to either get an igl like faze did with neo or lightening the load of the igl whereas NiP are just wasting Lekr0s potential who I believe could be one Swedens best player with the problem just being he hasn't had the chance to be a star player like Rez OR Nawwk.

2019-06-07 14:29

6 replies

Okay, let me just say I don't believe in Lekr0 at all, not as a star player either. His calls are so incredibly basic so they can't be taking too much focus from his own game. I don't think he fits in NiP at all

2019-06-07 14:31

5 replies

I'm not saying he's a good igl and I can agree that he's been pretty shit lately I just think that lekr0 is someone who is much more passive and isn't very assertive, we saw that back when he was IN Godsent with pronax and twist he was probably the best player on the team. I think what nip really needs is a good igl and I'd remove get_right or as you said lekr0 I just think that he'd be much better with an actual igl.

2019-06-07 15:03

As you say he was putting up completely different numbers in fnatic while playing under Golden, but I don't think he's in that form anymore. Yeah NiP really needs a real IGL and AWP but since this really isn't working I wanna blow the lineup up more than just removing one player.

2019-06-07 15:06

Yeah I agree they've got the skill on paper with forest, Rez, Dennis and Lekr0 being good players but it just ain't clicking.

2019-06-07 15:11

Dennis is hella inconsistent. I don't know how he was a pistol god at one point. The guy seems to have low confidence whenever he take aim duels. It's concerning for nip

2019-06-07 15:53

It also doesn't help that since the major he's been very iffy with actually being able to play like when he went on a break and at dreamhack dallas where pita had to stand in for him.

2019-06-07 16:47

ez4astralis

2019-06-07 13:24

EZ4FURIA

Ninjas in Pyjamas Famous Cyber-tourism Organization

LULZ

Great one :D

How did Astralis even lose 1 round to a team like NiP?

Gayinpyjamas lose again. Well done

Rez was embarrassing the whole event but Dennis will get the blame

Too ez

Well this headline was unpredictable

2019-06-07 13:27

gla1ve - BEST IGL IN THE WORLD

He actually is the best igl yet

2019-06-07 15:54

not even try

What is in NIP CEO's head? how long will they keep this disabled roster?

Just keep talking shit on Astralis, they will come back even stronger

2019-06-07 13:52

Ahhaahhaahhaahhaha >Coming back stronger >Losing to furia in bo3

2019-06-07 21:22

nip need roster change

dennis no gaming chair lul

-get_right +flusha

either dennis or gtr

2019-06-07 13:31

rip gays in pajamis

2019-06-07 13:30

First 2-0 Furia, then 2-0 North and finally 2-0 Vitality. Bye.

lgbt in pyjamas

-Rez -Gtr

2019-06-07 13:33

Ez 4 gla1ve smoke criminal

2019-06-07 13:34

lol 20 kills in 2 maps

nip disband pls

2019-06-07 13:36

Hate to say it but NiP was absolutely awful I tend to defend them but not today No aim, no teamplay, peeking and dying 1 by 1, nothing Idk what they are doing during pracs but that was atrocious to watch

2019-06-07 13:41

get_right is the igl now so what to expect :D

Info? From where?

2019-06-07 13:53

check NiKo twitter he said it to someone

2019-06-07 14:22

none of the nip members have said they changed igl tho

2019-06-07 14:34

i mean he did the veto yesterday with pita xD

2019-06-07 14:41

i guess the dream is over ... FeelsBadMan

2019-06-07 13:48

Nip have just wasted a spot like as usual.Even tier 2 team could have given a better fight than them.They should not get invite in tier 1 events to waste a spot.It would have been better if Faze or Ence or Navi or liquid could have got this spot.It so fucking boring to watch NIP match considering they will always loose to good teams

+1 faze or navi would've been interesting to watch. Been a while since we watched s1mple's greatness on lan.

2019-06-07 15:56

Everyone got to understand the scene is close and ppl like GTR/forest choose to stay or not :) They suck the juice out of the apple infront of ye eyes.

2019-06-07 13:55

Goodman I hate seeing NiP lose like 'gain and again. They need some roster changes or something. You know i been thinking about this but NiP and Fnatic should combine their rosters and make a superteam to make the Swedish scene great again

2019-06-07 13:56

Fredrik "REZ" Sterner botfrag

2019-06-07 14:03

is time for some roster changes NiP.. cant continue like this pls ffs

2019-06-07 14:05

NiP worst lineup ever, they should all retire

2019-06-07 14:07

HLTV.org always soft when need to report NIP lost. Tittles involving other teams with this kind of score are like "dismantle" "run over" "dominate" and so on. Maybe Thorin is writing the articles. LOL

2019-06-07 14:08

Lol thorin does talk lot of trash.

2019-06-07 15:57

This "news" is completely pointless. The outcome was obvious. All NiP has left from their glory days is their name.

2019-06-07 14:15

Im reading these comments and GOD ..... Its so funny how you guys act when , for example , NiP lost . You are calling them bots , worst line up , they should retire and all those negative things . Cmoon . Look at Astralis. They ar so so good and yeah , they are nr.1 team in world but dont forget about Ninjas in Pyjamas history and how much they gave to this community and this sport. So , respect every team.. GG WP !

wow this astralis team has potential

-pita-gtr(mb coach)-dennis +flusha and nawwk

2019-06-07 14:21

Hello dev2ce fanboys look at your fav player Xaxaxaxaaxa Not even top 10

2019-06-07 14:35

rez 12 kills ?? unexpected

2019-06-07 14:43

I love NiP and they have cool players with great personality. But I honestly find better game sense and tactics in basic fucking MM-games sometimes. They throw nades for no reason, make rotations that are insanely easy to read and they are really bad at refragging. Aimwise they can challenge any team but their decision making is almost always insanely bad. Other teams are simply on a whole different level. That's why they'll never go all the way in a big tournament.

2019-06-07 14:49

Astralis ERA back on!

2019-06-07 14:52

Rip Nip

2019-06-07 14:56

nip worst shit team ever, sponsors ged rid of this shit team

2019-06-07 14:58

Now FURIA is fkd, as expected

2019-06-07 15:22

mAtCh FiXiNg aStRaLiS eRa OvEr xptdree

2019-06-07 15:45

Revamp NIP: Golden REZ Flusha Draken Forest

2019-06-07 15:49

obv there will be a huge shuffle for nip after the major imo,feels like there are huge issues not only in game but between the players i guess.. - dennis and maybe -lekro +floosha +FUCKING IGL they might even let f0rest go cuz he is gonna be dad in around 5 months as i remember GOD ITS SO ROUGH TO BE A NIP FAN

2019-06-07 16:01

the only one who needs to step aside is GTR long before... no one will accept it

2019-06-08 04:43

i ve been trying to explain it to people but my dude gtr doing his part well imo . the problem is teamplay and ''star'' players like dennis or even rez struggling so hard. they re playing like a random pug team .

2019-06-08 12:26

Kick rez

2019-06-07 17:06

Jesus nip have been shit lately.

2019-06-07 19:49

nip have been shit since they lost legend spot(back in 2016 i think) they have performed so bad, even fnatic have strugle but fnatic managed to do great performance at least, nip only have luck

2019-06-08 12:32

Expected from Fnatic fan comparing them "Nip have only luck" Yeah good luck playing the minor qualifier

2019-06-10 10:12

it doesnt matter, fnatic will qualify anyway, they are not nip :D

2019-06-10 10:55

We will see

2019-06-10 11:34

is easy to get at least main major qualifier, fist seed you neet to finish top 8 out of 16 teams.. wow so hard and second seed you have to finish top3..play-in isnt a problem

2019-06-10 14:44

REZ 12 kills in 2 maps. Not good enough

2019-06-07 20:40

there is no expectation as a nip fan but i don't understand why organization stick with this lineup. i think get_noob need to stepdown as well as forest.

2019-06-10 10:09