forZe crush ENCE; NiP overcome AVANGAR in Moscow

FORZE secured a confident win over ENCE on Inferno (16-4), while Ninjas in Pyjamas came out on top in a brawl against AVANGAR on Overpass (16-12).

FORZE had a great start on the CT side of Inferno, grabbing a 2-0 lead off the back of the pistol win before ENCE managed their first by breaking into the A bombsite. Multikills from Andrey "⁠Jerry⁠" Mekhryakov and Dmitriy "⁠facecrack⁠" Alekseyev won FORZE the following round and got them the economic edge in the game, which the Russian side leveraged to an 8-1 lead.

After that point, Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli and co. mustered three rounds in quick succession, but FORZE then figured out a solution for their fast hits, and with great contributions from Almaz "⁠almazer⁠" Asadullin, ended the half strongly, 11-4.

ENCE were no match for forZe in Moscow

The momentum was brought into the second half by FORZE as they won the pistol despite losing the first two picks in the round. A clean anti-eco followed, as well as a confident gun round in which facecrack single-handedly resolved the 3v3 afterplant in his side's favor. That was the end of the road for ENCE, who were unable to come back from the massive deficit, seeing FORZE take a 16-4 victory in their opening game.

BLAST Pro Series Moscow 2019Best of 1

ENCE

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FORZE

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Inferno

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ENCE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Aleksi 'allu' Jalliallu	7 - 17	-10	54.6	60.0%	0.64
Jani 'Aerial' JussilaAerial	7 - 19	-12	54.4	50.0%	0.59
Miikka 'suNny' KemppisuNny	9 - 17	-8	35.4	45.0%	0.55
Sami 'xseveN' LaasanenxseveN	5 - 17	-12	32.5	45.0%	0.39
Jere 'sergej' Salosergej	5 - 19	-14	41.9	45.0%	0.29

FORZE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Almaz 'almazer' Asadullinalmazer	26 - 11	+15	147.8	95.0%	2.16
Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyevfacecrack	18 - 6	+12	90.0	100.0%	1.69
Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevFL1T	19 - 7	+12	79.3	95.0%	1.58
Andrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovJerry	17 - 8	+9	96.7	85.0%	1.57
Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikovxsepower	8 - 1	+7	36.0	100.0%	1.19

Despite Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson's quad kill on the pistol, AVANGAR managed to win the first round of the game and take a 5-0 lead on the CT side of Overpass. Nicolas "⁠Plopski⁠" Gonzalez Zamora's 1v1 clutch ended the drought for Ninjas in Pyjamas, and the Swedish side got the score back to 6-3 before Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali showed up once again, this time with four AWP frags in a round. AVANGAR didn't snowball off of that to a big lead, though, thanks to Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund's 1v2 spraydown on B (8-5).

The half finished with Ninjas in Pyjamas lagging behind by just one round, the Swedes picked up the pistol and the follow up on the defensive side to get the lead for the first time in the game. It was a back-and-forth affair from that point onwards, with AVANGAR dropping an anti-eco and a 2v2 which allowed Ninjas in Pyjamas to get a 13-12 advantage.

The defenses held strong for the last rounds of the match, and with Lekr0 passing the 30 kill mark, Ninjas in Pyjamas closed out the game 16-12.

BLAST Pro Series Moscow 2019Best of 1

Ninjas in Pyjamas

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AVANGAR

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Overpass

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Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonLekr0	31 - 20	+11	106.6	71.4%	1.51
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindbergf0rest	20 - 17	+3	66.6	60.7%	1.06
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundGeT_RiGhT	17 - 17	0	55.5	64.3%	0.99
Nicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez ZamoraPlopski	17 - 20	-3	74.4	57.1%	0.88
Fredrik 'REZ' SternerREZ	14 - 22	-8	73.3	60.7%	0.85

AVANGAR	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' AliJame	29 - 16	+13	86.6	60.7%	1.40
Sanjar 'SANJI' KulievSANJI	20 - 21	-1	94.1	71.4%	1.11
Aleksei 'Qikert' GolubevQikert	20 - 20	0	73.8	64.3%	1.02
Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevAdreN	16 - 19	-3	69.9	64.3%	0.94
Timur 'buster' Tulepovbuster	11 - 23	-12	49.5	67.9%	0.72

Group A

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FORZE

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3

MIBR

1

3

Ninjas in Pyjamas

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3

AVANGAR

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0

Natus Vincere

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0

ENCE

1

0