Vitality beat NiP to keep race for first place in Group A wide open

23-3-2020 00:51

Vitality have defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0 to secure their third victory in the round robin and join the race for first place in Group A of ESL Pro League Season 11.

The Frenchmen have now joined the Swedish side and Astralis atop the group with a 3-1 record after everyone in Group A has played four matches, leaving the race for first place to be decided in the last round. There, Vitality will lock horns with the Danish powerhouse in a match that could see the French side solidify their spot at the top, while Ninjas in Pyjamas will face the winless ENCE.

Vitality will take on Astralis for first place in Group A on Tuesday

Vitality's newest member, Kévin "⁠misutaaa⁠" Rabier, was a key player in the series against Ninjas in Pyjamas as the best fragger of the opening map, Vertigo, where the 17-year-old and the newly appointed in-game leader, Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire, spearheaded their team's comeback on the Terrorist side from a 5-10 deficit.

Nuke was a much more comfortable affair for Vitality. A great start on the offensive side of Nuke allowed them to secure a one-round advantage before switching over to the CT side, where a dominant showing saw them close out the series in convincing fashion at 16-9.

ESL Pro League Season 11 EuropeBest of 3

Vitality

Matchpage

22nd March 2020

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Vertigo

Nuke

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	45 - 32	+13	79.1	70.9%	1.23
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ZywOo	39 - 36	+3	77.7	69.1%	1.12
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	37 - 37	0	76.6	70.9%	1.11
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	39 - 36	+3	83.8	63.6%	1.07
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier misutaaa	38 - 34	+4	72.3	70.9%	1.05

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Lekr0	45 - 40	+5	84.4	72.7%	1.26
Nicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora Plopski	43 - 39	+4	87.3	63.6%	1.14
Simon 'twist' Eliasson twist	31 - 40	-9	65.2	63.6%	0.84
Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson nawwk	31 - 40	-9	64.2	58.2%	0.82
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	25 - 39	-14	53.3	58.2%	0.73

Although the third victory gives Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut & co. the chance to fight for the top spot, they are still not out of the woods when it comes to a top-three finish due to their loss to Spirit, who would have a tiebreaking advantage should the two teams finish the group with an equal record (3-2).

After four rounds, Group A's standings of ESL Pro League Season 11 Europe look as follows:

Group A

TEAM

Rpktank he is back

2020-03-23 00:52

3 replies

EZ for arpeekay

2020-03-23 01:36

2 replies

who?

2020-03-23 06:19

16_14 kkkjjkkjkk

2020-03-23 10:11

TANK

huuuuu #3 best place ever for me i want to thank's my mom and all your mom for this performance

2020-03-23 00:53

5 replies

Ez#1

2020-03-23 00:54

Great performance

2020-03-23 10:25

1 reply

2020-03-23 12:26

+1 mums proud

2020-03-23 10:33

yeah ty

Ez for Zywoo

Vitality overrated trash

Flag checks out

2020-03-23 01:32

Must suck to realize that the best US team is actually only #48...

2020-03-23 07:59

So Liquid and EG don't count as US or?

2020-03-23 12:27

They are not fully US

2020-03-23 12:51

Canadians and Americans are the same scene, NA. There's not a scene from Canada and from USA. Like Belgium + France, they're the same

2020-03-23 19:15

NiPPels kekw

"Fan of Virtus.Pro" enough said

2020-03-23 07:39

2020-03-23 08:26

rpk is wildin

2020-03-23 01:00

RIGGED

2020-03-23 01:01

Not bad shox more practice please

2020-03-23 01:12

If RpK and shox get back to their CSS level, this team will be in the top 5

2020-03-23 02:06

They won't though :D

2020-03-23 10:00

Wait Apex is IGL?? Didn't know that

2020-03-23 02:14

Apex switched to Igl after Alex left the team

2020-03-23 10:09

I see, I thought it would have been shox, guess he's learned his lesson.

2020-03-23 15:57

EXPECTED

2020-03-23 02:17

if Spirit wins and Shitality are gonna lose, Spirit will move on 3rd place. nice xD

2020-03-23 02:41

Rpk so good recently

2020-03-23 02:57

the winless ENCE LUL

2020-03-23 03:07

Why are nip in green despite having the same points as those in yellow?

2020-03-23 03:14

Underrated joke

2020-03-23 03:27

They've got the best round difference

2020-03-23 10:55

do you know how they count the round difference? in Liquidpedia they do show the round difference but i have no idea how they count it..

Lose against spirit win against nip wowowow online cs is great

2020-03-23 03:48

Lmao since when is NiP a good team ?

2020-03-23 04:01

4 replies

They were 3-0 in the league and were looking great Hf with astralis mr baguette

2020-03-23 04:36

Thank you mr naan.

2020-03-23 15:00

Naan>>>>> baguette though Mr debouraux

2020-03-30 05:56

You've obviously never tried a good baguette my friend. Although naan are apreciated here, it definitly can't compare. And I'm afraid that Debouraux doesn't mean shit in any language I know.

2020-03-30 12:24

holla

2020-03-23 04:39

Rip ence

2020-03-23 07:08

If 2 teams finish with same number of victories, will their internal match then decide the winner? Assuming NIP wins their last match, then either Astralis or Vitality will have top compare with them. Astralis defeats Vitality => NIP wins because they defeated Astralis. Vitality defeats Astralis => Vitality wins because they defeated NIP. Or is number of lost maps and/or kill difference also a factor?

2020-03-23 07:28

there will be the rd for the win so NiP will probably win

2020-03-23 08:28

That wasn't his question.

2020-03-23 09:08

i know that's the answer

2020-03-23 09:38

I think map difference is better statistic even though it has flaws too. RD is worst statistic ever. Imagine saying a 16-14,16-14 victory is worse than 16-0,14-16,16-0 Lol the former one is a 2-0 victory with +4 RD and latter is 2-1 victory with +30 RD. For sure no one is retard enough to use RD as a tiebreaker.

2020-03-23 11:17

Map difference between tied teams is the tiebreaker, so yes. Astralis can only get 1st if they win and NiP loses to ENCE

2020-03-23 11:53

What they did in the last game was something beautiful. And for that, I will respect them at least until the next game. Respect!

2020-03-23 08:22

Astralis defeats Vitality => lucky Vitality defeats Astralis => nope

2020-03-23 09:11

lol rpk is better than the fluke of 2019

2020-03-23 09:42

Seems like it.

2020-03-23 09:56

Le Tank!

2020-03-23 11:08

Zywoo is a fraud

2020-03-23 11:10

funny how the whole players changed since alex departure... zywoo aint anymore the one man army player, RpK is coming back with force... i see more constancy from all players...

2020-03-23 12:16

RpK is playing great since EPICENTER. So, with ALEX, everything in the team was the same: apEX plays with ~ 1 rating 2.0, no more, no less, shox as always a bot, RpK plays cool, ZywOo plays cool.

2020-03-23 13:45