Envy upset Liquid in Road to Rio

30-4-2020 00:15

Envy trounced Liquid with 16-7 victories on Nuke and Dust2 to pick up their second win in the North American division of ESL One: Road to Rio.

Liquid have been dealt their first loss of Group B after they opened their Road to Rio campaign with wins over Bad News Bears and MIBR in their first two matches, while Envy now boast a 2-1 record with a previous loss to FURIA and a win over Yeah.

It seemed as if Liquid were in good form as the series got underway, leading at the onset of Nuke on the CT side with a 4-1 scoreline. However, Envy's trio of Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller, Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın, and Kaleb "⁠moose⁠" Jayne began to create and capitalize on openings in Liquid's defensive setups, keeping up a rapid pace to win nine straight rounds and post a 10-5 lead at the break.

A pistol win and subsequent conversion allowed Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella's troops to post seven rounds as the second half kicked off, but a Deagle triple kill from MICHU swung momentum back in the favour of Envy, who wasted little time in closing out the map, 16-7.

MICHU ended the series with a 1.53 rating and 101 ADR

A USP-S triple kill from Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic gave Liquid the chance to bounce back on Dust2, with the team securing two ensuing rounds against a force-buy and eco from Envy to reside upon a 3-0 lead on the offense. From there though, the half was all Envy as Liquid were unable to break through the defensive setups of Noah "⁠Nifty⁠" Francis and company, managing 1.75 kills per round as a team while Envy won twelve in a row for a 12-3 scoreline at halftime.

Another pistol win allowed Liquid to add two to their tally, but just when it looked as if the North American roster would be able to make a contest of the map, they were felled by the Deagles of Nifty and moose to once again grant Envy control of the proceedings. Three in a row quickly put Envy on match point, and Liquid were only able to add one additional round to the board before they were sent packing, 16-7.

ESL One: Road to Rio - North AmericaBest of 3

Liquid

Matchpage

29th April 2020

Envy

Nuke

Dust2

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	30 - 37	-7	79.5	76.1%	1.00
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	32 - 37	-5	75.1	63.0%	0.99
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	25 - 35	-10	70.2	56.5%	0.89
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	28 - 35	-7	63.3	56.5%	0.72
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	16 - 38	-22	46.4	56.5%	0.59

Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Michał 'MICHU' Müller MICHU	46 - 26	+20	101.1	78.3%	1.53
Kaleb 'moose' Jayne moose	35 - 24	+11	85.5	80.4%	1.31
Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın Calyx	37 - 26	+11	88.3	73.9%	1.31
Noah 'Nifty' Francis Nifty	34 - 26	+8	69.5	73.9%	1.20
Ryan 'ryann' Welsh ryann	30 - 29	+1	63.6	80.4%	1.05

Ez 4 envy

2020-04-30 00:16

1 reply

upset? expected from lulquid

2020-04-30 11:42

Michu to good

2 replies

2020-04-30 00:18

Typical Americans lagging on the bottom of Envy

2020-04-30 00:21

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

lol

Lulquid

Online cs

10 replies

So u don't want any matches during covid-19 right ? its what we have right now, there is no other way, they lost accept it

2020-04-30 00:28

at least not for mibr :)

2020-04-30 02:19

So much cry in twitter ft cold and NAF. A loss is a loss.

2020-04-30 02:38

7 replies

That team would never sniff liquid on lan and if you think otherwise your delusional

2020-04-30 08:36

6 replies

Same for mouz etc. but theyre not crying bob

2020-04-30 11:16

Maybe they could....weve all seen big upsets....its not likely but online cs is now how it is and the teams gotta adapt to it....its not perfect but better than having no games at all

2020-04-30 12:26

The problem is these irrelevant teams can play however they want to and pug around making idiotic plays and then people are upset the best teams are getting upset

2020-04-30 14:34

Sorry, but "idiotic plays" happen when you lose a easy round. When you win a round 2x4 vs faze clan, its a good play. All above that are cry.

2020-04-30 19:53

same for everyone else. mouz is 1-2 and fntaic got 2-2 by barely winning heretics but i dont see them crying. everything can happen in online, but since there is no other option atm you have to deal with it. and actually Envy played very well its not that liquid didnt show up and Envy got lucky.

2020-04-30 13:22

That’s because HLTV Europeans don’t get on European teams cases? Plus I admit the competition in Europe is worse but people in Na are living all over so long is ass especially for naf and daps

2020-04-30 14:32

holy shit

2020-04-30 00:17

michuu <3

xaxaxaxaxaxa

Would’ve been understandable if it was close but not even 16 rounds across 2 maps...

Lul eu cs carrying na once again

Ez Michu and Calyx

CS in 2020 ;)

Looks like a Polish player carried both those teams

2020-04-30 00:19

4 replies

polish cs >>>>> na cs

2020-04-30 00:35

3 replies

Facts

2020-04-30 08:37

c0ntact would have been like 2-1 in NA instead of 0-3 in EU. NA trash

2020-04-30 11:34

EZ for polish GOD michu

2020-04-30 20:08

Michu should be more consistent like calyx then we can see this team get into top 20

michu aim from poland

More valorant please

2020-04-30 00:20

on the 7th day God say "michu"

2020-04-30 08:08

MICHU

2020-04-30 00:22

Michu nice one - Envys team was playing sick 2night

2020-04-30 00:23

michu GOD This post was made by Low Sens Hive. All stand <3

2020-04-30 00:24

cry lulquid fans

2020-04-30 00:26

Valorant streams instead of practicing XD

2020-04-30 01:39

5 replies

did you see what NAF Posted. He said its easy to win when the other team is calling and drinking coke. mad Canadian kakakakak

2020-04-30 02:02

send me link XD

2020-04-30 02:16

There is a forum on HLTV with the link

2020-04-30 02:32

2020-04-30 11:14

Dude it’s a meme... the original was posted by coldzera and NAF just copied it lol

2020-04-30 09:46

why r liquid wasting time playin csgo?? when does this stupid tourney end so we can watch stew stream valorant?

not an upset... liquid is garbage

I'm new on cs, why better teams lose for crap ones? Rip liquid noobs

2020-04-30 00:29

NA CS is always like this mate.

2020-04-30 07:48

who is NAF roasting on Twitter?

Not really roasting, it’s a copypasta of coldzera’s tweet

2020-04-30 09:47

NA garbage just retire to Valorant as an excuse of being shit

2020-04-30 00:30

Liquid -adren +imapet

2020-04-30 00:31

expected

2020-04-30 00:34

sad

2020-04-30 00:36

NA CARRIED BY EU KEKW

2020-04-30 00:37

??? nifty is australian and the guy named welsh... is... surprise.... welsh

2020-04-30 00:54

Congratulations Team Envy...

2020-04-30 00:41

LULQUID CHOKEQUID XAAXXAAXXAAXAAAAXXAAXA

2020-04-30 00:42

again EU carry LUL

2020-04-30 00:45

Liquid aren't at their best atm., but getting fucked by Envy? Cmon.

2020-04-30 00:51

LULQUID

2020-04-30 00:53

lulquid

Now their spank on Yeah makes sense... Liquid did a little better.

2020-04-30 00:58

2020-04-30 01:07

Liquid were the underdog, so I don't see how this is an upset.

2020-04-30 01:13

Yeah this was a spanking for sure. Envy actually played really well.

2020-04-30 01:19

sad to see

2020-04-30 01:30

NICE TRY LIQUID C9>EG>ENVY>LIQUID XAXAXA

2020-04-30 01:32

EG tier999 Swole Patrol>EG

2020-04-30 01:54

u mean faze

2020-04-30 02:42

EG get fucked by Liquid everytime they play xD

2020-04-30 05:49

valorant players

Michu too stronk

2020-04-30 01:42

NA scene = JOKES

2020-04-30 01:45

MiSIU

2020-04-30 02:05

Michu just destroyed lickquit nothing special.

2020-04-30 02:44

OMEGALUL

2020-04-30 03:07

LIQUID WHY

2020-04-30 03:15

Big sad :(

2020-04-30 04:43

a d d e r a l - a n p h e t a m i n - p o i s o n

2020-04-30 03:30

HOW

2020-04-30 03:33

0.0

Rip Lipuid

2020-04-30 03:42

POG ENVY

2020-04-30 03:51

its not an upset because envy is the better team than chokequid

2020-04-30 04:14

Yeah but as per the ranking perspective they're not better

2020-04-30 05:44

Unless they get rid of Nifty and ryann. They're still shit. Carried by EU. Also, you have to be delusional to actually think Envy is a better team than LULquid.

2020-04-30 08:50