Flashpoint 2BIG move past forZe; advance to Flashpoint 2 playoffs
The German side is the first team to secure a playoff spot in the tournament but will be playing one more group stage match to determine their seed for the quarter-finals.
BIG lived up to the favorites tag in the match against FORZE, sweeping the Russian side on Dust2, 16-7, and pulling off a big T-side comeback on Inferno, 16-14, to earn a 2-0 victory in the Flashpoint 2 Group B winners' match.
Finishing the game quickly will give BIG some extra time to prepare for their match against MOUZ later today in IEM Beijing-Haidian, as the two German organizations are set to clash in their opening matches at 18:30 .
Nils "k1to" Gruhne picked up four frags in the pistol as BIG kicked off their map pick, Dust2, strongly. The Germans were up 9-1 shortly, running riot on the offense and causing FORZE nightmares as they tried to lock down the approaches to the bombsites.
As the first half was coming to a close, Bogdan "xsepower" Chernikov picked up seven kills in a four-round run to offer his team a chance to come back (11-4), but the second half was equally one-sided, with a mixed buy conversion from BIG setting them for a 16-7 win.
Inferno was a different story altogether, as both teams were able to win force buys, ecos, and turn around disadvantages, making for a back-and-forth first half. FORZE ended it with the smallest of leads, 8-7, after a pistol-armor Apartments explosion caught the German side off guard in the final round of the half.
BIG picked up the second pistol with an A push, but FORZE won the following force buy, giving them the upper hand as CTs. Almaz "almazer" Asadullin and Andrey "Jerry" Mekhryakov topped the boards as they reached 14-9, but a successful Ruins wrap got Tizian "tiziaN" Feldbusch and co. back into it. k1to's double in a 3v5 in the 27th round was key for BIG's comeback, which they completed with a seven-round winning streak to steal away Inferno 16-14.
 FORZE |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating |
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| 40 - 39 | +1 | 77.6 | 69.8% | 1.07 | |
| 31 - 32 | -1 | 70.9 | 75.5% | 1.01 | |
| 32 - 37 | -5 | 66.4 | 64.2% | 0.92 | |
| 29 - 45 | -16 | 69.7 | 62.3% | 0.78 | |
| 31 - 39 | -8 | 63.2 | 58.5% | 0.74 |
  BIG |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating |
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| 40 - 30 | +10 | 73.7 | 79.2% | 1.31 | |
| 43 - 32 | +11 | 86.3 | 71.7% | 1.24 | |
| 43 - 36 | +7 | 81.1 | 71.7% | 1.19 | |
| 28 - 27 | +1 | 70.1 | 83.0% | 1.08 | |
| 38 - 40 | -2 | 83.1 | 73.6% | 1.08 |
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