DreamHack Open January 2021 North America

paiN beat Rebirth; advance to DH Open January grand final

30-1-2021 00:53

The Brazilian side went undefeated in the upper bracket to book a ticket to the best-of-five grand final with a one-map advantage.

paiN are through to the grand final of DreamHack Open January North America after besting Rebirth 2-0 in the upper bracket final. The Brazilian team got off to a strong start in the four-team tournament, edging past Triumph in their opening matchup to set up a bout against Rebirth, who had surprised in their first match by claiming a one-sided win over Extra Salt.

Vinicios "⁠PKL⁠" Coelho was the frontrunner for his side to kick off the series, keeping paiN in control on the attack of their Vertigo map pick. Rounds for Rebirth were few and far between in the first half as paiN raced to an 11-4 lead, adding a pistol win following the side swap to maintain control.

PKL led the way for paiN in the series with a 1.32 rating

Rebirth began to mount a comeback effort after prevailing with a force-buy, but were quickly left facing down map point at 15-7. However, Zack "⁠XotiC⁠" Elshani and Collin "⁠wrath⁠" McSweegan kept Rebirth in contention as they rallied back to round 30, but then paiN managed to edge out a victory to take an early lead in the series.

It seemed as if Rebirth would answer back in similar fashion on Dust2 as they started the map with a six-round lead, even countering paiN's first set of rounds with wins of their own for a 9-2 scoreline. The Brazilian roster finally stabilised and tightened up towards the end of the half, and completely turned the tables once they were on the attack as they only conceded one additional round en route to a 16-11 victory.

DreamHack Open January 2021 North AmericaBest of 3

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29th January 2021

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paiN	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Vinicios 'PKL' Coelho PKL	52 - 37	+15	91.8	75.4%	1.32
Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt biguzera	42 - 37	+5	84.2	78.9%	1.18
Rafael 'saffee' Costa saffee	40 - 36	+4	72.7	68.4%	1.15
Gabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato NEKIZ	44 - 41	+3	84.6	68.4%	1.11
Wesley 'hardzao' Lopes hardzao	33 - 35	-2	71.4	71.9%	0.99

Rebirth	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Zack 'XotiC' Elshani XotiC	46 - 43	+3	90.4	70.2%	1.19
Rahul 'curry' Nemani curry	36 - 39	-3	79.3	73.7%	1.09
Collin 'wrath' McSweegan wrath	40 - 42	-2	73.6	63.2%	0.97
Sebastian 'retchy' Tropiano retchy	31 - 43	-12	66.1	77.2%	0.91
Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly nosraC	31 - 44	-13	58.0	61.4%	0.75

easy for paiN

2021-01-30 00:53

3 replies

Saffee plays for 1 year and destroys everyone

2021-01-30 10:03

soon NA teams will compete in SA

2021-01-30 10:25

1 reply

2021-01-30 17:05

gotta respect pkl man guy come a looong way, respect!!

2021-01-30 00:54

Who what where why when

You forgot how

2021-01-30 01:11

Let`s go Brazil

2021-01-30 01:01

who beat who

2021-01-30 01:02

Pain, the Brazilian Astralis

2021-01-30 01:09

who against who?

2021-01-30 01:10

11 replies

nt medkit

10 replies

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2021-01-30 03:05

hUAHWEUAHWEUAHWEUWAHEUWHEAUHew

2021-01-30 03:10

dude :) you laugh like you're promoting HUAWEI.... crazy!

2021-01-30 12:22

HAIAJDJSJDJSJJD

2021-01-30 05:35

KKKKKKKKKKK +1

2021-01-30 06:17

hauhsauhsauhsausuahsuahsuas

2021-01-30 08:19

you DESTROYED HIM!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

2021-01-30 10:09

nt chad

2021-01-30 13:47

LMAO

2021-01-30 12:05

Rekt

2021-01-30 13:48

Brazil will dominate Na once again

Its easy to dominate when all NA players are going to Valorant Valve need to block regions like RIOT and stop this clown fiesta of brazilians going to other regions

2021-01-30 01:12

2021-01-30 01:13

Without br teams in NA that region would be even worse than it is rn lol

Are you retarded?

2021-01-30 01:14

Cry is free, but imagine if all br teams come back to Brazil, the scene here will be stronger than NA, soo the tournament organizers and sponsors will move to here. Na depends of br teams

2021-01-30 01:16

no ? LOL Brazilian viewers are nothing, the purchasing power of an average brazilian is low. $200 The minimum Wage. Do you really think that sponsors care about brazil?

2021-01-30 01:19

2 replies

It doesn’t work that way noflagger. Minimum wage doesn’t mean shit. It’s all about target audience. And the Brazilians who watch e-sports mostly are from middle and high classes, meaning they’re more qualified and have more money to buy shit that sponsors sell. If the scene wasn’t profitable you think that even small championships like CS Sumit would mind to specifically have a Brazilian crew casting for our country? So does BLAST, and a lot of other orgs. Also, more Brazilians watch games than Americans, meaning that even if they spent less than the average Americans spent, you could make it up in the volume of sells.

2021-01-30 03:37

Some guys simply don't understand that there is life outside their bubble.

2021-01-30 04:33

-1

2021-01-30 01:18

0/8 lol fan lmao

2021-01-30 02:58

He never saw Gaules audience. If valve blocks Brazil in NA and EU, brazil would be the most watched of major in the world. The consumer audience is much bigger here than there.

2021-01-30 05:15

nice scene lmao liquid the only good na team as always

PaiN too Strong

So a team that in SA couldnt reach any finals is dominating NA, woow that scene is dead af

2021-01-30 01:48

they won every shit here, they were only losing to BOOM (mibr)

2021-01-30 06:20

Why lie?

2021-01-30 10:43

hltv.org/events/4786/gamers-club-masters.. hltv.org/events/4780/brasileiro-season-1 hltv.org/events/4783/clutch-la-league-se.. hltv.org/events/5078/wesg-2019-brazil sure "not winning anything"

2021-01-30 12:27

NA LMAO XAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA

2021-01-30 02:35

Extra salt is going to beat them in the final tho

2021-01-30 02:41

Who?

2021-01-30 03:47

U ass

2021-01-30 07:21

pain champion

2021-01-30 04:12

A team that cant win anything on SA can win on NA kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2021-01-30 06:08

#25

2021-01-30 06:21

saffee god

2021-01-30 07:20

who?

2021-01-30 07:22

paiN is looking great, TOP 30 team for me. Rebirth is a no name team, they wont go further than they are atm.

2021-01-30 12:28

4 replies

Pain is playing against tier 2 teams with new lineups... also rebirth choked. And the games they are playing against these new tier 2 teams like Triumph and Rebirth are close games.

2021-01-30 17:09

Yes, but overall they are looking great, they have an idea how they want to play, and their gameplay looks good, I think that if they would play in EU they would be TOP 30.

2021-01-31 02:11