BIG strike back against NiP to win BLAST Group A

6-2-2021 22:51

Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz & co. destroyed the Swedes on Vertigo and came back from a 0-6 deficit on Overpass.

BIG have topped Group A at the BLAST Premier Spring Groups after beating Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0 (Vertigo 16-2, Overpass 16-14), taking their revenge on the Swedish side after losing the previous encounter in the group's upper bracket final. Both teams have already advanced to the $425,000 Spring Final, which will take place in mid-June.

After picking Mirage in the first meeting with the Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser-led side, BIG opted for Vertigo in the rematch against Ninjas in Pyjamas and found much more success there to open the final series with an incredibly dominant victory.

BIG made NiP's undefeated streak with ztr short-lived

Starting on the Terrorist side, the German side kept getting openings towards the A bombsite while Nicolas "⁠Plopski⁠" Gonzalez Zamora was left to try to salvage the situation with flanks from B in what quickly became a near-impossible map to win. By halftime, BIG were up 13-2, with the only two rounds going the other way coming out of clutch scenarios, and this time Ninjas in Pyjamas weren't allowed to pull off another one of their massive comebacks, as the map was over three rounds later.

It looked like Ninjas in Pyjamas were going to return the favor on Overpass at first, getting off to a flying start on the offense on the back of big clutch play from Plopski in the pistol round and Erik "⁠ztr⁠" Gustafsson in one of the first gunrounds. The Swedish squad then hit a wall, however, with Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş, tabseN, and Florian "⁠syrsoN⁠" Rische all putting up key performances.

The score was soon even after sides switched, as BIG also won the second pistol round and went on to come out on top of forcebuy shenanigans thanks to Tizian "⁠tiziaN⁠" Feldbusch's 1v2 clutch. Narrow situations continued to be the name of the game as Ninjas in Pyjamas stayed alive, courtesy of 1v1s from Tim "⁠nawwk⁠" Jonasson and ztr, but the Swedes faltered at the last hurdle after openings from Nils "⁠k1to⁠" Gruhne gave BIG the 15th and 16th round.

BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2021Best of 3

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Matchpage

6th February 2021

BIG

Vertigo

Overpass

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora Plopski	39 - 36	+3	98.4	66.7%	1.17
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	29 - 39	-10	69.9	56.2%	0.77
Hampus 'hampus' Poser hampus	30 - 43	-13	64.3	62.5%	0.74
Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson nawwk	20 - 35	-15	56.4	56.2%	0.73
Erik 'ztr' Gustafsson ztr	19 - 37	-18	42.1	56.2%	0.56

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Florian 'syrsoN' Rische syrsoN	49 - 25	+24	99.1	85.4%	1.68
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	40 - 30	+10	86.5	83.3%	1.36
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş XANTARES	37 - 27	+10	81.2	72.9%	1.23
Nils 'k1to' Gruhne k1to	35 - 28	+7	76.5	70.8%	1.22
Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch tiziaN	28 - 29	-1	66.2	72.9%	1.06

German cs just too strong this year. We are top 1.

2021-02-06 22:51

20 replies

#StopAwpAbusers2021

2021-02-06 22:52

11 replies

Fan of ZywOo

2021-02-06 22:54

10 replies

He shouldn't have been top 1

2021-02-06 22:55

9 replies

2021-02-06 22:58

2 replies

rubbish format, NIP already won 2 matches and they are not 1st in the group

2021-02-07 10:46

1 reply

because big won 3

2021-02-07 11:19

s1mple is 1 because he has a 1 is his name ZywOo should change his name to Zy2wO because he is the number 2 player and then dev3ce, N4Ko, El5GE, el6ctronic, d7preeh, r8pz, bl9meF, etc

2021-02-06 23:00

5 replies

It's almost like they chose those nicks which best fits their rank 8/8 thinking

2021-02-06 23:13

haHAA

2021-02-07 01:02

2021-02-07 14:13

But doesn't that mean; Boombl4?

2021-02-07 01:44

Zytwo

2021-02-07 02:21

Device, s1mple, zywoo, cerq, cadian, jw All awp players so why do you flame syrson for being confident with a sniper?

2021-02-07 11:13

4 replies

look at their kill % with other weapons hltv.org/stats/players/weapon/7592/devic.. hltv.org/stats/players/weapon/11893/zywo.. hltv.org/stats/players/weapon/7998/s1mpl.. now look at syrson's hltv.org/stats/players/weapon/7266/syrso.. he has more sg kills than ak xd

2021-02-07 16:38

3 replies

LOL, nice stats btw.

2021-02-07 18:17

Yeah why should he play Seth else if he is good with scope? Everybody is allowed to use it

2021-02-08 10:02

Have you watched overpass against nip on Saturday? Then you know he also is good with an!

2021-02-08 10:03

big top1 , xantares top1

2021-02-07 00:27

2021-02-07 21:08

Germans just to strong

Don’t mention the war

2021-02-07 02:58

Yeah there was something with N, but mmmh what could it be.. No.... Nor... Nordic!

2021-02-07 06:39

2021-02-08 13:43

2021-02-07 21:10

go jermens!!!

+1 vamos

nt plopski

The way tizian died on that molotov is a disgrace. And imagine thinking CSGO is a good game. That was absurd fortunately they won the round, but this game is so 🤦‍♂️

much better than Valorant at least

clip please, missed this play

2021-02-06 23:18

clips.twitch.tv/CuriousAdorableAsteriskS.. here you go

2021-02-06 23:28

GabeN STILL IN BETA

2021-02-07 21:07

clips.twitch.tv/WanderingPricklyTruffleK..

2021-02-07 04:57

Nice win

2021-02-06 22:53

BIG day today ggwp.

Great match! Some BIG revenge to 2-0 NiP back and SyrsoN popped off with another insane performance. I think NiP underperformed all-in-all, but BIG shut NiP down with repeated pushes.

Go BIG

2021-02-06 22:57

It is just like ww2,they will demolish everyone till get to the cold lands of Russia (Navi) Not to mention some neighbours will just surrender in no time(not g2 and vitality!)

6 replies

2021-02-06 23:12

If you mention it like this it already happened. G2 and Vitality both lost a final to BIG as they underrated them... But Navi has to lose the first map, then goes on a 2-13 half till a comeback, to really show up the Russian WW2... Not to mention the Americans in form of Liquid who will win 2-0 the next morning due to the low moral of the big players. The only problem is the missing UK part in tier 1 CS...

2021-02-07 06:43

So the swedish like wont play them or some thing then?

2021-02-07 08:49

Nice try kid but they 2-0ed navi twice last year. Also congrats - you wrote the most brainless post of 21 (so far).

2021-02-07 21:05

Forgot about US. Liquid will smash them

2021-02-08 13:44

i guess it will be more like ww1

2021-02-08 14:02

Imagine bettors really thought NiP will win A SECOND TIME OMEGALUL

ez4 xantares

#goBIG

2021-02-06 22:59

Nice one guys, keep it going! #GOBIGORGOHOME

they were so close to their first win in like 3 or something years

2021-02-06 23:03

wat? they aren't close of winning anything

2021-02-06 23:34

When syrsoN #1?

2021-02-06 23:04

syrsoNed

2021-02-06 23:06

lol

Why no highlight on plopskis pistol round overpass?

2021-02-06 23:17

godsoN

2021-02-06 23:29

On to the next #GOBIG

2021-02-06 23:30

EZZZZZZ

2021-02-06 23:32

Big very stronk

2021-02-06 23:39

BIG #1

2021-02-07 00:02

I don't like BIG (mostly because of its cringy, baiter, loser fanbase), but they've been showing great and consistent CS lately...

2021-02-07 00:39

BIG has been improving in all the right areas to make them a viable contender at any tournament. Up until 2019 they were quite poor at winning rounds where it was a 5v4 or 4v5 and also traded poorly (ranked in the middle or bottom in these stats). 2019 they took a huge leap in these and have been steadily climbing to the top. Even their opening kill percentage has increased from the earlier years. Just playing much better fundamental CS when needed or successfully taking chances more. One thing that has been steady since the beginning is their use of nades and even more so flashes. They have always ranked at or near the top in that category for flash assists.

2021-02-07 00:50

If I'm not mistaken they started to succeed when they kicked one or more veteran(s) and got some new faces... Looking good

2021-02-07 01:27

Nice projecting BIG hater - but the only cringe losers I see around are ppl like you lol.

2021-02-07 21:03

nah, the teams I cheer for have real achievements. I really don't care about the team itself, but the fanbase is, again, cringy, delusional and loser. GL around

2021-02-08 13:57

i think you perfectly described the brazilian fanbase ^^

2021-02-08 14:50

My boyz are just too Good

2021-02-07 00:45

whooops

What a flop by NiP on map 1, REZ at 1 - 14 on round 14 lol

2021-02-07 01:13

Yes BIG! WP :-)

2021-02-07 01:42

Can't wait for lans to see if BIG really can play at a top3 level.

2021-02-07 05:34

Wp But i am really impressed with this nip lineup What they have shown is really good if they continue to grow And yes this will be the last year astralis as the best Top 5 teams are almost on the same level And the top 3 is amazingly close to each other

2021-02-07 05:41

aye gg big

2021-02-07 05:42

Nice ))

2021-02-07 07:41

nawwk is a choker.

2021-02-07 07:48

Ztr

2021-02-07 07:49

Well played in that group.

2021-02-07 09:06

2021-02-07 10:06

Rip my stream points nip looked solid against astralis on overpass so i voted for nip to win overpass but big 2 nip 0 Feelsbadman

2021-02-07 10:34

lol I lost my 50k points on BIG to win mirage v NiP =[ Not like we can spend them anyway aha

2021-02-07 10:36

#OMGBIG

2021-02-07 12:23

Obviously

2021-02-07 12:58

ez4big

2021-02-07 13:02

unlucky for Ninjas. They did win 2 and lose 1 why are they just #2? BIG also lost one game

2021-02-07 13:35

That's a huge surprise for me that BIG came first in this group, I expected them to go out maybe even in the last place, and they surprised me a lot. I'm also surprised that NIP made it out of groups, I expected that they won't play bad in this tournament, but this result is still a surprise. GJ from both teams.

2021-02-07 19:06

Pog

2021-02-07 21:02

big was best of 2020, yet astralis was "2020 team of year" according to hltv, yet they played 3/4 of year bad and BIG played whole year good.. is hltv danish owner or something?

2021-02-08 14:20