OG take down BIG in ESL Pro League Season 13

8-3-2021 23:25

The European mixture bounced back from a shocking loss in the DreamHack Masters Spring qualifier with a win over BIG.

The first day of the ESL Pro League Season 13 group stage came to an end with OG, ranked 18th in the world, managing a 2-1 victory over world No.7 BIG,

Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen's men secured the win just one day after crashing out of the DreamHack Masters Spring Closed Qualifier after being upset by Bulgarian side VOYVODA in the second lower bracket round.

The stand-in stood out for OG

The match between BIG and OG was closely contested one for the first two maps, as Overpass and Nuke were split with 16-14 scorelines. The series took a turn on the final map, Inferno, which ended with a resounding 16-6 victory by OG.

In the post-match interview, Aleksib praised their stand-in Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen, who was benched by HEROIC at the end of February. The 22-year-old Dane not only top fragged the series, but according to the in-game leader, provides great communication and energy. However, it is "too early to say" if niko is the long-term solution for OG, he added.

ESL Pro League Season 13Best of 3

BIG

Matchpage

8th March 2021

Overpass

Nuke

Inferno

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	59 - 64	-5	81.6	59.8%	1.00
Florian 'syrsoN' Rische syrsoN	51 - 62	-11	66.5	63.4%	0.90
Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch tiziaN	45 - 61	-16	62.7	63.4%	0.90
Nils 'k1to' Gruhne k1to	50 - 66	-16	74.1	63.4%	0.87
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş XANTARES	48 - 54	-6	60.3	67.1%	0.84

OG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen niko	70 - 50	+20	87.7	74.4%	1.31
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Aleksib	65 - 53	+12	86.5	70.7%	1.19
Mateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewski mantuu	60 - 46	+14	73.5	73.2%	1.18
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså valde	58 - 51	+7	79.0	78.0%	1.14
Issa 'ISSAA' Murad ISSAA	50 - 55	-5	64.1	70.7%	0.97

ESL Pro League Season 13 group A continues on Tuesday with the following schedule:

12:00 FunPlus Phoenix vs. Renegades
15:30 Complexity vs. OG
19:00 BIG vs. HEROIC

GOD NIKO

2021-03-08 23:26

3 replies

expected from fluke BUG

2021-03-08 23:28

1 reply

Silly comment......

2021-03-09 12:34

niko > niko

2021-03-09 06:46

niko good

poor xantares , stop fpl myfriend

2021-03-09 00:30

shouldntve read the previous article for so long

GIKO

Nice

2021-03-08 23:27

jermans malding

turk malding a little harder tho esp if they bench xantares

2021-03-09 00:19

Disband asap

2021-03-08 23:29

niko played really well!

2021-03-08 23:30

issa:)

2021-03-08 23:33

AleksiB interview somewhere?

twitch.tv/videos/941563266?t=12h13m52s

2021-03-09 00:04

Thanks, was good stuff as always!

2021-03-10 10:49

On the match page look at the VOD of 3rd map and then skip to the post-match desk analysis.

2021-03-09 10:46

Gg big lets go OG

2021-03-08 23:34

if big cant beat og, then who they can beat? lmao

17 replies

hey can beat whole shit br scene

2021-03-09 00:13

16 replies

BR 2 MAJORS AUSTRALIA 0 LOLOOLL

2021-03-09 01:07

14 replies

Yeah and how long ago was that?

2021-03-09 07:31

6 replies

Still better than 0 majors

2021-03-09 07:35

Don't listen to that delusional Finn, he has an ENCE flair LMAO

2021-03-09 07:56

4 replies

As if that wasnt obvious joke about Brazilians but ok

2021-03-09 11:27

ENCE flair still makes your joke invalid

2021-03-09 11:28

2 replies

ok natosaphix fan

2021-03-09 13:32

natosaphix is a sexy god literal beastlike monster<3

2021-03-09 14:29

live in the past loser

2021-03-09 08:54

Right now, Aus > Br

2021-03-09 09:34

5 replies

Jks dog

2021-03-09 09:46

How is renegades doing currently against tier 3 team

certainly better than how dogsent and mibr are doing

2021-03-09 16:58

relevant user name

2021-03-09 17:02

relevant flair

2021-03-09 19:21

+111111111

2021-03-09 11:33

Let's go og

2021-03-08 23:35

Imagine lose to a team that lose to Voyvoda.

-ISSA for good lurker . maybe bought ropz until ropz contract ends.

2021-03-08 23:41

Valde is the lurker. They need an entry.

2021-03-09 09:50

liquipedia.net/counterstrike/ISSAA

2021-03-09 14:01

the started from issa is lurker gameplay , are u stupid? valde play as second support riffler then NBK is the primary support.

2021-03-09 14:02

Sorry, where is NBK right now? Saw the dreamhack and EPL matches?

2021-03-09 14:19

dude i thought was change for ISSA not NBK , you didnt understand what i mean. he was say valde is lurker , how lurker doing smoke long and go returned b as position to deff with igl and awpers together and how makes sense nbk is doing literally bad move because they just use nbk as support not entry fragger . aleksib is the one entry fragger and igl , like blameF and now niko join then aleksib can focus igl and support the team . you cant analyst ? nbk was get out for good taste but kick nbk is the worst problem , you think i dont know nbk was benched?

2021-03-09 16:27

Right now, VALDE is the lurker and ISSAA is the entry. If you want to go -ISSAA +lurker, you are switching up Valde's role, even though Valde is playing great right now. SO -ISSAA +entry

2021-03-09 16:29

BUG LMFAO

BIG SAVING STRATS / THROWING FOR CASHHHH

2021-03-08 23:42

2021-03-08 23:44

Niko getting signed soon

2021-03-08 23:45

OG has potential, I would give this roster some time honestly and see how it works, I think it could work out. I think BIG will make changes right after EPL, I mean they are looking dead with this state, I would expect -tiziaN/k1to or even both.

2021-03-08 23:48

tiziaN has well groomed full beard. Keep. k1to has no full beard which is of concern to me. But then again he did a sick dualie ace ( youtube.com/watch?v=ra7s2CxUBq4) Keep.

2021-03-09 00:12

k1to seems useless in this team. He should be benched.

2021-03-09 07:51

-XANTARES is the move. K1to and Tizian provide a tactical and supportive side to the team that Syrson and Xan are supposed to capitalize on, but Xan just doesn't. K1to secondary AWPs and plays the worst spots. -Xan

2021-03-09 09:51

+1 and he seems always so disconnected from the team while playing as if he still has communication problems

2021-03-09 11:29

k1to has pretty bad spots, I agree, but his performance even for those spots is not good enough to be a T1 team again. However I still like the idea of -XANTARES, I don't think he is a good player.

2021-03-09 12:15

wp OG, doing the reverse sweeperino as per ushe.

2021-03-08 23:52

Nice. Lets go OG! #DreamOG

2021-03-08 23:59

#DREAMOG

2021-03-09 11:42

LUL

2021-03-09 00:00

CSGO nowdays lose tier3 mix next day win top5 team

2021-03-09 00:03

Niko has been playing with them just a few days, of course they improve fast in the beginning. Also he is a really good player.

not for 24h

2021-03-09 00:32

Remember that anti-strats exist, VOYVODA are such an unknown quantity for OG especially as a new team compared to BIG

2021-03-09 07:45

well they just made roster change so I would give some slack for that. anyhow winning BIG was well done. Not their best day but win is a win.

2021-03-09 09:52

This! Everyone beats everyone ...

2021-03-09 10:25

zrobil to polak

No BUG no BIG

BIG players are bots, they will lose to Heroic tomorrow

7 replies

1 man spam nice

2021-03-09 00:17

They will ffs. Don't see BIG winning against ANY top20 team right now :D

Top 20 :D You are quite optimistic sir!

2021-03-09 07:57

Considering they beat Astralis etc. not long ago, both of you are just plain stupid. Professional CSGO is pretty close on the top. BIG is inconsistent but they can beat EVERY team if they have a good day. They proved it often enough. But never mind, haters gonna hate...

2021-03-09 12:10

flair checks out lmfao

Well...how long did it take you to think about this genius comment? I know a lot of intelligent and kind finnish people. Your flair doesn't check out.

2021-03-09 13:34

"how long did it take" bruh I responded 5 minutes later, just because I don't sit around HLTV all day doesn't mean it took me 5 minutes to come up with that. A: Get a life and B: Flair checks out!

2021-03-09 14:30

2021-03-09 00:06

BIG news!

Heroic kicked niko so he can make OG GREAT imagine thinking that refresz > niko NEVEEER

2021-03-09 00:21

niko > Niko

2021-03-09 00:40

Lose to Voyvoda, then win BIG Typical tier 3 group, cant say much

2021-03-09 00:43

There will always be upsets when teams haven't watched demos.. It happens.

2021-03-09 01:30

+1 and on top of that recent roster change.

2021-03-09 09:53

+1 and on top of that they're bulgarians

2021-03-09 12:00

What

2021-03-09 00:52

niko might just be what OG lacked with NBK

2021-03-09 01:08

ISSAA is the problem -ISSAA +BnTeT buy BnTeT from EXTREMUM !

2021-03-09 01:18

Their problem already solved -NBK +niko

2021-03-09 01:48

-NBK +niko & -ISSAA +BnTeT

2021-03-09 01:54

BnTeT best polish player Interesting, first person to say BnTeT, it would certainly be a great move!

Mantuu+Bntet Polish duo

2021-03-09 11:15

chemistry 100

2021-03-09 11:32

2021-03-09 11:47

My money is on OG becoming majority Danish. ISSAA is probably the next to be removed

2021-03-09 01:45

replaced by?

issaa is 0.97 but his deagle 3k on nuke won them the game lmao

2021-03-09 09:54

Yeah, I was just wondering what Danish player he had in mind.

2021-03-09 09:56

the only tier1 danish player that plays issaa's role is dupreeh but i dont think he's leaving astralis any time soon

2021-03-09 09:58

u r right, denmark has great material. but i think -ISSAA only if online era continues prolonged, and/or they dont get ISSAA to OG game house. In interview aleksiB said that this is the case.

Issaa can now move away from his country. 1.01 rating against tiers 1 teams with 80-100 ping... cmon guys issaa isnt that bad. And stop believe thorin shit, his comms looks pretty good if you look the last series.

2021-03-09 13:02