Liquid take down Endpoint in ESL Pro League

Three teams at the top and three teams at the bottom are tied in Group D ahead of the last two rounds of matches.

Liquid have toppled Endpoint in a two-map affair (Inferno 16-12, Vertigo 16-9) at the end of day three in Group D of ESL Pro League Season 13 to secure their second victory and tie Astralis and Virtus.pro for first place in the round-robin. The European side now sits among two teams, Evil Geniuses and fnatic, at the bottom of the group with a 1-2 record as the fight for the last three playoffs spots is beginning to tense up.

Endpoint chose their favorite Inferno for the series opener and went on to give Liquid a run for their money after having defeated fnatic on the same map on the previous day. Joey "⁠CRUC1AL⁠" Steusel & co. weren't successful this time, but they still made it a close affair despite a great performance from Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic in the first half.

Liquid will next face North American rivals EG

The North American side eventually pulled away when they were up 9-8 on the back of an Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski quad-kill, and although Endpoint's resilience kept them in the map for a while up against seven map points, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo snatched the last round away with a flashy 1v3 clutch on the B bombsite.

It was a similar story on Vertigo. Endpoint looked competitive when they were on the T side, coming back from a 1-5 deficit early with a strong run towards the end of the half to come out on top 8-7, but the map flipped on its head when the sides swapped. Winning heads-up fights in a big commotion near the B stairs in the pistol round, Liquid seized the momentum on the CT side and survived a couple of close rounds up against low weaponry, rallying to a 16-9 victory with a strong A ramp defense.

ESL Pro League Season 13Best of 3

Endpoint

Matchpage

0

2

27th March 2021

Liquid

12

Inferno

16

9

Vertigo

16

Endpoint	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Joey 'CRUC1AL' SteuselCRUC1AL	40 - 34	+6	74.0	66.0%	1.09
Shahar 'flameZ' ShushanflameZ	38 - 37	+1	72.3	67.9%	1.00
Robin 'robiin' Sjögrenrobiin	31 - 41	-10	81.4	64.2%	0.94
Kia 'Surreal' ManSurreal	24 - 36	-12	61.8	69.8%	0.81
Max 'MiGHTYMAX' HeathMiGHTYMAX	18 - 41	-23	47.2	56.6%	0.61

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF	46 - 28	+18	89.8	71.7%	1.34
Jake 'Stewie2K' YipStewie2K	42 - 34	+8	87.1	75.5%	1.30
Jonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEliGE	37 - 30	+7	80.5	79.2%	1.27
Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFalleN	37 - 29	+8	69.2	81.1%	1.20
Michael 'Grim' WinceGrim	26 - 32	-6	55.7	69.8%	0.89

Two more rounds are left to be played as the group is split in half, with the top three teams at a 2-1 record and the bottom three at 1-2:

Group D

TEAM

M

P

Liquid

3

6

Astralis

3

6

Virtus.pro

3

6

Evil Geniuses

3

3

Endpoint

3

3

fnatic

3

3