G2 oust Virtus.pro from DreamHack Masters Spring, advance to quarter-finals

1-5-2021 22:32

The Kovač cousins starred for their team to help G2 clinch a playoffs spot.

G2 have eliminated Virtus.pro from DreamHack Masters Spring following a 2-0 victory in Group A's lower bracket final, securing a spot in the quarter-finals. In the first round of the playoffs, the Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković-led side will face the losing side from tomorrow's Group B upper bracket final between Astralis and HEROIC on Friday.

Virtus.pro took control of Vertigo early on, courtesy of triples from Aleksei "⁠Qikert⁠" Golubev and a 2v4 retake on the B bombsite spearheaded by Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis, but despite the CIS-based side amassing an 8-1 lead on the CT side the map wasn't quite as decided as it would seem.

G2 are through to playoffs at DreamHack Masters

nexa's 1v2 clutch and a couple of close afterplant round wins gave the French-Balkan squad a way back in, and after halftime they went on to dominate on the CT side, where Audric "⁠JACKZ⁠" Jug denying Qikert a 1v3 attempt helped G2 drive the map home late.

nexa's squad put together another impressive defense when the series turned to Inferno, with Nemanja "⁠huNter-⁠" Kovač's triple in the pistol round and François "⁠amanek⁠" Delaunay's 1v2 clutch helped deny Virtus.pro early ground. Two more clutches from nexa soon saw G2 claim a 13-2 half and secure the series after some early struggles in the second half.

DreamHack Masters Spring 2021Best of 3

Virtus.pro

Matchpage

1st May 2021

Vertigo

Inferno

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	41 - 39	+2	74.5	78.8%	1.11
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	39 - 32	+7	67.8	73.1%	1.07
Timur 'buster' Tulepov buster	36 - 41	-5	81.2	73.1%	1.02
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev SANJI	26 - 36	-10	59.3	76.9%	0.85
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis YEKINDAR	25 - 43	-18	58.4	63.5%	0.73

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	54 - 36	+18	113.2	80.8%	1.52
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač huNter-	44 - 32	+12	85.1	76.9%	1.27
Audric 'JACKZ' Jug JACKZ	34 - 37	-3	74.7	73.1%	1.09
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	31 - 32	-1	64.9	67.3%	1.00
François 'amanek' Delaunay amanek	27 - 30	-3	49.9	73.1%	0.89

2021-05-01 22:32

Strong NiKo and Hunter tonight

4 replies

The force is strong in this two

2021-05-01 22:34

Nikola and Nemanja too stronk

2021-05-02 03:31

2 replies

Love your name!

2021-05-02 09:16

Not a G2 fan but i gotta agree with your name, Hunter is gonna be top 10 this year if he keeps playing like this

2021-05-02 16:05

2021-05-01 22:33

EZ4GODNIKO

Finally onliners are being put to their place

9 replies

2021-05-01 22:48

Don't say like that, VP had some flamboyant enjoyable games.

2021-05-01 23:00

??? Respect previous major finalists

2021-05-01 23:01

1 reply

no adren = no major

2021-05-02 00:17

Yekindar had bad day. That's all

2021-05-01 23:08

Yekindar is looking way too good, that's why they are getting these results rn, and he is able to play like that cuz it's online, same with shiro and nafany and axile on gambit

2021-05-02 09:50

I think sh1ro and ax1le are a different case than yekindar. They play kinda smart. They remind me of s1mple and electronic.

2021-05-02 15:15

That Core was on a major final as AVANGAR

Yeah but back then they didn't have a player called yekindar emerging from fpl to look like prime Niko x2

2021-05-02 09:49

113 avg adr on 2 maps, NiKo is back baby

Hopefully G2 can win some tournaments now

2021-05-01 22:37

Oust?

verb: drive out or expel (someone) from a position or place.

2021-05-02 08:06

Thank you, kind sir!

2021-05-02 08:39

Only star player with no baiting required. Niko, still the best rifle

3 replies

Elige also same huge adr and impact without bait

2021-05-01 22:49

Yeah true Elige <3

2021-05-02 08:37

Elige >

2021-05-02 03:16

Love to see G2 doing well

2021-05-01 22:38

yekindar exposed

2021-05-01 22:39

His hyper aggressive playstyle was gonna be figured out sooner or later

2021-05-01 22:40

g2 stronk

2021-05-01 22:41

6 replies

youtube.com/watch?v=0tUUe7Y29To&ab_chann..

2021-05-01 22:47

5 replies

Didn’t even need to click to know that link Shame they removed the original with that accordion guy

What shame? Some disgusting right wingers were writing awful comments celebrating nz mosque attacks, so yt did the right thing.

2021-05-02 00:42

Fk off disgusting censorship is never the right approach to a problem

2021-05-02 00:53

deplatforming hate speech is easily the best solution to that problem

2021-05-02 05:20

2021-05-01 23:11

veri nyas

2021-05-01 22:42

no nexa no party

NiKo GOAT rifler so fucking ez

2021-05-01 23:03

So sad for YEKINDAR, those haters really made him lose his confidence.

2021-05-01 23:04

If a pro player starts to lose confidence just coz of some random haters online, then it's a shame. Dont worry he only had a bad day.

2021-05-01 23:10

What happened?

2021-05-01 23:17

During Katowice and after, he was getting spammed in twitter replies with cheating accusations.

2021-05-02 00:58

Maybe he stopped cheatinkk?

2021-05-02 00:59

i dunno, if sometime it will appear as truth, i'll never follow that kid. But, he was insane at the beginning of the year.

2021-05-02 01:01

why blame "haters"?? he just had a bad game zoomer spotted

2021-05-01 23:27

No, it's just a bad game, everyone has them. Look at s1mple ZywOo occasionally. You don't need to make excuses when none is necessary.

2021-05-02 00:55

Recent results are slumpy for VP, because YEKINDAR stopped making those entry frags that he was making consistently. I wish he returns his beast form, it was pretty fun to see all those triggered Liquid-Astralis kids accusing him cheating.

2021-05-02 01:02

I completely agree with you but we have no idea if YEKINDAR's occasional off games are directly related to these accusations; as like you stated, it's hilarious seeing how daft some of the witch-hunts are. If you are so good you get accused of being a cheater in a more direct fashion, that is a mark of pride, not a mark of sorrow. Yes, different pros will handle it differently and YEKINDAR is still young but if YEKINDAR knows he isn't cheating, he has nothing to prove and therefore shouldn't react personally to this. Until we have more resolute answers, I don't think the slump in form is directly related to this, friend.

2021-05-02 02:02

EZ!

Ousted

2021-05-01 23:31

2021-05-01 23:41

n00bs destroyed n00bs and onliners

2021-05-01 23:42

Yekindar;(((((

Yekindar not fragging it's an auto lose for vp. They rely 100% on him.

2021-05-01 23:55

2021-05-02 00:01

The Bosnian duo carry G2 SO HARD!!

2021-05-02 00:04

Yekindar is not good anymore

2021-05-02 00:43

Wtf I went to friends when VP was winning 8-2 or something on Vertigo, wtf happened

2021-05-02 00:50

This is the G2 we've been waiting to see.

JONTYYYY I'VE BEEN WAITING TO SEE YOU

Hope Yekindar can recover !

2021-05-02 02:48

Leeeetsgooo! Edit: Have a good day!

2021-05-02 03:07

I hope they upset stronger teams in play-offs. #G2Army

2021-05-02 03:32

Nice

2021-05-02 07:50

G2 back on track good to see :)

2021-05-02 08:08

Let's go G2. the koVACs doing the usual shit.

2021-05-02 10:37

Poor yekindar, if he don't get multiple entrys then virtus lose

2021-05-02 10:54

niko & hunter are dangerous !

2021-05-02 13:44

Well G2 still struggless a lot with the lack of an AWPer, but win is a win, GJ by them. Idk. what's going on with VP but they lost the thing that was working for them, getting map control early on and then slowing down, now they get countered, they make a lot of mistakes, and it just doesn't work.

2021-05-02 15:40