Spirit eliminate NAVI from EPIC League CIS; Virtus.pro move past Entropiq

28-5-2021 21:29

The CIS powerhouse Natus Vincere was handed an early exit from the Regional Major Ranking (RMR) tournament, placing 5-6th after a 2-0 defeat in the lower bracket.

Spirit and Virtus.pro will meet in the lower bracket final of EPIC League CIS 2021 after handing 2-0 defeats to Natus Vincere and Entropiq, respectively. The two eliminated teams have placed 5-6th and earned 1150 RMR points, while the eventual winner will claim 1600.

"Terrible performance of the whole team," Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev commented on Twitter after a tournament-eliminating series in which he was the only one to post an above-average rating for Natus Vincere. A loss to Akuma on Monday that put them in the lower bracket proved to be quite costly for the "Black and Yellow", as an uninspired performance against Spirit brings their run at the first RMR tournament of 2021 to an early end.

sdy keeps showing up for Spirit in EPIC League CIS

The two teams were neck-and-neck on Mirage for a large chunk of the map, with little to separate the two. Spirit's best performer of the tournament so far, Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev, continued his good showing in this playoff match and ended up being the difference-maker on Natus Vincere's pick with a 1.43 rating, edging out the map in his team's favor 16-12.

Natus Vincere got off to a decent start on the CT side of Dust2, 3-1, but the entries secured by sdy and Nikolay "⁠mir⁠" Bityukov put them on the back foot shortly. Spirit grabbed momentum and ran up a 10-5 half-time lead which was extened to 14-6 thanks to a pistol round and clean conversions. A comeback proved to be too tall of a task for Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov and co., who ultimately fell 16-8 on Dust2 and suffered a 2-0 defeat for the series.

The other series started well for Entropiq, who went up 5-2 on the Terrorist side of Dust2 before Virtus.pro took control of proceedings on their map pick. Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali, Timur "⁠buster⁠" Tulepov, and Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis were leading the charge as the favorites turned things around to win the map 16-10. The momentum was carried on to Overpass where Virtus.pro got 8-2 up straight out of the gates, taking the map 16-7 to eliminate Entropiq in 5-6th place.

EPIC League CIS 2021Best of 3

Natus Vincere

Matchpage

28th May 2021

Spirit

Mirage

Dust2

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	45 - 39	+6	93.1	67.3%	1.19
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	30 - 38	-8	69.1	82.7%	0.99
Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Perfecto	30 - 33	-3	64.1	76.9%	0.98
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy b1t	26 - 40	-14	60.4	65.4%	0.76
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov Boombl4	24 - 37	-13	59.9	57.7%	0.73

Spirit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev sdy	43 - 29	+14	84.8	84.6%	1.35
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov mir	40 - 31	+9	89.6	75.0%	1.31
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev magixx	34 - 33	+1	70.0	78.8%	1.16
Abdul 'degster' Gasanov degster	34 - 27	+7	68.9	69.2%	1.13
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov chopper	36 - 36	0	76.1	76.9%	1.08

EPIC League CIS 2021Best of 3

Entropiq

Matchpage

28th May 2021

Virtus.pro

Dust2

Overpass

Entropiq	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev Lack1	30 - 38	-8	74.4	65.3%	0.96
Aleksei 'El1an' Gusev El1an	32 - 33	-1	62.9	63.3%	0.94
Aleksei 'NickelBack' Trofimov NickelBack	26 - 34	-8	60.9	71.4%	0.90
Igor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy Forester	29 - 38	-9	69.3	61.2%	0.84
Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko Krad	24 - 36	-12	61.4	55.1%	0.71

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	42 - 22	+20	84.6	77.6%	1.40
Timur 'buster' Tulepov buster	41 - 24	+17	90.8	79.6%	1.36
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis YEKINDAR	38 - 42	-4	95.4	73.5%	1.20
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	30 - 28	+2	61.1	69.4%	0.97
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev SANJI	28 - 28	0	65.4	69.4%	0.92

why s0mple so bad?

2021-05-28 21:29

6 replies

s0mple retire

4 replies

Coldzere retired with Fantic / OG at the first round of lower Bracket in Flashpoint3

2021-05-28 21:45

3 replies

wtf not always love

2021-05-28 23:36

2 replies

What should you love?

2021-05-28 23:44

1 reply

im saying that u do not always love everyone despit ur nickname and instead were toxic to the guy above

2021-05-29 09:41

says the country full of washups trying to take over NA

2021-05-29 00:16

good for spirit

GGWP!

2021-05-28 21:30

7 replies

GGWP mens)))

2021-05-28 21:31

Ggwp

2021-05-28 21:50

5 replies

#sadforheidashuai

2021-05-29 04:05

Hi, you going to watch extremum game?

if its going to map 3 maybe I can watch the 3rd game, still at work now

2021-05-29 04:07

cool, go extremum :D

2021-05-29 04:08

and also if they have like tech pause and overtime, I can join lol

2021-05-29 04:09

sdy best ukrainian player

+1 no doubts xd

2021-05-28 21:32

+1 but tbh there isn't much competition

There is some though. I heard that SENSEi guy is good maybe... Not many other candidates though.

2021-05-28 23:42

There isnt much competetion for s1mple's level even on the world class level, Ukraine has a lot of talents. Literally any of them > Tabsen

2021-05-29 00:19

2021-05-28 21:33

sdy best but zeus goat 4sure

2021-05-28 21:49

2021-05-28 22:20

s1mple needs to leave the CIS. This team won’t come close to winning a major.

8 replies

Will the major be held online? No, the next rmr will be lan, so navi already classified the major and legendary

+1 NaVi is doomed. S1mple is wasting his time and prime days there

They might not even qualify if they keep playing like this. There are only 5 spots for Gambit, NaVi, VP, Spirit, Entropiq, forZe and Akuma

2021-05-28 21:36

No, they will definitely qualify, for navi to not qualify, every team has to shit the bed like vp, gambit and spirit and forze to win the next event

2021-05-28 21:46

Navi already got the legend status what u on about

2021-05-28 21:53

How??

2021-05-29 01:38

Bruh. 2020 RMR is almost reset. They are not legends anymore

2021-05-29 04:15

Please remind simple not to play the COD again

2021-05-29 03:49

NAVI WTF???

Fixed.

2021-05-29 09:17

GOD MIR TOP 5 2021

GGWP Spirit really good players, also very interestink personalities cya later <3

AKUMA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

GgWpZ4Spirit!

Expected

2021-05-28 21:34

Spirit and NAVI have both Legends spots rn ez

2021-05-28 21:35

VP so inconsistent

Novy wat r u doin

unlucko entropiq((

2021-05-28 21:39

rip sosanya

2021-05-28 21:57

expected navi tier 2

Expected. Navi complete garbage. Flamie > boombla

2021-05-28 22:06

Navi should get KANE back as the coach

2021-05-28 22:11

who cars rmr

2021-05-28 22:15

This always happens to navi hahaha, they start to look good, win a tournament then fail miserably soon after

2021-05-28 22:28

classic navi

2021-05-28 23:17

Disappointing performance from navi as a whole

2021-05-28 23:25

Entropiq caught lakc1ng

2021-05-28 23:31

Navi in such a slump rn, will bounce back sooner than later though.

2021-05-28 23:49

Spirit is looking great, they are stable TOP 10 for me. NaVi is a really good team, but Spirit looked better today. For VP I think it's clear now that SANJI has to go, I mean, he is the support but as I said before his performance is incredibly bad lately. Entropiq looked really good before this game, and I expected them to win this one, I'm surprised they didn't, I honestly thought that they have good chances of winning the whole thing.

2021-05-29 00:10

It was clear VP was much more prepared and serious today. Sanji is not the biggest problem, the whole team is in a slump including Yekindar and Jame. All 5 are very unstable. And I forgot when Qikert had 2 good performances in a row. As for Spirit, they are from their form at the beginning of the year. Na’vi is the same as always, only s1mple cannot carry the whole team anymore if they all don’t show up.

2021-05-29 06:16

Inconsistency is a huge problem for this team. As for NaVi Boombl4 is stepping up really well lately, he is making a lot of space for his teammates, but when he doesn't show up, and other boys from NaVi don't, s1mple won't win alone, I agree.

2021-05-29 17:36