G2 advance to IEM Cologne playoffs, Virtus.pro come back to send Complexity packing

10-7-2021 03:04

G2 will face off against Gambit on Sunday for a direct berth in the semi-finals.

G2 have advanced to the Group A upper bracket final on the back of a dominant victory over BIG in the second round, securing a spot in the IEM Cologne playoffs already ahead of their final group stage match against Gambit. Over in the lower bracket, Virtus.pro have ousted Complexity from the tournament after coming back from the brink of elimination on map two.

Complexity are the second team to exit the main event early after MOUZ were eliminated at the hands of Liquid during the second day. The European side around Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer will have a tough time accepting the loss after they were up 1-0 in the series and led 15-10 on Dust2, only to see the CIS squad come back to win in overtime and clinch the series in close fashion on Overpass.

The Kovačs have continued to lead the way for G2

Virtus.pro have moved on to the second round of the Group A lower bracket, setting up a matchup against Ninjas in Pyjamas scheduled for Saturday at 20:00 . G2 will have the next day off before they meet the current No.1 side in a match that will determine who goes to the quarter-finals and who advances directly to the semi-finals, on Sunday at 16:45 .

BIG entered their affair with G2 on the right foot, locking down their Dust2 pick without too much trouble while Florian "⁠syrsoN⁠" Rische made light work of François "⁠amanek⁠" Delaunay in the battle of the AWPs. Things quickly went awry for the German side, however, with amanek recovering from the atrocious display on the first map to help his team pull off clinical performances on Mirage and Inferno.

In the lower bracket series, Complexity seemed to have everything in their hands up until the point when they could not convert a 15-10 lead on the second map, Dust2, and conceded the series point in overtime. To make matters worse, the European squad missed out on another chance to close the best-of-three on Overpass, with a near full-eco round victory swinging the momentum towards Virtus.pro and helping Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali & co. clinch a hard-earned win late into the night.

IEM Cologne 2021Best of 3

Matchpage

9th July 2021

BIG

Dust2

Mirage

Inferno

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	46 - 29	+17	83.7	73.8%	1.31
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković nexa	40 - 31	+9	80.5	73.8%	1.22
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač huNter-	48 - 40	+8	86.0	72.1%	1.19
Audric 'JACKZ' Jug JACKZ	40 - 38	+2	70.7	77.0%	1.15
François 'amanek' Delaunay amanek	35 - 33	+2	55.9	65.6%	1.02

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Florian 'syrsoN' Rische syrsoN	36 - 41	-5	60.4	60.7%	0.92
Nils 'k1to' Gruhne k1to	40 - 45	-5	76.9	67.2%	0.92
Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch tiziaN	33 - 39	-6	63.3	63.9%	0.84
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş XANTARES	32 - 43	-11	69.0	67.2%	0.83
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	23 - 43	-20	57.8	60.7%	0.68

IEM Cologne 2021Best of 3

Complexity

Matchpage

9th July 2021

Virtus.pro

Mirage

Dust2

Overpass

Complexity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer blameF	69 - 47	+22	86.7	71.8%	1.31
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	53 - 48	+5	72.5	70.6%	1.06
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	53 - 54	-1	72.4	68.2%	1.03
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	45 - 48	-3	55.6	76.5%	0.96
Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev poizon	47 - 50	-3	67.7	71.8%	0.95

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	55 - 46	+9	73.2	74.1%	1.14
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	62 - 57	+5	84.6	70.6%	1.13
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis YEKINDAR	58 - 57	+1	77.3	64.7%	1.12
Timur 'buster' Tulepov buster	40 - 46	-6	51.0	62.4%	0.85
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev SANJI	30 - 62	-32	46.4	58.8%	0.60

pog

2021-07-10 03:05

7 replies

I knew VP would win coL disband lmao

It's my fault col lost

2021-07-10 03:57

5 replies

It's okay. <3

2021-07-10 04:05

4 replies

Thank you, but I don't feel like it is.

2021-07-10 04:15

Not a damn thing about what's been going on with these games hosted on twitch, the rocket launches or my life, is okay.

2021-07-10 04:30

2 replies

What???

2021-07-10 04:52

What

2021-07-10 07:17

is it a revival of NA CS or just a surge?

Surge probs they got lucky

2021-07-10 03:10

What NA CS really? Only Liquid who has always been there, CoL isn't NA (1 NA guy lol). Its been SA( south America) > NA for a long time

2021-07-10 12:09

BaitF 1.31 and still losing, impossible..

2021-07-10 03:06

Cologne was a success in his book, got some nice stats out of it

2021-07-10 03:07

Yep 75% kills on VP when they eco

2021-07-10 03:33

Lmaooo +1

2021-07-10 10:39

XD baitF rekted

2021-07-10 11:02

Lmao

2021-07-10 18:53

Col was leading 15-10 on Dust2. Sloppy report writing without watching games or caring to properly check the stats.

2021-07-10 03:09

Col lost that match because I "willed" vp to win so I could see the teams play overpass.

2021-07-10 04:07

1 reply

Wow dude, you are a fault then... Holy, if only you didn't want them to lose dust2, col would have won... F you for making them play bad and throw just cause you wanted to see a 3rd map!

2021-07-10 08:11

DISBAND COL PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

2021-07-10 03:12

Man, that's so heartbreaking for CoL. That match started 3-4 hours late because of how ridiculously long Liquid vs mouz took. It's fine to go to quad OT sometimes but the breaks in between were just kinda too long. 5 hours for 3 maps... Complexity and VP were playing until almost 3 AM local time and production was going for more than 12 hours, that's just insane. Something needs to be done but I'm not sure if anything CAN be done.

It's how schedule works sadly. Only two matches at the same time and if first ones go full 3-mapper with OTs, last match will be played at night,

2021-07-10 03:15

Yeah.. man fucking sucks, if they could've rescheduled they definitely should have. Sadly i don't think they could've

2021-07-10 03:21

All 6 matches must be played because sponsor contracts. Cruel as fuck

2021-07-10 04:58

Stop getting excuses, coL sucked, cry rich NA boy, BnB sucked as well

2021-07-10 12:12

Why don't start one game in the morning, like 9:30-11:30.

2021-07-10 12:25

-32 fel! I know he's a team player and all but some other guy has to double lift because of his inability to defend himself or get a kill on the offense. This little man ain't built for the tier 1.

I had a strong feeling that it was a set up but I thought I could handle it. Obviously not. I apologize to col and their fans.

2021-07-10 04:20

U did what u wanted dude, we can't blame on u that VP plays just one more match before disband/changes in the roaster

2021-07-10 09:33

Ez4CircusPros lets go baby, we going to make quick work of NIP tomorrow.

2021-07-10 03:36

Sanji - ultimate passenger bot!

GJ VP

2021-07-10 07:32

16-1 16-4 shheeeesh

2021-07-10 08:40

Another powerful comeback from VP on Dust2. Sanji is bad

2021-07-10 10:21

losing to VP KEKW

2021-07-10 10:45

big 16-1 16-4 omegalul xD

2021-07-10 11:03

sanji is so bad

2021-07-10 11:10

Elimination game and map, ur up 5-0 as ct on a defensive map which ut opponents isnt even good at, still u manage to lose 5v3 not only once but two rounds in a row which later on leads to 6-9 half and a lost map. Im genuinly baffled that some of these guys are paid to play this game, and alot of money aswell. Like what are the owners of these organisations thinking when they see their teams do shit like this?

2021-07-10 14:56