Liquid secure ESL Pro League playoff spot

4-9-2021 15:45

TeamOne will go into the final day of play in Group D looking for their first victory.

Liquid have secured a spot in the ESL Pro League playoffs after defeating TeamOne. With this win the North Americans have become the first team from Group D to secure a berth in the playoffs despite being only the second team to hit 9 points ahead of their final group stage match against FURIA.

In an interview after the match, Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip talked about how Liquid have been showing promise with Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo taking over the leadership role again, giving some insight into the new dynamic. "At first, when FalleN came in I wanted to help," the 23-year-old said, "I’m always saying things naturally on-the-fly and trying to say my side.

"This time around I still see a lot of differences, I’ll see FalleN call something but even if I think differently I don’t voice it and let it pan out and see what happens instead of giving my side."

TeamOne on the other hand remain without a win in the round robin stage and were already unable to fight for playoff contention before going into the match against Liquid. Pedro "⁠Maluk3⁠" Campos and his men will have one last chance to avoid the 0-5 club alongside Bad News Bears, Evil Geniuses and G2 when they go up against Entropiq in their final ESL Pro League series this season.

Liquid are now fighting for the best possible seed

It didn’t take long for Liquid to take the lead on Mirage despite starting out 0-3 after losing the first pistol round of the series, as they tied things up by the sixth round and continued to plow their way through the half, giving up just one round before the switch, leading 11-4.

TeamOne took the second pistol round of the map, but were unable to stop Liquid’s second round forcebuy, after which Michael "⁠Grim⁠" Wince and company ramped up the pace. The Brazilian squad put up a final defense to somewhat bridge the gap, but the map ended 16-8.

The first three rounds on Inferno were a scrappy back-and-forth, but it was once again Liquid who showed their superiority despite the early chaos. TeamOne didn’t falter this time around, however, and made a close half of it, getting to within one before going on the attacking side.

TeamOne took the lead for the first time since the start of the map after bagging the three first rounds of the second half, but once again Liquid stabilized in the buy rounds and were able to remain in comfortable control giving up just one of the final nine rounds of play to wrap the series up 16-11.

ESL Pro League Season 14Best of 3

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Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Michael 'Grim' Wince Grim	49 - 28	+21	101.2	76.5%	1.54
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	42 - 29	+13	90.5	66.7%	1.30
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	38 - 27	+11	81.5	78.4%	1.24
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	34 - 27	+7	78.0	74.5%	1.15
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	27 - 23	+4	52.2	76.5%	1.05

TeamOne	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Matheus 'prt' Scuvero prt	37 - 37	0	73.3	60.8%	0.96
Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos Maluk3	26 - 37	-11	60.2	52.9%	0.77
Enzo 'xns' Henrique xns	29 - 39	-10	59.2	66.7%	0.76
Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa malbsMd	24 - 38	-14	58.4	56.9%	0.75
Matheus 'pesadelo' Panisset pesadelo	18 - 39	-21	51.8	54.9%	0.62

The ESL Pro League Group D standings ahead of the final two series of the day are:

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nice

2021-09-04 15:46

ns gl to them

lolo trlotlrotlro

lets fuckin go liquid

hard and competitive group. GJ NA Hope. Better than Astralis, Faze etc..

2021-09-04 15:47

16 replies

How is this a hard or competitive group?

2021-09-04 16:02

6 replies

That was irony my friend.

2021-09-04 16:13

5 replies

Ah My bad

But you are not baiting, wtf

2021-09-04 16:30

You are basing that off from the name value lol

2021-09-04 16:39

Did you mean sarcasm? "Irony" is something totally different lol

2021-09-05 11:38

1 reply

Yeah, you are right, mb. English is not my native language and I confound these two words quite often.

2021-09-07 15:35

Astralis?

2021-09-04 16:31

They are looking better than Astralis, equivalent to FaZe, they almost 2-0'd Gambit, but Sh1ro saved them.

2021-09-04 16:37

Equivalent to faze? Kkkkkk lol

2021-09-04 18:27

shhh my italian friend

2021-09-04 20:32

4 replies

sup budy? I just dont think Liquid and Faze are in the same level. Liquid looking very strong, just Navi, Gambit and Heroic looks like the same level, at least in EPL

2021-09-04 20:34

3 replies

I thought u would mean that faze were better hahah, that's why

2021-09-04 20:36

2 replies

never hahahaha

2021-09-04 20:37

ah ok hahha

2021-09-04 20:40

Honestly faze almost lost to eg. Even oif the group c was the hardest one, you cannot have an excuse every time. Group b was not particularly stacked too. Col in a stand in, sinner

2021-09-04 16:41

:LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NA cs top 1!

TeamOne joining Bad News Bears and G2 in the 0-5 club?

And EG

2021-09-04 15:51

Dont forget our boys over at EG now tho

mb i forgot about EG

2021-09-04 17:47

Dw, you're not the only one who forgets them

2021-09-04 17:58

Oh god

2021-09-04 18:14

this group is a massive joke tbh

2021-09-04 15:48

9 replies

only gambit and liquid (and maybe nip) have looked good

2021-09-04 15:52

If we have a name of the hardest group called: Group of Death What do we call the easiest group? The two good teams in this group is Liquid & Gambit. Can't expect much from Furia given they're using a coach as a stand-in. NIP has been up and down and a consistent inconsistent team.

2021-09-04 15:53

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Group B was the easiest atm. VP not in good shape, Complexity playing without their star rifler and before EPL 14, OG was out in Cologne Play-IN.

2021-09-04 15:58

Ye, an argument could be made that Group B was the weakest, the biggest upset was that G2 went 0 - 5 in the groups. An unexpected showing by them given how they went 2nd place in Cologne.

2021-09-04 16:05

Yeah Mate, G2 were looking super strong before break but they went 0-5 in the group which was probably easiest from them to take 5-0 instead. I would not have been big surprised if they went down like in something like Group C, Although never expected 0-5 from them.

2021-09-04 16:09

NiKo and huNter were fragging out but having Amanek who let's be real is not a world class AWPer and I don't blame him as transitioning from a Rifler to an AWPer is not an easy feat. I know this from personal experience. I think if they get a more consistent AWPer maybe like Smooya? They probably wouldn't have lost the way they did. Jackz was the primary entry of the team and he sets huNter up for success. So, I'll give him some slack since he's playing the bitchiest role in his team.

Agree For Sure.

2021-09-04 16:17

love smooya. Want him to get picked up by a top team. Also it’s a shame this group wasn’t very competitive when it def could’ve been (FURIA no stand in). FURIA, TL, NIP, and Gambit are all good teams. NIP has been a bit shaky but have also faced tough opponents early on + Liquid is on fire

2021-09-04 19:57

Yes, Liquid has shown to be a strong force ever since Stewie handed back the IGL role to FalleN. That being said, I think if G2 continues performing the way they do, I think it could be a good thing not that i hate G2, but because they could pick-up Smooya who has played in Tier 1 counter strike before and definitely have played better than Amanek. But we'll see what they do.

2021-09-05 03:51

Ez Clap

2021-09-04 15:50

Nice well done liquid

Grim popped off especially in Mirage

surprised it went this easy, good job)

2021-09-04 16:10

15 replies

yes mens))))

2021-09-04 17:05

14 replies

your time to shine, finally?

2021-09-04 17:08

13 replies

i doubt they will win, but I know TL will bring a show :D

2021-09-04 17:10

12 replies

dont want to be rude but, i dont think they have a chance))

2021-09-04 17:13

11 replies

Well I do

2021-09-04 17:14

10 replies

Against who ?

2021-09-04 17:16

everyone except heroic, gambit or navi

2021-09-04 17:20

8 replies

And navi?

2021-09-04 17:18

i forgor

2021-09-04 17:19

And nip?)) sweet revenge mens

2021-09-04 18:18

not really

2021-09-04 18:47

Device just did not have a good day

2021-09-05 09:30

they were a few sh1ro's clutches away from 2-0'ing Gambit btw

2021-09-04 18:49

you never know, they might bounce back. But yeah it was super close

2021-09-04 18:51

they have a chance against all of those teams heroic they beat at iem global challenge(albeit 9 months ago with a diff roster but they can hang with gambit so they can hang with heroic) they just made the gambit game nearly as close as it can be and they match up well against navi historically even if they were better ranked than them

2021-09-04 18:56

Boring group

2021-09-04 16:44

#LETSGOLIQUID

Really? Here is my case: If Entropiq wins vs Gambit and Team one, Entropiq 9 points. If furia wins vs NIP today and beats Liquid by 2-0 , Furia 9 points. Gambit wins vs NIP. Gambit 12 points, NIP 6 points Final standings: Gambit qualifies by 12 points. Liquid, Furia and Entropiq 9 points NIP 6 points Teamone 0 points. 3 way tiebreaker on Liquid, Furia and Entropiq Where H2H map difference will be +0 for all three teams. It will go to H2H round difference.

2021-09-04 17:26

it will go overall map difference then and Liquid 2-0'ed 3 teams + won 1 map vs Gambit, so they'll have the best difference

2021-09-04 18:53

1. Points amassed between the tied participants (direct match win > direct match loss) 2. Map difference between the tied participants (3:2 maps > 3:3 maps) 3. Number of map wins between the tied participants (3:3 maps > 2:2 maps) 4. Overall map difference 5. Overall number of map wins 6. Round score difference between the tied participants (23:21 > 23:22) 7. Number of round wins between the tied participants (24:22 > 23:21) 8. Overall round score difference (39:31 > 40:33) 9. Overall number of round wins (40:32 > 39:31) since 1/2/3 are tied, we go to 4 in which Liquid has a MD of +3(3 2-0's, 1 1-2, and 1 0-2) which would be more than both entropiq and furia who would have +2 at max and +2 at max respectively

2021-09-04 19:01