Gambit through to PGL Major playoffs after sweeping NIP

1-11-2021 17:24

Four Gambit members will play their first Major playoffs after advancing with a 3-1 record.

The Avicii Arena will host Gambit as they secured themselves a ticket to the Champions stage after taking down Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0. Vladislav "⁠nafany⁠" Gorshkov's squad came into the series with victories over ENCE and regional rivals Virtus.pro and are now ready to prove their worth on the biggest stage in CS:GO.

Ninjas in Pyjamas will have one last chance to qualify for the playoffs of the Major as they fall to the 2-2 pool. The home heroes went flawless on the first day of the Legends stage against Astralis and MOUZ but have now lost two best-of-three series in a row, the first of which was against Natus Vincere on Sunday.

sh1ro was on another level this series with a 1.66 rating and 100.6 ADR

We witnessed a really strong start for Ninjas in Pyjamas on Gambit's map pick of Dust2. The Swedes played a proactive CT side, catching the CIS squad off guard and enabling Fredrik "⁠REZ⁠" Sterner to go ballistic with 19 frags in an 11-4 half. It was a completely different story after switching sides as Gambit and Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov came alive on the defense, shutting down the Swedish T side and taking the map 16-13.

nafany's team gave us another dominant CT side on Inferno. The 11-4 half was marked by a flawless pistol round from Gambit and Ninjas in Pyjamas's failure to gain any traction on the offense. The Swedes were unable to recreate their opponents' comeback on the previous map as Gambit swiftly closed the map 16-6, taking the series 2-1.

PGL Major Stockholm 2021Best of 3

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Matchpage

1st November 2021

Gambit

Dust2

Inferno

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	39 - 37	+2	82.6	68.6%	1.11
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	33 - 34	-1	60.8	64.7%	0.90
Nicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora Plopski	24 - 38	-14	64.1	60.8%	0.77
Hampus 'hampus' Poser hampus	23 - 39	-16	58.1	51.0%	0.62
Linus 'LNZ' Holtäng LNZ	16 - 38	-22	34.5	56.9%	0.50

Gambit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov sh1ro	51 - 23	+28	100.6	90.2%	1.66
Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov nafany	43 - 33	+10	93.6	78.4%	1.34
Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov Ax1Le	38 - 29	+9	79.0	80.4%	1.29
Timofey 'interz' Yakushin interz	28 - 23	+5	54.2	76.5%	1.03
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov HObbit	26 - 29	-3	57.6	78.4%	1.01

The group now looks as follows:

Group Legends Stage

3W - 0L

Natus Vincere

3W - 1L

Gambit

FURIA

2W - 1L

2W - 2L

1W - 2L

1W - 3L

0W - 3L

ez4navi

2021-11-01 17:25

nice

2021-11-01 17:26

man my pickem(

2 replies

imagine not picking Gambit smh

2021-11-01 17:29

1 reply

i did but point is different

2021-11-01 17:30

Expected from the LAN proven team, welcome to TOP 8 at the major! GG

Ppl said its not possible lol

2021-11-01 17:27

best albania user

2021-11-01 23:12

Nice. Let's Go Gambit.

LETS GOOOOOO

2021-11-01 17:28

Im scared for NIP atm..

Same, kinda was feeling it before this match

2021-11-01 17:33

rip

Gambit is back bois. Only they can stop Navi

3 replies

2021-11-01 17:50

indeed, just Gambit that can stop Navi now, hope they meet at grand final not before

2021-11-02 01:54

Yaa it would be fun to watch them in grand final

2021-11-02 08:48

GAMBIT OFFLINERS LUL

2021-11-01 17:31

5 replies

they could never do this online bro.

2021-11-01 17:45

4 replies

hahahah

2021-11-01 17:53

Glad people are getting the joke which is good :)

Axaxaxaxaaxa, good one

2021-11-01 17:59

Hahaha

2021-11-01 18:15

BOTS in PIJAMAS EZ 4 GAMGOD

Young gods+Hobb1t wise veteran

2021-11-01 17:36

Gambit just good offliners don't worry about it.

@rizoolini taking the series 2-0

2021-11-01 17:46

Kick LNZ ASAP, this guy is a scrub.

Two faced Device is nothing without the clutch master xyp9x and big brain glaive. Nuf said

2021-11-01 17:48

Gambit will win this major.

6 replies

it's not online major dude

2021-11-01 18:12

So ?

2021-11-01 18:27

so no chances for GamBOTS, covid online team

2021-11-02 07:18

They beat NIP twice on LAN, you kotakbas

2021-11-02 08:33

> NiP

2021-11-02 08:34

Top2 EU team rn

2021-11-02 08:41

Gratz

It's really unfortunate that both LNZ and Plopski have been so underwhelming. Granted, REZ hasn't shown up at this event at all, but still. LNZ has been practically useless...

2021-11-01 17:51

CIS looking like an absolute powerhouse rn. I wouldn't be suprised if the GF was NaVi vs. Gambit (if they end up on the opposite side of the brackets, that is).

2021-11-01 18:05

that's not nip

2021-11-01 18:16

GG. Surprised NIP didn't put up more of a fight tbh. Hope Gambit gets stronger going forward in this major...

2021-11-01 18:21

Sh1ro Very good omg Dev1ce x 9

2021-11-01 20:55

Now they look like Gambit, hopped back into thie winning mindset and form, just in time for the playoffs

2021-11-01 23:07

I think NiP has to go all in. Plopski was a talent, WAS a talent, he is still t3 and NiP is trying so hard to give him a chance. Linus can join Ambulace Anonymous, since he knows how to deal with getting fucked in the face every game and still laugh on the way to the bank. Cool that device got rid of the toxic org in Astralis but sad he chose NiP (infamous for being the shittiest org there ever has been) because a fucking girlfriend.

2021-11-01 23:11

"The Swedes were unable to recreate their opponents' comeback on the previous map as Gambit swiftly closed the map 16-6, taking the series 2-1." It was 2-0 not 2-1

2021-11-02 02:00