MAD Lions, forZe round out DreamHack Open November playoffs

12-11-2021 22:20

Upsets saw MOUZ and ENCE knocked out in the final group stage matches.

MAD Lions and FORZE made it through the final day of group stage play at DreamHack Open November to assure their passage to the playoffs, where they will meat up with BIG and fnatic, while leaving MOUZ and ENCE out in the cold.

MOUZ started out the tournament showing shaky form with a 1-2 loss against MAD Lions in their opener before bouncing back to fend off elimination on the second day of play against GamerLegion.

forZe will face BIG in the tournament's semi-finals

This time around it looked like MOUZ were poised to throw their weight around taking an ample 11-4 lead on the CT side of Dust2 despite losing the pistol round, but MAD Lions didn’t back down with Pere "⁠sausol⁠" Solsona Saumell and Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius leading the way to a 16-13 victory.

Despite dropping the first map, MOUZ now had their map pick of Nuke to look forward to, but the Thomas "⁠TMB⁠" Bundsbæk-led squad put up a wall on the CT side, winning 12 rounds by the end of the first half to coast to victory on the attack as Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk topped the scoreboard with a 1.54 rating in the second map to culminate the series sweep.

DreamHack Open November 2021Best of 3

MAD Lions

Matchpage

12th November 2021

MOUZ

Dust2

Nuke

MAD Lions	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius jL	45 - 30	+15	81.6	79.2%	1.32
Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk Woro2k	40 - 36	+4	80.8	73.6%	1.19
Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell sausol	38 - 36	+2	84.2	79.2%	1.15
Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup b0RUP	40 - 29	+11	65.5	67.9%	1.08
Thomas 'TMB' Bundsbæk TMB	29 - 34	-5	66.1	64.2%	0.97

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Robin 'ropz' Kool ropz	42 - 33	+9	82.8	69.8%	1.18
Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand acoR	36 - 38	-2	79.0	62.3%	1.02
David 'frozen' Čerňanský frozen	34 - 40	-6	72.8	56.6%	0.92
Aurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras Bymas	28 - 38	-10	63.8	66.0%	0.81
Christopher 'dexter' Nong dexter	25 - 43	-18	54.4	58.5%	0.74

The second series featured ENCE, who come from finishing in 15-16th place at the PGL Stockholm Major’s and were blindsided by fnatic in the tournament’s Group B winners match, facing off against FORZE for the final spot in the playoffs.

Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer and his men didn’t take long to show their pedigree, putting forth a strong CT side on Nuke, winning it 13-2, before going on to cruise to a 16-7 victory with Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi topping the board for the international squad.

FORZE found a groove on the CT side of Nuke to try and bring things back despite it being Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz and company’s map pick, going up 11-4 at the half. The Russian squad secured the all-important second pistol round to clear the path for a third map.

The CT dominance continued on Mirage, where it was Andrey "⁠Jerry⁠" Mekhryakov and his men who went up 7-0 before ENCE tried to rein things in albeit momentarily as FORZE hit double digits by the half before closing things out on the attack, 16-10.

DreamHack Open November 2021Best of 3

FORZE

Matchpage

12th November 2021

ENCE

Ancient

Nuke

Mirage

FORZE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Evgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin Norwi	61 - 43	+18	79.2	72.6%	1.20
Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin KENSI	48 - 50	-2	80.1	65.8%	1.04
Aleksandr 'shalfey' Marenov shalfey	54 - 47	+7	74.2	67.1%	1.04
Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov Jerry	45 - 53	-8	75.5	68.5%	0.97
Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko zorte	38 - 47	-9	62.7	60.3%	0.88

ENCE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Snappi	52 - 50	+2	89.8	67.1%	1.15
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi Spinx	53 - 49	+4	74.5	68.5%	1.11
Olek 'hades' Miskiewicz hades	44 - 44	0	68.7	76.7%	1.07
Paweł 'dycha' Dycha dycha	50 - 51	-1	80.4	65.8%	1.06
Joonas 'doto' Forss doto	41 - 53	-12	58.6	60.3%	0.81

The playoffs will take place over the weekend, with two best-of-three semi-finals on Saturday followed by the grand final on Sunday. The semi-final pairings are:

16:00 fnatic vs. MAD Lions (BO3)
19:15 BIG vs. FORZE (BO3)

What happened to ENCE?

2021-11-12 22:21

5 replies

spinx go kill

1 reply

Lebong would have dropped 30 bombs on each map, 3head roster move by mouz

2021-11-12 23:56

bad time for them rn :(

2021-11-12 22:22

They have spot in EPL so nothing special + online so everything could happen

They were always struggling vs random t2 teams. They already have a spot in epl so this tournament was nothing important. Iem fall should be better because its actually a tournament with t1 teams who dont play random and actually have some system to how they play

2021-11-13 12:23

Chelsea news?

EZ 4 sausoL Pog

VERYDIFFICULT4ENCE :(

Mouz noo

2021-11-12 22:23

Ence is done i think, need 2 replacemnt atleast

Nah its a t2 tourmanent which would give them a spot in epl conference but they already have a epl spot so there was no preassure to perform. Imma come back to this after iem winter and we shall see

2021-11-13 12:25

no way the grand final is a bo5, why?

2021-11-12 22:24

-doto -hades

2021-11-12 22:26

doto is consistently inconsistent

2021-11-13 04:00

MOUZ not feeling good in the past few months. Roster isnt nothing special on my opinion. Altough playing with stand in, things still the same. Losing badly.

easiest tournament for fnatic

2021-11-12 22:28

2 replies

BO5 final might fuck them. Not enough depth with the new roster

2021-11-12 23:39

I think they have a decent enough map pool they play 5/7 maps

2021-11-13 02:45

Expected

2021-11-12 22:35

Ropz plz answer Faze ropz when ?

2021-11-12 22:41

Spinx and Hades should go, Ence needs a trader with multifrag potential and awper who can clutch.

2021-11-12 22:48

6 replies

I agree about hades ' but spinx has the highest rating out of all ENCE + he's their most consistant player

2021-11-13 01:00

His rating is missleading same with Doto. Doto next to Dycha is their best player. Spinx got easy trading role, and its a must for those kind of players to deliver multifrags(cause of bait setups) or clutch. He lacks both. Meanwhile their lowest rated Doto when having a good round is clutching or holding sites which means winning rounds, not stat padding. Nobody gives a damn about him, every body are just "bUt RaTiNG "

2021-11-13 08:36

? Spinx and hades? Spinx has been easily their best player for months. Hades was really good until iem fall and since he has fallen into a slump. And this tournament meant pretty much bothibg for ence except maybe a couple esl pro tour points. Ence already have a spot in epl so why try to get a epl conference spot.

2021-11-13 12:27

3 replies

Like i said many times before, he is their best player only ratingwise, and thats not hard being a trader. Watch their games for a change try to understand what roles do they have what gameplan. Hltv rating is just food for greenhorns.

2021-11-13 14:30

well true but he does also have games where he runs around and gets 30+ kills like on overpass vs fnatic. spinx was ences only player performing and he was doing it all himself

2021-11-13 17:35

Rarely, but that doesnt matter much, he needs to get consistent multifrraging while on bait setup and some clutches while on t side. For now most of his rating gets buffed from meaningless frags or only economy in check frags.

2021-11-13 20:03

ez 4 sausoL

2021-11-12 22:49

ence disband

Both mouz and ence are major legends lmao How low quality of cs is now????

2021-11-12 23:04

4 replies

That just shows Major qualification system’s shortcomings. CIS having less spots due to previous major’s amount of cis teams, making forze miss out. ENCE are either inconsistent, or just fluked IEM Fall (Challengers stage was ezaf) MOUZ is hopeless, just had a few important wins on RMRs when either ropz or frozen/bymas had a good day

2021-11-13 07:00

Mouz is hopeless but ence nah. Ik im a fan of ence but still if you look at their tournaments with t2 teams vs tournaments with t1 teams they always succeed better at the ones with t1 teams. Forze play really random cs because of 2 new players and a coach and fnatic relatively new team with smooya and overpass isnt ences best map

2021-11-13 12:30

I quite like Ence myself, but looking at their recent games - IEM Fall was a good run, but other than that, they won t2 teams at IEM winter quals, hopeless MOUZ, inconsistent BIG (can both win strong opponents and lose to t2) and GODSENT at PGL Challengers’ Stage. No wins against solid t1 teams. Edit: okay BIG are fine

2021-11-13 12:54

yeah true but i would say that they 100% should and would have won vs faze but karrigan was just insane during that match and like 90% of the teams that play t1 and t2 tournaments have the same problem, its like a 50/50 if they win or lose

2021-11-13 13:20

"where they will meat up..." for beer and steaks?

Please Spinx, leaves Ence, this team is so terrible for you. And who what the match, clearly see that Norwi are a big cheater, a lot of times this is obviously, Valve should ban this man

2021-11-13 01:16

Surely mouz make changes now

2021-11-13 01:59

New logo perhaps.

2021-11-13 03:35

That too;)

2021-11-13 10:58

Oof mouz

2021-11-13 03:22

how do forze get awaywith this they lost their best player still in playoffs of dh open jerry is much better igl that boombl4

2021-11-13 09:22

Somehow I have a feeling that ENCE used this as a prac, not as officials. Wanted to test some strats etc, because Ancient ENCE just smurfed, but Nuke and Mirage -.-

2021-11-13 10:37