G2, Entropiq recover in round 2 in Bucharest

21-4-2022 18:40

The second round kicked off with a clean sweep for the favourites, but not without some difficult moments.

The favourites all picked up wins to open round two of the EU RMR B, but there were a few shaky moments, particularly for G2 and Ninjas in Pyjamas.

G2 laboured to a 16-10 victory in a scrappy Inferno against Sangal, with both teams giving up rounds to force-buys and generally struggling to win clean rounds; G2 managed to break the economy of Sangal early in the second half, which was key in securing them the victory.

NiKo needed to be in good form to guide his team to victory

Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen and co. will not be happy with their performance, but Sangal can be proud of giving their opponents a decent game in spite of playing with a stand-in, and will be lamenting the tough set of opponents they have faced thus far.

Ninjas in Pyjamas managed to defeat Bad News Eagles 16-11 on Ancient, in large part due to a monstrous CT-side start where they picked up 13 rounds. The Swedes did make a meal of closing the game out however, fumbling multiple chances to pick up rounds in the second half to force-buys, but ultimately Bad News Eagles were in too much of a hole to mount the comeback.

Elsewhere in round two, the Poles of Anonymo couldn't ride the high of their upset win over G2 to another one over Players, with the Russian squad besting them 16-10 on Overpass.

Vladislav "⁠nafany⁠" Gorshkov and co. got out to a huge 8-1 lead on the T side before letting the Poles back into the game, a string of rounds at the end of the first half and start of the second getting Anonymo within touching distance. Ultimately Players took the game comfortably, with a strong performance across the board.

Entropiq recovered from their first round upset loss to Bad News Eagles by effortlessly brushing aside Endpoint 16-3 on Dust2; pretty much the entirety of the Russian squad had a field day, whilst Joey "⁠CRUC1AL⁠" Steusel was the only Endpoint player to post double digits in the frag column.

Group Swiss

2W - 0L