Nigma Galaxy secure second ESL Impact title

3-7-2022 19:22

The European team bested their nemesis FURIA fe convincingly in the final.

Nigma Galaxy solidified their status as the dominant women CS:GO team with a comfortable 2-0 victory in the ESL Impact Valencia final, besting FURIA fe 16-8 on Dust2 and 16-11 on Vertigo.

In what was a repeat of the previous Impact final, we had a repeat result as well, although in more dominant fashion as this time FURIA fe couldn’t take a map from the eventual champions.

ANa once again led the way throughout the tournament for Nigma Galaxy

Ultimately Nigma Galaxy were good value for the trophy having not dropped a single map on their way to victory; the closest they were run was in a 16-11 victory against FURIA fe on Vertigo in the final.

ESL Impact Valencia 2022Best of 3

Nigma Galaxy

Matchpage

3rd July 2022

FURIA fe

Dust2

Vertigo

Nigma Galaxy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Alexandra 'twenty3' Timonina twenty3	42 - 32	+10	89.6	78.4%	1.30
Ksenia 'vilga' Kluenkova vilga	39 - 33	+6	89.7	72.5%	1.28
Ana 'ANa' Dumbravă ANa	41 - 31	+10	81.2	74.5%	1.26
Victoria 'tory' Kazieva tory	37 - 31	+6	74.7	76.5%	1.20
Katarína 'Kat' Vašková Kat	35 - 32	+3	73.2	80.4%	1.14

FURIA fe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Olga 'Olga' Rodrigues Olga	34 - 42	-8	80.0	60.8%	0.95
Gabriela 'GaBi' Maldonado GaBi	33 - 35	-2	71.2	66.7%	0.95
Izabella 'izaa' Galle izaa	34 - 42	-8	73.4	66.7%	0.87
Karina 'kaahSENSEI' Takahashi kaahSENSEI	30 - 39	-9	60.8	60.8%	0.81
Mariana 'mari' Preste mari	28 - 36	-8	62.6	64.7%	0.80

As with the Impact Season 1 Finals in Dallas Ana "⁠ANa⁠" Dumbravă was Nigma's best rated player throughout the tournament, but they also had Ksenia "⁠vilga⁠" Kluenkova, Victoria "⁠tory⁠" Kazieva and Katarína "⁠Kat⁠" Vašková in the top-eight rated players such was their dominance.

Despite underperforming in a losing effort in the final Olga "⁠Olga⁠" Rodrigues of FURIA fe was actually the highest rated player at the event, posting a 1.41 across 6 maps.

Two teams that made top four in Dallas were unable to make it out of groups this time around, with CLG Red falling to MIBR fe in Group B whilst NAVI Javelins grabbed a playoff spot at the expense of BIG EQUIPA in Group A, requiring overtime on two maps to do so.

The final standings for ESL Impact Valencia are as follows:

1. Nigma Galaxy ($50,000)
2. FURIA fe ($20,000)
3-4. NAVI Javelins ($10,000)
3-4. MIBR fe ($10,000)
5-6. CLG Red ($3,000)
5-6. BIG EQUIPA ($3,000)
7-8. GODSENT fe ($2,000)
7-8. Mindfreak ($2,000)

2022-07-03 19:23

the nigma era

ANa t2 scene when? :D

2022-07-03 19:24

2 replies

true

2022-07-03 21:21

2022-07-04 14:16

Nigma Galaxy stickers plz

2022-07-03 19:25

ez for 23

2022-07-03 19:27

When is the next tournament?

2022-07-03 19:28

1 reply

Online league resumes in August, and the finals for that will be at DH Winter

2022-07-03 19:41

Make Romania great again

2022-07-03 19:30

Ez ana

2022-07-03 19:34

8 out of 10 players have their nickname based on their real name. Gz to nigma, they're the best female team by far.

8 replies

very astute observation mens

2022-07-03 19:42

Actually it's 9 out of 10, since tory it's probably a nickname from Victoria.

2022-07-03 19:53

4 replies

I think he meant twenty3 and vilga as the 2 other remaining.

3 replies

Lol, I always thought Vilga was her actual name. Mind blown right now.

2022-07-03 19:57

Well, it's not and I have no clue if it means anything in russian.

2022-07-03 20:13

Nah it doesn't

2022-07-03 20:52

so do 90% of male pros so what’s ur point

2022-07-04 02:27

I don't think you know what 90% means 😂

2022-07-04 14:26

Nigma Galaxy = Last year Navi Furia fe = Last year G2

actually true

2022-07-03 21:07

Great job!

2022-07-03 19:43

vilga still playing, wow :D

2022-07-03 19:52

They are like MOUZ NXT in academy league :D

2022-07-03 20:00

Thats exactly what I was thinking while watching the last map

2022-07-03 20:10

same thing while i was my pc from one room to another lmao

2022-07-03 20:12

Nice games. The level of play will only rise. Looking forward to more

2022-07-03 20:02

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Nah bruv, that's like saying level of NA CS will only rise if they keep playing other NA teams. We had that in 2020-21 and the NA scene still hasn't recovered from that... Only way FE teams can get better is by not playing against FE teams, but they're not good enough for normal competition, so it's a catch 22.

2022-07-03 21:40

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Well the point I'm making is different. They play against more people than just other women on faceit and esea open and etc. The point is that when these events continue, more teams will want to participate and more women will want to participate - play CS. That will result in the rise of skill because more people playing CS = more skilled players among them.

2022-07-03 21:52

5 replies

+1 good insight.

2022-07-03 22:17

+1 wise take

2022-07-03 23:12

Theoretically, yes. But I don't think it will actually result in more girls playing CS. They're simply not interested in FPS games and competitive ones in general. Giving bigger prize money for FE tourneys to enlarge the playerbase is like blowing against the wind IMO.

2022-07-04 00:33

Why don't you let them decide if they want to play cs or not. I think the result won't show immediately, maybe it will take a few years. But it's definitely a step in the right direction

2022-07-04 13:39

Am I, or anyone else stopping them? Maybe it will boost the numbers a bit, but if you only start playing some game/sport to make money, then you're probably not gonna make it. The reason they want to boost it is bussiness, potential for more viewers/players in the future, but that seems super unlikely. Then again, it's their money, so do whatever you want ESL.

2022-07-04 15:42

I think they need more event where winner maybe runner up will get inv to tier 2 events where they will be fucked hard at the start but they might get better at some point they can qualify to these event without invites.

2022-07-04 07:58

I think this was used in the past and didn't work very well. This whole impact series should theoreticaly lead to women's teams/teams with women being confident enough to try some open qualifiers for tier 2 tournaments (there are plenty of them).

2022-07-04 13:27