Heroic trounce Rooster in EPL Group B opener

The Danes are off to their desired start in Malta with an easy 2-0 victory over Rooster.

Heroic did not disappoint as the series’ favorites

All was quiet on the B stream, where massive favorites HEROIC made quick work of Rooster in their ESL Pro League Season 18 Group B opening series on Inferno (16-2) and Mirage (16-4).

Michael "⁠chelleos⁠" Hawkins and his men started the map off positively, with a pistol victory on attack in their Inferno map pick, but that quickly came crumbling down after a loss to a forcebuy in the second round. From there on out it was HEROIC, on the defense, who controlled every aspect of the map.

Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller even flexed with a 1vs3 clutch to get HEROIC on double digits, all the while digging Rooster deeper in the pit. The favorites gave up just one more round in a 13-2 half before closing the map out on the attack without a hitch, 16-2.

On Mirage there was a little more early resistance from Rooster, who started on the defense, but not much. Despite going down 0-2, a brief back-and-forth during four rounds kept things interesting until HEROIC again established their dominance as they cruised to an 11-4 half.

Rooster played a quick B attack to try and get one over the Danish squad after the half, but it was in vain as four post-plant kills by Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck with the USP decided the round in his team's favor. Once again, as in the first map, HEROIC closed out the second half cleanly, ending it 16-4.

"If things go the way we expect them to and we win the first two games on the first two days, then we don't play for four days and we play a game for seeding," cadiaN told HLTV during the media day.

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So far, the expectations have been matched and HEROIC are now one match away from the playoffs. They will face the winner of BIG vs. Monte in the upper semi-final, while Rooster will play the loser of said series in the lower bracket.

Matchpage
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6th September 2023
16
Inferno
2
16
Mirage
4
 HEROIC K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
36 - 16 +20 100.2 89.5% 1.69
38 - 20 +18 103.3 78.9% 1.69
34 - 15 +19 87.3 89.5% 1.60
32 - 18 +14 88.4 84.2% 1.55
24 - 16 +8 65.5 78.9% 1.20
 Rooster K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
20 - 33 -13 73.1 57.9% 0.79
20 - 31 -11 69.3 60.5% 0.76
19 - 32 -13 47.4 55.3% 0.55
12 - 33 -21 40.0 47.4% 0.37
14 - 35 -21 39.8 31.6% 0.37
Denmark Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
1010
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.64
Denmark Casper 'cadiaN' Møller
Casper 'cadiaN' Møller
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1660
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.62
New Zealand Michael 'chelleos' Hawkins
Michael 'chelleos' Hawkins
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
635
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.68
lmao
2023-09-06 17:37
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unexpected
2023-09-06 18:40
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gg
2023-09-06 17:38
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#3
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Denmark slacking
lame, don't invite bots next time
2023-09-06 17:38
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#25
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Netherlands m1croG
dont talk shit who is invited in EPL ?
2023-09-06 19:39
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#27
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Australia frogskate
madlikewizard
2023-09-06 20:18
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Stavn in groups: GOD Pavn in playoffs: how to play cs?
2023-09-06 17:38
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can we please lobby ESL to reduce Oceania's spots to 1 and give it to Asia or even the Americas if they dont want to give EU another spot?
2023-09-06 17:39
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americas worse give it to asia
2023-09-06 17:44
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fine with me
2023-09-06 17:45
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Poland NaKii
idc just give it to someone who actually deserves it
2023-09-06 18:17
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The mongolz shoud be here
2023-09-06 18:55
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+1
2023-09-06 19:22
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+1
2023-09-06 19:23
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#6
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Netherlands geek3D
wasted spot frick you spunj
2023-09-06 17:39
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unexpected
2023-09-06 17:43
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#9
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Poland NaKii
The spot wouldnt be ''wasted'' if only Vertex won...
2023-09-06 17:44
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I got ADK on my fantasy team, gave him the role "noob" and booster "Cannon fodder". Everything about my prediction happened, but I get minus points. Wtf
2023-09-06 18:21
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it's overall best to pick teams that will win bc you get a lot of points when a player you've picked wins a game. you lose points for a loss.
2023-09-06 20:48
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Don't got the budget to buy 5 players on winning teams, and why even bother with the "negative" roles and boosters? my take = Stupid design.
2023-09-06 21:27
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nt Rooster people here have no respect for players, ofc they're gonna lose against one of the best team in the world...
2023-09-06 18:33
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yeah but there is a lot of teams that deserves this spot no only in quantity put in %
2023-09-06 18:41
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well they won their qualifier hltv.org/events/7208/esl-pro-league-seas.. and since they have the worst ranking they also have a shit seeding and must fight heroic right at the beggining but against lower skilled teams they could still put up a fight (I hope) calling them bots is just disrespectful
2023-09-06 18:44
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seeding works bad not exclusively for them but also for better teams that fought better teams and still might end up with best teams in the world as opponent doesnt change the fact that its true
2023-09-06 18:46
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well yeah but there are other teams that deserve this way more like Spirit and TheMongolz.
2023-09-06 18:44
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Australia admo
6 rounds in a bo3 very nt
2023-09-07 00:21
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They tried their best against one of the most consistent team of the year... At least they didn't get f 32-0
2023-09-07 01:13
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king of raping small teams and teams from undeveloped regions then they go back to forgetting how to frag against top 3
2023-09-06 18:44
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vitality vs orks? that was a banger....
2023-09-06 18:52
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Europe kuu1
Heroic slapped the c...rooster!
2023-09-06 18:46
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Japan makermeetsu
AUSSIE CS
2023-09-06 19:41
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#29
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Ukraine dench1k
No offense, but every 3k faceit stack in eu would take more than 5 rounds vs Heroic
2023-09-06 21:04
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#31
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United States Chuffer
Yea but they wouldn’t have Austrian ping
2023-09-06 23:47
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#32
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Canada ssau
I highly doubt that lol. Nice exaggeration though
2023-09-06 23:50
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#33
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Ukraine dench1k
Nah, it's just because you don't get use to that lvl
2023-09-06 23:57
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Canada ssau
A 3k faceit stack realistically probably wouldn’t even get that many rounds on rooster lol. And heroic.. no chance. Do you think you could do it? Because fyi you could not
2023-09-07 00:00
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Ukraine dench1k
I'm sorry, #35
2023-09-07 00:03
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2023-09-07 00:24
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#35
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Ukraine dench1k
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can get at least 7-8 against those suckers. They actually not that good as TO try to make them like :) And yes, there are a lot of better players out there which are actually don't have a chance to show themselves cuz the partner system is f*cked up.
2023-09-07 00:02
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#37
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Canada ssau
You’re right there are better teams out there. But not a random 3k faceit stack. I get your point. But let’s not pretend you’re not completely exaggerating the situation
2023-09-07 00:11
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Ukraine dench1k
Yes, sure, it's unfair from my side. Of course those guys are good in general.
2023-09-07 09:27
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