Elisa Masters Espoo 2024JANO consign NIP to last-place finish in Espoo, The MongolZ advance to playoffs
The Swedish organization goes out in last place after needing to use jocab as a last-minute stand-in.
A prolonged first day at Elisa Masters Espoo has concluded with The MongolZ topping Group A to reach the playoffs and Ninjas in Pyjamas bowing out in the first elimination game at the hands of JANO.
Numerous and frequent technical pauses meant Group A's two best-of-one openers and two best-of-threes took nearly 11 hours to play out, starting with a false start for The MongolZ in the pistol round for their opener against JANO.
| Date | Matches | |
|---|---|---|
| Elisa Masters Espoo 2024 | ||
| 16/10/2024 |
Finished
13:7 |
Match |
| 16/10/2024 |
Finished
14:16 |
Match |
| 16/10/2024 |
Finished
2:0 |
Match |
Garidmagnai "bLitz" Byambasuren's side eventually closed out the game 13-7 to advance to the Group A winners' match, where they were later joined by B8 after they edged past Ninjas in Pyjamas 16-14.
The win was a little more special for Daniil "headtr1ck" Valitov as it was his first game on LAN for B8 and came over his former organization, but his team couldn't get the job done in their winners' match against The MongolZ as the Mongolian team coasted through to a playoff berth.
"It's not bad to lose against The MongolZ, they're just fairly better right now," headtr1ck told HLTV after the match. "They showed it at many tournaments. We should just take it as a good slap on the face so that we can wake up."
Ninjas in Pyjamas, who came into the event with Jacob "jocab" Nerheden as a last-minute stand-in for Max "maxster" Jansson due to an "unforeseen health emergency," then had more misery piled on as their time in Finland was cut short by the hometown hopefuls.
Aleksi "allu" Jalli's JANO came back from a 4-8 deficit to win their Nuke pick to start the series, but couldn't convert in overtime on Ancient and needed an unlikely comeback from a 0-6 deficit on Dust2 to get the job done.
A recovery effort helped JANO pull the deficit back to 4-8 deficit by the break, and multi-kills from Jani "Aerial" Jussila and a 1v2 clutch from allu helped them dominate on the T side to allow Ninjas in Pyjamas only two solitary rounds, earning the Finns the chance to play the Group A decider in front of their home crowd on Friday.
 JANO |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 - 52 | +3.30% | 84.1 | 76.6% | 1.14 | |
| 61 - 55 | +0.10% | 85.0 | 75.3% | 1.14 | |
| 59 - 44 | +1.04% | 69.6 | 70.1% | 1.13 | |
| 51 - 53 | -2.28% | 84.6 | 77.9% | 1.10 | |
| 49 - 55 | -1.55% | 74.2 | 74.0% | 1.04 |
  Ninjas in Pyjamas |
K - D | Swing | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 - 54 | +0.39% | 85.0 | 74.0% | 1.13 | |
| 53 - 49 | +2.66% | 78.0 | 63.6% | 1.11 | |
| 53 - 53 | -0.06% | 70.7 | 71.4% | 1.03 | |
| 51 - 60 | +0.46% | 75.5 | 74.0% | 0.99 | |
| 41 - 63 | -4.06% | 65.6 | 72.7% | 0.78 |
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