ENCE complete fairytale run to win Elisa Masters Espoo over HEROIC

A renaissance gla1ve showing pushed his young debutants to glory on their organization's home soil.

gla1ve has grabbed his first LAN trophy since winning BLAST Global Final 2019 with the legendary Astralis lineup

ENCE are Elisa Masters Espoo 2024 champions on home soil after completing their fairytale run with a 3-1 victory over HEROIC in the final.

Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander's squad were debuting their new-look youthful roster around Ryan "⁠Neityu⁠" Aubry (19) and Kacper "⁠xKacpersky⁠" Gabara (17) in Espoo and entered as the second-lowest seed with five days of practice.

Just three days later, they hoisted the trophy and have beaten 9z, The MongolZ, and HEROIC, all established top 30 sides, to do so.

Completing the run past Guy "⁠NertZ⁠" Iluz and Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha's HEROIC, the duo that left ENCE at the start of 2024, only made the victory more sweet.

Finnish AWPer podi was first to get his hands on the trophy

gla1ve himself was key as ENCE's young side felt the nerves on map three, Vertigo, only for their captain to roll back the years in a 39-frag performance in the triple overtime win before smashing 23 frags in 21 rounds on map four to clinch ENCE the trophy.

"It's pretty crazy to think about the road I've been through," gla1ve told the broadcast after lifting the trophy. "Getting benched by Astralis was a pretty rough time. Then, coming to ENCE, not getting the results that we wanted and that the organization wanted as well…

"Now standing here, lifting the trophy in Finland, in front of the Finnish crowd, being from ENCE, a Finnish organization, it just feels really good."

It was impressive enough that ENCE were in the position to feel the nerves: HEROIC came in as heavy favorites after a top-four finish at IEM Rio and won map one comprehensively. The Finnish crowd would have been forgiven for thinking the fairytale was over.

But ENCE rallied for successive 10-2 first halves on Nuke and Vertigo, and 9-3 on map four of Dust2, all of which they — eventually — converted.

ENCE did find it tricky to close: There were warning signs as 10-2 turned into 13-7 on Nuke, but disaster struck on Vertigo as 10-2 turned into 11-12. The youngsters were down and out but gla1ve's multi-kills — he ended the map on 13 — kept arriving and that gave a chance for star rifler Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev to explode into action with a show-stopping and game-turning ace.

All three young guns showed good signs, though, with xKacpersky's aggression on Ancient, Neityu top-fragging on Nuke, and the otherwise quiet Paavo "⁠podi⁠" Heiskanen still having impact like this quad-kill.

Star-studded names on the other side, meanwhile, struggled. Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck was relentlessly targeted in a miserable Vertigo showing on the B bomb-site, René "⁠TeSeS⁠" Madsen had 25 kills on the T side of Vertigo but little impact elsewhere, and Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov's whiffs on Dust2 was costly as nobody was unable to halt the team's first-half collapses against the world No. 69.

Dust2 was the fourth map and gla1ve continued his 2018-esque form to push his grand final kill count to a whopping 82, with a server-topping 1.29 rating, to win his first trophy since December 2020.

The only bad news for ENCE is that momentum will be tough to build on, given their failure to qualify for the RMR with their old lineup.

Tonight, however, all the struggles ENCE have endured since losing their 2023 Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer-led lineup can be forgotten. Their new era is off to a flyer.

Matchpage
3
1
20th October 2024
10
Ancient
13
13
Nuke
7
22
Vertigo
19
13
Dust2
8
 ENCE K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating2.1
82 - 70 +1.91% 90.4 77.1% 1.29
82 - 72 +2.55% 81.5 70.5% 1.12
78 - 66 +1.64% 78.1 74.3% 1.11
66 - 74 -0.39% 76.8 78.1% 1.05
61 - 65 -1.19% 59.5 67.6% 0.89
 HEROIC K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating2.1
82 - 70 -1.04% 80.4 73.3% 1.12
76 - 72 -0.35% 76.1 69.5% 1.06
61 - 72 +0.96% 75.3 79.0% 1.01
75 - 79 -0.23% 73.6 65.7% 1.00
52 - 82 -3.86% 61.1 60.0% 0.71
Denmark Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
1220
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.65
Poland Kacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara
Kacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara
Age:
17
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
113
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.75
Finland Eetu 'sAw' Saha
Eetu 'sAw' Saha
Age:
32
Team:
Denmark René 'TeSeS' Madsen
René 'TeSeS' Madsen
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
1227
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.67
France Ryan 'Neityu' Aubry
Ryan 'Neityu' Aubry
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
415
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.67
Denmark Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.97
Maps played:
1997
KPR:
0.65
DPR:
0.66
Finland Paavo 'podi' Heiskanen
Paavo 'podi' Heiskanen
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.12
Maps played:
398
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.60
Denmark Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Age:
34
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.94
Maps played:
1929
KPR:
0.64
DPR:
0.68
Russia Abdul 'degster' Gasanov
Abdul 'degster' Gasanov
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.17
Maps played:
907
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.60
Ukraine Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1578
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.63
Israel Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
642
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.67
fluke
2024-10-20 21:53
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#38
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Netherlands p2dr
Who cars, still a good and entertaining run with some nice storylines.
2024-10-20 22:30
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#56
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Germany Sol1taire
gla1ve leading a pack of players 85% of hltv users only know sdy. The rest they have no idea who they are - gla1ive still leads these nobodys to victory - what an aboslute legend goat IGL. my favorite IGL of all time is Cadian by the way - but this gla1ve guy is in his own class
2024-10-21 00:43
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1 reply
GOAT IGL Gla1ve very known for his signature tactic of "gla1ve go kill" "yes"
2024-10-21 03:18
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#89
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Cuba Dyabolic
Fluke or not why can’t you just be happy for gla1ve? Or even the young kids in there. Sometimes it’s not about the money or the magnitude of the event, sometimes you just wanna feel that feeling of winning. Once that happens the rest becomes irrelevant. Those who actually compete in games or irl know it.
2024-10-21 09:57
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Totally not rigged
2024-10-20 21:54
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4 replies
#5
bLitz | 
Latvia g45
definitely xdd
2024-10-20 21:54
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#17
Faceit level 9  | 
Jesus | 
Kazakhstan yTuHbIe_ucTopuu
how much?
2024-10-20 22:00
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1 reply
2024-10-20 22:06
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#59
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Germany Sol1taire
if it wasn't rigged- who would actually win?
2024-10-21 00:52
1
wp
2024-10-20 21:54
3
Glaive clutched up. Good calls / fragging out. Cool to see, hopefully they can keep this form up and it wasnt a honeymoon phase.
2024-10-20 21:54
88
1 reply
really hard to keep the form up now that there is only rmrs and major coming up and they are not there wish they got the thunderpick replacement slot instead of og
2024-10-20 22:49
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#6
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Palestine zwe
im happy
2024-10-20 21:55
7
WP gla1ve
2024-10-20 21:55
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#9
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France Uexo
GG to them, promising roster
2024-10-20 21:56
3
rigged event honestly
2024-10-20 21:56
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1 reply
#47
Faceit level 10  | 
molodoy | 
Finland la_costena
haha it does not matter what is the outcome, some imbesil is calling it rigged Manchildren, dont bet your rent money
2024-10-20 23:10
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Please bring gla1ve back to a tier1 team again, let him farm - he can do it !
2024-10-20 21:57
0
cute script
2024-10-20 21:57
7
lucky af, they are tier 3 team playing tier 3 tournaments why Heroic was playing this in this shi*** tournament?
2024-10-20 21:58
1
8 replies
Heroic didn't proved themselves in tier1 yet so probably they wanted to get back some confidence from here
2024-10-20 22:10
5
Heroic in shambles whole year wtf ur saying
2024-10-20 22:16
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#41
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Finland dvlx
ence proved they are better than heroic at the moment
2024-10-20 22:43
21
4 replies
one bo5 can't prove much, they were better this day nothing more.
2024-10-20 22:51
2
2 replies
#55
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Finland dvlx
lmao cry is free
2024-10-21 00:40
5
1 reply
yes and that's why I'm crying with laughter seeing how excited you are about the extremely weak tier 3 ENCE winning tier 3 tournament.
2024-10-21 15:45
1
Try to win against these teams in a t1 tournament that actually matters. Though i doubt they can actually qualify for them starting next year.
2024-10-21 06:53
1
for some practise and for the 100k maybe???
2024-10-20 23:04
0
#14
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Sweden Vrede
Pog
2024-10-20 21:58
1
gla1ve best igL eVar
2024-10-20 21:58
3
Goat shit
2024-10-20 21:59
1
lol pretty good start
2024-10-20 22:00
4
honeymoon or????!!!!!!
2024-10-20 22:00
1
#20
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States postwarscars
Dude what's the deal with sjuush? For a player who was so dependable for so long, he's had some awful games when it really mattered lately (Navi a few weeks ago and now this).
2024-10-20 22:00
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3 replies
It's lack of freedom the way I see this, under cadian he was allowed to make some playmaker moves which he used to time perfectly. But now they are like no you are anchor you must hold stay alive bla bla bla and get ran over by opponents most of the time I might be wrong
2024-10-20 22:08
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2 replies
#81
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Spain ousi
Still doesn't justify going -30
2024-10-21 08:17
0
1 reply
i mean anchor bro you face 2-3 people at the same time executing into a site and your best bet is going 1 for 1 anchor roles are extremely hard especially with all the utility teams throw
2024-10-21 10:30
0
sdy goat
2024-10-20 22:00
18
GGs deserved, great to see sdy winning again!
2024-10-20 22:01
9
#23
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Sweden multib
THIS is a good day for counter strike
2024-10-20 22:01
9
#24
Faceit level 9  | 
sjokz | 
Poland Tony12PL
Cinema haha
2024-10-20 22:02
2
A happy gla1ve, the world is healing. Most humble man in entire CS after ZywoO
2024-10-20 22:04
8
#28
Faceit premium user Faceit level 10  | 
Magisk | 
Denmark MathiasDanKronborg
Who got mvp?
2024-10-20 22:07
0
2 replies
glaive
2024-10-20 22:39
0
#54
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Poland Botaz
not significant enough to get a trophy or mvp on HLTV, but i would like them to name 1 anyway off the books kinda? my bet would be nertz.
2024-10-21 00:02
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#33
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Poland Julka
LETS GO ENCE
2024-10-20 22:18
2
very nice
2024-10-20 22:20
2
gla1ve 82 while igl wow
2024-10-20 22:28
1
#36
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
dupreeh | 
Denmark emze
gla1ve masterclass, rolling back the years
2024-10-20 22:29
5
love to see it
2024-10-20 22:29
4
Seriously, I don't care it's not a top tier tournament, I'm just enjoying the moment. Feels like there's hope for the first time in months.
2024-10-20 22:38
7
LFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
2024-10-20 22:46
3
GOAT
2024-10-20 23:02
2
Aleksi, brollan and now xkacpersky looks like NiP is cursed at this point .
2024-10-20 23:26
7
4 replies
Problem with NiP is they don't wanna wait They are like "give us trophies within a month after a team is built or else you are kicked😂
2024-10-21 09:40
0
3 replies
True. There seems to be issues how that team is managed and coached.
2024-10-21 13:41
0
2 replies
We see this everytime New Event - New NiP xDDD
2024-10-21 13:44
0
1 reply
But it's good that some players are saved from there: Aleksib, Brollan, xKaspersky, Headtrick. Who knows what could have happen/happened if REZ would seek his form in some other team.
2024-10-21 13:49
0
#49
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Finland samzala
Podi bringing them in, gla1ve closing it out. EZ4ENCE
2024-10-20 23:33
1
glaive what a beast!
2024-10-20 23:34
1
Good for Gla1ve
2024-10-20 23:35
2
Good to see Gla1ve back in form showing why Astralis was strong back then, cause he was one of few igls who could also frag aswell! Glad he left Astralis and finally showing passion and motivation again with young upcoming players! Hope he Can Keep it up
2024-10-20 23:54
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#53
Faceit level 9  | 
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Slovenia NotFluffy
gla1ve finally won t3 tournament!
2024-10-20 23:59
1
Why is this a "fairy-tale" run?
2024-10-21 00:57
0
1 reply
#63
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Finland kappaboi
The team was created like a week ago. They had their first official games at the tournament and beat 11 and 13 ranked teams in the world while winning it all
2024-10-21 01:22
21
banana cup
2024-10-21 01:00
1
gg ez
2024-10-21 01:14
1
from almost winning navi to choking against ence new roster KEKW
2024-10-21 01:21
2
Who cares about mickey mouse tournament?
2024-10-21 01:39
0
3 replies
Mouz cares
2024-10-21 01:48
5
spirit do
2024-10-21 02:07
2
#71
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Korea syjeon
every team who isnt in the top10? So more than half the scene?
2024-10-21 03:20
10
heroic fumbled the bag in this one
2024-10-21 02:45
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#69
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Korea syjeon
HEROIC you had an easy trophy in your hands, wtf???
2024-10-21 03:14
1
1 reply
#77
Faceit level 4  | 
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Israel mcnamaras_EEEdiots
heroic choke factor transcends logic
2024-10-21 06:30
0
#74
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
karrigan would have won this tournament with 4 random lvl 10 faceit players
2024-10-21 04:50
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1 reply
I got a feeling that FaZe ain't gonna make it through the RMRs this year Thanks to the Lamest coach ever neo. Legendary as a player but not a coach
2024-10-21 09:42
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EZ4ENCE
2024-10-21 05:28
0
One of the most honest tournament in counter strike history. No scripts or not rigged, nothing
2024-10-21 06:25
0
ok but why is their awp player 2nd worst rated player in the team))))))))) ?
2024-10-21 08:24
0
1 reply
because he probably choked when they played final. Without sdy and gl4ive ENCE would have lost the match. It's not like podi dragged the team or anything because he was only -4 in frags, but his impact wasn't really there.
2024-10-21 09:10
0
gla1ve is back. Podi had a good run as well with young guns kasper and neiti alongside him. Hopefully we get to see them on many online tournaments soon!
2024-10-21 08:26
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#85
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
HeatoN | 
Sweden flkt
NIP picks up Maxster to main roster and let this polish prodigy to to ENCE. Lmao.
2024-10-21 08:34
0
1 reply
what is maxster some random faceit player? nip is known for not being serious org for a long time now
2024-10-21 15:47
0
No MVP and EVP's . Sad....
2024-10-21 11:49
0
2 replies
We all know who the mvp was. No need for medals
2024-10-21 12:42
0
1 reply
Gla1vie?
2024-10-21 15:41
0
Lets gooo they won a tier 2-3 event lets gooooo
2024-10-21 15:23
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#101
Faceit level 8  | 
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United States illusi0n[1g]
Good job ENCE your looking very solid with this roster.
2024-10-21 20:58
0
Not looking good for heroic team
2024-10-22 01:51
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