SK and KerchNET march on to semis

16-2-2012 23:02

The last two quarter finals of TECHLABS Cup have been finished with favorites SK Gaming and underdogs KerchNET advancing to semi finals over Vifort and ESC Gaming.

The first of tonight's matches saw SK Gaming with their new addition Martin "trace" Heldt take on Russian underdogs Vifort. First map de_train ended up being a very one sided affair despite of multiple rounds early on in their Terrorist side where Vifort had the numbers, including a one versus four clutch by Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund. In the end SK Gaming went on to win 14-1 as defenders and finished off the map with a score of 16-4.

Second map was de_inferno, the map Vifort tied Natus Vincere on in the group stage. It started no different as the Swedes went on a run of nine rounds before Vifort could reply. That was little help though, as the half still ended 13-2 in SK's favor as Terrorists. The final half was back and forth for a while, but ended 3-5 with SK winning 16-7 on de_inferno, and 2-0 overall.

TECHLABS Cup 2012Best of 0

SK Gaming

Matchpage

16th February 2012

Vifort

Train

Inferno

In the final quarter final of TECHLABS Cup, the Polish powerhouse ESC Gaming took on KerchNET who surprisingly advanced from their initial group with three wins. They started off well against ESC ICY BOX as well, going up 8-1 as Terrorists on de_train before surrendering six rounds in a row. That didn't help the Poles much though, as KerchNEt looked rock solid in the second half, closing the map 16-8.

Next up was de_nuke where the underdogs once again opened strong, going up 3-0. ESC tied up the game at 3-3, and suddenly the game got restarted. After a few minutes of waiting the game continued, and ESC managed to end the half with a narrow 8-7 lead. The Ukrainians kept grinding out rounds in the second half though, and managed to close the game 16-14.

TECHLABS Cup 2012Best of 0

ESC Gaming

Matchpage

16th February 2012

KerchNET

Train

Nuke

Semi finals will take place tomorrow Friday with Natus Vincere facing off against fnatic first at 18:00 followed up by SK Gaming against KerchNET at 20:30 .

Nice :)

2012-02-16 23:03

poland strong, zeus noob, neo god, esc > all!

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I'm guessing you're ironic! If I'm correct you owe me a cookie.

2012-02-16 23:05

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;)

2012-02-16 23:07

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You owe me a fucking cookie man. I will not let this go.

2012-02-16 23:08

lan esc>kerchent, but on net esc sux!

2012-02-16 23:06

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lol what?

So ESC shitty nice team?

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ESC always suck on net its nothing special

2012-02-16 23:11

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Hmm, i expected comment like "F*CK u NEO > all, GOLDEN FIVE THE BEST etc.."

2012-02-16 23:16

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cs is random... inet games are random

2012-02-16 23:25

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life is random

2012-02-16 23:32

random is raanddom

2012-02-16 23:48

trolish is random

2012-02-18 15:28

you mean ESC random losses online - 0-16 to M5 on tuscan, 2xBO3 vs DTS, 2-0 vs kNet? Sure, random games are random...

2012-02-16 23:59

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last offline match vs m5 hltv.org/?pageid=28&&demoid=11899&offset.. and now show me last offline match vs kNet when they won

2012-02-17 01:53

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hltv.org/?pageid=28&comments=1&demoid=11.. hltv.org/?pageid=28&comments=1&demoid=10.. are you happy now?

2012-02-17 09:44

i said offline :O

2012-02-17 09:51

2nd game was on lan

2012-02-17 10:20

your team won. fap now and stop trolling, ESC is always weaker online - it's probably because they are less motivated when they are not playing in one room. can you understand it or wanna continue your stupid shitty talk?

2012-02-17 08:23

Just continue, what you are saying is making no sense. Dosen't matter if you are in the same room? If they are such a topteam they need to do damage online, not just on LAN, fanboy.

2012-02-17 09:17

they do, they lost once and now everyone is making so big deal about. didn't mention about technical problems? it's also discouraging for a team. i'm not a fanboy of ESC, just making statements - try to MAKE SENSE, not just to depreciate me as a person.

2012-02-17 09:34

they're one of the top teams in history of cs (not saying best, just one of the best, u should agree with it) and they were always bad at inet, i don't see there any revelation by lurppis: ESC is clearly the stronger one of these two teams, but they have a long history of producing underwhelming results online and a part of that problem is the fact they don't seem to believe in themselves online either. And if u want to say it doesn't matter if u are in one room, u know shit. G5 is the team which probably best strength is teamplay and they can do it at their best when they're at lan, when u can look at your mates monitors at the game time, online the teamplay is worse.

2012-02-17 18:12

F*CK u NEO > all, GOLDEN FIVE THE BEST etc.."

2012-02-16 23:51

Neo sucks, lets settle this once and for all. I rembemer pwning that falla hard on his then clanm8s custom map cs_mga back in 2001 or 2002. Still have those zip files somewhere xD.

2012-02-18 00:10

at some point they'll have to be good for online being so many online tournaments around...

2012-02-17 02:43

This. Everybody says ESC is so bad online. Tbh they need to be good both online and offline nowadays.

2012-02-17 04:32

yes, they won't qualify at a lot of tournaments if they keep the same inet form, so they need a change

2012-02-17 18:14

fuck off polish boy,ESC sucks.

2012-02-17 13:53

fanboy

2012-02-17 08:46

nice

ohohohoho wanna see Kerchnet vs SK on de_train!

eee I want see too

2012-02-17 10:57

it's gonna to be sick match ;)

2012-02-17 18:16

JohnyXno good jab.

2012-02-16 23:04

it would be nice ukrainian final between Navi and KerchNet :)

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f4l all this turnoument. THIS IS A SHIT, NOT EVENT! admins = noobs, 15x gamepending in one map no comments

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++++++

no brain detected

2012-02-16 23:47

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lol, he's right, wtf is that? tournamet with $15000 price and they are not capable to host a proper server? this is ridiculous.

2012-02-17 08:27

As far I know servers are provided by the players, not admins :)

2012-02-18 14:25

source pls.

2012-02-18 15:25

maybe he exaggerated it, but it's actually true, that it's strange if they need to play inet playoffs excluding final on tournament with 15 000$. And the rr in the match Kerchnet - ESC was something, which is not possible to see @lan

2012-02-17 18:20

gogo f0rest =D

nice KNET!

sk x fnatic in final

too bad we still have to wait a little :(

jamais, newba. navi > todos

knet online. lan top10 world

k NET

ESC :(( but, go KerchNET. are nice victory =)

knet online gods, while LAN in group can not go

Take off our nacional pride, pole!

2012-02-16 23:10

what a sad cover from that ESC vs kNET match. can't wait to see SK vs fnatic @lan!

"underdogs" sayd slurp. i lol'd

knet nicenice

gg knet

sk x navi final i bet

GOGOGO SK! poles just accept it, maybe ESC will win IEM WC :D

GL fnatic & SK

its fucking funny. they are really good or we are really bad. i don't know what happend.

knet one of the best team ONLINE, no good. GL SK and FNATIC!

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they not use cheat 100%, ping esc~knet, why you angry?

I'm not angry at the ESC is lost. Only in this knet presented skills online. Why knet average play in the LAN? I'm waiting to destruction knet by SK! GL

2012-02-16 23:18

I dont think this was as much knet playing online, as it was ESC playing online. Knet is full of young guys, so it makes sense that they would perform better than on lan. But ESC looks like they just really dont care when they play online, n thus the subpar performances.

2012-02-16 23:30

truth, ESC little game online. LAN GUYZ ESC! even a good thing that dropped out, better prepare for IEM:) strange two crash, when ESC prevailed..

2012-02-17 00:18

they play from lan! and they beat esc on lan few times (in kiev cybersport arena)

2012-02-17 01:16

When?

2012-02-17 09:22

lol, O,o

Well played by Kerchnet.

Hope SK vs fnatic in final, will be epic

sure will.. danish awp powaaah ;)

2012-02-17 09:47

missed esc vs kershnet, so when i saw the score i just "omg wtf?" gj kersh, 2-0 vs esc, kinda ok i think :)

2012-02-16 23:09

It was kind of a weird match. kNet went up 8-1 their t side of train pretty easily, then lost the rest of the rounds of the half just as easily. ESC couldn't get anything going on their t side, though, so kerch made the end look simple. Then nuke, ESC was looking good on their t side of train, winning the half 8-7. I don't know how it ended because there were a bunch of problems with the server and GF didn't stream most of the 2nd half's rounds.

2012-02-16 23:14

manager of knet said that kerch made 2 simpe strategies on t side on nuke - all ramp and all somewhere else (i don't remember). and it was always close rounds like 2vs2 and 1vs1. but it worked for knet and they won

2012-02-16 23:17

nice, thanks for the info

"with favorites SK Gaming and KerchNET advancing" kNet were considered a favorite, or is that poorly worded?

favorites SK Gaming, AND KerchNET

2012-02-16 23:12

SK will probably play it smart against kNet, eliminating probably nuke and then let kNet choose their poison afterwards...I don't think kNet can beat SK at de_train...SK 2-0

eliminate nuke? LOL? That has always been SK's strongest map, Robban reads nuke like the back of his hand.

train and nuke are knet's best map though I cannot see them beating SK at any map! SK have multiple times eliminated nuke against mouz & wf iirc...anyways nuke hasn't always been SK's best map and robban is not "that" good at nuke as you might think...the funny fact is that f0rest has been the best nuke player years back...gtr has also been amazing at nuke so no wonder they do well! Now they have 3 of the 4 best nuke players but you never know! I think that SK will try to get train at which they have a huge advantage over knet and then finish off at d2/inferno/nuke

2012-02-17 00:05

nuke is swedish map

2012-02-17 00:09

yes but knet play really weird at nuke, sometimes it's not about how good you are at the map, it's about how good your opponent is...why risk playing at nuke when they cna just play let's say train and d2 and literally run over them

2012-02-17 00:15

don't forget SK will remove tuscan,not nuke.

2012-02-17 09:18

dust2 is a pretty random map tbh

2012-02-17 19:29

sweden vs ukraine, as always :P

more like nowadays

Semifinals at lan? Or just the final?

only grand final, sadly.

just the final

2012-02-16 23:13

fnatic vs sk final would be epic

ahahah good job esc as always :D

This is hilarious. Kerchnet was very underestimated and everyone was talking about how easy this would be for Neo ("The best player in the world") and his team. I love it. Underdogs stood up and won!

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so neo is not the best player in the world?

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The quotation mark was just to point out his HLTV-title.

2012-02-16 23:21

not now

so tell me who is?

2012-02-16 23:22

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dunno

2012-02-16 23:23

atm moddi / trace - ATM. They're unstopable..

2012-02-16 23:31

just because they got new teams they are unstoppable? xaxa

2012-02-17 00:06

you are realy retarded

2012-02-17 00:08

retard

2012-02-17 01:22

Last time HLTV used the title "Number 1 player" it was Neo. That's all. Haven't read they changed their mind. Please post thread/source if they have.

2012-02-17 09:48

anyone with a little bit of insight into the cs scene could tell that it wouldnt be easy for ESC and i, for one, am not surprised that kerchnet managed to upset the poles, especially considering how bad ESC actually are online.

2012-02-16 23:56

Semifinals online , Final lan

gg but I still don't know what happened tbh, esc leads 13-8 as far as I remember and after 5min it was 16-14? A bit strange but gg kerchnet

2012-02-16 23:15

same here

Also strange 4 me. But better to prepare more for IEM.

ESC failure. against an easy team lost in all .. the truth is that ESC Gaming sucks playing ONLINE

i39.tinypic.com/etv6kz.jpg hahah FUCK THIS SHIT! when ESC was playing, game crashed 2 times in situations when ESC clearly managed to take the lead! In those situations they had lost concentration and this was huge advantage for knet. But keep dreaming that youre "better" after that shitty match. In NORMAL match on NORMAL server especially LAN ESC>>>>KNET ANY TIME

Who didnt expect comment like that?

2012-02-16 23:26

I dint expect that pic.

2012-02-16 23:35

Look i know esc is better and they would rape them at lan but this happens too, only solution is to accept it

2012-02-16 23:38

AJ DANT LAJK DIZ.

TECHLABS CUP <<<< school LAN

HAHAH +1!

2012-02-16 23:19

ok but it was 13-8 how the hell in 7-8 min they managed to beat esc with 16-14 ?(i`m not esc fan but i`m just suspicious)

lolittttaaaaaa missed esc vs kershnet, so when i saw the score i just "omg wtf?" gj kersh, 2-0 vs esc, kinda ok i think :)

Ukraine vs Sweden now.

+1 !!! topic : im laughting hard at all time when i seeing ppl comments "knet onliners" okay guys :DDD haha esc:))

2012-02-16 23:27

Sad for kNet..

how come you don't show the stats from players anymore? I like that

Hmmmm good point. Can someone show us SS with players stats at the last round? ;>

2012-02-16 23:37

OOOH YAEH

I really want to see fnatic vs SK, with this 2 new players for both teams and hope a big win for fnatic

fnatic win.

2012-02-16 23:39

we know that victory will be for fnatic ^_^

KerchNet(L) Go!

2012-02-16 23:49

Stop complaining poles, all the other top teams had no problems @online, it's ESC's fault not tournament's fault ffs.

2012-02-16 23:52

by "problems" you mean "problems with server"?

2012-02-17 08:36

Server has nothing to do with this, if ESC played like they should they could easily win, problems are just an excuse.

2012-02-17 19:37

i'm not trying to justify them - it's just nothing unexpected that they have shitty motivation online - they always do. and problems with server (especially moments of time when they occur) didn't help them with that. that's all i'm saying.

2012-02-18 01:10