100% defeat UMX 4-0 in ESEA finals

1-7-2012 22:26

Maximum Effort has won the ESEA Invite Season 11 finals and $10,000 with four straight map wins in two best-of-three series over UMX after coming from the lower bracket (16-9 de_nuke, 16-5 de_train, 16-13 de_forge, 19-15 de_inferno).

First map was de_nuke where Paul "pauLy" Guerboyan scored three USP frags to win the opening pistol round. Maximum Effort went down 0-3, but rebounded by scoring seven of the next nine rounds. However, Christian "sobo" Soboleske's strong play at the end of the half closed the gap to just one round, 8-7.

Second pistol round went to 100% who instantly started pulling away from UMX as they went on a five round winning streak to make the score 13-7 in their favor. Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky's troops fought back by winning the next two rounds, but 100% secured the win with the following three rounds for a a 16-9 score on de_nuke.

UMX were unable to capitalize on their upper bracket victory (photo: ESEA News)

Even a map change couldn't slow down Maximum Effort's flow, as strong play across the board as counter-terrorists on de_train helped them gain an early lead. UMX managed to win two rounds, but 100% went up 12-2 before Guerboyan's smart play in a two-on-three situation gave them one more round in the first half.

UMX won the second half pistol round with Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert saving his USP armor, but Sean "sgares" Gares' three AK frags in the third round made the score 13-5. Soboleske's crew attempted a force buy in the fourth round without success, and were forced to save after which gave 100% game point for the first series at 15-5. Gilbert & company wasted no time, winning de_train 16-5 and the first series 2-0.

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After a break the second series commenced on de_forge where Maximum Effort scored the first three rounds, already improving on their showing from the previous night. 100% went up 7-4 before Christian "sobo" Soboleske's UMX, helped by his 20 frag effort, scored the remaining four rounds for a 7-8 half.

Second pistol round went to UMX as leader Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky and Paul "pauLy" Guerboyan combined for five USP kills. 100% won round four, but UMX broke their money in the following round to go up 5-1, 13-8 overall. Maximum Effort mounted a comeback, scoring eight rounds in a row to win 16-13 with Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert leading the way with 14 frags.

Maximum Effort managed to defend their ESEA title (photo: ESEA News)

UMX won another pistol as terrorists on de_inferno, as well as 100%'s two consecutive save rounds. Then it was Maximum Effort's turn to show strong play, winning seven of the next eight rounds to make it 7-4. UMX's B fake won them round twelve, but 100% won two of the three remaining rounds for a 9-6 lead.

Maximum Effort won their terrorist pistol round and went up 3-0 after two anti eco rounds. They attacked the A bomb site in the fourth round, winning easily while Soboleske fell behind the moto box, forcing UMX to save once again. At a 14-6 deficit, UMX mounted a comeback, bringing it back to 14-12 before 100% hit tournament point. That wasn't enough though, as UMX tied the game and forced an overtime.

Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert's team switched to a higher gear once the overtime commenced as they were finally able to defend sites after getting the bomb planted. They secured three rounds as terrorists without much trouble, and then secured the 19-15 win as counter-terrorists as Kory "semphis" Friesen took the last frag to secure their ESEA championship and $10,000 first place prize.

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Match statistics for the grand final final's two best-of-three series:

Maximum Effort	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating-

UMX.us	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating-

Final standings of ESEA Invite Season 11 finals:

1. Maximum Effort - $10,000
2. Ultimax Gaming USA - $4,000
3. Check Six - $2,000
4. High Rollers Gaming - $1,400
5-6. mouseSpaz - $1,100
5-6. sapphirekelownadotcom - $1,100

The next season of ESEA Invite will once again feature Counter-Strike 1.6 and is set to begin in August. We will be uploading both HLTV and POV demos in the coming days as well as finishing the statistics for ESEA Invite Season 11 finals.

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2012-07-01 22:27

Good job

nice match @ inferno

2012-07-01 22:28

Here are some stats: top fpr: swag .876 impulsive_st .814 n0swal .759 top adr: swag 92.8 pauly 86.9 n0thing^g 86.6 top frags: swag 247 n0thing 210 ele1nt 209 ace clutch: seangares,warden,seb,flowsick 4k clutch: ele1nt and frod with 2; bladeq,fns,steno,sobo,n0swal,khayes with 1 3k clutch: n0swal and arya with 2; happa,dizzaman,bladeq,steno,knc,khayes,scorpion,eleint with 1 2k clutch: swag with 4!; khayes and fns with 3; ... 1v1 clutch: ele1nt and sobo with 5; hst and storm with 4; frod and warden with 3; .. aces: happa,swag,kiko,els,scorpion,ele1nt,impulsive 4k's: ele1nt and swag with 4; semphis,sobo,kiko,n0swal with 3; ... 3k's: swag with 20!; blade and steno with 14; pauly with 13; n0thing with 12; ... you can see the full lists here play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&last_typ..

2012-07-01 22:29

4 replies

swag, swag, swag

2012-07-01 22:39

so many 1on4 & 1on5 in one tournament :o a delight for moviemakers

2012-07-01 23:06

So messy.

2012-07-02 01:57

Swag's Round 4 stats: 50 Frags, 12 Deaths, 9 2ks, 5 3ks, 1 4k, 1 5k, 1 1 v 2, 127.3 ADR(!!!), 1.389 FPR(!!!), 22.91 RWS(which is round win shares, it's based on damage you contributed to any rounds you won, 23 is absurd, on a good team you should be around 12 or higher).

2012-07-02 08:44

swag+n0thing=GG

swagged

i want to see him against European Teams ;)

2012-07-01 22:31

n0thing best in the world

2012-07-01 22:32

Who got da swag? swag got da swag!

2012-07-01 22:33

7 replies

He's a good player, but if there is one thing he doesn't have it's swag.

2012-07-02 00:14

6 replies

haha :D But yes he do, in his name ;D

2012-07-02 00:18

5 replies

He looks like a super doofus. :D

2012-07-03 16:00

Well i'm only talking about his nick so ;P

2012-07-03 16:08

3 replies

Omg that was what my comment was all about cuz he's a nerd xD.

2012-07-03 16:51

1 reply

Haven't really seen him do anything "nerd-like" :P He uses jeans, have normal sweaters & he got braces (which is not nerdy these says ;P) And his nick is just awezome :P

2012-07-03 18:18

-Just replied to myself- *facepalm*

Fnatic would sign SWAG instead of trace if he lives in Europe. :D

just like my italy :((

2012-07-01 22:34

2 replies

forza italia nevermind!

2012-07-02 09:07

hahahahahahahah lold so hard, feel bad for you tough, good luck next time ;D

2012-07-02 13:35

swag eats his monitor

2012-07-01 22:35

SWAG is crazy good

saw that hostile guy @ stream. he got a really big mouth

2012-07-01 22:36

he's been known for yelling at lans for 5+ years now got beat up at a german lan a few years back

2012-07-01 22:37

haha seems like he learns nothing :D

more like 10+ years

2012-07-02 00:40

He got robbed by a group of people, and beat up in the process. Wasn't at the LAN though.

2012-07-02 08:41

Are you referring to the incident where he got stabbed and robbed?

2012-07-02 12:20

LOL and thats because he owned them?

2012-07-05 00:58

Tnx for the demos...hoping to see the superfinal demo of all 4 maps! gg

god!

2012-07-01 22:38

sick saw all of them ;D

its like spain vs italy

2012-07-01 22:40

12 replies

nah it's like italy vs finland u don't have any chance.

2012-07-01 22:51

11 replies

nah it's like spain v italy

9 replies

u mad bro? you don't like penality? :(

2012-07-02 00:57

8 replies

4-0?

2012-07-02 01:50

2012-07-02 08:59

hey dude, u lose to them o.o dont say shit

2012-07-02 14:49

i didn't lose

2012-07-02 18:02

sure dude....

2012-07-02 18:48

i.imgur.com/e2wVK.jpg

2012-07-02 21:32

and lol? u mad because u suck?

2012-07-02 22:07

just because i have the UK flag it doesn't mean i'm English

2012-07-02 22:51

#mad

2012-07-02 00:35

gg good matches

2012-07-01 22:42

2012-07-01 22:44

rtt

2012-07-01 22:45

NT From kiko in the finals round to keep win his team

2012-07-01 22:48

swag is a beast

4:0 like Spain-Italy :)

20 replies

best comment of 2012 you are really brilliant, oh wait? no you aren't :(

19 replies

as always ;D

2012-07-01 22:52

maybe you haven't read all my post, had u read only 3/5 of my post ?

2012-07-01 22:53

i think about 1/5 :)

2012-07-01 22:54

you think? for thinking you need a brain

2012-07-01 22:55

ohh I am sure.. : P

2012-07-01 22:57

WARNING! WE HAVE A MAD ITALIAN GUY HERE!

2012-07-02 00:01

2012-07-04 08:25

It's a joke, relax dude. :p

2012-07-01 23:00

LOL angry Italian : D (yeah I know Denmark didn't even reach quater-finals) : O

2012-07-01 23:11

10 replies

nah im not angry, i don't like this kind of humor, and italy did a good job, only too tired for playing the final against spain

2012-07-01 23:15

too tired? They ran as much as spain. The difference is only 1-2km. Ball possession was %48 for italy.

2012-07-01 23:54

nah im speaking about first of the match, all of them were really tired

2012-07-02 00:05

about first of the match? You mean first half? lol

2012-07-02 07:28

or group stage :D:D

2012-07-02 10:30

Your argument is that Spain got 1 more day to rest?

2012-07-02 14:55

my argument is italy played with all 11players from all european without stop and their were really tired.

2012-07-02 15:53

That´s a really shitty argument considering they ended up 2nd and played pretty good throughout whole tournament.

2012-07-02 17:53

I guess you can't understand me btw i don't give a fuck see ya

2012-07-02 18:45

well your argument doesn´t make any sense at all and btw i dont give a fuck if you give a fuck or not

2012-07-03 00:52

the amount of times knc threw the game on nuke, getting fragged within 30 seconds for like 5 consecutive rounds didn't help his team @ all. /#1throwimo

knc > umx

2012-07-01 22:59

i might be wrong but dont remember him making lan before. perhaps it was nervous energy making him impatient

2012-07-01 23:07

shut the fuck up, cs is 12 years old

2012-07-02 08:00

are you replying to the right post?

2012-07-02 08:03

^ this, get a brain Bloomberg, ya downie.

2012-07-03 13:42

sad anyway gj swag & co. n0thing to do here

swag MVP

gg wp

2012-07-01 22:58

stats from the last match?

all the map stats are here play.esea.net/index.php?s=league&d=sched.. (click 'statistics and discussion' underneath the scores)

i didnt even know this swag guy :o too bad there's no decent teams in america

2012-07-01 23:08

Swag was crazy.

2012-07-01 23:13

spain 4-0 italy 100% 4-0 umx :D

2012-07-01 23:14

actually they have a perfect blend of players..i dont know if they have a world class awper and igl but they sure have 3 world class aimers :)

2012-07-01 23:16

sgares is an extremely good awper

2012-07-02 09:13

alright and he is pretty solid with the rifles..that makes him great overall he is traceish :P hahahah.. look to me they have the potential as a team to do something more but i dont know if someone will support them economically or what the hell move in europe :D its better here :P

2012-07-02 12:08

This is like watching european cs 10 years ago.

2012-07-01 23:18

Who is Swag ?

2012-07-01 23:23

15 year old who's had better stats than n0thing for a few seasons of esea (disclaimer for all the kids who will read that wrong: i'm not saying he's better than n0thing as an all around cs player. i'm just pointing out the stats to show what level he's at)

2012-07-02 00:36

2012-07-02 00:46

swag mvp for sure

cs 1.6 is dead in america when cs go will come out the whole american cs scene will go to cs go just like they did with source and in the american scene cs go will fail just like when cgs got bankrupt its easy to say that american just died with csgo when they returned to cs 1.6 it was to late for the american cs scene because cs 1.6 in europe and asia got better while the american scene stayed in 2005

2012-07-01 23:40

nonsense is nonsense.

2012-07-02 02:04

Congratulations Maximum Effort, highlight the event's production and the very professional Streaming

2012-07-01 23:48

#SWAG!, swag as swag not swag as that swag kid

2012-07-01 23:50

lineups of both teams please

2012-07-01 23:52

Refer to the stats posted on this page. They reveal the lineups and scores.

2012-07-02 00:09

Swag, just wow O_O Topfragging again.

2012-07-02 00:11

Swag mvp?

2012-07-02 00:19

Good for CS but still to low for EU :/

2012-07-02 00:33

part of problem is (1) few teams at upper n.a. caliber meaning they don't get to practice against teams that would give them a challenge so as to improve their game, and (2) n.a. cs revolves around esea league, and as soon as the season was over, teams stopped practicing, so the teams couldn't get a lot of practice before these lan finals. #1 also means they can't practice a lot of strats they want to use because they're practicing against the teams they'll be playing on #2, n0thing in an interview mentioned there were no bootcamps or anything before lan, just a bit of scrimming to stay in shape. that means they went into lan not very polished, or not as polished as can be at least overall i 100% agree with you they were too low for EU, but i don't think it shows they couldn't compete if...if they got a sponsor to buy them a house in sweden or something like that :p so they could polish their game with practice against good teams. of course that won't happen, so maybe it's pointless to bring up

2012-07-02 00:45

True, true.

2012-07-02 00:47

That was so expected

swag monsteeeeeeeeeeeeer

2012-07-02 01:21

cant wait to see ME vs some sweden team

2012-07-02 01:28

nice job guys

2012-07-02 01:36

sick stream ESEA )(

swag is s1ckxD

gj :)

2012-07-02 02:11

swag really impressed me this lan

2012-07-02 02:48

s w a g

2012-07-02 02:53

swag = sick. nice tournament overall !

2012-07-02 02:55

swag da best!

2012-07-02 02:56

:DDD

2012-07-02 03:28

expected. swag is evolving fast.

2012-07-02 03:35

10k? Nice prize boiz

2012-07-02 04:54

swag awesome,he could be the legend of american cs scene .

2012-07-02 05:27

swagtastic, <3 n0thing, go gamegun :( ($$ :()

2012-07-02 05:55

gg, 100% rly good team

2012-07-02 08:37

greatjob .

2012-07-02 08:39

15y old just dominating the american lan scene.

2012-07-02 09:00

and I thought this was somehow related to Spain winning 4-0 against Italy. :D

2012-07-02 09:16

swag - new top1 usa player?

2012-07-02 10:08

I would love to see what these guys could do in international scene!

2012-07-02 10:14

What gave them that they qualify to final from upper bracket?

2012-07-02 10:33

ele1nt went hard putting up a quiet +25? Lol I was expecting more from semphis. UMX KIKO had a good event. I've never understood flowsick. He is good for situational mid round stuff on terrorist side. But other times just seems to get caught and dies too often.

2012-07-02 11:20

back in the days sponsors would rent a house for bootcamp in europe , like mibr went to bootcamp in sweden and even played vs sk at inferno online showcase , when kiko was playing .. i think even complexity got a chance to bootcamp 2 weeks in europe before a big tournament good tournament but maximum e would take 10 rounds vs a top european team , nothing only one who has the most international lan experience

2012-07-02 11:39

Nice tournament

2012-07-02 12:13

Swag is a beast holy fuck.

2012-07-02 13:41

REALY GOOD TOURNAMENT !

2012-07-02 14:57

w0w level kiko impresionant

2012-07-02 15:05

hopefully this line up will see some european play this year... before it's too late. what really surprised me is n0thing's name was vacant under all of the clutch round stats... i haven't watched any matches, but i'm assuming he's toned down the aggression n possibly igl? anyone know? either that or he just passed the torch to swag, along w/ all his knowledge, human wall hacks, n what not...

2012-07-02 15:47

sgares is igl i suppose part of the reason for n0thing falling down the stats is him, semphis, and swag are the three best riflers in n.a. currently, and they've got to share the frags :D. When you consider a team like EG with n0thing,frod,storm,lurp,gfn, n0thing was the clear star rifler, but with 100%, semphis and swag have both been statistically the best fraggers during the past few seasons. plus with the number of clutches swag and ele1nt have...only one person can be lms :p

2012-07-02 17:14