Cloud9 0-2 Team Liquid

Inferno: 11-16
Overpass: 12-16
Train:

 

Team Liquid have advanced to the playoffs.
Cloud9 have been moved to the lower bracket (round 2).

 

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MAP 1/3: Inferno

 

Team	CT	T	Total
C9	10	1	11
	T	CT
TL	5	11	16

 

C9	K	A	D	Rating
tarik	18	7	17	1.20
Skadoodle	19	6	20	1.11
autimatic	20	7	20	1.08
Stewie2K	11	5	19	0.77
RUSH	13	2	17	0.75
TL
NAF	25	7	13	1.48
EliGE	18	5	17	1.16
steel	19	4	19	0.96
Twistzz	14	5	15	0.96
nitr0	17	1	17	0.92

Inferno Detailed Stats

 

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MAP 2/3: Overpass

 

Team	T	CT	Total
C9	7	5	12
	CT	T
TL	8	8	16

 

C9	K	A	D	Rating
Skadoodle	26	4	17	1.28
autimatic	23	2	20	1.16
RUSH	18	4	22	0.99
tarik	17	8	21	0.92
Stewie2K	10	4	20	0.68
TL
NAF	26	5	17	1.38
steel	23	6	19	1.33
EliGE	17	8	19	1.00
Twistzz	17	8	22	0.92
nitr0	16	9	17	0.91

Overpass Detailed Stats

 

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Astralis 2-0 SK Gaming

Overpass: 16-12
Mirage: 22-20
Train: 0-0
 

*Astralis is through to the playoffs, SK will play in round 2 of lower bracket *

 

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MAP 1: Overpass

 

Team	T	CT	Total
Ast	9	7	16
	CT	T
SK	6	6	12

 

Ast	K	A	D	Rating
device	25	2	15	1.37
dupreeh	18	5	16	1.07
gla1ve	22	5	19	1.11
Magisk	21	8	15	1.41
Xyp9x	20	7	17	1.22
SK
boltz	10	4	22	0.60
coldzera	20	1	17	1.06
FalleN	16	4	19	0.87
fer	16	4	24	0.87
TACO	19	7	24	0.95

Overpass Detailed Stats

 

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MAP 2: Mirage

 

Team	CT	T	OT1T:CT	OT2CT:T	Total
Ast	12	3	1:2	2:2	22
	T	CT	OT1CT:T	OT2T:CT
SK	3	12	2:1	1:1	20

 

Ast	K	A	D	Rating
device	33	8	32	1.11
dupreeh	27	3	27	0.85
gla1ve	33	11	27	1.24
Magisk	25	7	30	0.92
Xyp9x	27	9	29	1.05
SK
boltz	19	5	29	0.80
coldzera	36	8	25	1.26
FalleN	30	3	31	0.97
fer	36	8	31	1.16
TACO	23	6	29	0.89

Mirage Detailed Stats

 

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G2 Esports 1-0 Virtus.pro

Nuke: 16-12

 

G2 Esports have advanced to the group B semifinals.
Virtus.pro have been moved to the group B lower bracket (round 1).

 

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MAP: Nuke

 

Team	CT	T	Total
G2	6	10	16
	T	CT
VP	9	3	12

 

G2	K	A	D	Rating
shox	23	1	16	1.26
kennyS	25	0	16	1.22
NBK-	19	3	19	1.04
apEX	17	2	19	1.04
bodyy	11	2	19	0.69
VP
pashaBiceps	24	3	21	1.33
MICHU	21	2	18	1.18
Snax	17	1	19	0.91
NEO	14	4	17	0.89
byali	13	4	20	0.74

Nuke Detailed Stats

 

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Hello everyone, I'm StarLadder's main observer in CS: GO. For this tournament I saw a lot of negative feedbacks towards me and my OBS TEAM. I understand that you want to see every frag, but it's not possible, we are not robots. Me and my team are trying to do our best in every match in order to show all the key points, and sometimes we fail to, and lose some kind of fragt or moment, now I'll try to explain why.

There were more than 50 maps played for the Playoffs, every day we worked in a non-stop mode. Yes, sometimes we were making mistakes, as we are people and not robots and sometimes might have happened miss click, turn on the corpse and so on, but that does not mean that we do not know the game well. Believe us we know it very well, we have been observing it for a long time, and those who are engaged in this work understand that catching everything is not realistic. Counter-strike is a game in which sometimes happen impossible things that had been too hard to predict, someone decides to rush in the second when you remove the camera from a player, someone accidentally falls from the height with a small number of health points and dies, some shoots the opponent through the floor of the map while you show the set up or rotation, etc. But there were a lot of pleasant moments when we have shown aces, key kills, lots of clutches and interesting game moments.

It is very difficult to keep track of everything, but we are trying to do it. Yes, we make mistakes, everyone makes mistakes, even the best of the best. We are people, we are all different and can not do everything perfectly. First of all we try to present the game so that all of you can understand what is happening on the map.

Apologies from me and my team for missing frags. So far, so good.

P.S: Unfortunately, we managed to observe only the final stage of the StarSeries S4. Before that, we had to observe the work of the recruits, correct them, letting them observe the group stage.

OBSteam Twitter: @alewka11, @denis_ankor, @plesh4kov.

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Tournament Information

Date	February 27th - March 4th, 2018
Organizer	Intel Extreme Masters
Location	Katowice, Poland
Venue	Spodek
Prize Pool	$500,000
Teams	16 teams

 

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Coverage

• Official Page
• Liquipedia
• HLTV

Streams

Language	Stream Link
English	ESL TV
English	ESL TV (b)
Brazilian-Pt	ESL TV
Bulgarian	ESL GPlay TV
French	ESL TV
German	ESL 99Damage
Hungarian	ESL Magyar Esport TV
Polish	ESL TV
Polish	ESL TV (Facebook)
Russian	RuHub
Russian	RuHub (b)
Spanish	ESL TV
Turkish	ESL TV
Turkish	ESL TV (Facebook)

VODs

• CSGO spoiler-free VODs
• ESL Youtube Channel

Format

• Group Stage

  • Double-elimination bracket (GSL Format)
  • Two groups of eight teams each
  • Best-of-one opening matches
  • All following matches are best-of-three
  • First placed team of each group advance to the semifinals
  • Second and third placed teams of each group advance to the playoffs
  • Bottom five teams of each group are eliminated

• Playoffs

  • Single-elimination bracket
  • Best-of-three quarterfinals and semifinals
  • Second placed teams play third placed teams from the other group in the quarterfinals
  • Best-of-five finals

Map Pool

 

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Talent Lineup

Stage Host

• Oliver James Borg "OJ Borg" D'Anastasi

Desk Host

• Alex "Machine" Richardson

Interviewer

• Tres "stunna" Saranthus

Analysts

• Adam "friberg" Friberg
• Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill
• Janko "YNk" Paunovic

Casters

• Henry "HenryG" Greer
• Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett
• Jason "moses" O'Toole
• Lauren "Pansy" Scott
• Hugo Byron
• Jack "Jacky" Peters
• Harry "JustHarry" Russell
• Alex "Snodz" Byfield

Observers

• DJ "Prius" Kuntz
• Alex "Rushly" Rush
• Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo

 

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Teams

Invited

Astralis⁴: dev1ce, dupreeh, gla1ve, Magisk, Xyp9x, Coach: zonic

Cloud9: autimatic, RUSH, Skadoodle, Stewie2K, tarik, Coach: valens

FaZe Clan: GuardiaN, karrigan, NiKo, olofmeister, rain, Coach: RobbaN

G2 Esports: apEX, bodyy, kennyS, NBK-, shox, Coach: SmithZz

Ninjas in Pyjamas⁶: dennis, draken, f0rest, GeT_RiGhT, REZ, Coach: pita

SK Gaming: boltz, coldzera, FalleN, fer, TACO, Coach: dead

Virtus.pro³: byali, MICHU, NEO, pashaBiceps, Snax, Coach: kuben

 

Asia Qualifier

TyLoo: BnTeT, captainMo, DD, somebody, xccurate, Coach: KIndy

 

Europe Qualifier

Fnatic: flusha, Golden, JW, KRIMZ, Lekr0, Coach: Jumpy

Gambit Esports²: AdreN, Dosia, HObbit, mou, seized, Coach: Andi

Heroic⁷: JUGi, MODDII, niko, RUBINO, Snappi, Coach: peacemaker

North: aizy, Kjaerbye, mertz, MSL, valde, Coach: ave

 

Farmskins Championship #2

AVANGAR: Buster, dimasick, Jame, KrizzeN, Qikert, Coach: dastan

 

North America Qualifier

Renegades^1,5: AZR, jkaem, jks, Nifty, USTILO, Coach: kassad

Team Liquid¹: EliGE, NAF, nitr0, steel, Twistzz, Coach: zews

 

Oceania Qualifier

ORDER: aliStair, emagine, Hatz, liazz, sico, Coach: dayV1D

 

^{1: Team Liquid replaced jdm64 with NAF from Renegades
2: Gambit Esports benched fitch and replaced him with seized
3: Virtus.pro benched TaZ and replaced him with MICHU
4: Astralis replaced Kjaerbye with Magisk
5: Renegades replaced NAF with jkaem
6: Ninjas in Pyjamas benched Xizt and replaced him with dennis
7: Heroic benched es3tag and replaced him with RUBINO}

 

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Group Stage

Group A

Place	Team	W&L
-	Astralis	-
-	AVANGAR	-
-	Cloud9	-
-	Gambit Esports	-
-	Renegades	-
-	SK Gaming	-
-	Team Liquid	-
-	TyLoo	-

 

Group B

Place	Team	W&L
-	FaZe Clan	-
-	Fnatic	-
-	G2 Esports	-
-	Heroic	-
-	Ninjas in Pyjamas	-
-	North	-
-	ORDER	-
-	Virtus.pro	-

 

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Playoffs

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals			Winner
			TBD	0
TBD	0		vs		-	TBD	0
vs		-	TBD	0
TBD	0					vs		-	TBD
			TBD	0
TBD	0		vs		-	TBD	0
vs		-	TBD	0
TBD	0

 

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Schedule

PST	EST	BRT	GMT	CET	CST	AEDT
Los Angeles	Atlanta	São Paulo	London	Katowice	Beijing	Sydney
UTC-8	UTC-5	UTC-3	UTC	UTC+1	UTC+8	UTC+11

 

• We're using a 24 hour clock
• Match times are often susceptible to delay & change
• Time Zone Abbreviations – Worldwide List
• Italics means the game starts the next day

 

Day 1 – Tuesday, February 27th – Group Stage (BO1 & BO3)

ID	Team	vs	Team	Result	PST	EST	BRST	GMT	CET	CST	AEDT
A1	RNG	vs	Ast	TBD	03:00	06:00	08:00	11:00	12:00	19:00	22:00
A2	SK	vs	AVNGR	TBD	03:00	06:00	08:00	11:00	12:00	19:00	22:00
A3	TL	vs	GMB	TBD	04:10	07:10	09:10	12:10	13:10	20:10	23:10
A4	TyL	vs	C9	TBD	04:10	07:10	09:10	12:10	13:10	20:10	23:10
B1	NiP	vs	North	TBD	05:20	08:20	10:20	13:20	14:20	21:20	00:20
B2	FaZe	vs	ORDER	TBD	05:20	08:20	10:20	13:20	14:20	21:20	00:20
B3	G2	vs	VP	TBD	06:30	09:30	11:30	14:30	15:30	22:30	01:30
B4	Heroic	vs	FNC	TBD	06:30	09:30	11:30	14:30	15:30	22:30	01:30
A5	Winner A1	vs	Winner A2	TBD	07:40	10:40	12:40	15:40	16:40	23:40	02:40
A6	Loser A1	vs	Loser A2	TBD	07:40	10:40	12:40	15:40	16:40	23:40	02:40
A7	Winner A3	vs	Winner A4	TBD	11:10	14:10	16:10	19:10	20:10	03:10	06:10
A8	Loser A3	vs	Loser A4	TBD	11:10	14:10	16:10	19:10	20:10	03:10	06:10

 

Day 2 – Wednesday, February 28th – Group Stage (BO3)

ID	Team	vs	Team	Result	PST	EST	BRT	GMT	CET	CST	AEDT
B5	Loser B1	vs	Loser B2	TBD	03:00	06:00	08:00	11:00	12:00	19:00	22:00
B6	Loser B3	vs	Loser B4	TBD	03:00	06:00	08:00	11:00	12:00	19:00	22:00
B7	Winner B1	vs	Winner B2	TBD	06:30	09:30	11:30	14:30	15:30	22:30	01:30
A9	Loser A5	vs	Winner A6	TBD	06:30	09:30	11:30	14:30	15:30	22:30	01:30
B8	Winner B3	vs	Winner B4	TBD	10:00	13:00	15:00	18:00	19:00	02:00	05:00
A10	Loser A7	vs	Winner A8	TBD	10:00	13:00	15:00	18:00	19:00	02:00	05:00

 

Day 3 – Thursday, March 1st – Group Stage (BO3)

ID	Team	vs	Team	Result	PST	EST	BRT	GMT	CET	CST	AEDT
B9	Winner B5	vs	Loser B7	TBD	03:00	06:00	08:00	11:00	12:00	19:00	22:00
B10	Winner B6	vs	Loser B8	TBD	03:00	06:00	08:00	11:00	12:00	19:00	22:00
A11	Winner A9	vs	Winner A10	TBD	06:30	09:30	11:30	14:30	15:30	22:30	01:30
A12	Winner A5	vs	Winner A7	TBD	06:30	09:30	11:30	14:30	15:30	22:30	01:30
B11	Winner B9	vs	Winner B10	TBD	10:00	13:00	15:00	18:00	19:00	02:00	05:00
B12	Winner B7	vs	Winner B8	TBD	10:00	13:00	15:00	18:00	19:00	02:00	05:00

 

Day 4 – Friday, March 2nd – Playoffs (BO3)

ID	Team	vs	Team	Result	PST	EST	BRT	GMT	CET	CST	AEDT
QF1	TBD	vs	TBD	TBD	04:00	07:00	09:00	12:00	13:00	20:00	23:00
QF2	TBD	vs	TBD	TBD	07:50	10:50	12:50	15:50	16:50	23:50	02:50

 

Day 5 – Saturday,March 3rd – Playoffs (BO3)

ID	Team	vs	Team	Result	PST	EST	BRT	GMT	CET	CST	AEDT
SF1	TBD	vs	TBD	TBD	06:00	09:00	11:00	14:00	15:00	22:00	01:00
SF2	TBD	vs	TBD	TBD	09:50	12:50	14:50	17:50	18:50	01:50	04:50

 

Day 6 – Sunday, February 25th – Playoffs (BO5)

ID	Team	vs	Team	Result	PST	EST	BRT	GMT	CET	CST	AEDT
GF	Winner SF1	vs	Winner SF2	TBD	08:00	11:00	13:00	16:00	17:00	00:00	03:00

 

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Prize Pool

#	Prize	Team
1st	$250,000	Winner GF
2nd	$100,000	Loser GF
3rd - 4th	$40,000	Loser SF1
3rd - 4th	$40,000	Loser SF2
5th - 6th	$15,000	Loser QF1
5th - 6th	$15,000	Loser QF2
7th - 8th	$7,000	Loser A11
7th - 8th	$7,000	Loser B11
9th - 12th	$4,000	Loser A9
9th - 12th	$4,000	Loser A10
9th - 12th	$4,000	Loser B9
9th - 12th	$4,000	Loser B10
13th - 16th	$2,500	Loser A6
13th - 16th	$2,500	Loser A8
13th - 16th	$2,500	Loser B6
13th - 16th	$2,500	Loser B8

Recently there was a lot of criticism for Faze especially after their 4th place in Starladder i-League. I feel this all stems from their incredible run especially from the beginning.

Anyways I still think that it is good to be reminded what is the basis that you are comparing them to. I counted all ten $250,000+ tournament that we had since the team formed: From Dreamhack Masters Malmo to Starladder i-League that just concluded.

The total price money dotation of all these tournaments was $5,250,000. The maximum possible amount to be won for finishing first place in all 10 tournaments was $2,330,000. Faze managed to bring home $1,007,000 out of that money - or over 43% of the money to be had. The closest competition to them were SK Gaming with $748,750 and Cloud 9 with $673,000. Some other distinguished teams with good talent such as Astralis or G2 are at $375,250 and $255,500 respectively.

The strength of the Faze is that they grind things consistently. They always qualify for huge tournaments and 7 out of 10 cases ended up top 3 placement. I think this needs to be said in face of all these -Guardian +RandomHotPlayerOfTheMonth memes need to stop. We have seen all star players having huge impact in important games such as Guardian during last Major and sometimes the same stars go quite. However it seems that there is almost always somebody on the team to step up and as a unit they perform scarily well.

I think all things considered the team performed extremely well during less than 6 months since it formed. It was just one clutch that could have secured them the Major win or possibly get the overtime in their favor to get on 5th map in ESL Pro League that is about it.

Anyways I still think that we have some fantastic storylines for next few months as the teams will try to peak their form for Major. Will SK make it back as undisputed #1? Will NaVi deliver the results that their star power warrants and become something similar to Faze? Will Faze be able to continue being this juggernaut grinding top3 placings almost all the time? Or will we see the return of Swedes and Danes or will it be North American teams that will make things competitive? Exciting times.