Team EnVyUs made an insane comeback in their match against Natus Vincere to secure the spot in the winners bracket finals.
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The second WB round 2 duel brought us a rematch of the ESL One Katowice quarter finals between Team EnVyUs and Natus Vincere. Their match at Katowice was really thrilling and we couldn't expect anything less here in Kiev. nV as expected went for de_inferno pick, while Na'Vi made the same decision as earlier today by taking de_overpass for their pick. The third map if needed was supposed to be de_nuke.
nV won a knife round which brought them a more favored CT side of de_inferno. However, Na'Vi didn't really mind this as they kicked off by winning the pistol round and breaking the French defense round by round until they climbed up 5 rounds. nV was forcing and in the end they managed to pick up one round where they had to retake A bomb site in 2v3 situation. But, Na'Vi didn't mind that too much as they continued with their streek up until they collected 7 rounds. That's when the French team got back into this match, making sure that the first half doesn't end a really catastrophically for them. Na'Vi had 8-7 lead as they were moving to CT side. The second half saw Na'Vi winning another pistol round, but nV quickly returned with tec9/CZ train and kept themselves still in. Na'Vi forced in next round and lost it, so they were forced to eco at least one round. That one round of ecoing was enough for them to get the first big guns on CT side and start closing it. GuardiaN was really good with M4A1-S as he kept the arch side of A site, and he was supported by Zeus and Edward who were making blenders and just shutting down nV players. In the end Na'Vi took de_inferno with 16-12 score.
We could say that the second map was split into the three parts. The first one lasted for the first eight rounds where Na'Vi totally dominated nV taking an 8-0 lead over them at T side of de_overpass. From that moment on we could see the second part of this map where nV picked up on the pace and made it back to 8-7, led by Happy who made some crucial kills with awp in the ninth round. The second half brought us the third part of this map as it was no one's half. Both teams were going back and forth and in the end it was looking that Na'Vi had the advantage as they had 14-13 lead, but suddenly the Ukranian team decided to abandon A bomb site twice in a row and give it for free to the French team who couldn't just let it go. And soon after it was 14-15 for nV and Na'Vi had to use pistols to save themselves in this map. In the end it all fell to Edward who was solo in 1v2 situation and he managed to bring it into 1v1 and in the end he missed a free shot with AWP on an nV player who had his back turned htowards Edward and that costed him his life. nV won the second map 16-14 and they prolongued this series for one more map.
The third and deciding map was de_nuke where nV once again won a knife round and had a pleasure to start on the heavily favored CT side of this map. The pistol round went really quick and nV won it by losing only one player to Na'Vi. The French team slowly built their lead and Na'Vi won their first round when they were down six rounds to nV. In the end they managed to win only 1 more round on the whole map as the final score was 16-2. This will push Na'Vi down to lower bracket, while nV will meet NiP in the winners bracket finals.
Tomorrow's schedule:
10.00 CET - Titan vs Natus Vincere - M6
13.00 CET - TSM vs Virtus.pro - M7
16.00 CET - Winner M6 vs Winner M7
19.00 CET - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Team EnVyUs
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