Titan overcame TSM with a 2-1 score and is going to challenge NaVi for $15k and the title of the first ESL Pro League champion.
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The map pick determined de_cache to be the first map in this bo3 match between Titan and TeamSolomid. Titan executed their pistol round quite convincingly and secured a quick 3-0 advantage. On the 4th round cajunb delivered a quadkill with deagle, winning the first round for his team. The following rounds were pretty standard and very even, resulting in 9-6 score in favor of the French side. TSM had chance to even up the score as they won the pistol round, followed by a successful anti-eco play. The Danish team started to build up the momentum with a 6 rounds streak. However, the economy behind this wasn't solid and a 1 round win by Titan sent TSM into another eco round. Titan then managed to even up score and gain the lead back but TSM turned things around in a series of nailbiting round trades, where neither of team would prevail with a 15-15 score. An intense overtime saw Titan coming out on top with 19-17.
The clash then continued on de_dust2, where Titan won the pistol round as Terrorists but great a Scout play with looted SMGs turned things around and TSM evened up the score 1-1. The follow-up rounds went in the best possible way for TeamSolomid without any severe casualties and even with great income from SMG kills. However, the French side managed to stabilize and shorten score discrepancy to a minimum 8-7 in favor of Danes. Titan keept their pistol rounds winrate clean and sweept TSM in yet another to even up score to 8-8. However, in a slight deja vu, TSM denied the Frenchmen from building up an advantage and took B bombsite with a CZ/Tec9 rush. Titan couldn't build up a strong defense and TeamSolomid rolled through the second half 16-10 without any significant trouble.
3rd map was set de_inferno with Titan starting as CT and scoring 4th pistol round out of 5 in this series. Frenchmen finally managed to deflect the TSM eco aggression and put up a clean 7-0 scoreline. A strong defense resulted in a 10-5 advantage in the first half. The second pistol round quite unexpectedly went in favor of TSM. Now it was the turn of the Danish team to make a clean streak to even up the score 10-10 but failed to gain an advantage as Titan started to win their first T-side rounds. The tension grew bigger at a 14-13 score in favor of Titan when timeout was requested. Titan claimed the 15th point and TSM were forced to buy MP9s and a great A site hold by cajunb allowed his team to last longer in the match and taking it all to the 30th round. There was a crazy 1 for 1 trades but Titan came out on top, thus advancing into the finals where they will fight Natus Vincere.
ESL Pro League Day 3 Schedule:
12.00 CET - EnVyUs vs Na'Vi
15.45 CET - TSM vs Titan
19.00 CET - Titan vs Na'Vi
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