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ESWC: Cloud9 over Liquid to semi finals

In the first quarter finals match at ESWC 2015 Cloud9 has come out on the top of the North American duel, defeating Liquid 2-0.

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The opening match of the quarter finals featured the two North American teams, Cloud9 and Team Liquid. Cloud9 is currently in top form, last weekend finishing second at the ESL ESEA Pro League LAN finals. Yesterday, they had a flawless run through the group stage and they looked very confident about the high placement here. On the other hand, Liquid finished second in the group stage, having only Ninjas in Pyjamas above them. Although getting through the group stage is a great result itself, still Liquid isn't in any close to the current Cloud9's form.

The map veto went more or less as expected. Liquid removed de_cobblestone and de_dust2, while Cloud9 decided to ban de_mirage and de_train. Liquid's pick was de_overpass, while Cloud9 went for a bit controversy pick, de_inferno, by knowing how it went for them in the past on this map. The last map in the pool which was left is de_cache and it would be used as decider if needed.

On the opening map, Liquid showed a pretty decent defense, as they claimed nine rounds at the CT side. However, Cloud9 was even more impressive as they moved to the CT side, getting ten rounds and allowing Liquid to walk away with only two T side rounds. This brought to Cloud9 a 16-11 win and 1-0 in the best-of-three series. On the second map we saw teams swapping the roles, where Cloud9 started on CT side and Liquid on T side. Cloud9 were confident enough to not choke and they switched to T side with 10-5 scoreline in their favor. However, the second half saw exactly what Cloud9 are known for at de_inferno. Once, they got to 15 rounds they started struggling and Liquid was close to bringing this map to overtime. However, the final round brought that much needed match point to Cloud9 for the final 16-14 and 2-0 in series.


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