Kiev’s Cybersport Arena will play host to the Starladder Season 12 LAN finals this weekend from March 27th to the 29th. Featuring six European teams all gunning for their piece of the $50,000 prize pool, this event will surely produce high levels of Counter-Strike for fans to enjoy.
Teams
Team EnVyUs Virtus.pro Titan Team SoloMid Ninjas in Pyjamas Natus Vincere
Format
The Starladder finals will feature a double-elimination format, where Team EnVyUs and Virtus.pro will receive a one round bye and play the respective winners of NiP versus Titan and Na'Vi versus TSM. Using the maps from the current Active Duty map pool as seen below, each match until the finals will be a best of three while the grand finals will be a best of five. The team coming from the upper bracket will receive a one map advantage as per double-elimination rules. Similar to the pick-ban rules at Katowice for the best-of-three matches, each team will have the option to ban one map and pick one map; the last map will be randomized. The finalist coming from the upper bracket will also receive a one map advantage in the grand finals.
Let´s take NiP - Titan as an example, will NiP get to pick the first map Titan the second since NiP have their name first so to say? (NiP - Titan) Or will they coistoss about first map?
On March 27 2015 10:17 Souma wrote: Rooting for TSM. Need another team to consistently challenge and beat the top four and I believe they're the closest.
I think we can almoat talk about a top three now... (That is nip, envy and fnatic.)
On March 28 2015 03:02 ShiaoPi wrote: been a while since I last saw VP getting dismantled on mirage
Didn't fnatic destroy them on Mirage at IEM Katowice?
I have to say they looked pretty bewildered on T side. Like just constantly getting shot from predictable angles without having any answers. The third time someone from Fnatic surprised them from CT A I started feeling a bit perplexed.
On March 28 2015 04:46 Souma wrote: He definitely looks like he has the best conditioning. GTR and Xizt both look pretty flimsy. f0rest looks like he smokes too much weed.
On March 28 2015 05:11 Aocowns wrote: feels like flamie singlehandedly elevates navi to the next tier
Nah, there was nothing out of the ordinary so far. This is Starladder and Na'Vi always do well there. Or to be more precise, Na'Vi were in the finals of the last four seasons of CS:GO Starladder.
this is frustrating to watch. Navi gets the opening frags but still plays it slow like the map is mirage or inferno. It's not either of those, its Nuke! move your ass!
Thorin called it out earlier too. This is what happens when Titan don't get 6-7 T side rounds. However , Titan now seems like a team that can compete even when KennyS isn't firing on all cylinders.
KennyS is in a massive slump right now and I'm excited to see how Titan do when he inevitably gets back to form. Maniac and Ex6tenz also stepped up massively this event in the absence of CarryS. RPK still is the weakest link on Titan tho.
On March 29 2015 07:03 Muffloe wrote: just wtf, a team like NiP should not lose 16-1, there's no excuse here
Kryptonite!
I think this was actually my preferred result. If NiP would have won this it would have been certain that nV would come back and beat nip in the finals. Now nip actually has a chance to win this!
On March 29 2015 07:03 Muffloe wrote: just wtf, a team like NiP should not lose 16-1, there's no excuse here
Kryptonite!
I think this was actually my preferred result. If NiP would have won this it would have been certain that nV would come back and beat nip in the finals. Now nip actually has a chance to win this!
Perhaps :p Everyone really need to step up for that tho
On March 29 2015 07:03 Muffloe wrote: just wtf, a team like NiP should not lose 16-1, there's no excuse here
Kryptonite!
I think this was actually my preferred result. If NiP would have won this it would have been certain that nV would come back and beat nip in the finals. Now nip actually has a chance to win this!
Thats exactly what iam thinking to. So in this way, iam glad they lost. Still hurts to see them lose so big.
Crushing win from NIP, but they continue to look so shaky against Tec9's. At this point I think they just need a tec9 nerf in order to win a tournament again.
On March 29 2015 22:03 Ysellian wrote: Crushing win from NIP, but they continue to look so shaky against Tec9's. At this point I think they just need a tec9 nerf in order to win a tournament again.
On March 29 2015 22:03 Ysellian wrote: Crushing win from NIP, but they continue to look so shaky against Tec9's. At this point I think they just need a tec9 nerf in order to win a tournament again.
Lol, dat tec-9 long distance kill WHILE falling from silo... Unbelievable. How much more ridiculous does it have to get until Valve finally steps in? What the hell are they doing? I expected a nerf immediately after Katowice but... it hasn't happened. This gun ruins the game, it's total RNG BS. I can _only_ explain this with Valve actually porting the game to Source 2 or some other MAJOR change that is going on right now. Nothing else makes sense to me.
On March 30 2015 00:12 Grettin wrote: By the way, i suggest to listen to the NIP feed during the finals. Been amazing to listen to them this tournament as well.
On March 30 2015 00:12 Grettin wrote: By the way, i suggest to listen to the NIP feed during the finals. Been amazing to listen to them this tournament as well.
On March 30 2015 00:12 Grettin wrote: By the way, i suggest to listen to the NIP feed during the finals. Been amazing to listen to them this tournament as well.
GeT RighT has ascended to SS2 from the looks of it, but rest of NiP are slacking hard man...maybe it's not SS2 ...maybe it's Super Saiyan God where the rest of the 4 players + 1 coach pool their strength to one person.
EPT
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