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The final stage of ESL Pro League Winter 2014/2015 is happening this weekend in Cologne, Germany. With $48,000 on the line and eight qualified teams, this event will entail high class Counter-Strike for fans to enjoy. </div>
<div class="body"><div class="team">Group A:  Virtus.pro  Team SoloMid  Natus Vincere Team Dignitas Group B:  Titan Team EnVyUs Copenhagen Wolves  3DMAX
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The group stage will be played in a best-of-three format (following the "standard" pick/ban map phase), similarly to the bracket stage. The group stage will follow the GSL format to determine which two teams will advance. </div>
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
cadiaN will be playing for TSM instead of device. Will be awkward if they somehow won.
Pretty decent lineup of teams even without the Swedes. Should be a fun tournament.
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
once again, Titan in the same group as nV...
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Group A is ridiculously stacked. That's pretty much the #2, #3, #4 and #6 teams of the tournament in the same group.
Meanwhile you have the #1, #5, #7 and #8 teams in Group B (I rank VP, TSM and Na`Vi ahead of Titan and the current Dignitas above CPH and 3DMAX). TSM playing with a sub though so it probably drops them to Titan's level.
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On April 10 2015 12:08 Souma wrote:
Group A is ridiculously stacked. That's pretty much the #2, #3, #4 and #6 teams of the tournament in the same group.
Meanwhile you have the #1, #5, #7 and #8 teams in Group B (I rank VP, TSM and Na`Vi ahead of Titan and the current Dignitas above CPH and 3DMAX). TSM playing with a sub though so it probably drops them to Titan's level.
I would rank 3dmax above Dignitas actually.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Absolutely not. Given recent results, Dignitas all day over 3DMAX.
Dignitas has been doing extremely well since they replaced FeTiSh against teams outside the top 7 (Fnatic, nV, NiP, VP, TSM, Na`Vi, Titan) while 3DMAX is still floundering against FlipSid3/LGB/CPH Wolves.
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as much as i LOVE NiP v Fnatic, excited to see a tourny without them : )
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Na`Vi, please go practice Cobblestone or it's just gonna end up being your new Nuke.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
WOW cajunb what an insane play
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Dignitas hitting nasty shots. They're about to beat Navi in a BO3 on LAN.
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HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA NBK JUST BOUGHT A NEGEV LAST ROUND AND ACED CW
"SORRY WRONG BUY"
HOLY FUCK MAN THAT WAS FUNNY
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hi guys
and VP  NeOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Does anyone know the music that plays during the breaks? Is there a playlist? There's this one track that I find really catchy, they've also played it during SC2 tournies. I quickly tried to Soundhound it...but Soundhound didn't recognize the track
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United Kingdom2950 Posts
I need a clip of that NegevBK ace
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
Whats the expected split on infenero for CT side?
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3A 2 B with one of the A players smoking banana at least once
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KHRN really killing it.. so many 3k,even a 4k round now
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Netherlands45349 Posts
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On April 11 2015 01:00 Crownlol wrote:
YOU SAY CAJUN I SAY B
CAJUN
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Netherlands45349 Posts
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On April 11 2015 01:53 Kipsate wrote:
B
ur not crownlol
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Dignitas ties 1-1 against TSM, woot. Let's go Dig ;o
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Lets see if TSM going to choke now or saving it for future matches.
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wtf rofl 4 people alive nobody watching connector
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United Kingdom2950 Posts
Cadian is absolutely insane
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wow that knife kill was surely the key moment of the game.
TSM would've lost if digni guy defused there.
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United Kingdom2950 Posts
What a series. Very respectable performance by Dignitas
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Poll: Recommend TSM vs Dignitas?Yes (3) 100% No (0) 0% If you have time (0) 0% 3 total votes Your vote: Recommend TSM vs Dignitas? (Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): If you have time
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war of baguettes.
may the bigger baguette win 
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
should be easy win for nV unless Titan decides on the spot to stop being so bad
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oh my god NBK knifed ex6tenz
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l o l ex6tenz.
i feel so bad for Kenny and ApeX, especially for Kenny.
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On April 11 2015 04:21 Mensol wrote:
l o l ex6tenz.
i feel so bad for Kenny and ApeX, especially for Kenny.
i dunno man, apex is rarely more than 3rd on team in terms of frags, and i havent seen any outstanding performances from kennys lately.. thats not to say kenny is not the best player on the team, but i dont get the hardcarry vibes anymore now that both rpk and maniac are consistently fragging better than apex
might be kinda lopsided though since apex is a dedicated entry fragger, i imagine its kinda hard to get good stats when youre pretty much always the first to peak or first to enter a site
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Apex on 0 kills after 13 rounds.. must suck so fuckin hard to be him right now
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Netherlands45349 Posts
Nice French civil war
is this first map or?
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On April 11 2015 04:33 Kipsate wrote:
Nice French civil war
is this first map or?
yup
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
hahaha that protoss reference.
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Netherlands45349 Posts
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On April 11 2015 04:32 Aocowns wrote:Show nested quote +On April 11 2015 04:21 Mensol wrote:
l o l ex6tenz.
i feel so bad for Kenny and ApeX, especially for Kenny. i dunno man, apex is rarely more than 3rd on team in terms of frags, and i havent seen any outstanding performances from kennys lately.. thats not to say kenny is not the best player on the team, but i dont get the hardcarry vibes anymore now that both rpk and maniac are consistently fragging better than apex might be kinda lopsided though since apex is a dedicated entry fragger, i imagine its kinda hard to get good stats when youre pretty much always the first to peak or first to enter a site EDIT: Apex on 0 kills after 13 rounds.. must suck so fuckin hard to be him right now
Apex dont have consistency but i still rate him pretty highly.
He is a monster when he is in form.
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On April 11 2015 04:38 Mensol wrote:Show nested quote +On April 11 2015 04:32 Aocowns wrote:On April 11 2015 04:21 Mensol wrote:
l o l ex6tenz.
i feel so bad for Kenny and ApeX, especially for Kenny. i dunno man, apex is rarely more than 3rd on team in terms of frags, and i havent seen any outstanding performances from kennys lately.. thats not to say kenny is not the best player on the team, but i dont get the hardcarry vibes anymore now that both rpk and maniac are consistently fragging better than apex might be kinda lopsided though since apex is a dedicated entry fragger, i imagine its kinda hard to get good stats when youre pretty much always the first to peak or first to enter a site EDIT: Apex on 0 kills after 13 rounds.. must suck so fuckin hard to be him right now Apex dont have consistency but i still rate him pretty highly. He is a monster when he is in form.
What's the point of being a monster when you can only show your form 1 game in 10 and the rest you bottom frag.
Atleast Maniac has stepped up his game whereas Apex is the same player he was 6 months ago , Beast when on form but frags even worse than Ex6tenz when not on form. If Titan replace him with a good solid entry fragger that doesn't neccesarily have the highs of Apex but also doesn't have his lows then i can see Titan immediately becoming a top tier 2 team like TSM.
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
Titan is really good on this T side.
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man titan made a statement there
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
well then titan, why couldnt you play like that the last 4 months?
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Titan has been regularly taking off games against all the top teams on their strongest maps since Rpk joined but they always seem to fall to them in BO3's,
Time to see whether that has changed.
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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NO SCOPE THERE KENNY
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Titan just got rekt. This was one of those games where everything went against Titan and everything went for nV
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First time I've seen maniac play well. Too bad they still lost
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Who the hell is this Navi impostor and what did you do with the original
Beating VP 2-1 when going 0-1 and Mirage second map O_o ? I mean navi is pretty good on Mirage, but VP its like godlike
bad day i guess
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Apex 4-14 in 16 rounds. SMH :/
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and here comes the time of day where titan crumbles and loses game 3 as well
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LETS GO 3DMAX, SUOMI FINLAND PERKELE!
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Damn , If Titan had a better fragger than Apex they would have a sick CT side. Doesn't really help when KennyS also missing his shots since the needless Awp nerf.
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Damn , Maniac is entry fragging like a boss.
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I always wonder how they can play with the monitor like 20 cm in front ...
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
thats an amazing picture :D
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On April 12 2015 03:22 pyro19 wrote:
Damn , If Titan had a better fragger than Apex they would have a sick CT side. Doesn't really help when KennyS also missing his shots since the needless Awp nerf.
Apex its one of the best entry fraggers in CS:GO his problem is consistency, but when he is on, YOU ARE going to be 4v5 agaisnt Titan
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rofl, 4 kills in 2 seconds all headshots
conga line
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I hope Cologne does this thing with the PoV streams. This is pretty sick.
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i think all ESL LAN's are going to do it from now on considering how huge success it was for katowice
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
really nice showing by navi on overpass
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navi have been looking like a really solid team finally, flamie is a great addition to the team.
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Cmon Na'Vi, let's do this!
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flamie is sick, best addition
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
cobble still not a good map for navi :/
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I'm only gold, but Overpass looked like nV forcing too many rounds on their CT side more than it was NaVi with a good showing.
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and the next round nV gets ahead of themself with those terrible buys, they love those mag7 and smg.
a decent 2 AK buy and you got rekt
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
navi comeback happening? please please :D
I guess nope :/
fuck this, davai davai navi
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On April 12 2015 21:48 Faruko wrote:
flamie is sick, best addition
navi roster change that works haha
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envy failing to perform... except happy as usual 
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On April 12 2015 22:19 trifecta wrote:navi roster change that works haha
considering Starix was playing so bad, it was a given
long live starix 1.6 
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
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Guardian is playing like a man possessed.
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They're all dead navi are doing it USA
many hats were lost
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Ok, TSM should be able to win this tournament.
if they dont, retire please.
wait, they dont have device, hard call but he is the master of chokerinos
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i love CS;GO
real man dont have lower brackets
once you are out, you are out
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i was about to bet like 60% of my inventory on nV but the bots didn't let me because i had too many skins lingering in returns and the bet closed before i could get my returns out. sleeping late saved me
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Great for Navi :D Shame I couldn't watch cbbl, hope they win it all!
On April 12 2015 22:42 iv~nk~j wrote:i was about to bet like 60% of my inventory on nV but the bots didn't let me because i had too many skins lingering in returns and the bet closed before i could get my returns out. sleeping late saved me
Haha lucky you Honestly I wouldn't be betting much against navi in the future anymore, they are pretty much top4 in current form IMO. (I would say TSM if they weren't consistently choking)
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since envy flopped and fell on their asses, i guess im cheering for titan..
VIVE LA FRANCE or something
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I say cajun and I say b. Possible 30-bomb for him this game
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Maniac is playing top tier
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This patch has really hit KennyS so hard it's unreal. Talk about nerfing a player instead of the gun.
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Also Titan lose to pistols way too much.
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On April 13 2015 00:06 pyro19 wrote:
This patch has really hit KennyS so hard it's unreal. Talk about nerfing a player instead of the gun.
the nerf was completely undeserved
and in fact, they nerfed the wrong thing
jumping headshots are what were supposed to be nerfed, they happen WAY too much
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they didnt pick the AWP, wtf ?
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i'm pissed i missed most of the games
nice upset from na'vi, i expected nV in the final
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On April 13 2015 00:19 Makro wrote:
i'm pissed i missed most of the games
nice upset from na'vi, i expected nV in the final
everyone, but so did everyone expected to VP to beat NaVi
at the end, NaVi is having the weeked of their life, hopefully they will seize the opportunity and win the tournament, we dont know how long they will play like this
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
woah titan took the first map against tsm O_o
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That Wallbang from Maniac.
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Titan must be one of the worst teams against eco, i shit you not
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On April 13 2015 00:10 Faruko wrote:
they didnt pick the AWP, wtf ?
Painful to see isn't it? This nerf has been the worst move Valve pulled since the dynamic pricing bullshit/
/sorry random Awp nerf rant. Back on topic now
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On April 13 2015 01:30 Ysellian wrote:Painful to see isn't it? This nerf has been the worst move Valve pulled since the dynamic pricing bullshit/ /sorry random Awp nerf rant. Back on topic now
terrible,completely undeserved :/
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Titan are such an emotional team it's insane. Also Inferior awpers like CajunB and Karrigan out awping KennyS seems so weird now.
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Damn , looks like all titan needed was a straight up tec 9 rush
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lolol
what did -8 bullets do again
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Cajun holds, no one can stop cajun
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choke. tsm can never catch a break
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Damn what a FUCKING match.
Ex6tenz you beast you
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TSM will always choke, thats the rule
they are the bomber of CS:GO
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what a fucking match
so happy for titan
a nv-titan final denied though
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if navi play like they did vs NV they got this ez bugatti
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Pizza should be at the same time as the finals start and the beer its pretty cold
life is good
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Pîzza its here and the maps have been decided, in time
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Pizza is almost done here, out of beer though! :p
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Ace in the first round, what more could you ask for haha.
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who's casting with semmler
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Devilwalk and i dont know who is the third one (its not anders)
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is mirage the first map ?
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On April 13 2015 03:38 Makro wrote:
is mirage the first map ?
yes
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On April 13 2015 03:37 Faruko wrote:
Devilwalk and i dont know who is the third one (its not anders)
It's Deman.
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Mirage, Cache and Cobble i believe
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Titan winning anti ecos, GGWP
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For every 5 rounds where he plays average there's gonna be one of these games from Apex.
24 frags in 16 rounds.
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titan pov impress me, really more organized than any nV pov i have heard
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navi cooled down a bit eh
e: heating back up
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I have NEVER seen Titan checking Sandwich when rushing A on mirage.
How is a top team able to win mirage with plays like that
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Also Titan went A every single round on Mirage. I don't really think they know the connector smoke split push B.
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It will still come down to cobble I think
navis cache is lackluster in comparison
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They have the wrong series indicator thingie. Says Titan is up 1-0 but Navi is leading of course. Come on, ESL, get your shit together. Can't be that hard...
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And there they go haha. As if they read my post. I was looking at the wrong green orb there for like 5 minutes waiting for them to notice until I decided to make that post lol. Then I post and bam, they replace it immediately. Good job!
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On April 13 2015 04:32 NihiLStarcraft wrote:
They have the wrong series indicator thingie. Says Titan is up 1-0 but Navi is leading of course. Come on, ESL, get your shit together. Can't be that hard...
that got fixed fast
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Maniac its way too passionate, he loses 1 round and you can see him getting a little too mad
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
navi doing way better than I thought they would on T
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7-8 is damn good for navi
davai davai!
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
that was a clean pistol round for titan
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
ex6tenz doing work in those clutches
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ex6tenz is playing his best in quite some time
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ex6tenz has clutched almost 5-6 1v1's this series
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for once ex6tenz is doing something good
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Kenny just went Godmode in that last round.
Titan with 8 rounds straight on Cache.
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Haha it feels like cobble is the deciding map of all bo3s since MLG aspen :D
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I would gladly see season back or even tuscan added :p
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fuck not going well even after the timeout
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Cbble its a lot better nowadays, but i still dont like it enough :/
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season would just be a much better map imo
3 more to go navi!
fuck that clutch
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OMG THAT NO SCOPE (SUCH LUCK BUT STILL)
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Titan peaks way way too much.
20 seconds left in a round and we're down 2 vs 3 with the bomb in control? Let's peak them all at once
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TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5955 Posts
YESSSSSS
and dat zeus dance :DDD
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Navi !!!! what a match
Zeus
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nice final, close until the end
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Fuck I'm so salty right now. Just when Maniac and Apex up their levels KennyS gets nerfed into the ground.
GG's to Na'vi and Congrats to them.SO disappointed for Titan
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awkward award ceremony!!!
the esports curse continues!
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Come on NaVi, keep this going hopefully this last a little while
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Titan
Things looked great up until a certain point, I was so confident that Titan was going to be able to celebrate again and then...ice bucket.
Maniac kind of upped his level...but without super star KennyS things look rough
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oh man i was already getting so frustrated with NaVi because of those 3 losses against eco in just 1 map but they still pulled it off in the end. really happy for them, it's nice to see them win something for a change.
also don't mind being 60 euros richer
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