At the age of 32, TaZ takes a trophy home with Kinguin

Kinguin win DreamHack Montreal over ENCE

After falling short at the ZOTAC Cup Masters, Kinguin take it home in Montreal.

The last day of DreamHack Montreal kicked off with a Polish derby between AGO and Kinguin. Kinguin were quick to dismantle AGO on Dust2, taking the first map 16-4 with Karol "rallen" Rodowicz leading the charge.

Kinguin's performance continued onto Train, the second map of the series. While AGO were able to build up some rounds in the first half, Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas shut AGO down in the second half, taking the second map 16-8 and the series 2-0, moving Kinguin up to the grand finals.

AGO
0 - 2
Kinguin
All maps
AGO K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Mateusz 'TOAO' Zawistowski 28 - 36 -8 69.6 50.0% 0.79
Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek 25 - 35 -10 72.8 63.6% 0.78
Dominik 'GruBy' Swiderski 24 - 39 -15 72.5 68.2% 0.76
Tomasz 'phr' Wójcik 24 - 35 -11 67.6 59.1% 0.72
Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski 21 - 37 -16 52.3 54.5% 0.64
Kinguin K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas 39 - 21 +18 92.2 81.8% 1.51
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz 41 - 25 +16 99.5 81.8% 1.46
Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski 37 - 24 +13 90.5 81.8% 1.44
Jacek 'MINISE' Jeziak 37 - 27 +10 89.6 86.4% 1.38
Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak 27 - 25 +2 66.2 75.0% 1.10

The second team to meet Kinguin in the grand finals was determined shortly afterwards in the second semifinal of the bracket. Despite appearing to be one of, if not the, strongest team at the event, ENCE were crushed by Imperial on Mirage, with Imperial taking the first map in the series 16-2.

After an uncharacteristic loss by ENCE, the Finns rebounded on Dust2, taking the lead in the first half 11-4. Imperial fought back in the second half, attempting to reclaim the dominance of Mirage. Nearly pushing the game into overtime at 14-15, ENCE wrapped up the map by taking the 30th round, tying the series 1-1 with a 16-14 win on Dust2.

With the series tied 1-1, both teams were neck-and-neck on Train, with ENCE taking the lead in the first half 10-5. In the second half, Imperial reversed the scoreline, nearly taking the map 15-11 in a 5v2 before ENCE clutched out the round and pushed the game into overtime. Taking overtime to the full four rounds, Aleksi "allu" Jalli finally closed the map in his team's favor 19-17, giving ENCE the series 2-1 and moving them on to the grand finals.

ENCE
2 - 1
Imperial
All maps
ENCE K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli 66 - 52 +14 78.8 61.9% 1.15
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen 50 - 61 -11 68.7 63.1% 0.93
Jere 'sergej' Salo 47 - 56 -9 64.6 69.0% 0.91
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen 48 - 61 -13 63.6 66.7% 0.87
Jani 'Aerial' Jussila 40 - 63 -23 62.6 60.7% 0.79
Imperial K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas 70 - 47 +23 75.6 75.0% 1.26
Žygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas 62 - 51 +11 79.7 72.6% 1.18
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković 63 - 49 +14 80.0 78.6% 1.14
Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss 53 - 50 +3 67.5 69.0% 1.02
Eimantas 'pounh' Lazickas 44 - 54 -10 75.9 64.3% 0.94

Just two teams remained in the grand finals: Kinguin and ENCE. The series kicked off on Nuke, with Kinguin taking the early lead on the CT-side. Still, ENCE fought tooth-and-nail on the T-side, with Kinguin just taking a sliver of a lead at halftime 8-7. Kinguin fought back in the second half, taking another 8 rounds on the T-side to give them the first map 16-14.

On Dust2, rallen and Jacek "MINISE" Jeziak continued to lead their team, taking the lead in the first half 9-6. Kinguin continued to outperform ENCE, taking the second half 16-9 and closing the series 2-0. With their victory over ENCE, Kinguin claim the title at Dreamhack Montreal 2018 and the $50,000 prize.

Kinguin
2 - 0
ENCE
All maps
Kinguin K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz 43 - 37 +6 92.4 72.7% 1.35
Jacek 'MINISE' Jeziak 45 - 34 +11 79.7 72.7% 1.25
Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak 38 - 35 +3 61.4 65.5% 1.00
Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski 33 - 38 -5 68.2 61.8% 0.94
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas 33 - 38 -5 66.2 69.1% 0.94
ENCE K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli 45 - 36 +9 88.9 69.1% 1.20
Jani 'Aerial' Jussila 41 - 38 +3 82.8 72.7% 1.14
Jere 'sergej' Salo 40 - 38 +2 80.5 70.9% 1.08
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen 28 - 43 -15 67.6 61.8% 0.78
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen 28 - 38 -10 56.1 61.8% 0.75

Here are the final standings for DreamHack Montreal 2018:

  • 1st. Kinguin - $50,000
  • 2nd. ENCE - $20,000
  • 3rd-4th. AGO - $10,000
  • 3rd-4th. Imperial - $10,000
  • 5-6th. Sweden Red Reserve - $3,000
  • 5-6th. Brazil Luminosity - $3,000
  • 7-8th. United States eUnited - $2,000
  • 7-8th. Denmark Heroic - $2,000

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#1(With 2 replies)
September 9, 2018 10:11PM
Joe
Dust2 Birthday cake!
FeelsGoodMan Taz, FeelsBadMan eUnited
#2(With 1 replies)
September 9, 2018 10:24PM
iMarbot
Dust2 Birthday cake!
I thought it was meant to be EZ for ENCE??
#3(With 0 replies)
September 10, 2018 08:38AM
Joe
Dust2 Birthday cake!
Supposed to be ez for eUnited, somehow they played and lost to both the 1st place and 2nd place teams.
#4(With 0 replies)
September 10, 2018 08:42AM
shrek
ez
#5(With 0 replies)
September 10, 2018 09:59AM
shrek
kinda gay that there was 1 na team at an na event
#6(With 0 replies)
September 11, 2018 02:11AM
Will
fuck
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