Twistzz leads his team to an opening victory

Liquid dismantle Winstrike, compLexity send Fnatic to new dephh-s in London

Two strong starts for the North Americans here at London's Twickenham Stadium.

The first two North American teams have played in London, and it has been wins for both as Liquid ripped into Winstrike, and compLexity secured a massive upset against Fnatic.

Liquid took part as the second game of the day here in London, slightly delayed due to the double overtime caused by G2's win over HellRaisers. The two teams faced off on Mirage, where Liquid overturned Winstrike's pistol round win to launch a mammoth half where they went 12-3 ahead, with Russell "Twistzz" van Dulken leading the lines with a 1.79 rated performance. They continued this form into the second half, albeit suffering a small bit of resistance from the Russian team to eventually secure the 16-7 win.

Winstrike
7 - 16
Liquid
All maps
Winstrike K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov 12 - 20 -8 73.0 43.5% 0.73
Savelii 'jmqa' Bragin 12 - 19 -7 59.6 52.2% 0.72
Gregory 'balblna' Oleinick 10 - 19 -9 48.3 43.5% 0.62
Aurimas 'Kvik' Kvakšys 11 - 20 -9 62.6 43.5% 0.60
Nikita 'waterfaLLZ' Matveyev 7 - 20 -13 51.3 56.5% 0.53
Liquid K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken 24 - 6 +18 105.3 91.3% 1.79
Canada Keith 'NAF' Markovic 25 - 11 +14 119.3 78.3% 1.72
United States Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski 25 - 14 +11 98.8 73.9% 1.45
United States Nick 'nitr0' Cannella 12 - 11 +1 61.2 87.0% 1.19
Brazil Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo 12 - 10 +2 61.0 87.0% 1.07

compLexity are just too good on Inferno

Now we head to the massive upset. There's not much to write here apart from "compLexity bodied Fnatic" and that pun in the headline. Fnatic opened the map up with the pistol round, but compLexity came back firing. First by securing a forcebuy win and then by pushing on to take the lead, a 12-3 lead. The second half was equally strong, as In-Game-Leader Peter "stanislaw" Jarguz was the out-and-out best performer on the server with a 1.92 rating, as his team claimed a 16-4 win over the legendary Swedish side.

fnatic
4 - 16
Complexity
All maps
fnatic K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Sweden Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson 13 - 17 -4 84.3 70.0% 1.10
Sweden William 'draken' Sundin 15 - 19 -4 72.0 45.0% 0.77
Sweden Jesper 'JW' Wecksell 11 - 17 -6 56.5 50.0% 0.65
Sweden Richard 'Xizt' Landström 8 - 18 -10 52.9 55.0% 0.61
Sweden Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist 4 - 19 -15 49.5 45.0% 0.37
Complexity K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz 23 - 10 +13 127.1 95.0% 1.92
United States Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan 20 - 10 +10 99.5 75.0% 1.65
Canada Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor 22 - 6 +16 69.3 90.0% 1.61
United States Jaccob 'yay' Whiteaker 14 - 12 +2 81.3 85.0% 1.13
United Kingdom Rory 'dephh' Jackson 11 - 13 -2 75.0 90.0% 1.07

These results send both Liquid and compLexity to the 1-0 bracket of tomorrow's Swiss round, as well as see them confirmed as entrants to the next Major, IEM Katowice 2018.

The next North American-based teams on show will be MIBR, who are currently taking on TYLOO as of publication, and Cloud9 who'll face Vega Squadron in the last game of the day, at around 3:30 PM EDT.

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#1(With 1 replies)
September 12, 2018 11:16AM
shrek
america won today
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September 12, 2018 04:50PM
Will
Canada won today
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September 12, 2018 07:56PM
Joe
Dust2 Birthday cake!
new dephhs B)
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