NRG secure spot in New Legends; FURIA and Complexity eliminated from StarLadder Berlin Major
The third day of the StarLadder Berlin Major New Challengers stage has come to a close, with FURIA and Complexity being eliminated, while NRG have advanced to the New Legends stage.
In the first series of the day, FURIA faced off against Syman in the 1-2 pool. Syman started Train in the lead as they won the opening pistol and the following two rounds before FURIA answered back with three rounds of their own. The two squads continued to trade rounds throughout the half with Syman ending it up 8-7. After switching sides, FURIA began to falter only finding two more rounds before Syman claimed Train 16-9.
Moving onto Inferno, FURIA continued to struggle as Syman ended their CT-side up 9-6. The situation continued to degrade rapidly for FURIA as they struggled to find a single round before Syman eliminated them with a 16-7 finish on Inferno.
FURIASyman| FURIA |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato |
37 - 32 | +5 | 83.2 | 64.6% | 1.09 |
| Yuri 'yuurih' Santos |
33 - 35 | -2 | 73.4 | 66.7% | 0.97 |
| Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo |
23 - 40 | -17 | 61.7 | 62.5% | 0.76 |
| Andrei 'arT' Piovezan |
23 - 39 | -16 | 54.6 | 54.2% | 0.72 |
| Rinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior |
17 - 39 | -22 | 43.7 | 47.9% | 0.48 |
| Syman |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy |
40 - 25 | +15 | 93.5 | 81.2% | 1.42 |
 Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov |
42 - 26 | +16 | 89.5 | 77.1% | 1.42 |
| Ramazan 'Ramz1kBO$$' Bashizov |
34 - 25 | +9 | 75.6 | 79.2% | 1.22 |
 Maksim 't0rick' Zaikin |
37 - 30 | +7 | 78.6 | 77.1% | 1.16 |
 Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus |
31 - 28 | +3 | 74.5 | 79.2% | 1.13 |
In the next elimination match of the day, Complexity took on the Australians of Grayhound. Starting on Dust2, Grayhound looked poised to take the half as they won seven out of the first eight rounds. However, Complexity managed to pull it back and claim the half as they won the next seven rounds in a row to pull ahead with a slight 8-7 lead. This would prove to be the last time Complexity led in the series however as Grayhound quickly found double digits before claiming the map 16-11.
Moving onto Inferno, Complexity seemingly ran out of steam as Grayhound found a dominant 12-3 CT-side before sending Complexity packing with a 16-4 win on Inferno.
ComplexityGrayhound| Complexity |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland |
30 - 36 | -6 | 79.9 | 61.7% | 1.00 |
 Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan |
28 - 34 | -6 | 60.2 | 63.8% | 0.88 |
| Hunter 'SicK' Mims |
25 - 37 | -12 | 64.8 | 70.2% | 0.87 |
 Rory 'dephh' Jackson |
25 - 37 | -12 | 59.7 | 61.7% | 0.74 |
| Owen 'oBo' Schlatter |
27 - 41 | -14 | 65.8 | 57.4% | 0.73 |
| Grayhound |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Simon 'Sico' Williams |
40 - 24 | +16 | 90.6 | 83.0% | 1.43 |
| Christopher 'dexter' Nong |
46 - 29 | +17 | 92.9 | 76.6% | 1.37 |
| Liam 'malta' Schembri |
38 - 24 | +14 | 81.3 | 74.5% | 1.26 |
 Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga |
35 - 29 | +6 | 80.0 | 74.5% | 1.15 |
| Ollie 'DickStacy' Tierney |
25 - 29 | -4 | 68.4 | 74.5% | 1.03 |
Moving onto the 2-1 matches, NRG finally found a win for the Americas as picked up a quick 2-0 over AVANGAR to advance into the New Legends stage. On Train, after losing the opening pistol round, NRG stabilized and maintained the lead for the entirety of the half as they won their T-side 10-5. On their CT-side, NRG only allowed AVANGAR to win three more rounds before claiming Train 16-8.
After a strong performance on Train, Dust2 ended up being an even more dominant performance for NRG as they won the first eight rounds in a row on their CT-side before winning the half 11-4. Following this, Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte and company didn't give AVANGAR any breathing room as they won the next five rounds in a row to take Dust2 16-4.
NRGAVANGAR| NRG |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarik 'tarik' Celik |
44 - 24 | +20 | 111.6 | 84.1% | 1.60 |
| Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte |
39 - 21 | +18 | 86.8 | 81.8% | 1.44 |
| Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold |
37 - 22 | +15 | 85.2 | 79.5% | 1.40 |
 Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov |
30 - 18 | +12 | 78.1 | 81.8% | 1.37 |
 Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz |
27 - 21 | +6 | 60.7 | 75.0% | 1.03 |
| AVANGAR |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dzhami 'Jame' Ali |
27 - 29 | -2 | 67.5 | 63.6% | 0.95 |
 Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev |
22 - 37 | -15 | 62.0 | 54.5% | 0.65 |
| Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev |
19 - 36 | -17 | 61.1 | 54.5% | 0.64 |
| Timur 'buster' Tulepov |
20 - 36 | -16 | 57.6 | 43.2% | 0.59 |
| Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev |
17 - 39 | -22 | 46.3 | 50.0% | 0.47 |
With NRG advancing and the remaining teams from the Americas finding themselves eliminated, tomorrow's matchups look as follows:
| 2-2 Round | |
| AVANGAR -vs- Broken inline Syman |
6:00 AM |
| forZe -vs- DreamEaters |
9:15 AM |
 Vitality -vs- Grayhound |
12:30 PM |
And with only three squads left to advance, the team list for the New Legends stage looks as follows:
 Astralis |
 ENCE |
| Natus Vincere |
MIBR |
 FaZe |
Liquid |
| Renegades |
 Ninjas in Pyjamas |
| North |
mousesports |
| G2 |
NRG |
 CR4ZY |
Broken inline AVANGAR/Syman |
| forZe/DreamEaters |
 Vitality/Grayhound |
