M80 relegated to last chance bracket by BetBoom
Earlier today, BetBoom and M80 defeated Falcons and G2 respectively, teeing up a lower bracket final for a playoff spot. Both eager to get their foot in the door of the Maltese playoffs, it was sure to be a banger of a rematch of the opening game.
Map one went to M80's pick of Ancient, an interesting choice. BetBoom actually picked Ancient in their first BO3 against M80, however, M80 absolutely decimated BetBoom on that map. Following an equally dominating result on Ancient against G2, M80 were happy to pick the map themselves.
BetBoom took the first pistol, to breathe a sigh of relief, having lost six straight pistols against M80 in the first series. However, that sigh turned into a gasp as M80 turned the tables and picked up the second. M80 stormed in the lead to 3-1, then 5-2, then 8-3, until BetBoom took the final round of the half. BetBoom were quick to shorten M80's lead, revoking M80's pistol advantage and picking up a swift anti-force to cut the lead to just two at 7-9. However, once M80 got the big green out, it was all Fritz "slaxz-" Dietrich all day as he led M80 to a 13-7 victory on their map pick.
Next up Mirage, BetBoom's pick. M80 got off to an absolute heater, picking up the pistol and the first gun round to get ahead to a 5-0 lead, all with only 3 deaths. All good things must come to an end and it did so for M80 as BetBoom's A execute finally worked out to grant two of their own. They go tit for tat with a Aleksandr "zorte" Zagodyrenko AWP-on-AWP clutch to pick up four to M80's six, souring the Americans' economy. BetBoom rallied late in the half to tie it up at the break.
For the first time since the pistol round of Ancient, BetBoom took the lead with a pistol win against Mirage. A perfect anti-force followed by an anti-eco make it 9-6 in BetBoom's favor. A dreadful two gun rounds from M80 combined with solid anti-ecos from BetBoom led to a flawless CT-side from the Russian squad, ending the map 13-6.
Onto the decider Anubis, winner goes to playoffs, loser to the Last Chance Bracket. M80 picked up the CT-pistol and followed it with a perfect anti-force. Despite cleaning up the third round force buy, BetBoom had a full buy in store which they used to take their first round of the map. From then on, M80's economy was bruised and battered up to 4-3. M80 responded with one, but BetBoom's explosive executes shattered M80's defenses time and time again. It was one final round in M80's favor to scrape together five at the half.
BetBoom had an easy CT-pistol, and cruised their way to ten rounds. Thus began the M80 comeback. It started with one clean conversion, which broke the money of BetBoom and allowed M80 a window in the game. Full-buy wins sprinkled with anti-ecos had M80 even the score at 10 apiece, then take the lead with a tight Fritz "slaxz-" Dietrich clutch. One final anti-eco made it twelve. Everything on the line, with their final buy, BetBoom crucially won their eleventh and twelfth. Onto overtime.
BetBoom struck first, M80 struck back. BetBoom won their last CT-round of the overtime to give themselves a 14-13 lead heading into their own T-side. M80 struck first on their own defense to even up the scoreboard via a desk-slamming failed Aleksandr "KaiR0N-" Anashkin 1v2 clutch. Two T-sided OT rounds finished Anubis 16-14 in BetBoom's favor, and the series 2-1.
BetBoomM80| BetBoom |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko |
51 - 40 | +11 | 72.3 | 68.1% | 1.14 |
| Kirill 'Magnojez' Rodnov |
49 - 48 | +1 | 81.3 | 71.0% | 1.07 |
| Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov |
41 - 46 | -5 | 69.9 | 66.7% | 0.96 |
| Aleksandr 'KaiR0N-' Anashkin |
38 - 44 | -6 | 72.0 | 72.5% | 0.95 |
| Pavel 's1ren' Ogloblin |
38 - 43 | -5 | 53.8 | 66.7% | 0.94 |
| M80 |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa |
59 - 47 | +12 | 101.2 | 71.0% | 1.36 |
 Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich |
47 - 41 | +6 | 67.5 | 68.1% | 1.01 |
 Michael 'Swisher' Schmid |
42 - 47 | -5 | 77.4 | 68.1% | 0.96 |
| Ethan 'reck' Serrano |
40 - 42 | -2 | 61.7 | 71.0% | 0.91 |
| Elias 's1n' Stein |
33 - 41 | -8 | 55.5 | 69.6% | 0.83 |
M80's next match is against Tyloo at 10:30AM tomorrow for elimination.
