SK move past G2 in London

Striker

23-6-2017 16:00

After defeating G2 16-7 on Cache, SK have advanced to the winners' match of Group A, where they'll meet FaZe.

After FaZe overpowered OpTic in the opening match in London, day one of ECS Season 3 Finals continued with Group A's second battle between SK and G2 on Cache, where the Brazilians started on the Counter-Terrorist side.

Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's squad got off to a fantastic start, winning the pistol round and the first gunround with relative ease before Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga saved the following with a 1v1 clutch when G2 only bought a few Deagles.

SK to take on FaZe for first place in the Group of Death

After Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo picked up a quad-kill from the boost on A site, SK continued their dominant run until it was 9-0, at which point G2 got on the board with a quick A split. However, SK capitalized on their economic advantage and proceeded to end the half with three more rounds going their way for a 12-3 lead.

G2 saved their chances in the match with an aggressive pistol tactic to lower the massive deficit to six rounds, but it was the Brazilian side who grabbed the first gunrounds and soon got away with the win at 16-7.

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23rd June 2017

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G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro bodyy	15 - 19	-4	79.1	0.92
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	17 - 17	0	66.6	0.91
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	14 - 21	-7	65.0	0.81
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	10 - 20	-10	64.3	0.62
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	7 - 22	-15	56.3	0.52

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	25 - 12	+13	98.6	1.64
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	24 - 12	+12	101.5	1.59
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	17 - 13	+4	83.0	1.32
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	17 - 11	+6	82.9	1.27
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	16 - 15	+1	77.6	1.11

ECS Season 3 FinalsBest of 1

Matchpage

23rd June 2017

Cache

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro bodyy	15 - 19	-4	79.1	0.92
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	17 - 17	0	66.6	0.91
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	14 - 21	-7	65.0	0.81
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	10 - 20	-10	64.3	0.62
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	7 - 22	-15	56.3	0.52

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	25 - 12	+13	98.6	1.64
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	24 - 12	+12	101.5	1.59
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	17 - 13	+4	83.0	1.32
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	17 - 11	+6	82.9	1.27
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	16 - 15	+1	77.6	1.11

ez faze

2017-06-23 16:00

17 replies

FaZe will lose to SK...

2017-06-23 16:01

12 replies

Flag checks out

11 replies

nt R4in

2017-06-23 16:02

10 replies

Is that an insult?

2017-06-23 16:03

9 replies

I'm sorry, you're so confident on your country player that you even consider him to be an insult? Shieeet.... I just pointed you have the same flag as a player of FaZe, so your argument falls apart. An insult would be saying that you have no scene in Norway.

2017-06-23 16:06

8 replies

I have no clue about what you are trying to imply.

2017-06-23 16:08

7 replies

ikr lol

2017-06-23 16:10

Try learning English, that would help...

2017-06-23 16:11

5 replies

I know how to read pal, what i said was that i don't know what he is implying.

2017-06-23 16:12

4 replies

You called him out for being biased when you're being biased yourself.

2017-06-23 16:15

3 replies

Being biased had nothing to do with our conversation. Maybe you should find out what country you are from before entering a simple discussion.

2017-06-23 16:17

2 replies

Maybe I should stop wasting my time talking to donkeys like you. Have a nice day.

2017-06-23 16:19

1 reply

Wtf, this BR dude is stonned

2017-06-23 17:14

ez sk

Flag checks out, but ez FaZe

Like ez g2... lol

2017-06-23 17:00

ez FaZe LuL

2017-06-23 17:32

disappointing from G2

me too

In the last 3 tournaments, G2 ALWAYS lost the first match. They won two of them *shrug face*

lets go SK

G2 broke my heart

SmithZz would have rekt SK ez pz kick_kennys_ffs

French superteam LUL

Awesome!

Expected

GG EZ GO SK !

ez for Vaco

Sk supeeteam

Expected!

expected, G2 is so overrated

Seeing off? Implying G2 are out of the tournament, no?

expected

ez vaco

ez SK top 1

great game from TACO

lets go!

xDDDDD that rating kennyS he deserved at least 1.10

I thought see off meant the other team is eliminated...

6 replies

Not necessarily, but I understand the confusion

2017-06-23 16:05

ah ok. btw ily

Maybe you guys should diversify those titles, it's clear that you guys always recycle them each tournament. Maybe include notable performances in titles? An example I could give would be: "TACO takes down G2 in London."

In 99% cases, you can't really highlight one player in that way, and especially not in one-sided matches like this, where everyone played well.

#79 something like that

2017-06-23 16:18

Or better "TACO with a huge display against G2 in London", but you are right, some variability would be good!

2017-06-23 16:14

So EZ For TACO LUL

French teams seem to struggle in their first games of the day/tournament. SK looked like they were smurfing.

Send hello to all fans of g2 who wrote ez 4 g2

#RUNSKG

g2 has a slow start everytime. Look at the past 2 events they won. They gt upset at the start but came back stronger at the end.

I think it's not fair the elimination match being played tomorrow. Gives another day to shitty teams make miracles happen

2017-06-23 16:07

VACO

Ez My friends

are g2 out now? title makes it seem that way

They gonna play optic for the losers match, the loser will get eliminated.

2017-06-23 16:04

ez for SK the best team in the world. ez for Marcelo "coldzera" david the best player to ever touch counter strike. ez for felps the brazilian fer. ez for follenrazer aka O verdadeiro best igl and awper in the world. #thecryisfree #saltytears #keepemcomin #SKera #sktop1 #AREUMADcuzIarent

G2 starting slow like always.

misleading title, gj sk!

GG WP

"see off" lol

EZ SK

Taco on fire

GO SK

best CS GO Team of all time. If they keep performing like this for 1-2 years I'll say of all time. way too consistent even with standins and after huge victories. never real slumps.

2ez4TACO

2017-06-23 16:09

TACO on fire = eazy game!

Was expecting a better game, g2 was so terrible. Nice sk XD

no disrespect for SK but on this high level bo1. I don't like it. Imo they could play like 10 times Cache in a row and anything would be possible. 5:0 into 5:5 or the other way around. I don't like it.

It's not disrespect, I agree with you, don't like as well but when that are the rules you need to manage and make the minimum mistakes and then you can to win that map. Not best way of course but neither a excuse to a loss

I simply don't like it because bo1 makes it possible for weaker teams to get through groupstage while the best teams kick each other out. it's like the golden goal rule that existed a while ago in football. one team could dominate and creat alot of high quality chances to score and then one lucky punch sets the game to an end and no chance to reply. it's bs. and it's not fair.

2017-06-23 16:20

Agree but now G2 has two BO3 to go throw playoffs. BO1 winnters bracket is not a huge problem

2017-06-23 16:27

yes I agree

2017-06-23 16:28

Fanboys and trolls everywhere, lol. G2 played like shit