Apeks stun Liquid in their first ever Major game

Memorable Major debut for Apeks

Liquid falls short to Apeks

Team Liquid was shocked by Apeks in the opening match of their Paris Major campaign as Apeks won their first ever Major match 16-12.

Liquid and Apeks kicked off their first game Ancient with Liquid on the T side and it was EliGE who converted a 1v1 to give Liquid the first round. Apeks immediately bounced back with a force-buy to tie things up. The force buy win helped Apeks go on a seven round win streak before EliGE came in with an incredible triple entry on the B site to give Liquid their second round. Liquid managed to turn that one round into three as they closed up the score at 7-5 before Apeks bounced back with the eighth round to win the first half. Apeks ended the first half 10-5 with Liquid struggling as NAF ended the first half with 0 kills. Liquid took the second half pistol on their T side and converted the force-buy to get the score to 10-7.

NAF had a slow start to the game

Apeks managed to see out multiple clutch attempts from Liquid to get to 13 before Liquid came through with couple of solid defensive rounds to secure five rounds in a row before Apeks got to 14. jkaem came in with a crucial round for Apeks as the lurked between Liquid's defensive set-up to give Apeks map point. Apeks eventually made sure Liquid's comeback was cut short as they wrapped up the map 16-12.

For Apeks jL, kyxsan and jkaem all had a strong map with 25, 23 and 23 kills respectively. For Liquid, even though oSee managed to get 30 kills and EliGE got 28, it just wasn't enough as it was yet another slow start for Liquid.

Apeks
16 - 12
Liquid
All maps
Apeks K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius 25 - 20 +5 95.4 75.0% 1.25
Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski 23 - 19 +4 86.1 75.0% 1.25
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad 23 - 22 +1 90.0 71.4% 1.16
Sweden Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson 18 - 17 +1 67.6 71.4% 1.06
Martin 'STYKO' Styk 13 - 19 -6 63.5 75.0% 0.87
Liquid K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'oSee' Ohm 30 - 19 +11 100.6 78.6% 1.40
United States Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski 28 - 21 +7 95.0 82.1% 1.33
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis 16 - 21 -5 64.3 75.0% 0.95
United States Nick 'nitr0' Cannella 16 - 20 -4 68.3 64.3% 0.94
Canada Keith 'NAF' Markovic 7 - 22 -15 47.2 64.3% 0.55

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#1(With 2 replies)
May 8, 2023 07:23pm
m4_nas
had naf in my fantasy team ffs :/
#2(With 1 replies)
May 8, 2023 07:25pm
AdiC
RIP :(
#3(With 0 replies)
May 8, 2023 07:26pm
m4_nas
khatam, tata, goodbye Sadge
#4(With 0 replies)
May 8, 2023 07:34pm
shashank
pls dont deny my diamond coin liquid
#5(With 0 replies)
May 9, 2023 02:03pm
autrix
Normal thing for them
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