Heroic out of playoffs for the first time in a year
In an unlikely battle for survival in the last-chance bracket of ESL Pro League Group B, Monte’s BOROS-less roster took on the Danish giants of Heroic. The winner lives to fight another day, loser goes home.
And it all started on Mirage where the pistol round saw DemQQ take 4 massive frags to hold onto the A site in the post-plant. Heroic replied thanks to Jabbi’s Deagle and Galil play to win out the force buy and they turned it into an early 5-1 lead. Bringing the AWP out, Woro2k found two openings to secure Monte’s first gun round. The two teams went back and forth for a few rounds but Heroic ensured a 9-6 lead thanks to Sjuush stepping up.
A second pistol round for Monte got them into the half quickly. Woro2k, sdy, and br0 all put up big performances churning up the Heroic attack as the Danes once more fell flat similar to their match against MOUZ. Monte continued their streak of rounds, taking the map with ease 16-10.
Moving on to Overpass, quick kills from sjuush and TeSeS forced Monte to save Kevlar in the first round. And Heroic went up 3-0 off the back of that. Once Guns came out back-to-back double kills from sdy and a triple from Br0 got the international squad to a tied game. Round 7 saw Stavn open the round-up on A with his team breaking into B and cleaning the map out.
Nothing but pistols for Monte in the following round and Heroic extended their lead up to 5-3. The gun round fell flat, and while the following eco got close, Heroic was up to 7. Monte found two rounds thanks to key br0 frags and that brought their economy back into control allowing them to bring the half to a close 7-8.
Heroic won round 16 to set up their CT side, but Monte won out the forcebuy thanks to double-kills from Woro2k and sdy and tied the game up at 9-9. Edging closer to a win, Monte quickly found themselves up 12-9 with sdy once again leading the pack. Finally Heroic woke up to get within spitting distance of Monte, outside of Br0's A site round, and broke the Monte economy allowing the Danes to tie the game up. Round 26 was a massive gun round for both sides and the Danes managed to retain control of the game, but sdy decided the game wasn't over yet as he took down 4 with a scavenged AWP to tie up 14-14.
Monte took matchpoint but was too slow moving into the A site allowing stavn to time them out and push it into Overtime. A flawless half from Heroic put them at 18, despite cadiaN's Deagle nearly pulling back a lost B site round, sdy fought the captain and won his team another round. Monte brought out the secondary AWP and they pushed the map to a second Overtime.
Both teams stayed neck and neck, but Heroic once again found matchpoint first. And this time they barely pulled out a win, pushing the series to a third.
Moving to Ancient, Monte took the knife round win to get the favored CT side, which allowed them to get ahead to a 7-1 lead. Heroic managed to get up to 5, before Monte guaranteed a minor half-time win. Heroic took the final pistol round to tie the game up 8.
Ancient continued to be back and forth as both teams remained tied up to 10-10, but Monte seized economic control and extended up to 14. kRaSnaL was the hero of round 25 as he picked up a double kill to clutch out matchpoint. And Monte closed the series out to eliminate Heroic from EPL.
MonteHEROIC| Monte |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev |
81 - 62 | +19 | 86.0 | 68.1% | 1.20 |
| Sergiy 'DemQQ' Demchenko |
62 - 64 | -2 | 78.8 | 75.5% | 1.08 |
 Alexander 'br0' Bro |
62 - 64 | -2 | 75.8 | 66.0% | 1.05 |
| Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk |
58 - 56 | +2 | 57.9 | 68.1% | 0.98 |
 Szymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek |
53 - 66 | -13 | 64.5 | 69.1% | 0.91 |
| HEROIC |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casper 'cadiaN' Møller |
72 - 60 | +12 | 75.8 | 71.3% | 1.12 |
| Martin 'stavn' Lund |
69 - 65 | +4 | 84.2 | 64.9% | 1.08 |
| Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck |
64 - 61 | +3 | 73.9 | 71.3% | 1.05 |
| Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard |
59 - 65 | -6 | 69.4 | 68.1% | 0.97 |
| René 'TeSeS' Madsen |
47 - 67 | -20 | 58.9 | 68.1% | 0.83 |
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