Aurora drops the ball against Apeks

Apeks turns around a 3-9 deficit

After starting with big wins in their opening games, we had Apeks taking on Aurora in the Group A winners' match at the ESL Challenger Melbourne 2024.

Aurora got the final BO1 of the day underway with the CT-sided pistol on Overpass. CacaNito's quad-kill saw Apeks answer back with the force before Aurora made sure the force-buy wars continued. The Russian team built on that force to take a big lead at 9-3, putting up a strong defensive half. with Norwi ending the opening half with 16 kills and an ADR of 140.

Apeks started with the second half pistol and went on an incredible nine-round streak to get to match-point first before Aurora got their first T round. While Aurora threatened to take us to overtime, Apeks hung on for a 13-11 win.

Apeks
13 - 11
Aurora
All maps
Apeks K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Aleksandar 'CacaNito' Kjulukoski 26 - 14 +12 100.8 87.5% 1.63
Ådne 'sense' Fredriksen 17 - 16 +1 89.1 79.2% 1.15
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad 14 - 20 -6 75.5 62.5% 0.95
Martin 'STYKO' Styk 13 - 16 -3 73.9 66.7% 0.91
Sweden Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson 13 - 17 -4 48.8 66.7% 0.76
Aurora K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Evgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin 19 - 17 +2 95.2 79.2% 1.35
Evgeny 'r3salt' Frolov 18 - 18 +0 85.9 62.5% 1.10
Denis 'deko' Zhukov 18 - 15 +3 64.7 83.3% 1.05
Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin 14 - 16 -2 66.4 62.5% 0.90
Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev 14 - 17 -3 61.1 66.7% 0.87

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