Liquid, HEROIC start EPL S19 campaign with wins
While Bad News Kangaroos got their ESL Pro League Season 19 campaign off to a not so ideal start against defending champions MOUZ, we had four more games taking place on the opening day of the Group C and D games.
Two veteran leaders in gla1ve and Snax went up against each other as ENCE took on GamerLegion in the Group C upper bracket quarter-final. GamerLegion eased to a 13-6 win on ENCE's pick of Ancient it was a similar story on their pick of Overpass as well with sl3nd dropping 21 kills as GamerLegion made it two 13-6 wins to pick up a 2-0 series win.
ENCEGamerLegion| ENCE |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Paweł 'dycha' Dycha |
24 - 31 | -7 | 74.4 | 52.6% | 0.90 |
| Olek 'hades' Miskiewicz |
23 - 27 | -4 | 64.3 | 68.4% | 0.88 |
| Krzysztof 'Goofy' Górski |
21 - 29 | -8 | 66.5 | 63.2% | 0.81 |
| Kacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz |
19 - 30 | -11 | 69.3 | 57.9% | 0.80 |
 Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander |
16 - 29 | -13 | 47.6 | 60.5% | 0.64 |
| GamerLegion |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Henrich 'sl3nd' Hevesi |
33 - 13 | +20 | 84.2 | 78.9% | 1.44 |
 Isak 'isak' Fahlén |
32 - 24 | +8 | 87.7 | 78.9% | 1.36 |
 Sebastian 'volt' Maloș |
30 - 24 | +6 | 81.4 | 84.2% | 1.23 |
 Andreas 'aNdu' Maasing |
26 - 24 | +2 | 77.7 | 78.9% | 1.12 |
| Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski |
25 - 19 | +6 | 66.6 | 71.1% | 1.06 |
Group D's opening game saw Complexity face PERA and the North American team started with a narrow 13-11 win on PERA's pick of Anubis thanks to strong performances from EliGE and Grim before picking up a 13-9 win on their own pick of Vertigo.
ComplexityPERA| Complexity |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ricky 'floppy' Kemery |
37 - 26 | +11 | 91.7 | 80.4% | 1.39 |
| Michael 'Grim' Wince |
37 - 30 | +7 | 87.0 | 73.9% | 1.19 |
| Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski |
36 - 35 | +1 | 83.0 | 69.6% | 1.12 |
 Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli |
29 - 30 | -1 | 67.8 | 67.4% | 0.95 |
 Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou |
23 - 32 | -9 | 58.2 | 63.0% | 0.80 |
| PERA |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel-Cătălin 'Ciocardau' Purice |
41 - 31 | +10 | 101.0 | 82.6% | 1.42 |
 Danil 'Porya' Poryadin |
33 - 34 | -1 | 79.7 | 73.9% | 1.12 |
| Brajan 'DGL' Lemecha |
29 - 31 | -2 | 65.1 | 65.2% | 0.92 |
| Áron 'Aaron' Homoki |
27 - 34 | -7 | 69.3 | 63.0% | 0.88 |
 Bebu 'Bibu' Aadil |
23 - 33 | -10 | 54.4 | 56.5% | 0.68 |
Ninjas in Pyjamas (NIP) took on old foes HEROIC in their campaign opener and while Vertigo was a back-and-forth series which saw HEROIC take a 19-16 win in second overtime, Nuke, the Danes' pick saw them go 13-8 with TeSeS stepping up for them to take a 2-0 series win.
Ninjas in PyjamasHEROIC| Ninjas in Pyjamas |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max 'maxster' Jansson |
41 - 38 | +3 | 84.8 | 80.4% | 1.14 |
 Alejandro 'alex' Masanet |
39 - 37 | +2 | 75.9 | 73.2% | 1.06 |
 Artem 'r1nkle' Moroz |
38 - 35 | +3 | 66.0 | 64.3% | 0.91 |
| Kacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara |
32 - 46 | -14 | 69.3 | 58.9% | 0.77 |
 Maoz 'BluePho3nix' Paz |
24 - 41 | -17 | 51.6 | 62.5% | 0.64 |
| HEROIC |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| René 'TeSeS' Madsen |
47 - 33 | +14 | 89.3 | 73.2% | 1.31 |
| Guy 'NertZ' Iluz |
46 - 34 | +12 | 94.5 | 73.2% | 1.31 |
| Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck |
34 - 38 | -4 | 82.3 | 78.6% | 1.08 |
| Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi |
39 - 37 | +2 | 66.5 | 71.4% | 1.08 |
 Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski |
30 - 33 | -3 | 53.2 | 69.6% | 0.88 |
The final game of the day saw Liquid take on FURIA, following the departure of arT with FURIA picking up surprise 13-9 win on Liquid's pick of Inferno to start the series. Liquid answered back to tie the series following a 13-7 win on Mirage before the series moved to Nuke for the decider. Nuke saw a much improved Liquid, as YEKINDAR powered them to a 13-9 win to take a 2-1 series win.
FURIALiquid| FURIA |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato |
58 - 43 | +15 | 106.6 | 82.8% | 1.46 |
| Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo |
43 - 41 | +2 | 64.5 | 67.2% | 0.98 |
| Yuri 'yuurih' Santos |
34 - 43 | -9 | 58.8 | 68.8% | 0.84 |
| Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes |
34 - 50 | -16 | 69.7 | 64.1% | 0.84 |
| Kayke 'kye' Bertolucci |
26 - 42 | -16 | 41.8 | 65.6% | 0.72 |
| Liquid |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Keith 'NAF' Markovic |
41 - 39 | +2 | 79.9 | 85.9% | 1.20 |
| Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken |
49 - 40 | +9 | 89.2 | 71.9% | 1.20 |
 Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis |
50 - 43 | +7 | 85.7 | 65.6% | 1.10 |
| Felipe 'skullz' Medeiros |
40 - 39 | +1 | 62.2 | 71.9% | 0.94 |
| Casper 'cadiaN' Møller |
34 - 37 | -3 | 55.1 | 68.8% | 0.84 |
The other game of the day had FORZE going down to Monte in a hard fought win, taking a 13-11 win on Nuke to start the series and going to second overtime for a 19-17 win on Mirage.
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