SK and Cloud9 have won their first best-of-three matches against MVP PK and Heroic, respectively, in the Swiss stage at StarSeries i-League Season 4. The game between Cloud9 and HEROIC kicked off on Overpass where the North Americans were on the CT-side in the first half. Cloud9 picked up the first four rounds and Jakob "JUGi" Hansens 1vs2 clutch in the fifth round put HEROIC on the board (4-1). Jake "Stewie2K" Yip & company had an indomitable defense and secured ten rounds in a row to lead 14-1 at halftime. Cloud9 planted the bomb in the second half pistol round after Tarik "tarik" Celiks opening kill and had a successful post-plant to make it 15-1. They closed it out immediately, winning the first map 16-1.
The second map was Inferno where HEROIC were on the T-side to start things off. tarik got a double kill in a 2vs3 post-plant in the pistol round to make it 1-0 for Cloud9. After avoiding an anti-force loss in the second round by winning a 3vs5, Cloud9 fell to Andreas "MODDII" Fridhs Deagle kills as HEROIC trailed 2-1. Cloud9 led the game 7-2 and in control until JUGi clutched a 1vs4 to give HEROIC their third round. The Danes got three more rounds in the half and trailed 9-6 at halftime. HEROIC got the first two rounds in the second half but they lost a 5vs3 and couldnt tie up the game (10-8). Then, William "RUSH" Wierzba clutched a 1vs4 to make it 11-8 but HEROIC got six CT-side rounds in a row to lead 14-11. Cloud9 came back to win five rounds and secured the map victory with a 16-14 final scoreline. They won the series 2-0. StarSeries i-League Season 4Best of 3
In the other best-of-three game, SK took on MVP PK. On Inferno, the T-sided Brazilians won a 2vs3 and went on to make it 4-0 with anti-eco and first weapon round victories. The Korean squad managed to stop SK in three rounds to trail 5-3 but Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo's team took off and got to ten rounds before halftime (10-5). SK continued their good performance on the CT-side and won the pistol round with Fernando "fer" Alvarenga's double kill. fer got at least two kills in each of the following three rounds as SK made it 14-5. Epitacio "TACO" de Melo & co. closed out the first map with a 16-5 final scoreline.
Cobblestone kicked off with MVP PK over on the T-side. Min-Seok "zeff" Park got an entry kill to pave the way for a pistol round victory. After making it 3-0, the Koreans lost the first weapon round but responded in the fifth round to lead 4-1. With the momentum, MVP PK were able to extend their lead to 9-3 but SK got the last three rounds of the half to make it 9-6. Ricardo "boltz" Prass picked up a marvelous quad kill in the second half pistol round and Marcelo "coldzera" David topped it off with his own quad kill in the following anti-eco round. Although MVP PK won the first weapon round and led 10-9, that would be the last round they win. SK grabbed seven rounds in a row to win the second map 16-10, and series 2-0, to go 1-0 in Kiev, Ukraine. StarSeries i-League Season 4Best of 3
   Marcelo 'coldzera' David  Age: 23 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.22 Maps played: 716 KPR: 0.81 DPR: 0.61 Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo  Age: 23 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 625 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.63    Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh  Age: 28 Team: HEROIC Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 911 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.66   MVP PK #46 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo  Age: 26 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 762 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.60 SK #2 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo   Tarik 'tarik' Celik  Age: 21 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 794 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.68  Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen  Age: 20 Team: HEROIC Rating 1.0: 1.15 Maps played: 540 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.61 Cloud9 #3 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga  Age: 26 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 758 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.67 HEROIC #12 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMarco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelJakob 'JUGi' HansenNikolaj 'niko' Kristensen Ricardo 'boltz' Prass  Age: 20 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 711 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.64 Min-Seok 'zeff' Park  Age: 29 Team: MVP PK Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 202 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67 William 'RUSH' Wierzba  Age: 23 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 717 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.66 Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip  Age: 20 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 664 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.69 |
