NRG overcome BIG 2

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After three maps, NRG claimed a 2-1 win over BIG (16-4 Train, 8-16 Overpass, 16-6 Inferno) and advanced directly to the grand final of the event in Los Angeles.

The first map of the upper-bracket final of cs_summit 3 was Train, BIG's pick. However, Ethan "⁠Ethan⁠" Arnold's 3K on the defense saw NRG win the pistol round and take the early lead. As the score was 4-0, BIG had their best opportunity to get on the board yet as Johannes "⁠nex⁠" Maget found himself in a 1v1, but Jacob "⁠FugLy⁠" Medina clutched out the round to extend the North American team's lead.

nex did get his side their first round soon, though, clutching a 1v3, which was followed up by two more rounds going the way of BIG. (7-3) NRG then struck back, and in a key round, after Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz found three openings, Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte snuck up behind the last two BIG players and clutched the round to set his team up for a great finish to the half, 12-3. In the second pistol, Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele' men split the A site through B and Popdog and claimed the round, swiftly closing out the game, 16-4.

FugLy was outstanding in the series, finishing with +29 KDD

On Overpass, NRG continued their pistol round win streak, but fumbled against a B site BIG defense that was mostly equipped with USP-S'. That gave the Germans a 3-1 start, which they slowly but surely built up to 6-2. Rounds were then traded back and forth, but NRG ended on top, and with FugLy leading in the fragging department, they managed to hustle back a solid half, finishing it 8-7 down.

BIG regained momentum early in the second half, surviving through a force-buy loss and quickly running up a 14-8 lead. They then faced a limited NRG buy, and after losing a man to an aggressive play on A from the CTs, rolled into the B site and held the afterplant to earn match point, closing it out straight after that, 16-8.

Brehze's triple with the Glock-18 started off the decider map, Inferno, with BIG bringing the score to 3-2 after triples from nex and Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik in rifle rounds. Things then swung back into NRG's favor after a force-buy win, and then the North American side started founding success towards both sites, running up an 8-2 lead. The half ended with more of the same, BIG snuck in just a single CT round before the half ended 12-3.

Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield opened up the pistol with two frags and tabseN closed it out with three in the after plant, giving BIG a lifeline in the series. Putting a stop to their comeback was a successful A hold from NRG which was followed up by Ethan clearing up top banana with the help of a single flashbang. (14-6) After that it was all done and dusted, NRG locked in Inferno 16-6 and took the series 2-1, advancing to the grand final. BIG will play the consolidation final tomorrow, with the winner of he Complexity - OpTic match.

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Matchpage 2 1 3rd November 2018

BIG 16Train 4 8Overpass 16 16Inferno 6

NRG	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jacob 'FugLy' MedinaFugLy	62 - 33	+29	91.1	1.48
Vincent 'Brehze' CayonteBrehze	59 - 41	+18	86.7	1.39
Ethan 'Ethan' ArnoldEthan	45 - 39	+6	90.0	1.37
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' DimitrovCeRq	42 - 42	0	60.0	1.01
Damian 'daps' Steeledaps	33 - 42	-9	61.2	0.92

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Johannes 'tabseN' WodarztabseN	55 - 46	+9	91.3	1.24
Johannes 'nex' Magetnex	46 - 50	-4	80.6	0.97
Owen 'smooya' Butterfieldsmooya	36 - 49	-13	63.8	0.84
Tizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschtiziaN	34 - 51	-17	59.7	0.78
Fatih 'gob b' Dayikgob b	26 - 45	-19	41.0	0.66