ESL Professional League Season 16 Group B Day 1 and a pair of Recap

A brand new week brings us a brand new group from ESL Professional League 16.

The place teams A and B supplied comparatively uneventful beginnings, Group C of this ESL Professional League 16 has already proven loads of pleasure. In contrast to the extremely simple Group B, the third group has already seen 4 groups win and lose a match every, with a few upsets and unbelievable comebacks thrown into the combo.  

For individuals who are as but unaware, Group B has Astralis, Complexity, ENCE, HEET, Heroic and MOUZ, making it an thrilling group with loads of evenly matched, unpredictable groups. 

Group B Day 1 and a pair of Outcomes

The third week of play started with MOUZ taking down Heroic 2-0, adopted by an unbelievable comeback from Complexity which noticed them edge out Astralis 2-1. The final recreation was fairly one-sided as ENCE beat HEET comfortably. 

The subsequent day, Astralis returned strongly to comb MOUZ, whereas COL continued their successful with a 2-0 over HEET. Lastly, Heroic put themselves on the board with a 2-0 over ENCE.

How the Group B Desk Stands

Complexity, unexpectedly, are forward of the pack with 6 factors — a testomony to only how nicely changing  Paytyn “junior” Johnson with Håkon ”hallzerk” Fjærli is working for them. They’re adopted by Astralis, ENCE, Heroic, and MOUZ respectively based mostly on spherical distinction, with solely 13 rounds separating first to final. Lastly, HEET are but to win a recreation, and look considerably weaker than another crew within the group.

ESL Professional League Season 16 Day 1 and Day 2 Recap

Let's take a look at the matches themselves with the outcomes out of the way in which.

Day 1 

Issues went right down to the wire between MOUZ and Heroic on Mirage, with the efficiency of David ”frozen” Čerňanský taking the German group over the road 16-14. On Mud 2, nevertheless, issues went a lot simpler for the MOUZ as newcomer Dorian “xertioN” Berman justified his promotion from their academy with some rock-solid capturing to safe a 16-9 win.

As they’re ranked twenty ninth on HLTV, most individuals wouldn’t fancy Complexity’s possibilities in opposition to fourth-ranked Astralis. This series was one in all two halves, with the Danes dominating Inferno 16-9 courtesy of Benjamin “blameF” Bremer’s borderline obscene exploits. The identical guys additionally dominated the primary half of Nuke, going up 11-6 and later 14-11 earlier than three Overtimes resulted in victory for COL regardless of one other starring flip from blameF. On Mud 2, it was Michael ”Grim” Wince and hallzerk’s time to shine because the American outfit received 16-11 to finish the upset. 

There isn’t a lot to say concerning the final match of Day 1, with Valdemar “valde” Vangså and Alvaro “SunPayus” Garcia main ENCE to a 16-6 victory over HEET on earlier than they closed the series off 16-11 on Vertigo. Paweł “dycha” Dycha and Marco “Snappi” Pfeiffer topped the charts on the second map. 

Day 2

Astralis started their second day with an imperious 16-7 victory over MOUZ, spurred on by a monumental effort by Asger “farlig” Jensen. Nevertheless, Nuke went your entire regulation distance with Astralis popping out on prime after being down at half time, with k0nfig displaying up with a clutch efficiency. 

Subsequent up, COL earned their second win of the Group Stage with a comparatively straightforward double over HEET. Justin ”FaNg” Coakley and Grim stood tall for a 16-8 romp on Nuke, and Overpass noticed hallzerk undoing the laborious work of Aurélien “afro” Drapier to get his crew to a 16-12 victory.

Within the day's final match, Heroic stepped as much as take a tenacious ENCE down 16-13 on Historic and 16-10 on Vertigo. René “TeSeS” Madsen was glorious on each maps, and IGL Casper “cadiaN” Møller stepped up on the second to finish the win in straight video games.

Be part of us once more in 3 days to find the ultimate destiny of ESL Professional League’s Group C.