EnVyUs join NiP in Gfinity final
The second Gfinity Summer Masters I grand finalists are EnVyUs, who have defeated dignitas in a close series 2-1 (de_dust2 8-16, de_overpass 19-15, de_cache 16-7).
Playing on EnVyUs' pick first, de_dust2, dignitas got off to a flying start with a 4-1 lead in the bag, soon extended 7-1 following two huge one-on-threes by Philip "aizy" Aistrup.
One more round went their way as EnVyUs were forced to save two guns, which helped them secure the second round on the board due to doubles from Richard "shox" Papillon and Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey towards the B bombsite.
shox continued to make the difference in the following three rounds, one of which ended up being a scary tec-9 long rush, to make it 8-5. With a quick split B, dignitas broke nV's economy, only good for a pistol-scout forcebuy, with which the Danes had no problems and took a five-round lead going over to Counter-Terrorists.
EnVyUs were thus very reliant on the second pistol round outcome, but that did not go their way as dignitas were well prepared for their short-plant strategy.
An anti-eco later, EnVyUs took advantage of dignitas' poor A bombsite defence and won a 4-on-4 afterplant situation, and took two more before dignitas shredded two more similar pushes from short for 14-8.
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche's CT spawn position over the smoke wrecked nV's split B and just a forcebuy after, dignitas could go into a break happy with a 16-8 scoreline on map one.
With a 32-12 K-D on de_dust2, Pimp had a good reason to smile
dignitas transfered their pistol round success to Overpass, starting off as Counter-Terrorists, and through it got a quick 3-0 lead. EnVyUs ran two quick B pushes afterwards for two consecutive rounds, but dignitas stopped it the third time and got two rounds off it.
Pimp's triple on A helped dignitas secure round number five on the board, but then EnVyUs went back to what had worked before and evened it out with three in a row at 5-5.
Yet again dignitas managed to tweak things to defend the B push and with aizy's 1-on-2 clutch and another one from Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen, dignitas were looking at a 10-5 halftime score. With the pistol going in the Danes' favor once more, EnVyUs were staring down the barrel, but a Desert Eagle quad-kill from Edouard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux got them some breathing room.
A quick B push after a single anti-eco was met with solid defence, as Pimp crossed a 25-frag line for the second time in the series for a five-round lead in favor of the Danish side. EnVyUs then won a 1-on-2 and with some agression towards the B bombsite got to a single-round deficit.
dignitas' plant in an eco helped them buy up in the following gunround, but it was for only one round as EnVyUs managed to hold strong on the A bombsite twice in a row for a 13-14 scoreline.
kioShiMa carried EnVyUs through de_overpass
After EnVyUs got to two map points, dignitas narrowed it down to one thanks to a smart rotation after a fight in front of the A bombsite, and won a round in the last second as Vincent "Happy" Schopenhauer was unable to hide in time.
In the overtime, kioShiMa continued with superb play, winning his team two rounds in a row with five frags combined, partly thanks to which EnVyUs won the overtime 19-15 to even the series.
After dignitas won all four previous pistol rounds, EnVyUs eventually got one and that was all they needed to get a 5-0 start. MSL then won a 1-on-1 for his team, but their economy was shredded to pieces and EnVyUs soon broke them again for 8-1.
Winning a round with all players alive helped dignitas get a small cushion, and another good defence, that time on the B bombsite, got them two in a row. Another two came from locking down each of the bombsites without any struggles and that meant a 7-8 halftime score for the dignitas side as Counter-Terrorists.
From there on though it was basically all she wrote for the Danes, as with another pistol round in their bag, EnVyUs stormed onto a couple of easy gunrounds for 13-7. A stalled out 2-on-2 ended up going in their favor as well, and another sweep on the A bombsite finished off the series at 16-7, 2-1 in favor of EnVyUs.
Gfinity 2015 Summer Masters 1Best of 3 Envy
Matchpage 2 1 28th June 2015
Dignitas 8Dust2 16 19Overpass 15 16Cache 7
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The grand final best-of-five series between NiP and EnVyUs is to take place in just under an hour at 19:00 .
















