Immortals managed a tight win against Liquid (16-14 Cache) and Natus Vincere pulled out a strong Terrorist-side comeback against G2 (16-10 Overpass) in another round of matches at IEM Oakland.

After a 0-5 start on the Terrorist side of Cache for Liquid, Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski stepped up for his team, grabbing two entry kills to open up the B site and get the North Americans on the board in their match against Immortals.

Liquid followed it up with another two rounds to make it 3-5 before teams started trading rounds back and forth—with Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin and co. ending on the better side of the affair in the end after they took advantage of Immortals' limited buys, ending the half with an 8-7 lead.



Immortals squeezed out the win against Liquid

The Brazilians got a 5-0 start to the second half as well before the two AWP's of Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano and Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche got all five kills for Liquid's first CT round on Cache. They couldn't continue the streak this time however, as Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass got two crucial kills in a 3v3 to shut down the A site retake.

Liquid managed to get to 14-14, but it was Immortals to take the match in the end as Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles capped off his great performance by getting the two last kills of the game, shutting down the A-site retake.

IEM Oakland 2016 Best of 1 Immortals Matchpage 16 14 Liquid 16 Cache 14

Immortals K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1 34 - 15 +19 107.0 1.66 João 'felps' Vasconcellosfelps 23 - 22 +1 86.3 1.12 Ricardo 'boltz' Prassboltz 19 - 20 -1 77.1 1.01 Lucas 'steel' Lopessteel 18 - 18 0 61.8 0.98 Lucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLUCAS1 10 - 23 -13 64.6 0.71 Liquid K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Josh 'jdm64' Marzanojdm64 24 - 21 +3 75.4 1.13 Nick 'nitr0' Cannellanitr0 26 - 25 +1 93.2 1.09 Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp 19 - 20 -1 69.5 0.98 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinHiko 15 - 18 -3 62.8 0.83 Jonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEliGE 14 - 20 -6 62.2 0.79

G2 opened up Overpass by winning the first four rounds on the Terrorist side before Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev started shutting down the approaches towards A—tieing the score at 4-4.

After winning one round G2 were in danger of being reset, but Edouard "⁠SmithZz⁠" Dubourdeaux stepped up and picked up 4 kills in a 2v5 situation on the B site to avoid the reset.

Following the clutch, the Frenchmen continued bullying the B site defense—getting up to 9-4 before Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev shut them down with a crucial Mag-7 double-kill.



Things were looking grim for Seized and co. in the first half of Overpass

Despite ending their Terrorist half 9-6, G2 struggled to do much on the CT side and quickly found themselves 14-10 down.

s1mple had another big round to get Natus Vincere on map point, picking up two kills on Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy and Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon who were pushing B short and two more kills on the site. The CIS side closed the match out in the following round, making it 16-10 in the end.

IEM Oakland 2016 Best of 1 Natus Vincere Matchpage 16 10 G2 16 Overpass 10

Natus Vincere K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Aleksandr 's1mple' Kostylievs1mple 29 - 18 +11 116.8 1.61 Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN 22 - 14 +8 96.2 1.38 Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie 19 - 15 +4 75.1 1.18 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward 14 - 13 +1 57.7 0.97 Denis 'seized' Kostinseized 13 - 14 -1 57.6 0.96 G2 K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Adil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomScreaM 19 - 19 0 86.2 1.12 Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianarobodyy 18 - 19 -1 76.1 1.04 Richard 'shox' Papillonshox 15 - 19 -4 60.6 0.80 Edouard 'SmithZz' DubourdeauxSmithZz 13 - 21 -8 46.2 0.74 Cédric 'RpK' GuipouyRpK 9 - 19 -10 47.7 0.73

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