ELEAGUE Week 5 Semifinal Recap



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Navi rolls over Echofox, Flipsid3 upset Mousesports to advance to the finals of Week 5 tomorrow.

Navi v. Echofox 10:5, 6:4 (16:9) 11:4, 5:0 (16:4)

Winner: Navi 2-0

Maps: de_Nuke, de_Overpass

MVP: Ioann "Edward" Sukhariev

Navi opened up their CT side of Echofox’s pick Cache with a strong pistol round that denied the Americans even a bomb plant. Counting on a fourth round buy, the Americans force bought and were able to pick up the second and third rounds before Navi responded, bringing the score up to 6-2. Ronnie "ryx" Bylicki kept Echofox in the game with a 1v2 clutch. Led by Ioann "Edward" Sukhariev’s multi kills on defence, Navi closed the half out 10-5.

Once Navi won the second pistol, the comeback seemed inevitable until Echofox once again won the second round force buy. Echofox tightened up the score to 8-11 but were unable to continue their momentum and Navi gave up only one rifle round to win the map 16-8.

Navi were merciless on their CT side of Overpass, winning the pistol and resetting Echofox’s economy every time they won a round. After going down 2-8, Echofox took a tactical timeout and were able to bring back two rounds before losing the fifteenth round to Navi for a score of 11-4 in favor of the CIS team.

Navi picked up five unanswered rounds on their T half to win the map 16-4, sealing the series 2-0 and earning them a spot in the semifinals on Friday live on TBS.

Flipsid3 v. Mousesports 13:2, 3:7 (16:10) 11:4, 5:5 (16:9)

Winner: Flipsid3 2-0

Maps: de_Overpass, de_Cache

MVP: Yegor "markeloff" Markelov

Flipsid3 started out their map pick Overpass on CT very cleanly with a 3k from Aleksandr "Shara" Gordeev and a denied bomb plant. The Ukrainian defence chewed up Mouz’ eco rounds and their first gun rounds before finally in the eighth round before a 2k from Chris "chrisJ" de Jong with the AWP gave the European mixed team their first round. Flipsid3 reset the terrorist economy, and took a huge lead of 10-1 before another 2k from “chrisJ” earned Mouz another round. Flipsid3 ended the half up 13-2.

Nikola "NiKo" Kovač came out with the energy needed for a comeback, picking up a 3k to get the ball rolling in Mous’ favor. “Niko” kept the ball rolling with an ace to save his team from a blundered 5v3 situation, but Mous were unable to complete the comeback and Flipsid3 took the first map 16-10.

Both sides struggled for momentum in the early stages of Cache, with Mouz mounting a successful retake on the A site on the first pistol round, but being unable to take control of the game with Flipsid3 eventually taking a 3-2 advantage following their third round AK buy. Mouz were able to reply in the sixth round evening the score, but veteran Yegor "markeloff" Markelov lead his team to seize momentum and eventually win their T half 11-4.

This time “chrisJ” came out looking for a comeback with a huge 4k in the second pistol round and Mouz quickly seized momentum in the second half, picking the score up to 8-11 unanswered. Flipsid3, after losing the first rifle round of the half, force bought armor+pistol and eventually won the round, thanks to a 2k with the infamous five-seven by Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin.

Flipsid3 got up to 14-8, before giving up one more round to Mouz and then closing out Cache 16-9 and winning the series as the slight underdogs, 2-0.

Navi will play Flipsid3 in the final of ELEAGUE Week 5 live on TBS on 6/24 at 10pm Eastern Time. See our live coverage of the final and our continuing coverage of ELEAGUE Season 1 here.



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