Misfits eliminated Heroic at DreamHack Open Tours after beating them 2-1 (22-19 on Mirage, 4-16 on Nuke, and 16-12 on Train).

Day two in France kicked off with the Group A elimination match which featured Heroic, who lost their opening game mousesports, and Misfits who got crushed by Natus Vincere.

The vital best-of-three series started on Mirage with the North Americans on the CT-side. The pistol round saw Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen get a marvelous 1vs3 clutch and a quad kill. Misfits lost the eco rounds but recovered nicely in the first weapon round, trailing 1-3.



Misfits stay alive

Back-and-forth weapon rounds resulted in a 8-7 lead for Misfits at halftime after David "⁠devoduvek⁠" Dobrosavljevic clutched a 1vs2 in the last round. Heroic had a strong start to the second half, winning the pistol round with Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen's double kill and picking up the anti-ecos to lead 10-8.

Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså's otherworldly quad kill in Middle delivered the first weapon round to the Danes but a quad kill and a 1vs1 clutch during a force buy put Misfits back on the board as they trailed 9-11. valde showed up again, this time with an incredible Deagle quad kill to extend his team's lead to 12-10 but Misfits took the following round to make it 12-11.

The Danes made it 13-11 thanks to Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridh's heroic performance in a full eco round and then went on to acquire four match points but the unyielding Misfits won four rounds in a row to take it to overtime. Misfits got the job done in double overtime with a great performance by Hunter "⁠SicK⁠" Mims (22-19).



Heroic finish 7-8th in Tours

The second map was Nuke where the North Americans started on the CT-side. Heroic won the first three rounds on Nuke and led 7-2 after nine rounds during which the Danes reset Misfits' economy twice. Heroic won the first half 11-4. Heroic stopped Misfits with ease in the second half pistol round and closed out the map 16-4, tying the series at 1-1.

The teams moved on to Train to decide who would stay alive in Tours. The CT-sided Misfits secured the first four rounds of the map but Heroic managed to tie the game at 5-5 with successful weapon rounds. Misfits led 9-6 at halftime.

The Danish team grabbed the second half pistol round with JUGi's triple kill and tied it at 9-9 after winning the anti-ecos. SicK's two entry kills in the first weapon round gave the lead back to Misfits (10-9). Misfits, not letting Heroic start a streak on the CT-side, won the match 16-12 and became Natus Vincere's opponents in the decider match while Heroic exited the tournament.

The next game at DreamHack Open Tours will be the Group B elimination match between Envy and G2.