NRG are the sole survivor from the Americas to advance to the New Legends stage

NRG secure spot in New Legends; FURIA and Complexity eliminated from StarLadder Berlin Major

Complexity and FURIA crashed out following loses to Grayhound and Syman.

The third day of the StarLadder Berlin Major New Challengers stage has come to a close, with FURIA and Complexity being eliminated, while NRG have advanced to the New Legends stage.

In the first series of the day, FURIA faced off against Syman in the 1-2 pool. Syman started Train in the lead as they won the opening pistol and the following two rounds before FURIA answered back with three rounds of their own. The two squads continued to trade rounds throughout the half with Syman ending it up 8-7. After switching sides, FURIA began to falter only finding two more rounds before Syman claimed Train 16-9.

Moving onto Inferno, FURIA continued to struggle as Syman ended their CT-side up 9-6. The situation continued to degrade rapidly for FURIA as they struggled to find a single round before Syman eliminated them with a 16-7 finish on Inferno.

FURIA
0 - 2
Syman
All maps
FURIA K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato 37 - 32 +5 83.2 64.6% 1.09
Brazil Yuri 'yuurih' Santos 33 - 35 -2 73.4 66.7% 0.97
Brazil Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo 23 - 40 -17 61.7 62.5% 0.76
Brazil Andrei 'arT' Piovezan 23 - 39 -16 54.6 54.2% 0.72
Brazil Rinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior 17 - 39 -22 43.7 47.9% 0.48
Syman K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy 40 - 25 +15 93.5 81.2% 1.42
Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov 42 - 26 +16 89.5 77.1% 1.42
Ramazan 'Ramz1kBO$$' Bashizov 34 - 25 +9 75.6 79.2% 1.22
Maksim 't0rick' Zaikin 37 - 30 +7 78.6 77.1% 1.16
Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus 31 - 28 +3 74.5 79.2% 1.13

In the next elimination match of the day, Complexity took on the Australians of Grayhound. Starting on Dust2, Grayhound looked poised to take the half as they won seven out of the first eight rounds. However, Complexity managed to pull it back and claim the half as they won the next seven rounds in a row to pull ahead with a slight 8-7 lead. This would prove to be the last time Complexity led in the series however as Grayhound quickly found double digits before claiming the map 16-11.

Moving onto Inferno, Complexity seemingly ran out of steam as Grayhound found a dominant 12-3 CT-side before sending Complexity packing with a 16-4 win on Inferno.

Complexity
0 - 2
Grayhound
All maps
Complexity K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Australia Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland 30 - 36 -6 79.9 61.7% 1.00
United States Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan 28 - 34 -6 60.2 63.8% 0.88
United States Hunter 'SicK' Mims 25 - 37 -12 64.8 70.2% 0.87
United Kingdom Rory 'dephh' Jackson 25 - 37 -12 59.7 61.7% 0.74
United States Owen 'oBo' Schlatter 27 - 41 -14 65.8 57.4% 0.73
Grayhound K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
New Zealand Simon 'Sico' Williams 40 - 24 +16 90.6 83.0% 1.43
Australia Christopher 'dexter' Nong 46 - 29 +17 92.9 76.6% 1.37
Australia Liam 'malta' Schembri 38 - 24 +14 81.3 74.5% 1.26
Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga 35 - 29 +6 80.0 74.5% 1.15
Australia Ollie 'DickStacy' Tierney 25 - 29 -4 68.4 74.5% 1.03

Moving onto the 2-1 matches, NRG finally found a win for the Americas as picked up a quick 2-0 over AVANGAR to advance into the New Legends stage. On Train, after losing the opening pistol round, NRG stabilized and maintained the lead for the entirety of the half as they won their T-side 10-5. On their CT-side, NRG only allowed AVANGAR to win three more rounds before claiming Train 16-8.

After a strong performance on Train, Dust2 ended up being an even more dominant performance for NRG as they won the first eight rounds in a row on their CT-side before winning the half 11-4. Following this, Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte and company didn't give AVANGAR any breathing room as they won the next five rounds in a row to take Dust2 16-4.

NRG
2 - 0
AVANGAR
All maps
NRG K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Tarik 'tarik' Celik 44 - 24 +20 111.6 84.1% 1.60
United States Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte 39 - 21 +18 86.8 81.8% 1.44
United States Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold 37 - 22 +15 85.2 79.5% 1.40
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov 30 - 18 +12 78.1 81.8% 1.37
Canada Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz 27 - 21 +6 60.7 75.0% 1.03
AVANGAR K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali 27 - 29 -2 67.5 63.6% 0.95
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev 22 - 37 -15 62.0 54.5% 0.65
Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev 19 - 36 -17 61.1 54.5% 0.64
Timur 'buster' Tulepov 20 - 36 -16 57.6 43.2% 0.59
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev 17 - 39 -22 46.3 50.0% 0.47

With NRG advancing and the remaining teams from the Americas finding themselves eliminated, tomorrow's matchups look as follows:

2-2 Round
AVANGAR -vs- Broken inline Syman 6:00 AM
forZe -vs- DreamEaters 9:15 AM
Vitality -vs- Australia Grayhound 12:30 PM

And with only three squads left to advance, the team list for the New Legends stage looks as follows:

Denmark Astralis ENCE
Natus Vincere Brazil MIBR
FaZe United States Liquid
Australia Renegades Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas
Denmark North mousesports
G2 United States NRG
 CR4ZY Broken inline AVANGAR/Syman 
forZe/DreamEaters  World Vitality/Grayhound 

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#1(With 0 replies)
August 25, 2019 06:37PM
MagicHelmetTV
Caster
Dust2 Birthday cake!
Damn, was hoping Furia could make it into Legends and make the next leap. Hopefully next year.
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