Liquid aren't very pro-Nouns
With the BLAST Spring Finals being held in Washington, D.C., all the American sides will be extra motivated to fight for a chance to play in front of their home crowd. Liquid's opening opposition were Nouns, who already managed to qualify for one NA-based event this year in IEM Dallas.
Nouns got the match started off on their choice of Inferno, but couldn't find their way into the game until the eighth round. A 7-1 lead would make the game very difficult. Even more difficult, they couldn't seem to stop Liquid's impressive T-side which would close out the first half 12-3.
The second half would look like it was all wrapped up as Liquid got to match point after securing the pistol and ensuing gun rounds, but Nouns made an ill-fated comeback that would get snuffed as they lost their map pick 16-6. '
Liquid decided to make it difficult on themselves and work on Nuke, a map that they have not had a ton of success with to begin the year, but appear to be getting more and more comfortable. On this map, Nouns gave them a run for their money to start it off as a back and forth streak saw Liquid pull away with an 8-7 lead at the half on their T-side.
With the sides switched, Liquid did seem to be much more stable on the defense as they would win every single round en route to a 16-7 map victory.
Liquid look to be back to their old selves as they now head to Saturday with a focus on paiN, the Brazilian team that upset them just recently as ESL Pro League.
LiquidNouns| Liquid |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski |
40 - 24 | +16 | 94.1 | 78.3% | 1.53 |
 Keith 'NAF' Markovic |
34 - 24 | +10 | 84.6 | 80.4% | 1.34 |
| Josh 'oSee' Ohm |
36 - 24 | +12 | 73.1 | 89.1% | 1.27 |
| Nick 'nitr0' Cannella |
37 - 25 | +12 | 74.3 | 78.3% | 1.20 |
 Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis |
30 - 33 | -3 | 76.8 | 73.9% | 1.16 |
| Nouns |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David 'cynic' Polster |
41 - 34 | +7 | 84.7 | 73.9% | 1.15 |
| Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones |
22 - 37 | -15 | 63.5 | 69.6% | 0.81 |
 Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado |
29 - 33 | -4 | 62.2 | 52.2% | 0.78 |
| Brendan 'Bwills' Williams |
17 - 36 | -19 | 66.2 | 63.0% | 0.71 |
| Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly |
20 - 38 | -18 | 57.5 | 52.2% | 0.59 |
