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Liquid survive Nuke scare to claim 2-0 victory

A scare? Ah, classic Liquid...

ESL Pro League Season 20 is back with Groups C and D, which means Liquid are back in the servers. Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken and co. opened their EPL campaign against ENCE in a series that could have turned sour early on.

Eventually, Liquid would come out as the winners, advancing to the upper-bracket semifinals, where they will meet the winner of the RED Canids v. Virtus.pro series on Thursday.

The series kicked off with an almost flawless CT-side from Liquid on ENCE's pick of Nuke, only losing three rounds. That 9-3 first half was followed up with three rounds in quick succession, which saw Liquid take a 12-3 lead. And then ENCE woke up, going on a huge streak of their own and threatening to send the map to overtime. ENCE closed the deficit to 12-11 before Liquid staved off the potential comeback.

After not dropping a single pistol round on Nuke, Liquid started Anubis with another pistol round win on the CT-side and followed it up with three more rounds. Both teams exchanged rounds before ENCE got three in a row, but it would be Liquid taking a 7-5 lead before heading into the T-side. ENCE finally won a pistol round to kick off the second half but would only claim one more after that, as Liquid were quick to respond a take an 11-7 lead, before taking the series win after a 13-7 Anubis.

Liquid
2 - 0
ENCE
All maps
Liquid K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Roland 'ultimate' Tomkowiak 47 - 25 +22 106.5 81.8% 1.66
Canada Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken 37 - 21 +16 77.2 90.9% 1.39
Australia Justin 'jks' Savage 33 - 27 +6 86.9 79.5% 1.20
Canada Keith 'NAF' Markovic 25 - 25 +0 66.3 70.5% 0.99
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis 28 - 34 -6 77.0 59.1% 0.90
ENCE K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Paavo 'podi' Heiskanen 32 - 35 -3 80.0 63.6% 1.08
Kacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz 29 - 32 -3 71.4 61.4% 0.98
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev 25 - 33 -8 77.9 70.5% 0.92
Denmark Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander 22 - 36 -14 57.2 59.1% 0.71
Krzysztof 'Goofy' Górski 23 - 34 -11 52.8 61.4% 0.70

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