M80 fall to ENCE in EPL S22 opener
This afternoon, M80 dropped their opening series of ESL Pro League Season 22 against ENCE in a close 2-1 loss. The M80 crew suddenly found themselves stacked up against ENCE after Virtus.pro were turned away from the Swedish border, with ENCE being called in last-minute to replace the Russian squad.
The script suddenly being flipped certainly didn't help things as the series kicked off on Dust2, with ENCE taking an early 9-3 lead on their T-side before M80 closed the gap significantly on their own T-side, at one point tying things up 10-10. Unfortunately for M80, ENCE would find their footing in the final rounds of the map, winning their map pick 13-10.
Moving onto Mirage, M80 started their map pick off in a sluggish fashion, starting the map 4-0 down closing the gap on their T-side to a 5-7 deficit. After switching sides, M80 finally showed their strong form on Mirage with a near-perfect CT-side as Fritz "slaxz-" Dietrich led his team to a 13-9 victory on the map.
With the series tied up, M80 once again started a map on the backfoot as ENCE's T-side was suffocating on Ancient, with the European team kicking things off by going 5-0 up against M80 before winning the half 9-3. In the second half, M80 were finally able to scrape together a competitive map, evenly trading rounds with ENCE, however it was too little too late as ENCE went on to take Ancient 13-8.
M80ENCE| M80 |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Michael 'Swisher' Schmid |
46 - 42 | +4 | 74.1 | 77.3% | 1.13 |
 Jadan 'HexT' Postma |
41 - 40 | +1 | 63.6 | 80.3% | 1.12 |
 Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich |
46 - 32 | +14 | 68.0 | 72.7% | 1.10 |
| Mason 'Lake' Sanderson |
38 - 49 | -11 | 68.3 | 72.7% | 0.89 |
| Elias 's1n' Stein |
28 - 44 | -16 | 60.2 | 72.7% | 0.75 |
| ENCE |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Paavo 'podi' Heiskanen |
56 - 30 | +26 | 84.1 | 77.3% | 1.40 |
 Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev |
43 - 41 | +2 | 76.5 | 71.2% | 1.12 |
 Ryan 'Neityu' Aubry |
39 - 43 | -4 | 72.5 | 74.2% | 1.03 |
 Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi |
36 - 46 | -10 | 59.7 | 66.7% | 0.82 |
| Ville 'myltsi' Vilkman |
32 - 41 | -9 | 59.4 | 72.7% | 0.78 |
M80 will look to lock in a win tomorrow against HEROIC at 09:30AM.
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