SK beat mousesports to secure second win

SK have picked up their second victory at the ELEAGUE Major Boston's New Legends Stage after beating mousesports 16-12 on Mirage.

The match kicked off with SK executing a nearly-flawless A-split to secure their Terrorist pistol, and quickly following that up with the subsequent anti-ecos. Although MOUZ responded with a successful gun round, the Brazilians did not let any of their opponents survive, meaning that the European mixture had to go for a shoddy buy, which they eventually won.

Even though SK then replied with their first two victorious rounds with guns, MOUZ kept countering the Brazilians' slow-paced style with a very tight defense to equalize the score at 5-5.

In the next round, a fast triple-kill from João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos on mid opened up a way for SK to stop MOUZ' streak, but they could not string more than two rounds together as Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong's men picked up the final three rounds to secure an 8-7 half-time lead.

SK are one victory away from qualifying for the Major playoffs

The second half began with SK picking up the CT pistol thanks to Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo clutching an impressive 1v2, setting themselves up for a narrow lead, 9-8. MOUZ immediately responded with a triumphant third-round buy, but they could not follow that up.

Just like in the first half, the match was nothing but a back-and-forth affair. Still, from the 23rd round onward, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo and co. lost a single round before finishing things off, 16-12.

ELEAGUE Major 2018Best of 1 SKMatchpage 16 12 20th January 2018 MOUZ 16Mirage 12

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Marcelo 'coldzera' Davidcoldzera	32 - 14	+18	109.2	1.64
Fernando 'fer' Alvarengafer	22 - 18	+4	100.1	1.33
Epitacio 'TACO' de MeloTACO	20 - 17	+3	80.6	1.16
João 'felps' Vasconcellosfelps	16 - 22	-6	76.6	0.89
Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFalleN	12 - 19	-7	29.7	0.71

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Robin 'ropz' Koolropz	23 - 17	+6	88.4	1.24
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastnýoskar	20 - 21	-1	85.6	1.04
Miikka 'suNny' KemppisuNny	20 - 21	-1	72.2	0.98
Martin 'STYKO' StykSTYKO	13 - 22	-9	57.1	0.77
Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ	14 - 21	-7	64.5	0.74

2-0
Quantum Bellator Fire	FaZe
G2	SK
1-1
Gambit	Space Soldiers
Vega Squadron	Liquid
MOUZ
0-1
Virtus.pro	fnatic
BIG	Natus Vincere
Astralis	North
0-2
Cloud9

Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo Age: 22 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 595 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.63 Astralis #3 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzMarkus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye BIG #24 Fatih 'gob b' DayikNikola 'LEGIJA' NinićJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzKevin 'keev' BartholomäusJohannes 'nex' Maget Liquid #15 Wilton 'zews' PradoNick 'nitr0' CannellaJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Gambit #12 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovBektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov João 'felps' Vasconcellos Age: 21 Team: SKB Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 480 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.71 Natus Vincere #11 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo Age: 26 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 732 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.60 G2 #5 Richard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro SK #1 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo FaZe #2 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong Age: 27 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1039 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.65 Quantum Bellator Fire #28 Gregory 'balblna' OleinickSavelii 'jmqa' BraginAurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysNikita 'waterfaLLZ' MatveyevKirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov Cloud9 #6 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip North #9 René 'cajunb' BorgMathias 'MSL' LauridsenPhilip 'aizy' AistrupValdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåKristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke MOUZ #7 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' StykRobin 'ropz' Kool fnatic #8 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonMaikil 'Golden' Selim Vega Squadron #20 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovDmitriy 'jR' ChervakSergey 'keshandr' NikishinNikolay 'mir' BityukovPavel 'hutji' Lashkov Space Soldiers #19 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor Virtus.pro #10 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasFilip 'NEO' KubskiJarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskiJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'byali' Bieliński