dignitas have clinched the second semi-final spot from second place in group A after a convincing victory over EZskins.
Afteer both teams lost the initial games, EZskins.com and Renegades duked it out in the elimination match, surprisingly on de_dust2 with the British kicking it off with a rather unconventional Terrorist pistol round strat.
Even after winning the following round, Renegades couldn't pick themselves up quite fully, as they were down a man nearly every other round, but managed to climb back in some of them.
RattlesnK's EZskins.com upset Renegades
One of those was a 1-on-3 clutch from Aaron "AZR" Ward on the B bombsite with the help of an incendiary grenade, a 1-on-1 from Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill being the other after Josh "mole" Rowley's quad-kill in a 2-on-5. Despite their heroics, Renegades went over to Terrorists with a one-round deficit, soon extended to four as EZskins.com won the second pistol round as well.
After a four-round streak from Renegades, Luke "fearLess" Morris showcased his AWP skills with a quad-kill, and the Australians couldn't find an answer to the double sniper setup. Sam "RattlesnK" Gawn put up seven kills in the last three rounds to make the upset at 16-11.
DreamHack Open London 2015Best of 1 EZskins.comMatchpage 16 11 19th September 2015 Renegades 16Dust2 11
EZskins.com
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 1.0
Brandon 'weber' Weberweber
24 - 19
+5
-
1.33
Sam 'RattlesnK' GawnRattlesnK
24 - 22
+2
-
1.17
Josh 'mole' Rowleymole
18 - 16
+2
-
1.10
Luke 'fearLess' MorrisfearLess
20 - 17
+3
-
1.09
Reece 'Puls3' MarrsPuls3
15 - 14
+1
-
0.96
Renegades
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 1.0
Aaron 'AZR' WardAZR
24 - 20
+4
-
1.30
Luke 'Havoc' PatonHavoc
17 - 19
-2
-
0.90
Yaman 'yam' Ergenekonyam
19 - 20
-1
-
0.86
Justin 'jks' Savagejks
14 - 21
-7
-
0.74
Chad 'SPUNJ' BurchillSPUNJ
14 - 21
-7
-
0.70
The last match of group A and the second spot in the semi-finals was to be decided between the British and the Danes then, and expectedly it was the latter who started off the better with 6-1 lead as Terrorists, only dropping a single gunround in the process.
fearLess's AWP triple got EZskins a second round, but dignitas replied right after to break the CTs' economy. Another triple from fearLess was not enough to convert into a round that time around, and EZskins.com were staring down the barrel at 10-2.
All three remaining rounds of the first half went the Danes' way too, and in neither was RattlesnK's lineup a threat. Dignitas picked up the second pistol comfortably as well, which was the last nail in EZskins.com's coffin.
DreamHack Open London 2015Best of 1 DignitasMatchpage 16 2 19th September 2015 EZskins.com 16Mirage 2
Dignitas
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 1.0
Andreas 'znajder' Lindbergznajder
22 - 7
+15
-
1.94
Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy
20 - 5
+15
-
1.74
Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye
17 - 10
+7
-
1.60
Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenMSL
14 - 9
+5
-
1.15
Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp
10 - 8
+2
-
1.01
EZskins.com
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 1.0
Brandon 'weber' Weberweber
11 - 16
-5
-
0.70
Luke 'fearLess' MorrisfearLess
8 - 18
-10
-
0.50
Reece 'Puls3' MarrsPuls3
7 - 15
-8
-
0.49
Sam 'RattlesnK' GawnRattlesnK
6 - 16
-10
-
0.37
Josh 'mole' Rowleymole
7 - 18
-11
-
0.36
Group B will now follow at DreamHack Open London, with TSM and Copenhagen Wolves kicking it off at approximately 20:00 .