GamerLegion are the first team into the Esports World Cup playoffs after defeating JiJieHao 2-0 (13-3, 13-8).
Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski's troops began the season by getting knocked out of Bounty in the first round by HOTU, but they have shaken off their ring rust to dominate their first two matches of EWC with a 74% round win rate.
Returning rifler Timur "FL4MUS" Marev spoke of his "relief" to be back in a stable project afer a tough time with Virtus.pro and short stints with OG and BetBoom, and he was a force to be reckoned with on Dust2 as he posted a 2.33 rating.
The 21-year-old set the tone with an instant Dualies 4k in the first pistol of the series, and followed it up with a brilliant M4A4 spraydown and the closing kill of the 13-3 paddling.
Ancient began in a similar vein, although JiJieHao did pick up a smattering of rounds later on. Sebastian "Tauson" Tauson Lindelof in particular was excellent, following up his flying one-tap from Dust2 with a great 3k entry in map two and a 1.80 rating.
GamerLegion now progress to playoffs with their confidence boosted, while JJH are left wondering what happened to the team that beat the VRS #1 just yesterday.
More highlights:
Timur 'FL4MUS' MarevPast 3 months
JiJieHao
Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi
Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci
Bebu 'Bibu' Aadil
Aleksandar 'CacaNito' Kjulukoski
Osama '0SAMAS' Orabi
Torbjørn 'mithR' Nyborg
BetBoom
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov
Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko
Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin
Daniil 'd1Ledez' Kustov
Kirill 'Magnojez' Rodnov
Artem 'Fierce' Ivanov
GamerLegion
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner
Sebastian 'Tauson' Tauson Lindelof
Timur 'FL4MUS' Marev
Milan 'hypex' Polowiec
Adrian 'imd' Pieper
OG
Casper 'cadiaN' Møller
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro
Olle 'spooke' Grundström
Adam 'adamb' Ångström
Luca 'pr1metapz' Voigt
Lambert 'Lambert' Prigent
HOTU
David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan
Aidos 'kade0' Khairzhan
Dmitry 'mizu' Kondratev
Aleksandr 'dwushka' Pakhnevich
Kim 'frontales' Argunov
Rustem 'mou' Telepov
Janusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPast 3 months
Sebastian 'Tauson' Tauson LindelofPast 3 months
Virtus.pro
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov
Vladimir 'b1st' Krasikov
Dias 'F0R3VER' Kutubay
Aleksandr 'AquaRS' Kovalev
Vadim 'tO0RO' Arkov
Dmitriy 'ProbLeM' Martinov