Guild Esports knock out Alliance after a nail-biting series

After winning the first map, Guild Esports couldn’t close out their series against FunPlus Phoenix and lost 2-1. On the other side, Alliance were pushed to the Lower Bracket by Team BDS who choked out their opponents on Split after a close game on Ascent.

As expected going into the game, it was an extremely tight affair, with each team exchanging rounds up until Alliance started racking up the wins over their opponents to reach 7-3. Guild Esports weren’t going to switch sides without putting a few more points onto the scoreboard, going 7-5 before being the attacking team.

Alliance’s Tautvydas "hype" Paldavicius kept the matchup close, breaking the deadlock and taking the score to 8-7 in favor of his team after a beautiful 4K. This one round differential proved immense, considering it continued to be the tie-breaker up until Guild pulled it back to 11-11. After going into countless overtimes, the Swedish roster won the match over Alliance to take Haven, and go into Split with a 1-0 advantage.

Guild carried the momentum with them onto Split, gaining the upper hand over their opponents for the first few rounds before Alliance pulled it back to keep themselves in the game at 8-4. Once again, hype stepped up with a big 3K to get the 14th round on the board for his team, making it 8-6.

Leo "Leo" Jannesson put on a performance to remember, especially in the later stages of the game. The Swedish managed to stop Alliance from planting on B-site with a blind double kill through the smoke then closed out the round with two more kills to put his team at 11-9.

An extremely aggressive Raze play from Yacine "Yacine" Laghmari at the start of the series point round wasn’t enough for his team to close out the game. Once again, we were pushed into overtime, with Alliance Esports keeping themselves in the series after all.

The third and final map, Ascent, had to crown a winner for this memorable series between the two. Contrary to what happened on Haven and Split, Alliance were the ones pulling away from Guild Esports, extending their lead to 8-4. However, as usual, the latter team didn’t let them enjoy that for long before equalizing the score to 8-8.

The round-for-round trade continued for quite a while till we reached 10-10, and that’s when Saif "Sayf" Jibraeel’s 2K and William "draken" Sundin’s 3K in the same round pushed Guild to 11-10. This proved crucial, giving the Swedish roster the morale boost they need to close out the series.

An outstanding nail-biter of a series see Guild Esports just barely scrape by Alliance after two extremely close encounters on Haven and Split, with Ascent finally separating the two for them to continue their Masters quest.

VCT 2021 - Stage 1 - Europe Masters

Guild Esports

2

X

1

Alliance

Group B - Elimination Match, Best of 3 - March 14, 2021 - 5:30PM

17

Haven

15

12

Split

14

13

Ascent

10

Guild Esports

player

Rating

ACS

K/D/A

+/-

K/D

KAST

ADR

HS%

FBSR

FB

FD

Leo

1.14

222

63/51/31

+12

1.24

0.0%

136.2

17%

50%

6

6

Yacine

1.09

248

64/56/20

+8

1.14

0.0%

162.9

20%

58%

18

13

Sayf

1.07

233

65/60/21

+5

1.08

0.0%

152.3

21%

43%

6

8

draken

0.93

194

57/55/15

+2

1.04

0.0%

113.2

17%

47%

9

10

bonkar

0.80

158

46/50/23

-4

0.92

0.0%

119.0

9%

20%

1

4

Alliance

player

Rating

ACS

K/D/A

+/-

K/D

KAST

ADR

HS%

FBSR

FB

FD

kAdavra

1.14

231

63/57/26

+6

1.11

0.0%

154.1

25%

57%

13

10

hype

1.05

225

61/64/21

-3

0.95

0.0%

144.7

17%

53%

9

8

luckeRRR

0.99

180

48/59/37

-11

0.81

0.0%

109.0

24%

47%

8

9

Enzo

0.90

190

49/53/28

-4

0.92

0.0%

140.8

18%

50%

6

6

xms

0.81

172

51/62/9

-11

0.82

0.0%

106.8

27%

42%

5

7