The number 4 in the world was matched up with Rhein Neckar at the German Championship Semi-Finals. Rhein Neckar is currently ranked 194 in the world.
On Vertigo the underdogs showed some great Counter-Strike and proved, that they came prepared. They were battling BIG‘s strats, and forced the favorites to change their approach. Rhein Neckar went up 5-0, before BIG made a comeback and won their CT-side 8-7. In the second half BIG again managed to come out on top with 8-7 winning the map 16-14.
The Vertigo battle gave hope for another even map on Nuke.
But then syrsoN did this.
Links, rechts, oben und unten – @syrsoNCSGO holt sich das erste Ace im Halbfinale mit Stil. ? #GOBIG #ESLMeisterschaft pic.twitter.com/OXic1mtfXQ
— BIG (@BIGCLANgg) January 17, 2021
An early ace seemed to take the fighting spirit out of Rhein Neckar who got steamrolled 16-2. Florian “syrsoN” Rische went 23-6 in k/d not leaving his opponent many chances to recover.
BIG will play the Grand Final tonight at 19.50 (CET) against the winner of the other Semi-Final between ALTERNATE aTTaX and Sprout.
