ENCE defeat Team Spirit 2-0

Competitive Counterstrike is finally back with the ESL Pro League Season 14. With the event having just started we are still waiting to see who advances from the first group of the event. Two teams that need to put at least another victory on the board are ENCE and Team Spirit. As they locked horns it was destined to be an intense battle for survival. Despite the veto, arguably favoring the side of Team Spirit, it was the ENCE roster to prove themselves better on the day. Continuing with confidence after their latest victory against Astralis they managed to secure 3 additional points after beating a disjointed Team Spirit 2-0.

The first map was the pick of ENCE and took place on Nuke. The map is, without any doubt, one of the strongest maps, that is currently in the official map pool, for the ENCE roster. With a win rate of 77% in the past three months on the map, it is clear why ENCE chose Nuke as their map pick. Despite the statistics pointing towards an easy ENCE victory, it was anything but that. With both teams putting up a valid effort, the game kept going back and forth. Trading rounds between the teams it wasn’t until the last stage of the game that one team pulled away. Ending on their CT-side ENCE managed to close out the, otherwise very close, map of Nuke at 16-11 and gain an advantage going into the second map of the series.

The second map of the series was Team Spirit’s map pick. The CIS roster opted for what is arguably their strongest map in their arsenal in Dust 2. With ENCE banning Overpass and Inferno instead of Dust 2 it was clear that ENCE’s strategy wasn’t to punish their opponents in the veto, but instead to protect themselves from their weakest maps in the pool. The strategy seemed to pay off as Team Spirit’s Dust 2 proved to be inadequate against ENCE. After the victory on Nuke, it was a confident ENCE roster to start strongest on Dust 2. With a successful CT-side all ENCE had to do was to finish what they had started. A troubled Team Spirit had to see themselves bested 2-0 as ENCE ultimately closed out Dust 2 at the impressive scoreline of 16-5.

Map 1 – Nuke

16-11 ENCE | doto 1.53 Rating / 106.1 ADR / 25-15 K-D

Map 2 – Dust 2

16-5 Heroic | dycha 1.92 Rating / 117.9 ADR / 27-11 K-D

Highlight of the BO1-series

MVP

Joonas “doto” Forss| 1.56 Rating - 45-22 K/D - 97.6 ADR - 85.4% KAST