Heroic continue strong form with 2-0 victory against Spirit

For almost the entirety of Counter-Strike Global Offensive, it has been Astralis who has been the talk of the town when it comes to being the best Danish roster in CS:GO. However, since August 2020 there has been another Danish team to prove themselves more than capable of competing within the tier one scene. This is, of course, Heroic. Continuing their strong form and yesterday’s success against Bad News Bears, the Danish roster managed to defeat Team Spirit 2-0. With extreme confidence and punishing strategies from Heroic, the CIS roster of Team Spirit had to see themselves bested in just two maps, putting them in danger of ending their ESL Pro League S14 run earlier than expected.

The first map was the pick of Team Spirit and saw the Bo3-series go to Overpass to kick things off. Just as last time the two rosters met Team Spirit opted for Overpass as their map pick against Heroic. And just as the last time they had to see themselves bested against the Danes. Heroic played Overpass with incredible confidence and seemed to get away with every punishing play that they tried against Team Spirit. With Ismail “refrezh” Ali leading the charge, at least in terms of performance, the confidence and quick rotations were too much for Team Spirit to handle and they would have to walk away from Overpass with a 16-8 defeat.

The second map was Heroic's choice and meant a battle on “banana” for the two teams as they headed to Inferno to continue the brawl. Last time the two teams met the Danes opted for Nuke as their map pick, however, without success. This time instead it seems to be a “punish pick” that Heroic has chosen as their map pick. In the past three months (11 games) the side of Team Spirit is sitting on a poor win rate of 18% on Inferno. Whilst Nuke is, without a doubt, a better map for the Danes it seemed as if the strategy was to play on Team Spirit’s weaknesses instead. And the weaknesses of Team Spirit showed. After a strong T-sided half Heroic gained an early lead and closed the first half at 10-5 favoring the Danes. All Heroic had to do on their CT-side of Inferno was to close out what they had started, and they did exactly that. Despite Team Spirit looking stronger in the second half, it was the Danes to walk away with the victory at 16-9.

Map 1 – Overpass

16-8 Heroic | refrezh 1.57 Rating / 104.2 ADR / 26-12 K-D

Map 2 – Inferno

16-9 Heroic | stavn 1.68 Rating / 124.4 ADR / 24-15 K-D

Highlight of the BO1-series

MVP

Ismail “refrezh” Ali| 1.42 Rating - 46-23 K/D - 90.7 ADR - 71.4% KAST