AVANGAR hustles it out against Syman Gaming to make it to the Legends Stage

Cover Image Courtesy: Igor Bezborodov | Thumbnail Image Courtesy: AVANGAR

The final day of the New Challengers Stage for the currently on-going StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 kick-started today with AVANGAR taking on Syman Gaming in a best-of-three decider match up.

While the winner would be making its way through to the New Legends Stage the loser of this match-up will be on its way home, getting eliminated from the Berlin Major.

It was no doubt a closely competitive series with AVANGAR pushing through with whatever they had to offer and making its way through to the next stage.

Image Credit: HLTV

The two teams faced each other on Inferno to start things off. AVANGAR, as expected, was mighty impressive on their map pick as they secured a total of eight rounds in the first half playing T-sided and then moved on to hold the sites tight, to walk away with a ’16-10’ victory over its CIS opposition in the opening match-up.

INFERNO

Syman Gaming struck right back on their map, Mirage. They showed why they are so good on the map as they came back from a ‘6-9’ deficit in the first half to claim the map and take the series down to a decider.

MIRAGE

The final match was played on Dust 2. Taking a look back at the last six months, AVANGAR has played on this particular map a lot more than Syman, and despite playing the map more number of time they still had a 61% win rate on it.

This was exactly the reason behind Syman getting demolished on the map. They fought to survive playing CT-sided but could not manage to secure a single round in the second half, as AVANAGAR went on to claim the map ’16-5’, winning the three-game match-up by a series score of ‘2-1’.

DUST 2

Alexey ‘qikert’ Golubev was the key to AVANGAR’s success, leading them by achieving an overall rating of 1.46 across all the three maps according to HLTV. He had a K-D difference of +20, clutching multiple rounds for his side and not letting go of the momentum once attained.

Image Credit: HLTV

With this, AVANGAR moves on to secure a legends stage finish at the very least once again, while Syman Gaming despite having a strong start and taking down some heavyweights like Vitality & FURIA were not able to cross the final hurdle.

Stay tuned as two more elimination matches are about to come to an end shortly.