Intel Excessive Masters Dallas 2022: Semi-Finals Recap

The Semi-Finals of the IEM Dallas 2022 is completed and the 2 groups that can conflict for the trophy within the Finals are settled.

The week is sort of over and we’re nearing the tip of IEM Dallas 2022. Now with the Semi-Finals executed, we solely have yet one more matchup in our fingers. The primary LAN occasion with an viewers in nearly two years will crown its champion after a sequence between ENCE and Cloud9 who obtained their victories in at the moment’s Semi-Finals.

Intel Excessive Masters Dallas ENCE 2 – 0 FURIA Esports

Map 1 (Vertigo): ENCE 16 – 14 FURIA

FURIA saved their pistol streak from yesterday alive by profitable their first T aspect spherical. Nonetheless, ENCE began to show away the momentum as soon as the weapons got here out, defending FURIA and Andrei ‘arT’ Piovezan’s A ramp aggression because of Pavle ‘maden’ Bošković and Olek ‘hades’ Miskiewicz. FURIA was having hassle cracking A website protection regardless of steady lurk makes an attempt from Kaike ‘KSCERATO’ Cerato, whereas ENCE stand-in Janusz ‘Snax’ Pogorzelski had extra success together with his flanks. On the opposite aspect, any try and breach the B website was shut down by Paweł ‘dycha’ Dycha for a 10-5 halftime.

FURIA began the second half with the pistol win and with a deal with aggressive B stairs pushes. However maden’s A ramp play gave ENCE their first T aspect gun spherical. Within the second half, the momentum modified just like yesterday’s Vertigo sport as FURIA’s CT aspect holds and retakes had been as soon as once more on level as they took the lead at 13-12. ENCE discovered a much-needed spherical to tie it at 13 and so they obtained the lead the spherical after, each because of A ramp entry kills from maden. In spherical 29, ENCE as soon as once more went to the A ramp, and maden obtained them to the match level with two extra entry kills. ENCE then closed the map out with a surprisingly quick B hit with a Marco ‘Snappi’ Pfeiffer 4k.

ENCE

Snappi – 23/9/18
maden – 23/7/18
dycha – 20/3/16
Snax – 16/3/20
hades – 15/4/17

FURIA

KSCERATO – 24/3/21
arT – 19/4/19
drop – 17/6/18
saffee – 16/3/19
yuurih – 13/2/20

Map 2 (Nuke): ENCE 16 – 9 FURIA

ENCE gave FURIA their first pistol spherical within the Playoffs of their T begin on Nuke. In addition they gained the primary gun spherical after a superbly executed 2v3 from Snax and Snappi however gave away an eco spherical to Rafael ‘saffee’ Costa’s CZ75. Within the subsequent spherical, saffee clutched an important 1v2 and obtained the defuse on the decrease website as soon as once more. FURIA was extra disciplined of their play after a timeout as they tied the rating at 5-5, and a KSCERATO 4k gave them the lead. André ‘drop’ Abreu and arT additionally stepped up large as FURIA ensures a first-half lead, 8-5. ENCE with a pressure purchase made issues higher by ending the half at 8-7.

ENCE began the second half with one other pistol win after a 1v3 clutch from dycha. A quad kill from Snappi obtained ENCE to double digits, 10-8. ENCE’s A protection was on level with maden and Snax as soon as once more performing nice. FURIA was so near stopping the win streak of CTs as yuurih tried a 1v5 clutch however failed on the finish. With hades coming on-line with the AWP ENCE discovered the match level, however FURIA held on as drop snuck into the A bombsite. One other triple kill from hades and one other nice efficiency from the veteran stand-in Snax led to ENCE sending FURIA residence with a 2-0.

ENCE

Snax – 27/3/15
dycha – 21/4/16
hades – 21/1/16
Snappi – 19/1/13
maden – 15/7/18

FURIA

drop – 21/2/20
yuurih – 19/5/21
KSCERATO – 15/5/21
saffee – 12/2/20
arT – 11/8/22

Intel Excessive Masters Dallas BIG 1 – 2 Cloud9

Map 1 (Overpass): BIG 16 – 14 C9

Cloud9 began the sport with a pistol win and had a possibility to interrupt BIG’s early sport economic system however a 1v2 clutch from Florian ‘syrsoN’ Rische gave the benefit to the Germans. C9 had been capable of finding good entry kills at each websites from Vladislav ‘nafany’ Gorshkov and Sergey ‘Ax1Le’ Rykhtorov to take the lead as soon as once more. C9 struggled to execute once they couldn’t discover early kills as BIG did a superb job to save lots of utilities until the final minute. Nonetheless, they managed to get their eighth spherical with a sneaky A execute and an Ax1Le flank.

The second pistol spherical went to BIG after a 4k from the IGL Johannes ‘tabseN’ Wodarz, however they nearly had a tough assault once they got here near utilizing the spherical to USP-Ss. And a clear A website execute from BIG, even after Ax1Le’s aggressive fountain push led to 2 kills, tied the sport at 9-9. BIG’s T aspect play was very affected person as they went on an eight-round win streak, with Karim ‘Krimbo’ Moussa main in kills. C9 lastly answered with a B website maintain, although Tizian ‘tiziaN’ Feldbusch’s try and so they made the rating 14-9. However an important 4-man enhance from syrsoN and a giant 1v3 clutch from Krimbo gave BIG the map level. C9 held on to the primary one regardless of a quad kill from tabseN. Abay ‘HObbit’ Khasenov and Ax1Le got here alive at this level to hold C9 to the brink of extra time, however tabseN as soon as once more got here in clutch and BIG gained the sport 16-14.

BIG

Krimbo – 28/4/18
tabseN – 25/3/18
faveN – 17/6/25
syrsoN – 14/3/18
tiziaN – 10/4/20

HObbit – 27/4/21
Ax1Le – 26/6/20
sh1ro – 16/2/17
interz – 15/3/16
nafany – 15/3/20

Map 2 (Dust2): BIG 9 – 16 C9

Cloud9 began Dust2 with a pistol win on the again of a double kill from Ax1Le. HObbit getting caught nearly value C9 a spherical however Timofey ‘interz’ Yakushin gained the 1v2, however CT aspect wasn’t in a position to construct their economic system. BIG punished with a superb A aspect pinch to get their first spherical, 4-1. However one other triple kill from Ax1Le introduced them again of their step. BIG began to choose up steam particularly on the A website with tabseN going large with one other triple kill within the sequence. When BIG went for his or her first mid-to-B break up, interz was there ready for his triple kill, and their A takes within the subsequent two rounds had been shut down by HObbit’s successive quad kills, guaranteeing them a halftime lead.

BIG gained the second pistol spherical because of an important A website maintain from Josef ‘faveN’ Baumann and tabseN. However a superb execution from C9 saved them within the lead 10-9. BIG’s coordination wasn’t on par with C9’s and syrsoN couldn’t hit his pictures, whereas sh1ro’s good type with the AWP C9 prolonged the lead. BIG couldn’t enhance their efficiency and C9 closed the map out as we went to 3rd map, Historical.

BIG

syrsoN – 18/4/16
tabseN – 18/2/18
faveN – 18/2/19
Krimbo – 7/2/19
tiziaN – 7/2/20

HObbit – 24/0/16
sh1ro – 22/2/11
Ax1Le – 18/4/14
interz – 14/4/10
nafany – 14/2/17

Map 3 (Historical): BIG 3 – 16 C9

Cloud9 began with a pistol win and although Historical is a CT-sided map, C9’s dominance over the primary 5 rounds compelled BIG to an early timeout. BIG wanted a triple kill from tabseN to choose up their first-round and make it 6-1. BIG couldn’t make the A website work as they couldn’t get previous the double AWP setup with Ax1Le, and even after a bomb plant a sneaky defuse from interz gained C9 the spherical. BIG’s sport plan wasn’t working as solely tabseN had greater than 5 kills whereas the rating was 10-1. Regardless of coming near profitable extra rounds, nafany and sh1ro got here in clutch a number of occasions and C9 led the halftime at 12-3.

BIG tried a retake for a much-needed pistol spherical however a double kill from HObbit shut them down. TabseN had an important flank however sh1ro caught him and C9 prolonged the result in eleven rounds. BIG didn’t need to get their rifles out on the CT aspect as they needed to preserve forcing, and C9 took the benefit to put in writing their names to the second Grand Finals spot in opposition to ENCE.

BIG

faveN – 11/3/14
tabseN – 10/5/17
Krimbo – 10/0/16
syrsoN – 7/1/17
tiziaN – 5/1/19

nafany – 19/3/9
HObbit – 17/6/8
Ax1Le – 17/2/8
interz – 15/4/7
sh1ro – 15/4/11

IT’S #IEM DALLAS GRAND FINALS FOR @C9CSGO!

They take down @BIGCLANgg in three maps, taking the sequence 2-1!

14-16 Overpass
16-9 Mud II
16-3 Historical pic.twitter.com/ThpCL6JmYA

— Intel® Excessive Masters (@IEM) June 4, 2022