VG and myDGB.net over ESC, zNation

VeryGames and myDGB.net have defeated ESC Gaming and zNation 2-0 and 2-1 to advance to the semi-finals of AMD Sapphire Invitational, where they will face each other.

ESC Gaming started off with a pistol round loss on de_nuke_ve, which put them down 0-5 early on. Cever one-on-two clutches from Mariusz "Loord" Cybulski and Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas allowed them to win four rounds in the half before switching sides.

As counter-terrorists ESC Gaming went up to a four-on-two situation in the pistol round, but Eduoard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux's two kills allowed VG to win the round. The two following save rounds both came down to one-on-ones, but VG went up 14-4.

ESC Gaming mustered a decent comeback, winning five rounds in a row thanks to big plays by Filip "NEO" Kubski. In the end losing that pistol round was too much however, as they went on to lose 11-16.

Loord's clutching was almost enough, but no cigar 

On de_inferno_se VeryGames went down 1-6 as terrorists, but tied the game at six in five rounds. ESC picked up their game a notch, but even a 9-6 lead at half wasn't what they were hoping for.

Second half pistol started with Cybulski once again clutching a one-on-two, putting ESC up 12-6 in the process. Now it was VG's time to mount a comeback, and before you knew it they were the ones in the lead, 13-12. Next rounds were traded with ESC being forced to save, making it 15-13.

On the second to last round Jarosław "pasha" Jarząbkowski won a one-on-two of his own, but an overly sized smoke grenade allowed Kenny "kennyS" Schrub to defuse in a one-on-one versus Kubski on the final round to give VG a 16-14 win. AMD Sapphire CS:GO InvitationalBest of 2 ESCMatchpage 0 2 2nd December 2012 VeryGames 11Nuke_se 16 14Inferno_se 16

Simultaneously going on was the last quarter-final between myDGB.net and zNation. The Czech-Slovakian side started off strong on de_inferno_se, as they ran up the score to sixteen in just twenty-five rounds, 16-9.

Next map de_train_se was a totally different affair, as zNation's Nikita "fabi" Kvochkin simply refused to lose, putting up a monster performance with a score of 39/18 which allowed his team to win 16-13.

oskar & co are in the final four in Prague

Final map was de_dust2_se where myDGB, led by star AWPer Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács managed to score a 9-6 lead as terrorists, leaving the whole series down to the final half.

zNation won the pistol round as terrorists and tied the game at nine each, but Tomáš "oskar" Šťastný's squad prevailed in the end, going up 14-11 and then finally closing a 2-1 win with a 16-13 score. AMD Sapphire CS:GO InvitationalBest of 3 zNationMatchpage 1 2 2nd December 2012 myDGB.net 9Inferno_se 16 16Train_se 13 13Dust2_se 16

Semi-final between NiP and BuyKey is scheduled to go live at 16:30 but we're not sure if that is going to stick. VeryGames and myDGB.net are expected to go live around the same time.

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