Natus Vincere Upset Astralis in ESL One Cologne Semi-Final in Close Match Tournament favorites Astralis took on European rivals Natus Vincere in a close semi-final at ESL One Cologne, in a very closely contested match. Na\u2019Vi were coming in hot after their quarter final match against Fnatic, which they took in dominant fashion thanks to their star player Oleksandr \u201cs1mple\u201d Kostyliev taking over. The two teams were neck and neck for after the first twenty rounds, but s1mple backed up by Denis \u201celectronic\u201d Sharipov remained sharp and closed it out 16-13. More: Everything You Need to Know About the ESL One: Cologne CS:GO Knockout Stage \u2013 Stream, Schedule, Results and More – On map two Nuke though, Astralis seemed unfazed by the tight map one defeat, immediately opening up a massive 10-1 lead on their T side. Na\u2019Vi regained some composure at the half way point, but Astralis\u2019 quality and team play on Nuke was ultimately the difference as they took it 16-6 and forcing map three, Inferno. Map three was suitably more close, as the the pressure was on for both of these teams as the spot in the grand final was in touching distance. Na\u2019Vi were sharp still despite their setback on map two, and it wasn\u2019t just down the stars like s1mple, as Danylo \u201cZeus\u201d Teslenko providing an unusual amount of fragging in the first half. Things were looking very slow for Astralis, but in true champions style they bounced back after the half bringing it to trail by only a single round at 10-11. But Na\u2019Vi fought off a spirited fight from Astralis to close it out 16-13 and book their spot in the grand final, where they would face FaZe Clan or BIG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Natus Vincere Upset Astralis in ESL One Cologne Semi-Final in Close Match Tournament favorites Astralis took on European rivals Natus Vincere in a close semi-final at ESL One Cologne, in a very closely contested match. Na\u2019Vi were coming in hot after their quarter final match against Fnatic, which they took in dominant fashion thanks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}