Virtus.pro, zNation secure DH spots
By: Tgwri1s
Time: 2012-06-17 01:49
Event: DreamHack Summer 2012
Game: Counter-Strike 1.6

After topping the BYOC qualifier, the two Russian teams Virtus.pro and zNation have secured their spots in the main tournament of DreamHack Summer 2012.

The BYOC qualifier ended moments ago with zNation defeating ColdGame 2-1, while Virtus.pro overcame SpelFronten with a 2-0 score.

zNation's opponent in the semi-final of the qualifier was a Swedish mix-team ColdGame, who already notched up a couple of notable wins earlier today. This morning they defeated a2g in the group stage of Swedish Championship which secured them a semi-final spot in that competition, while they also knocked out swecon at the BYOC qualifier, the team that defeated Brasil Gaming just before that.

The first map was de_inferno, ColdGame's pick, and it went down to the wire with zNation fighting out for an overtime in which they eventually prevailed 19-16. zNation's pick de_train followed where the Swedes took over from the start and won their T-side 10-5 and later the map 16-8. In the decider on de_nuke zNation proved to be the better team on the day as they came out with a 16-4 win to guarantee themselves a prolonged stay in Sweden.

Result
DreamHack Summer 201..
ColdGame
1
zNation
2

Match statistics:

 
zNation
K - D
+/-
HS %
Rating
Nikita 'wAke' Totskiy
65-47
+18
N/A
1.21
Anatoliy 'liTTle' Yashin
62-51
+11
N/A
1.14
Vladimir 'redman' Tarasov
61-50
+11
N/A
1.14
Aleksey 'hondroz' Zubkov
57-48
+9
N/A
1.01
Pavel 'AERO' Surmach
48-53
-5
N/A
0.89
 
 
ColdGame
K - D
+/-
HS %
Rating
Mathias 'seAzon' Clausen
50-58
-8
N/A
0.84
Danny 'pop' Oldenburg
43-60
-17
N/A
0.75
Jonas 'spozy' Johansson
47-64
-17
N/A
0.74
 

In the other semi-final, Virtus.pro made light work of their SpelFronten encounter, winning 16-4 on de_tuscan and 16-2 on de_dust2, expectedly clinching one of the spots in the main tournament.

Result
DreamHack Summer 201..
Spelfronten
0
Virtus.pro
2

Match statistics:

 
Virtus.pro
K - D
+/-
HS %
Rating
Emil 'kucher' Akhundov
42-17
+25
N/A
1.74
Alexey 'xaoc' Kucherov
37-18
+19
N/A
1.49
Michael 'evil' Garanin
30-18
+12
N/A
1.27
Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov
33-22
+11
N/A
1.27
Aleksey 'LeX' Kolesnikov
33-23
+10
N/A
1.22
 
 
Spelfronten
K - D
+/-
HS %
Rating
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist
25-35
-10
N/A
0.71
Per 'Samzter' Grahn
20-35
-15
N/A
0.63
Jesper 'jw' Wecksell
13-36
-23
N/A
0.36
 

Right after these matches, the two Russian teams were randomly drawn to determine who will go into which group.

Group A Group B
SK Gaming fnatic
ESC Gaming Natus Vincere
WinFakt Moscow Five
Virtus.pro zNation

Virtus.pro's first match will be at 10:00 against SK Gaming, while zNation will go into action at 14:00 facing fnatic.

Tags: Virtus.pro, zNation, DreamHack Summer 2012

good job
2012-06-17 01:50:28
Great for Russia :)
2012-06-17 01:50:30
more from Ukraina :D
2012-06-17 08:50:36
liTTle gets ace nice @ nuke. :)
2012-06-17 01:50:35
by: Ph33R
#4
russia strike back after not getting out of groups @ eufa euro's :P
2012-06-17 01:50:51
oh please. we are so demotivated by our team. I will never watch any our national football team matches.
2012-06-17 01:54:23
Thats the spirit!
2012-06-17 09:14:57
I too.
2012-06-17 09:23:38
hA - hA - hA
2012-06-17 01:56:51
Let's see how they'll play vs the big boys now!
2012-06-17 01:59:19
Right. Now they wanna prove that they use their hands better than their feet =))
2012-06-17 02:17:33
by: tjK
#58
=)) You made my day bro
2012-06-17 14:38:59
gj
2012-06-17 01:50:55
poland vs ukraine final )
2012-06-17 01:51:02
would be awesome!
2012-06-17 01:51:39
brasil...... :(
2012-06-17 01:55:50

Group A Group B
SK Gaming fnatic
ESC Gaming Natus Vincere
WinFakt Moscow Five
Virtus.pro zNation



russia.... :(
2012-06-17 02:00:07
3 teams of 8 are russian, that is great!
2012-06-17 02:03:21
yeaph, maybe M5 go to the play-offs
2012-06-17 02:10:21
And virtus pro have big chance with this lineup!
2012-06-17 06:49:37
nope they dont pass the group stage
2012-06-17 09:32:41
yep I agree with you , no chance , virtus can't beat sk and esc , and i don't think they can make a tie with winfakt... (sarcasm)
2012-06-17 13:39:36
i don't think so...
2012-06-17 10:23:16
gl navi
2012-06-17 01:51:14
RUSSIA! DAVA!
2012-06-17 01:51:52
Damn, was hoping for our neighbours :(!
2012-06-17 01:52:13
I'm kinda dissapointed, if I gotta be honest, I was expecting either ColdGame or Spelfronten to attend the main tournament :/

Post edited 2012-06-17 01:52:58
2012-06-17 01:52:14
3 russian clans^^
2012-06-17 01:52:44
not football ^^
2012-06-17 01:52:54
Go SK, ESC, Na`Vi n fnatic.
2012-06-17 01:54:18
by: jz-
#16
gl !
2012-06-17 01:55:22
by: R1k0
#17
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
!!!THIS IS RUSSIA!!!
2012-06-17 01:55:49
This is EuroCUP! xdd
2012-06-17 01:57:15
8-6 place
THIS IS RUSSIA !
2012-06-17 01:57:41
so much haterz
2012-06-17 01:59:16
oops, many*
2012-06-17 01:59:29
This is greece lol
2012-06-17 03:43:10
^^
2012-06-17 05:53:14
You are the luckiest country in football :)
2012-06-17 09:25:19
no hard feelings
2012-06-17 17:37:36
bitch please , this is hltv.org !!!
2012-06-17 08:48:35
brasil out, so gl fnatic, ESC and Vp!
2012-06-17 01:57:36
nice.
2012-06-17 01:58:42
Sweden 3 teams , Russia 3 teams , Ukraine 1 team , Poland 1 team . Stop trolling please ;) GG Russia .
2012-06-17 02:01:52
go MOSCOW5!
2012-06-17 02:06:30
awesome I'm gonna check those demos fo shizzle
2012-06-17 02:08:46
GREECE
2012-06-17 02:11:04
navi or esc take this
2012-06-17 02:16:44
Great for Russia. 3 teams!
2012-06-17 02:25:00
I dont think these two teams will win any matches. Too tough groups
2012-06-17 02:26:28
GL Virtus.PRO! great team
2012-06-17 02:35:01
If you were russian, you would know that now it's really weak team for world tournament.
2012-06-17 02:40:32
i don't think so...i saw them against Alternate and Anexis,yeah they lost but show great game,this guys need more hard matches against top team... i don't think that this team is weak
2012-06-17 05:11:21
VP have lost a lot of matches against mixes or no-name teams. Dunno what can they show at lan.
2012-06-17 05:27:57
really?
2012-06-17 14:12:57
sad for brazil.amd :(
2012-06-17 02:54:50
BRASIL :(
2012-06-17 02:58:02
give up for a of cs team in Brazil, it is better in football
2012-06-17 03:13:55
:DD
2012-06-17 03:17:09
I love the ex DTS guys, I hope they can do some serious damage

GGOGOO xaoc & Kucher!
2012-06-17 03:18:08
by: ohai
#45
Interesting to see as many Russian teams as Swedish teams for DH
2012-06-17 03:27:32
men, Virtus.pro and zNation suck, please Anexis and eSrael, thx.
2012-06-17 03:38:42
If they sucked the result wouldn't be what it is now...cmmon...
2012-06-17 04:10:44
u right:) maybe anexis and eSral are better team but virtus and znation is not bad at all,especialy virtus:)
2012-06-17 05:16:04
maybe anexis and eSral are better team but virtus and znation is not bad at all,especialy virtus:)
2012-06-17 05:16:55
gj out there!

wAke's POV required along with kucher and xaoc's!!! :))
2012-06-17 04:10:06
i think that virtus.pro can do some damage, but znation will not be succeeded. btw, good luck to both teams.
2012-06-17 04:34:24
very vety nice russians teams!!!!
GOGOGO VP
2012-06-17 05:54:01
Great job Russia, wasn't expecting to see zNation secure a spot
2012-06-17 06:09:11
Virtus go
gl
2012-06-17 06:45:52
TASHIIiIIIII!!!!
2012-06-17 07:19:01
NAVI gl
2012-06-17 07:26:07
schneider would have single-handedly won vs Virtus.pro if it would've been online :))
2012-06-17 07:28:59
by: R/T
#64
GL navi vp
2012-06-17 07:44:14
by: Nnm
#65
hell yeah, 4 cis teams from 8
2012-06-17 08:25:56
easy game for virtuspro and zNation :)
2012-06-17 08:43:27
What a surprise from zNation. I miss xek, but anyway GL to all russian teams! :D
2012-06-17 09:05:46
jw -23 LELE
2012-06-17 09:25:44
expected
gj guyz btw
ukranians 1st in VP - nice :)

Post edited 2012-06-17 09:36:37
2012-06-17 09:32:54
yeah,it was hard match."who will make more frags on public" - ukrainians won" :)
2012-06-17 14:16:23
Nice!Good Job!
2012-06-17 09:48:33
so lame that none of these swedish team couldnt secure the last two spots
2012-06-17 09:55:44
3 Swe , 3 Rus , -navi +delta so it is 2 PL
2012-06-17 10:40:44
good job :)
2012-06-17 17:47:36
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