In the final match up of GameGune 2012's second round of the upper bracket, second seeded Natus Vincere simply overpowered Russian zNation 16-9 on de_train and 16-3 on de_dust2.

The Ukrainian side won the opening pistol round on the terrorist side of de_train and forced their opposition to save twice. zNation mounted a nice run after being down 0-3 as they won the following four rounds, but after a long pause due to Yegor "markeloff" Markelov disconnecting, Na`Vi won six straight to go up 9-4 before zNation replied with two round wins to make it 9-6 as Sergey "starix" Ischuk led all players in scoring with a 15/6 score.

In the next pistol round the match looked all but over as Na`Vi had cornered zNation's Vladimir "redman" Tarasov in the brown hall, but he did the impossible by winning a one-on-four situation, granted against low health Ukrainians. After two save rounds it was all Natus Vincere from there on out though, as they won seven straight rounds led by Arseny "ceh9" Trynozhenko's 14/4 effort and won the map 16-9.

Na`Vi gets a good night's sleep and time to prepare for match against ESC 

Up next was de_dust2 where Na`Vi won their counter-terrorist pistol round thanks to two kills from both Trynozhenko and Ioann "Edward" Sukhariev. zNation attempted a force buy on the second round, but Ischuk and Sukhariev mowed them down in the B bombsite to force the Russians on a save and make it 3-0. Similar play continued throughout the half with Na`Vi simply putting up a wall as they switched sides with a ten round lead at 12-3.

zNation's defense proved successful in their defensive pistol round, but double frag rounds from Sukhariev and Trynozhenko won Na`Vi their second round force buy. zNation attempted to come back after one save round, but it wasn't going to happen as Sergey "starix" Ischuk aced the Russians to win the last round of Na`Vi's 16-3 win which clinched the series 2-0.

Result

GameGune 2012

zNation

0

Natus Vincere

2

Demo

 

Na`Vi

K - D

+/-

HS %

Rating

Sergey 'starix' Ischuk

45-15

+30

N/A

1.77

Arseny 'ceh9' Trynozhenko

42-23

+19

N/A

1.48

Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev

40-22

+18

N/A

1.46

Yegor 'markeloff' Markelov

33-25

+8

N/A

1.15

Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko

25-25

0

N/A

1.05

 

 

zNation

K - D

+/-

HS %

Rating

Vladimir 'redman' Tarasov

30-35

-5

N/A

0.95

Aleksey 'hondroz' Zubkov

20-35

-15

N/A

0.64

Pavel 'AERO' Surmach

20-36

-16

N/A

0.56

Nikita 'wAke' Totskiy

20-40

-20

N/A

0.52

Anatoliy 'liTTle' Yashin

20-39

-19

N/A

0.51

 

Natus Vincere has advanced to the upper bracket semi-final where they will face ESC Gaming at 10:45 in the morning. zNation will continue their tournament in the lower bracket where they are going to go up against ENTiTY soon.

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