{"id":2428,"date":"2014-02-03T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T02:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cyberpowerpc.com\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:36:47","slug":"n0things-esea-season-15-finals-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/n0things-esea-season-15-finals-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"n0thing’s ESEA Season 15 Finals Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post written by\u00a0Jordan \u201cn0thing\u201d Gilbert of compLexity Gaming<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jordan \u201cn0thing\u201d Gilbert here, just wanted to talk to the coL fans a bit about our experience at the recent ESEA Season 15 LAN Finals. \u00a0It was a pretty quick weekend – we got in Thursday evening and left Monday morning – and it all seems to happen in about 10 hours it feels like, hah.<\/p>\n

First day of arrival was pretty relaxed, because the only thing we had to do the following day was \u00a0an all-star game and watch the first round of bracket play. \u00a0We got the #1 seed coming in from USA so both we and Titans – the French team with the #1 EU seed – didn\u2019t have any official matches till Saturday. \u00a0This meant we basically spent the first night along with all the staff having beers at the hotel bar, and of course following it up with some in-N-out conveniently located across the street from the event.<\/p>\n

Waking up late on Friday was pretty solid, but we were immediately alerted by our manager that we had to take some photos and do some pre-event interviews within the hour. So, showers were in order and we then quickly threw on our jerseys and went down. \u00a0To our surprise, we found out we also had to play an Aim_Map match vs. the French team in order to determine which side of the bracket we are on. We set up after taking photos and were able to warm up for about an hour before playing them in a 5v5 first to 16 match on a level equivalent to a small paintball field.<\/p>\n

Basically to give you a quick background. 3 out of 4 European team\u2019s didn\u2019t show up, so the seeding was messed up so that match was meant to see who got the all American bracket. \u00a0I didn\u2019t necessarily like \u00a0this way of choosing, but in the end we won the challenge so I couldn\u2019t complain. \u00a0In the future they should probably just fill the seeds they replaced in order of placement, even if it\u2019s from USA teams.Anyway, this served as a solid warm up on the goliath 27\u201d BenQ monitors that we weren\u2019t used to using – so that was nice. \u00a0Briefly after we went and got some steaks and settled in for the evening.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning we were faced up against \u201cHomeless\u201d – a top three USA team coming into the LAN. \u00a0We were confident against them, but knew we had to secure pistol rounds to make sure it wasn\u2019t close. After 2 games, we took the victory, but it wasn\u2019t without resistance. On de_Cache – a map created by Volcano – they actually took us to overtime with some solid second half T side play and made an enjoyable match for the spectators.<\/p>\n

Moving on to the next match against Titans. \u00a0Since it\u2019s a best-of-three format, we discussed what maps we did NOT want to play and decided that Mirage and Season would be our vetos, while we knew they probably didn\u2019t want to play Train. \u00a0\u00a0We battled it out on Dust2 first and felt like we played pretty well overall, but due to losing both pistols it was tough to battle back and we lost 16-14. \u00a0On a side note, the CT pistol round came down to a 3v2 and then sgares computer froze, causing it to be a 2v2 where we killed both but were left with no time to defuse the bomb. \u00a0That was unfortunate for the first map, but the second map was Inferno, and we knew we were able to beat them on this map, seeing as we just did it at DH Winter. We focused up and took the map 16-4 after some solid CT side play. \u00a0The third map was de_Nuke, and we felt that if we could get pistol rounds we would take the match, but we failed to do so, resulting in another close 14-16 loss.<\/p>\n

For the sake of brevity, I\u2019m going to move onto iBuyPower, because there\u2019s no reason to ramble about excuses for the Titans game; we slipped up in small moments and it cost us. Starting vs. iBuyPower we were confident, but maybe too complacent coming into our first game. \u00a0We started out on Cache, a map that we\u2019re fairly comfortable on, but even after gaining an early 5-1 lead, we still failed to hold on and lost the map 16-13. \u00a0A crucial point was probably when it was, 12-12, I think; we lost a 1v3 to Skadoodle after a miscommunication led us to believe we had the bomb in our control. That really messed with our money and momentum. \u00a0Moving onto de_Train, we had CT side so we felt if we could take a big lead on the first half, we could close it out. \u00a0We lost the pistol, but we didn\u2019t let it phase us and we stayed somewhat poised throughout and took an 11-4 first half. \u00a0Second half pistol we were taken down pretty easily, but we took to a decisive eco round to make up for it. Following a lucky lineup for me, we able to regain control of the match – temporarily. We ended up in like a 15-13 situation and decided to just run out middle on T side; it turned out well for us, as Hiko and I took down three and two respectively, to end the game.<\/p>\n

The final map was de_Nuke, which turned out to be a frustrating one after we took a 10-5 first half lead! \u00a0Even though we lost the pistol and still managed to make a good half out of it. We felt like if we won T pistol we would take the game easily. \u00a0We took the T pistol, and started out to a comfortable 11-6 half, with money of course. \u00a0Second round we kind of grouped up in the lobby and after I got a bit too excited, with a teammate following as well, we met our demise as we got sniped by pistols and lost the save round in an amateur fashion. \u00a0After clawing back for rounds they somehow took us down 11-2, as their double sniper setup was just causing us too much trouble on outside. For some reason we didn\u2019t have an answer that game, but I know we will next time!<\/p>\n

So, I don\u2019t really have much more to say. It was good games to everyone involved, we know we could have played better, but you live and learn. We are looking forward to our next chance at competing!<\/p>\n

Thanks to complexity and CyberPowerPC for the support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Post written by\u00a0Jordan \u201cn0thing\u201d Gilbert of compLexity Gaming. Jordan \u201cn0thing\u201d Gilbert here, just wanted to talk to the coL fans a bit about our experience at the recent ESEA Season 15 LAN Finals. \u00a0It was a pretty quick weekend – we got in Thursday evening and left Monday morning – and it all seems to… Read More »n0thing’s ESEA Season 15 Finals Recap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2732,2741],"tags":[552,560,561,658,673,769,770,911,912,1214,73],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-gaming-reviews-news","tag-col","tag-complexity","tag-complexity-gaming","tag-csgo","tag-cyberpower","tag-cyberpowerinc","tag-cyberpowerpc","tag-esea","tag-esea-csgo","tag-gaming","tag-n0thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}