Titan over Virtus.pro to upper final

Titan beat Virtus.pro 2-0 (de_dust2 16-10, de_mirage 19-17) to proceed to the upper bracket final against Natus Vincere.

Starting off on de_dust2, Kenny "kennyS" Schrub was expected to be the first to pick up the AWP, but after a lost pistol when Virtus.pro pushed for the B bombsite, it was Edouard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux who bought it.

Nothing came of it in the first two gunrounds and VP quickly found themselves up 6-0, until Schrub got to the big green himself and started picking off the Poles. With another mid entry from Dubourdeaux and the double-AWP setup, Titan started getting back on track with five rounds in a row, part of which was Nathan "NBK" Schmitt's triple on the B bombsite.

Virtus.pro then started to be the ones to draw first blood and capitalized on that with quick-response short attacks, which led them to a 9-5 lead. 

That was when Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski found himself alone against all five enemies when Dubourdeaux scored a triple with a P250 on short. He responded with a quick triple of his own on mid before he dealt with both of his opponents watching the bomb on short for a 10-5 halftime.

kennyS had a great debut with Titan

From there on it was Titan's game to lose. Both the pistol and the second P250/Five-seven head armor buy by VP went into the hands of Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom thanks to his seven frags. Virtus.pro couldn't find an answer to any of Titan's attacks with frags spread evenly all across the board before the score said 14-10 in favour of the French-Belgian team.

In spite of Benrlitom getting killed first that time around, Titan still managed to get back and win for a map point. Pogorzelski tried to kill Schmitt in the beginning of the last round with an AWP, but the latter got the better of the former. The round ended up with the bomb planted on A, where Schmitt won in a one-versus-two, as his opponent lacked the defuse kit.

A short break was followed up by de_mirage, where Virtus.pro made their name at EMS One Katowice and started off on it accordingly. Despite Titan won the initial pistol as Terrorists, most of the following rounds were met with Virtus.pro's rotation.

Three gunrounds ended up in a one-versus-two in favor of VP, all of which the Poles won, but Titan were able to buy time and time again thanks to nearly always planting the bomb. Virtus.pro were up 8-3 when Titan eventually took a stand, as Benrlitom and Schrub combined for four kills, only to fall short to Paweł "byali" Bieliński and Filip "Neo" Kubski for an eventual 11-4 scoreline.

It seemed like a won pistol round by Pogorzelski and his triple would seal the deal for his team, although Titan started coming back after their famous P250 second round buy, when they met up with their opponents in mid.

ScreaM was a deciding factor on de_mirage

A similar buy on the other side didn't work out, and with an agressive setup by Titan on mid in the first gunround, the match was at 12-9. That time VP took over mid, which ended up with them winning the round in the last second even though they wouldn't be able to plant the bomb.

The French-Belgian team decided to do an autosniper-AWP setup which paid off only for one round, as Bieliński saved a very close one-versus-three by Dubourdeaux. A quick rush to the A bombsite got VP to a map point, but when they tried the same thing to close out the map, they met up with the stacked Titan and had to double-eco afterwards.

Benrlitom was the star of the remainder of the side, as he saved Titan twice in a row with five kills in those two rounds for an overtime. 

There Benrlitom continued his streak in the first round of the overtime, while Virtus.pro took the second and the last was left up for Titan defending A. A double-AWP setup as Terrorists didn't work for them in the fourth round, but a delayed A push and a split towards the same bombsite won Titan the series at 19-17.

Paweł Bieliński

SLTV StarSeries IX FinalsBest of 2 TitanMatchpage 2 0 2nd May 2014 Virtus.pro 16Dust2 10 19Mirage 17

Titan	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS	54 - 33	+21	-	1.32
Adil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomScreaM	50 - 40	+10	-	1.24
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	51 - 41	+10	-	1.13
Edouard 'SmithZz' DubourdeauxSmithZz	50 - 43	+7	-	1.08
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' DroolansEx6TenZ	28 - 42	-14	-	0.71

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Janusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiSnax	46 - 38	+8	-	1.15
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskipashaBiceps	53 - 54	-1	-	1.07
Paweł 'byali' Bielińskibyali	42 - 48	-6	-	0.91
Filip 'NEO' KubskiNEO	34 - 44	-10	-	0.79
Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasTaZ	24 - 49	-25	-	0.52

SLTV StarSeries IX Finals continue tomorrow with the lower bracket final featuring NiP and Virtus.pro at 15:00 .

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