Liquid advance to DH Austin semis

Liquid defeat Selfless in a flawless manner with a 2-0 score (16-3 on Dust2 and 16-10 on Train) and are the fourth and final team to make it to the DreamHack Open Austin playoffs.

The final game of the second day of DreamHack Austin was the Group B decider match as Selfless had survived the elimination match against NRG and stepped up to the plate versus Liquid.

Unlike the Group A decider match between Cloud9 and CLG however, the second decider match of the day kicked off with a one-sided sweep on the first map of Dust2 as Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski and Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella powered a 12-3 first half on Liquid's CT side.

Liquid, currently the best ranked North American team in the world at eleventh place, then picked up four clean T-side rounds to close out the first map 16-3 and leave Selfless looking as lost and confused as the young team had appeared at the CEVO Gfinity Season 9 finals the weekend before.

EliGE and nitr0 excelled against Selfless

Train was the second map of play and it was Liquid who started on the T-side and claimed a pistol round and the first gunround and thus continued to advance unopposed in the entire series.

Following a CT-side round picked up by Selfless to make the score 5-1 for Liquid, it was Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin and co. who continued to steam ahead (including Hiko winning a one-versus-two to make the score 8-1) in the first half and ultimately finished the first half with a 11-4 score.

With Hiko leading his team on Train, Liquid picked up the second pistolround and advanced as far as 15-4 before Selfless finally partially awoke and began grabbing rounds back, going all the way until 10-15 before a Hiko-powered Five Seven round saw Liquid finally grab the necessary last round and win Train 16-10.

DreamHack Austin 2016Best of 3 LiquidMatchpage 2 0 8th May 2016 Selfless 16Dust2 3 16Train 10

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Nick 'nitr0' Cannellanitr0	43 - 23	+20	88.8	1.57
Jonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEliGE	40 - 25	+15	109.4	1.57
Spencer 'Hiko' MartinHiko	40 - 21	+19	88.4	1.44
Kenneth 'koosta' Suenkoosta	27 - 22	+5	59.3	1.15
Eric 'adreN' HoagadreN	27 - 27	0	74.3	1.06

Selfless	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Mitch 'mitch' Semagomitch	25 - 37	-12	69.7	0.81
Noah 'Nifty' FrancisNifty	24 - 31	-7	58.8	0.81
Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverRelyks	29 - 36	-7	64.0	0.75
Michael 'Uber' StapellsUber	23 - 36	-13	58.6	0.71
Michael 'MAiNLiNE' JaberMAiNLiNE	17 - 38	-21	53.9	0.55

Tomorrow will be the final day of DreamHack Austin and it will be devoted to both semifinals and the grand final, all of which will be best-of-three games. Cloud9 will take on Tempo Storm at 17:00 whereas Liquid will duel with Luminosity at 19:30 .

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Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski Age: 18 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 313 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.71 Tempo Storm #10 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassJoão 'felps' VasconcellosGustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Age: 26 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 434 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.60 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Luminosity #2 Lincoln 'fnx' LauGabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Nick 'nitr0' Cannella Age: 20 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 344 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.69 CLG #13 Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJames 'hazed' CobbJacob 'FugLy' MedinaTarik 'tarik' Celik Cloud9 #19 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamMike 'shroud' GrzesiekAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Selfless #22 Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverMichael 'MAiNLiNE' JaberMichael 'Uber' StapellsNoah 'Nifty' FrancisMitch 'mitch' Semago NRG #24 Fatih 'gob b' DayikNikola 'LEGIJA' NinićPeter 'ptr' GurneyJustin 'just9n' OrtizSamuel 'SileNt' Portillo Liquid #11 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinEric 'adreN' HoagNick 'nitr0' CannellaJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiKenneth 'koosta' Suen