Tempo Storm are through to the Upper Bracket semi-finals at the Americas Minor Championship after edging past NRG 16-13 on Mirage.
The game began with NRG taking the pistol round, courtesy of a trio of kills from Justin "just9n" Ortiz, and following it up with the corresponding anti-eco rounds to secure a 3-0 lead. When Tempo Storm bought up, however, things quickly changed, and the Brazilian team overturned their deficit with a string of rounds.
With the lead completely reversed, Nikola "LEGIJA" Ninić went huge and powered his team to equalise the score at 5-5 with back-to-back triple kills. The final rounds of the half were extremely close, with Tempo Storm securing a narrow 8-7 lead.
lucas put in a great display
NRG picked up the pistol round on the CT side to restore parity at eight rounds, but then they were caught off-guard by a force buy from the Brazilians. After a double eco, NRG were back at it, picking up two rounds in a row thanks to some key AWP kills from Peter "ptr" Gurney.
Tempo Storm were unwilling to let NRG equalise the score and called a timeout to adjust their offense. That is when Lucas "LUCAS1" Teles took center stage, winning a 1v1 situation before pulling off an ace. NRG would still be able to bring the deficit to a minimum, but the Brazilians kept their cool and sealed a hard-fought victory.
MLG Regional Minor Championship AmericasBest of 1 Tempo Storm
Matchpage 16 13 19th May 2016
NRG 16Mirage 13
![]() | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
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![]() | 27 - 16 | +11 | 98.0 | 1.40 |
![]() | 22 - 22 | 0 | 90.1 | 1.30 |
![]() | 24 - 17 | +7 | 94.6 | 1.28 |
![]() | 19 - 18 | +1 | 69.0 | 1.06 |
![]() | 17 - 13 | +4 | 59.4 | 1.06 |
![]() ![]() | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 22 - 23 | -1 | 86.8 | 1.05 |
![]() | 20 - 24 | -4 | 77.2 | 1.01 |
![]() | 16 - 19 | -3 | 62.6 | 0.86 |
![]() | 17 - 20 | -3 | 67.4 | 0.79 |
![]() | 11 - 23 | -12 | 59.2 | 0.65 |
Earlier in the day, TSM locked horns with Kaliber in the group's elimination match, on Overpass. As expected, the former Without a Roof team were no match for their Canadian rival, who ran out 16-4 victors after a very strong Terrorist display that culminated in a 12-3 half-time lead.
MLG Regional Minor Championship AmericasBest of 1 TSM
Matchpage 16 4 19th May 2016
Kaliber 16Overpass 4
![]() ![]() | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
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![]() | 17 - 8 | +9 | 105.3 | 1.79 |
![]() | 23 - 9 | +14 | 91.5 | 1.71 |
![]() | 20 - 9 | +11 | 85.0 | 1.54 |
![]() | 16 - 12 | +4 | 99.8 | 1.43 |
![]() | 11 - 9 | +2 | 71.4 | 1.27 |
K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 | |
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![]() | 13 - 20 | -7 | 73.2 | 0.80 |
![]() | 9 - 17 | -8 | 55.0 | 0.59 |
![]() | 12 - 17 | -5 | 65.3 | 0.59 |
![]() | 8 - 16 | -8 | 41.8 | 0.58 |
![]() | 5 - 18 | -13 | 49.9 | 0.41 |