December 9 Astralis once again defeated Team Liquid to win the ESL Pro League Season 8 champions, and have become the first-ever winners of the Intel Grand Slam.
Danish CS:GO squad Astralis was making a run for the Intel Grand Slam after defeating mousesports in their ESL Pro League Season 8 playoffs match this weekend. It put them within striking distance of their fourth major trophy, and a cool $1 million bonus prize - which they're taking home with them today. Saturday’s matchup began with mousesports’ pick, Mirage. Astralis began strong, taking the first three rounds playing as Terrorists and going on to a six-in-a-row streak to end the half at 9-6. Mousesports kept the first round competitive, but they couldn’t completely close the gap and Astralis took round one 16-12. Next up was Astralis’ map pick, Inferno. Mousesports fell to a 1-4 disadvantage early, but stayed in the game thanks to clutch plays by Miikka “suNny” Kemppi and Tomáš "oskar" Šťastný. Even so, by the half they were down 5-10 against the Danish squad. Once they took over as Counter-Terrorists, Astralis cruised to victory with a second six-in-a-row winstreak to take the match and secure a finals berth. Today, they’ll take on Team Liquid - and given the two teams’ history against each other, Astralis is heavily favored to win.from PCGamesN https://ift.tt/2Qp0TW2
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