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Last week two of the best teams crossed swords in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive‘s professional scene on ESL Pro League Season 11, which had the most bizarre outcome in the history of professional CS: GO. Lacking the guidance of an in-game leader, the team ENCE displayed obnoxious ineffectiveness site retakes and aiming duels, failing to win 90% of the maps that they have played on in recent times. Their opponent, the French team, Vitality, also known as ‘Team ZywOo’ to the fans for their drawback as a team failing to cultivate tactics only to present the French AWPer ZywOo both intellect and shots. So the  CSGO - ESL Pro League Season 11 - Team Vitality Versus ENCE; A Bizarre Race And Triumphant Beginnings

After dropping one of the two in-game leaders, NBK, the French squad Vitality had undergone a noticeable downfall. And then after dropping the sole in-game leader, ALEX, the team decided to continue without a powerful member and an IGL. Though Vitality had already replaced ALEX with a brand new 17-year-old player named ‘misutaaa’, the match was the first tier-1 showing for the youngster.

The maps that were selected to play from the pool were Inferno for Vitality, Mirage for ENCE, and Dust2 the Decider map.

It was quite obvious and predictable for Team Vitality on the Mirage map from out of the gate, as ENCE exhibited failed rotations from A to B bomb sites, inadequate T-sided communication and, they seemed puzzled by basic maneuvers and aim-duels stemming while the French team managed to score 13 points in a row ripping an easy win with (16-10) on round 26. The fans and the casters were already predicting the result of the match long before the second half even began; Vitality struggled to put together a solid T-side attack.

The new Vitality player ‘misutaaa’ proved to be a valuable member of the team, fearlessly striking head to head with ENCE and seized three times on Mirage as the rounds progressed. He effortlessly dealt with the one versus two matches with a +5 kill in the first map, third-highest on the server.

The apparent race to the bottom had begun as both teams struggled to mount any considerable threat, round after round.

In the second map Inferno Vitality beginning on Terrorist, and as the rounds progressed, it proved to be a nuisance for both teams. Vitality player ‘misutaaa’ helped the team stay longer in the race than the team expected to be with Vitality finishing at (8-16). All five players from ENCE swept the match outscoring all the five players from Vitality, who was only good on an eco-round.

The decider map Dust2 experienced the weirdest events unfolding the classic apex map of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Vitality managed to perform an average T-sided offense with (8-7) on the first map. In the second half again scored a matching (8-7) with Vitality grasping the series in the decider (16-14). Newest player ‘misutaaa’ did not do well at all on Dust2, with a shocking gap of -4 and average damage of 55 per round. His KAST was only 66.7%, which is slightly better than ENCE’s Sergej, who was the worst for ENCE in the round.

The match seemed to a wakeup call for ENCE who had lost 13 out of 15 matches in the last three months, pinning them one of the poorest teams in the upper echelons of CS: GO. Though ‘misutaaa’ had performed quite weakly in dust2, his performance in eco rounds and point deciding retakes puts him in the position of one of the top players in the server. And profiting from his presence, team Vitality can turn around leaving their poor performances behind.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024