A back and ?? ??? ??forth game on Cobblestone finished with BIG defeating North 16-12, eliminating the Danish team from the ELEAGUE Major 2018.

Despite losing the Terrorist pistol round in a somewhat sloppy manner, North was the team that took the early lead. It all started with the first gun round, where Kristian "?k0nfig?" Wienecke got a clean entry on Kevin "?keev?" Bartholom?us who was soloing A, and the Danish team didn't let go of the chokehold in the upcoming rounds.

After Mathias "?MSL?" Lauridsen's team took the lead, Philip "?aizy?" Aistrup had a great round, picking up an ace on the B site offensive against BIG's full-buy, making the score 5-3. A mixed buy earned the German side their fourth round (6-4), but North took the following round, resetting BIG and going up to nine rounds as Terrorists.

nex's 1v1 clutches were key to BIG's victory

When it seemed that the game was slipping away for them, BIG won the last two rounds as CT and took over that momentum into the second half, winning the pistol round and the anti-ecos to equalize the score at 9-9.

Full-buy rounds were traded back and forth from that point onwards. First k0nfig and aizy locked down A, then Johannes "?tabseN?" Wodarz replied with a quad-kill on B, and then Valdemar "?valde?" Bj?rn Vangs? kept his team from ecoing with a crucial hat-trick, locking down drop. (11-11)

A 1v1 situation involving Johannes "?nex?" Maget and René "?cajunb?" Borg, which went the way of BIG, ended up being one of the key ones in the game. The German side finally took the lead after it, had the economy on their side and controlled the pace of the game from the Terrorist side.

With another 1v1 clutch going nex's way, BIG went up to 15 rounds and it was just a matter of time before they closed out the game, eliminating North from the tournament.

ELEAGUE Major 2018Best of 1 BIGMatchpage 16 12 21st January 2018 North 16Cobblestone 12

?BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Johannes 'tabseN' WodarztabseN	28 - 16	+12	116.7	1.66
Johannes 'nex' Magetnex	26 - 15	+11	79.1	1.36
Kevin 'keev' Bartholom?uskeev	17 - 20	-3	62.3	1.07
Fatih 'gob b' Dayikgob b	14 - 19	-5	69.7	0.94
Nikola 'LEGIJA' Nini?LEGIJA	13 - 17	-4	50.1	0.83

?North	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Valdemar 'valde' Bj?rn Vangs?valde	22 - 19	+3	89.9	1.20
Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy	21 - 18	+3	74.6	1.13
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wieneckek0nfig	18 - 19	-1	66.1	0.97
René 'cajunb' Borgcajunb	16 - 21	-5	58.7	0.81
Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenMSL	10 - 21	-11	53.0	0.63

3-0 (qualified)
G2
2-0
SK	FaZe
2-1
MOUZ	Natus Vincere
Quantum Bellator Fire	fnatic
1-1
Gambit	Space Soldiers
1-2
Vega Squadron	Liquid
Astralis	BIG
0-2
Cloud9	Virtus.pro
0-3 (eliminated)
North

MOUZ #7 Tomá? 'oskar' ??astnyChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' StykRobin 'ropz' Kool Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz Age: 22 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 950 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.72 Liquid #15 Wilton 'zews' PradoNick 'nitr0' CannellaJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken René 'cajunb' Borg Age: 28 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 1071 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63 Valdemar 'valde' Bj?rn Vangs? Age: 22 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 434 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.68 Kevin 'keev' Bartholom?us Age: 26 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 586 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.66 Astralis #3 Andreas 'Xyp9x' H?jslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzMarkus 'Kjaerbye' Kj?rbye fnatic #8 Robin 'flusha' R?nnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonMaikil 'Golden' Selim G2 #5 Richard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro Virtus.pro #10 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasFilip 'NEO' KubskiJaros?aw 'pashaBiceps' Jarz?bkowskiJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPawe? 'byali' Bieliński Vega Squadron #20 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovDmytro 'jR' ChervakSergey 'keshandr' NikishinNikolay 'mir' BityukovPavel 'hutji' Lashkov BIG #24 Kevin 'keev' Bartholom?usFatih 'gob b' DayikNikola 'LEGIJA' Nini?Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzJohannes 'nex' Maget Gambit #12 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovBektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov Cloud9 #6 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Quantum Bellator Fire #28 Gregory 'balblna' OleinickSavelii 'jmqa' BraginAurimas 'Kvik' Kvak?ysNikita 'waterfaLLZ' MatveyevKirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov SK #1 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen Age: 23 Team: North Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 1172 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.72 North #9 René 'cajunb' BorgMathias 'MSL' LauridsenPhilip 'aizy' AistrupValdemar 'valde' Bj?rn Vangs?Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke Age: 20 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 677 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.68 FaZe #2 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' Kova?H?vard 'rain' Nygaard Space Soldiers #19 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' D?rtkarde?Bu?ra 'Calyx' Ark?nAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor Johannes 'nex' Maget Age: 25 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 745 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.66 Natus Vincere #11 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov Philip 'aizy' Aistrup Age: 21 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 879 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.68