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Counter-Strike: Turmoil upsets 3D in Group Play

By: Philip - Published December 18, 2006 at 2:53 PM EST - Writer Archive
Turmoil defeats 3D in an upset to advance as the first seed out of Group M.
Scoreboard1H2HOTF
X3O106-16
3D59-14
Stats: Box Scores

Looking at Group M, people were expecting for 3D to walk through easily as the number one seed. However, Turmoil had other plans for the recent WSVG Finals runners up. 3D's first match of the day was against famou$ and won that easily 29-1. Turmoil also took a 27-3 win against the same team in their match. The fourth team of the group, Frag, was a no show so both teams received a forfeit win, setting up a match against one another in order to determine 1-2 of the group.

The map was Inferno, the same map that 3D took ALTERNATE aTTaX to overtime in the WSVG Grand Finals match up. 3D got off to a quick start after a hard rush into the B bombsite. Led by Dominator, 3D took the key opening pistol around and would also go on to grab the subsequent two eco rounds. Things got rough for the WSVG runners up at that point as Turmoil put up a brick wall as part of their defense.

Strong play from all Turmoil players especially impulsivE allowed Turmoil to shut down 3D's offensive attacks. SuperBug and jaded both also had very strong halves as the team would take control in round three and pick up ten of the remaining 12 rounds, giving themselves a suprising 10-5 lead over 3D at half time.

The second half started in a similar fashion to the first with 3D once again taking the crucial opening pistol round as well as the subsequent eco round. However, despite taking the first four rounds of the second half, 3D could not keep the momentum going and would eventually go on to lose six of the remaining seven rounds and lose 16-11 to Turmoil. SuperBug had another impressive half with strong support from their newest member, PaTyoJoN.

As a result of the loss, 3D now finds themselves in the Group of Death (aka Group EE), consisting of compLexity, fnatic and zEx. This will no doubt setup some amazing group play matches to close out day two. With the win Turmoil gave themselves a significantly easier group that consists of Hacker Gaming, rSports and eSrael.

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