At the beginning of the day, SK were at a 2-1 record and faced Astralis for a place in the playoffs. The Brazilians were down 4-8 before each team went on a streak of their own as the game went to overtime. After a nail-biting finish to the overtime, SK came out on top to qualify for playoffs with a 3-1 record.

TACO picked out fer's 1v2 as one of the key rounds
We grabbed Epitacio "TACO" de Melo for a quick interview to find out what SK's point of view of the match was:
We should begin with the 4-8 at which point you started getting a lot more rounds, talk me through the adaption that you've made over the first half.
We started the game playing really well, the pistol was really good for us. But some details of the game, some mistakes that we did, a flashbang, the small details, made them punish us.
Then we started playing together, doing executes. We knew something about them, we knew device likes to play cat and we did something to punish him there. Actually, we studied Astralis a lot, so we were calm and confident that we could do better on our T side.
At 14-8 they took seven rounds in a row, what do you think they did better? Were there any glaring mistakes you made?
They started playing fast and we didn't expect it. In many rounds they just exploded and we didn't expect it, they exploded mid and fer was on the box, I was B, and they won this round, which was very important for their economy. Yeah, I think the fact that they started playing really fast was bad for us.
Which do you think were the key rounds for you that allowed you to win in the end?
fer's 1v2 on the B site, we were as T, he won the round which was really important for us. We earned confidence to keep winning the rounds.
Going back to Na`Vi, what happened in that Dust2 blowout and what did you learn from it?
The fact is, we didn't expect the way they played. They were gambling a lot, I watched the demo and I think they studied us as well, but it's normal. We just didn't expect it, as T we were getting punished everywhere and we weren't rolling good.
Make sure to check out the other interviews we've conducted so far at the Major:
Day four |
Andreas "znajder" Lindberg: "I'd like to beat [...] Pimp" |
Joakim "disco doplan" Gidetun: "We can beat everyone" |
Kristian "k0nfig" Wienecke: "We didn't expect much vs. G2" |
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Day three |
William "RUSH" Wierzba: "Our preparation was limited" |
Finn "karrigan" Andersen: "allu's 1v2 was key" |
Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács: "We came with only one goal" |
Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen: "We had a great bootcamp" |
Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer: "Didn't expect Dust2" |
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Day two |
Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski: "I hope Gambit will be nervous" |
Nicolai "device" Reedtz: "It was important for us to start well" |
Dennis "dennis" Edman: "[YOLO teams] will go far" |
Spencer "Hiko" Martin: "It doesn't feel like we won" |
Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo: "Gonna fight as hard as we can" |
Chris "chrisJ" de Jong: "Confident about our map pool" |
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Day one |
Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey: "Everyone's happy with their roles" |
Markus "pronax" Wallsten: "I'm happy it went to Train" |
Dan "apEX" Madesclaire: "It was hard after jdm's 1v5" |
Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev: "Hope to show beautiful CS" |
Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski: "It's always close vs. OpTic" |
Ricardo "fox" Pacheco: "We played 12-14 hours a day" |
Richard "shox" Papillon: "FaZe can do pretty well here" |
Abay "HObbit" Khassenov: "We prepared for everyone"
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Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo

Age: 22 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 338 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.65


Astralis #1


Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth

Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen

Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander

Nicolai 'device' Reedtz

Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye


Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács

Age: 25 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 849 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.62



Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo

Age: 25 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 475 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.60


Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg

Age: 23 Team: GODSENT Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 737 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67


Nicolai 'device' Reedtz

Age: 21 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 826 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.63


Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun

Age: 21 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 287 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.65


Richard 'shox' Papillon

Age: 24 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 1011 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.66


Markus 'pronax' Wallsten

Age: 25 Team: GODSENT Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 939 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.66


Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong

Age: 26 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 814 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.65


Finn 'karrigan' Andersen

Age: 26 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 889 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.68


Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov

Age: 22 Team: Gambit Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 140 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.67


Spencer 'Hiko' Martin

Age: 26 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 574 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.61



Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen

Age: 22 Team: North Rating 1.0: 0.92 Maps played: 989 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.72

Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco

Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 503 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.68


Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer

Age: 24 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 771 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.65



Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke

Age: 19 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 493 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.69


Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski

Age: 23 Team: Virtus.pro Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 967 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.65



Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire

Age: 23 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 909 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.71


Dennis 'dennis' Edman

Age: 26 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 520 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67



SK #3



Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco

Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo

Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga

Marcelo 'coldzera' David

Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo


Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski

Age: 28 Team: Virtus.pro Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1099 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.69


William 'RUSH' Wierzba

Age: 22 Team: OpTic Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 439 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67


Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev

Age: 19 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 501 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.70


Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey

Age: 22 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 864 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.64
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