Without dropping a single map, Copenhagen Flames romped to victory, although ECSTATIC gave them a scare in the first map of the grand final. The lastest iteration of the Malta Vibes Knockout Series concluded today, with pre-event favourite Copenhagen Flames fulfilling expectations by defeating ECSTATIC 2-0 in the grand final. It wasn't all plain sailing for the Flames who were made to work for it on their map pick of Nuke, being taken all the way to overtime by ECSTATIC, but in the end the difference in class told on Inferno where they closed out the series. In order to make it to the final the Flames had to prove their pedigree by beating some of the stronger teams in the event, taking down AVE and Dignitas, as well as confidently besting MAD Lions in the quarter-finals, all without dropping a map. As for ECSTATIC, they were made to work a little bit harder for their grand final berth, beating BLINK and going to all three maps with both Nemiga and MOUZ NXT, the latter series seeing them come back from a 1-16 drubbing on the first map. It was a welcome victory for a Copenhagen Flames side that have struggled as of late, dropping series to the likes of 1WIN and Savage as an apparent hangover from the Major caused a dip in form. It is understandable that a team would struggle to return to the tier-two online circuit after the high of an event like the Major, and the potential sale of the roster to a different organisation may have also been causing a distraction behind the scenes. As for ECSTATIC, this second place finish is yet another accolade to add to their growing resume in tier-two, with multiple victories and top placings under their belt. This result means they have placed top-two in their last three online events, taking some impressive scalps in the form of teams like MAD Lions and Entropiq along the way. This has seen them rise to their peak HLTV ranking of #20, and it would not be surprising to see them continue to rise in 2022.Copenhagen Flames
Matchpage 2 0 9th December 2021
ECSTATIC 19Nuke 17 16Inferno 8
Copenhagen Flames
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Fredrik 'roeJ' JørgensenroeJ
54 - 37 +17 94.2 1.36 Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidinicoodoz
45 - 32 +13 65.7 1.16 Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaardjabbi
36 - 38 -2 76.5 1.12 Rasmus 'HooXi' NielsenHooXi
35 - 38 -3 70.8 0.97 Rasmus 'Zyphon' NordfossZyphon
37 - 39 -2 61.2 0.89 ECSTATIC
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Jakob 'Daffu' SchildtDaffu
48 - 39 +9 89.9 1.22 Marcus 'maNkz' KjeldsenmaNkz
39 - 38 +1 67.3 0.99 Adam 'WolfY' AnderssonWolfY
35 - 38 -3 58.2 0.93 Dion 'FASHR' DerksenFASHR
37 - 50 -13 70.9 0.84 Thomas 'birdfromsky' Due-Frederiksenbirdfromsky
25 - 42 -17 59.0 0.74 MOUZ NXT #26
Jon 'JDC' de Castro
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Hubert 'szejn' Światły
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
MAD Lions #24
Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup
Thomas 'TMB' Bundsbæk
Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk
Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell
Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius
BLINK #25
Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi
Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti
Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi
Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci
Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci
Dignitas #40
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
Adam 'friberg' Friberg
Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson
Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli
Ludvig 'HEAP' Alonso
ECSTATIC #20
Dion 'FASHR' Derksen
Jakob 'Daffu' Schildt
Adam 'WolfY' Andersson
Thomas 'birdfromsky' Due-Frederiksen
Marcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen
Savage #51
Simon 'twist' Eliasson
Niclas 'PlesseN' Plessen
Denis 'grux' Gutaj
Adam 'dezon' Wahlqvist
Hugo 'chawzyyy' Günther
Entropiq #10
Aleksei 'NickelBack' Trofimov
Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko
Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev
Aleksei 'El1an' Gusev
Igor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy
Nemiga #41
Rassim 'Jyo' Valijev
Anton 'boX' Burko
Artem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov
Stanislav 'fostar' Ostashevskiy
Aliaksandr '1eeR' Nahorny
1WIN #33
Vadim 'Polt' Tsyrov
Aleksandr 'TRAVIS' Timkiv
Aleksandr 'glowiing' Matsievich
Denis 'deko' Zhukov
Danil 'ravenlot' Bikvaidze
AVE #48
Nikita 'waterfaLLZ' Matveyev
Svyatoslav 'svyat' Dovbakh
Danil 'Porya' Poryadin
Amin 'sugaR' Azimov
Konstantin 'Raijin' Trubarov
Copenhagen Flames #14
Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen
Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi
Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen
Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard
Rasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss