Gambit crowned as CSGO Champion for IEM Katowice 2021

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Gambit came from a narrow opening reduction on Vertigo to clinch the title with clear-cut wins on Dust2, Train, and Overpass.

Together with the best-of-five triumph, the lowest-ranked group of the championship completed an incredible upset run which saw them beat their three biggest regional competitions in the playoffs, having conquered Natus Vincere and Spirit at the past two rounds.

Vertigo opened the last show as Gambit's very first map select and delivered a back-and-forth event which went the distance. At one point Virtus.pro looked greatly favored to win the map after the Dzhami "?Jame" Ali- led went on a stunt on the CT side once they got a hold of weaponry, in large part thanks to openers and multikills from Mareks "?YEKINDAR" Ga?inskis.

The tide changed when sides switched a second-round forcebuy went the method of Gambit, who subsequently went on to win eight out of the next nine rounds, interrupted only by a 1v2 clutch from Sanjar "?SANJI" Kuliev. With backs against the wall at 11-14, Virtus.pro found important timings in centre to break their opponents' economy, until YEKINDAR's four successive openers pushed his group over the end line in 16-14.

Dust2 was heading in a similar direction from the very first stages of the opening half, with Gambit procuring the second round having a forcebuy and getting off to an early lead on the CT side along with Virtus.pro bringing it back after a few low buy upsets of their own. Gambit pulled away at the close of the half on the back of three person plays from Timofey"?interz" Yakushin, nevertheless, and put together a flawless Terrorist side to draw the series with a comfortable win over the next map.

Vladislav "?nafany" Gorshkov & co. appeared to carry over the momentum to Train, with a couple of triples from Abay"?Hobbit" Khasenov watching Gambit get off to a great start on the counter-terrorist side. Virtus.pro fought to find answers, just winning four rounds over the preferred side as a result of an expert from YEKINDAR and decent AWPing from Jame, and it was all but over when they also surrendered the second pistol around, together with Gambit rallying to another whitewash success at 16-4.

Everything ended on Overpass as Gambit looked to place on a different one-sided performance following a dominant defense, by which Hobbit continued to set up great numbers to assist his team protected an 11-4 lead entering halftime. After conceding the next pistol round, the nafany-led took little time to reach match point once they had the money to purchase up, and despite a commendable comeback effort from VP they shut the series in 16-12, 3-1 having a well-timed B attack.

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