- By Steven Cropley
- February 17, 2021
OG kept the dream alive and have made it to the main event of IEM Katowice 2021 after a thrilling 2-1 win over Cloud9. One of the teams captains Nathan ‘NBK-‘ Schmitt put up a star performance, netting himself 100.3 average damage per round across the three map series to lead the server in addition to his leading +23 kill-to-death differential.
Things kicked off in favor of OG as they looked comfortable on Cloud9’s map pick of Nuke. They would get a strong CT half at 10-5 before doubling their opponents second half rounds to secure the 16-8 victory and go up 1-0.
Moving into their own map pick of Overpass, it would be quite the opposite. Cloud9 would be the team to storm off to a strong halftime lead at 11-4 before closing it out with a 5-7 second half to seal the deal 16-11.
NBK rose to new heights on the third and final map of Dust2 where he seemed to be able to pick up kills anywhere. The 26-year-old Frenchman finished the map with a +18 k/d and 114.8 ADR to lead his team to a 16-12 victory. This was despite an attempt at a massive comeback from Cloud9 who finished the first half down 12-3 before bringing it within one at 13-12.
| Cloud9 | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
| Erick ‘Xeppaa‘ Bach | 28-22 | +6 | 98.0 | 64.3% |
| Patrick ‘es3tag‘ Hansen | 18-19 | -1 | 77.6 | 67.9% |
| Alex ‘ALEX‘ McMeekin | 19-21 | -2 | 69.0 | 53.6% |
| William ‘mezii‘ Merriman | 11-21 | -10 | 60.1 | 75.0% |
| Ricky ‘floppy‘ Kemery | 5-23 | -18 | 26.9 | 50.0% |
| OG | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
| Nathan ‘NBK-‘ Schmitt | 33-15 | +18 | 114.8 | 82.1% |
| Aleksi ‘Aleksib‘ Virolainen | 25-18 | +7 | 98.5 | 92.9% |
| Valdemar ‘valde‘ Bjørn Vangså | 16-17 | -1 | 76.3 | 67.9% |
| Issa ‘ISSAA‘ Murad | 18-15 | +3 | 57.4 | 75.0% |
| Mateusz ‘mantuu‘ Wilczewski | 14-16 | -2 | 58.2 | 67.9% |
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