iBP, Denial advance at ESEA Finals

iBUYPOWER and Denial have advanced to the second round of lower bracket at ESEA Invite Season 17 Global Finals after victories over mousesports and eLevate.

After being knocked down to the lower bracket by Virtus.pro and fnatic, iBUYPOWER and Denial have gotten their first wins this weekend in Dallas as they've advanced to the final six.

Denial fell short against eLevate in the opening map de_season, despite a seven round terrorist side, ultimately seeing Tyler "⁠Storm⁠" Wood's side come out on top 16-13.

NAF-FLY's Denial advance over eLevate 

Second map in the series was de_cache, where both teams had a weak defensive side, but still drew after regulation. Shahzeb "⁠ShahZaM⁠" Khan and company then prevailed, 19-15.

The series came down to de_inferno, where Denial started on the defensive side and scored ten rounds. After losing the pistol, eLevate won five straight, but then lost out, 10-16. ESEA Invite Season 17 Global FinalsBest of 3 DenialMatchpage 2 1 6th December 2014 Elevate 13Season 16 19Cache 16 16Inferno 10

Denial	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF	78 - 61	+17	-	1.24
Jacob 'FugLy' MedinaFugLy	78 - 63	+15	-	1.19
Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanShahZaM	69 - 59	+10	-	1.10
Todd 'anger' Williamsanger	60 - 60	0	-	0.99
Damian 'daps' Steeledaps	56 - 66	-10	-	0.83

Elevate	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH	69 - 73	-4	-	1.02
David 'Xp3' GarridoXp3	62 - 68	-6	-	0.95
Tyler 'Storm' WoodStorm	57 - 63	-6	-	0.93
Salvatore 'Volcano' GarozzoVolcano	61 - 68	-7	-	0.91
Matt 'Warden' DickensWarden	59 - 73	-14	-	0.83

iBUYPOWER got an early 6-1 lead as terrorists versus mouz on de_cache, but then lost eight straight rounds. mousesports then extended their lead to 12-8 in the second half.

Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce's team tied the game at twelve before mouz seized control again, gaining a 14-12 lead and money control, only to lose it at the last second and lose the map 14-16.

iBUYPOWER take down mousesports to advance 

Facing elimination, mousesports needed to win de_dust2 to stay alive in Dallas. However, Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham's team proved way too hot to handle on the second map.

After winning round after round to go up 7-0, iBUYPOWER allowed mouz just three wins as terrorists. Second half saw mouz win four, before getting knocked out of ESEA finals. ESEA Invite Season 17 Global FinalsBest of 3 iBUYPOWERMatchpage 2 0 6th December 2014 MOUZ 16Cache 14 16Dust2 7

iBUYPOWER	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Braxton 'swag' Pierceswag	47 - 29	+18	-	1.30
Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamSkadoodle	44 - 29	+15	-	1.28
Keven 'AZK' LariviereAZK	40 - 35	+5	-	1.07
Eric 'adreN' HoagadreN	33 - 29	+4	-	1.00
Nick 'nitr0' Cannellanitr0	35 - 36	-1	-	0.97

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ	39 - 38	+1	-	1.14
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	37 - 36	+1	-	1.00
Nikola 'LEGIJA' NinićLEGIJA	32 - 41	-9	-	0.90
Johannes 'tabseN' WodarztabseN	27 - 42	-15	-	0.68
Fatih 'gob b' Dayikgob b	22 - 43	-21	-	0.57

ESEA Invite Season 17 Global Finals continue with Cloud9 taking on Denial, and Titan facing iBUYPOWER in the lower bracket. fnatic takes on Virtus.pro in upper bracket final.

Our day two gallery from the event is available here. We also uploaded nearly a hundred photos from the first day of competition in Dallas, and you can view them here.

Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Age: 21 Team: iBUYPOWER Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 126 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.61 Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan Age: 21 Team: Denial Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 31 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.69 Tyler 'Storm' Wood Age: 29 Team: Elevate Rating 1.0: 0.89 Maps played: 26 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.71 Braxton 'swag' Pierce Age: 18 Team: iBUYPOWER Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 125 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.65