The Brazilian giants win EPICENTER 2017

Only a few hours have passed since the end of the semi final of the EPICENTER 2017 and everyone expected Virtus.pro team to win the grand finals after a series of strong victories in the past games put the most famous teams in a big dilemma.

SK have won the 2017 edition of EPICENTER after defeating Virtus.pro in a five-map thriller.

It all came down to Cobblestone, where SK won the pistol round and the following anti-ecos to start the game with a 3-0 lead. Virtus.pro then up a great defense in gun rounds and used a double AWP setup almost perfectly, which saw them win seven rounds in a row, immediately putting the Brazilians in danger of getting blown out.

SK then brought that streak to an end, but Virtus.pro replied immediately off of a quad-kill from NEO. Still, the Brazilians still had some money to work with, so when fer picked up a triple kill in the next round, the Poles were left with no money in the bank, which paved the way for FalleN’s side to bring the deficit to 8-7.

NEO came up huge in the following pistol round, getting four kills to his name before byali finished the job with a fadeaway headshot. SK lost bought eco rounds, but they came fighting back once they got money to work with, winning two gun rounds in a row.

Virtus.pro went on another three-round streak to bring the scoreline to 14-9. It looked like the game would soon come to an end, but there was some fight left in the SK side, who kept their defence very tight, even after Virtus.pro had reached championship point with a triple-kill from TaZ, to take the game to overtime.

The first overtime could not determine a winner as both teams picked up two rounds on the Terrorist side – with Virtus.prowasting two match points. In the second overtime, SK won three straight rounds as Terrorists, and they locked it down just one round into the second half.

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