Today Lzuruha take on Empyreal eSports (7-2-0) in ESEA Main. Empyreal took a pretty good pistol then the following gun rounds making it a quick 3-0 in their favor. As round 4 rolled around, Lzuruha was able to buy rifles and was able to get a bomb plant but not able to pick the round up. Empyreal has been successful at shutting our boys down with their duo AWP on the Terrorist side 0-6. Round 7 turned into an AWP war with which didn't go well for us but reD was able to 1v3 them and give the first round to Lzuruha making it 1-6. The story of the Terrorist half for Lzuruha has been getting stuffed by Empyreal's duo AWP set up shutting Lzuruha down ending 4-11 for us before switching to the Counter-Terrorist side.
The Counter-Terrorist pistol round didn't end in Lzuruha's favor which they really needed to stay in the game more comfortably. In an effort to stop the Terrorists from snow balling, Lzuruha gets three scouts to stuff them and reset the half which it successfully did and started to claw their way back 7-12 with a pause coming out on Empyreal eSports side.
Currently 9-12, Empyreal has a tactical pause to regroup themselves. It seems with that little breather, Empyreal was able to stop the snow ball Lzuruha had going here on the second half and finish the game out with Lzuruha losing 9-16.
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Statement from Elderfro on the match:
It was not our best day, but not our worst. We could have done a lot better on T side, with a few questionable aggressive plays on CT. The most important thing is that we know where our faults are and working on correcting them. Expect more from us in future games to come.