16:02 – The veto is in — no Vertigo or Ancient, surprise surprise. We begin on Dust2!
1. Natus Vincere removed Vertigo
2. Vitality removed Ancient
3. Natus Vincere picked Dust2
4. Vitality picked Inferno
5. Natus Vincere picked Nuke
6. Vitality picked Overpass
7. Mirage was left over
15:45 – In-game leaders comment on Intel Grand Slam pressure before the match
Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhailov: “It’s only two teams who did it and of course we want to write our name in history. I will be really proud of my team if we do it.”
Dan “apEX” Madesclaire: “Obviously, it would be amazing for us to stop NAVI’s Grand Slam. It never happened before, I think when Astralis and Liquid won the Grand Slam it was on the first try.”
ESL Pro League Season 14 will know its champions later today. After close to a month of play, Natus Vincere and Vitality are set to kick off the best-of-five grand final of the tournament at 16:00 in a match that will see the two heavyweights play their first title decider against one another in nearly a year.
Intel Grand Slam on the line
The match not only has the coveted Pro League trophy on the line but also the added excitement of the possibility of Natus Vincere clinching the third season of Intel Grand Slam, worth $1,000,000, or Vitality grabbing the $100,000 spoiler bonus if they stop the CIS side from securing the all-important fourth title.
The two best players of the past two years face off tonight
Everything seems to point to Natus Vincere being heavy favorites in the best-of-five series as the current No. 1 team facing a Vitality that enter their first grand final of the year, but it would be foolish to count the Frenchmen out after they have gotten this far and beat teams like Gambit and OG on the way.
An encounter of two gods
Beyond all the Intel Grand Slam jazz, we’re getting the two megastars of the past three years facing off against one another again.
With Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut the only realistic candidates in the MVP race, tonight’s grand final will be an encounter of two CS:GO gods in which both players have something to prove, as the Ukrainian looks to continue his dominance this year and the Frenchman sets his sights on his first MVP award in 2021.
Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
Rating: 1.39
KPR: 0.93
DPR: 0.62
ADR: 90.7
KAST: 78.1%
Impact rating: 1.53
Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut
Rating: 1.34
KPR: 0.85
DPR: 0.58
ADR: 84.6
KAST: 77.0%
Impact rating: 1.41
No matter whichever camp you’re in and whoever you’ve got winning the series and the title, we should be in for a hell of a matchup, one that has almost always delivered moments to remember. So don’t forget to tune in.
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Source: https://www.hltv.org/news/32362/epl-final-live-the-veto-is-in-dust2-first
