SK and Cloud9 have won their first best-of-three matches against MVP PK and Heroic, respectively, in the Swiss stage at StarSeries i-League Season 4.

The game between Cloud9 and HEROIC kicked off on Overpass where the North Americans were on the CT-side in the first half. Cloud9 picked up the first four rounds and Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansens 1vs2 clutch in the fifth round put HEROIC on the board (4-1).

Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip & company had an indomitable defense and secured ten rounds in a row to lead 14-1 at halftime. Cloud9 planted the bomb in the second half pistol round after Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celiks opening kill and had a successful post-plant to make it 15-1. They closed it out immediately, winning the first map 16-1.

C9 kick off their campaign with a 2-0 win

The second map was Inferno where HEROIC were on the T-side to start things off. tarik got a double kill in a 2vs3 post-plant in the pistol round to make it 1-0 for Cloud9. After avoiding an anti-force loss in the second round by winning a 3vs5, Cloud9 fell to Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridhs Deagle kills as HEROIC trailed 2-1.

Cloud9 led the game 7-2 and in control until JUGi clutched a 1vs4 to give HEROIC their third round. The Danes got three more rounds in the half and trailed 9-6 at halftime. HEROIC got the first two rounds in the second half but they lost a 5vs3 and couldnt tie up the game (10-8).

Then, William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba clutched a 1vs4 to make it 11-8 but HEROIC got six CT-side rounds in a row to lead 14-11. Cloud9 came back to win five rounds and secured the map victory with a 16-14 final scoreline. They won the series 2-0.

StarSeries i-League Season 4Best of 3 Cloud9Matchpage 2 0 17th February 2018 HEROIC 16Overpass 1 16Inferno 14

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamSkadoodle	44 - 28	+16	94.2	1.49
Timothy 'autimatic' Taautimatic	41 - 24	+17	93.0	1.42
William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH	37 - 24	+13	74.7	1.19
Jake 'Stewie2K' YipStewie2K	34 - 29	+5	86.1	1.17
Tarik 'tarik' Celiktarik	30 - 30	0	67.6	0.94

HEROIC	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jakob 'JUGi' HansenJUGi	33 - 34	-1	62.6	1.09
Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII	31 - 39	-8	84.4	0.95
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensenniko	28 - 38	-10	73.9	0.89
Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferSnappi	30 - 38	-8	65.2	0.89
Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelRUBINO	12 - 37	-25	31.5	0.50

In the other best-of-three game, SK took on MVP PK. On Inferno, the T-sided Brazilians won a 2vs3 and went on to make it 4-0 with anti-eco and first weapon round victories. The Korean squad managed to stop SK in three rounds to trail 5-3 but Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's team took off and got to ten rounds before halftime (10-5).

SK continued their good performance on the CT-side and won the pistol round with Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga's double kill. fer got at least two kills in each of the following three rounds as SK made it 14-5. Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo & co. closed out the first map with a 16-5 final scoreline.

SK secured a relatively comfortable win in Ukraine

Cobblestone kicked off with MVP PK over on the T-side. Min-Seok "⁠zeff⁠" Park got an entry kill to pave the way for a pistol round victory. After making it 3-0, the Koreans lost the first weapon round but responded in the fifth round to lead 4-1. With the momentum, MVP PK were able to extend their lead to 9-3 but SK got the last three rounds of the half to make it 9-6.

Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass picked up a marvelous quad kill in the second half pistol round and Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David topped it off with his own quad kill in the following anti-eco round. Although MVP PK won the first weapon round and led 10-9, that would be the last round they win. SK grabbed seven rounds in a row to win the second map 16-10, and series 2-0, to go 1-0 in Kiev, Ukraine.

StarSeries i-League Season 4Best of 3 SKMatchpage 2 0 17th February 2018 MVP PK 16Inferno 5 16Cobblestone 10

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Fernando 'fer' Alvarengafer	47 - 26	+21	103.9	1.65
Marcelo 'coldzera' Davidcoldzera	40 - 24	+16	84.2	1.36
Ricardo 'boltz' Prassboltz	38 - 27	+11	82.0	1.23
Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFalleN	25 - 19	+6	64.6	1.18
Epitacio 'TACO' de MeloTACO	28 - 30	-2	70.9	1.09

MVP PK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Min-Seok 'zeff' Parkzeff	27 - 32	-5	64.5	0.96
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeXigN	28 - 38	-10	73.9	0.88
Min-Soo 'glow' Kimglow	26 - 37	-11	60.5	0.78
Hae-Sung 'HSK' KimHSK	25 - 35	-10	55.9	0.76
Keun-Chul 'solo' Kangsolo	20 - 37	-17	62.0	0.72