Heroic maul G2 to secure semi

In one stroke HEROIC stopped G2's winning streak on Inferno and handed them their most lopsided loss in months.

HEROIC have earned a bye in the first round of the IEM Dallas playoffs and will start the bracket stage from the semi-finals following a 2-0 mauling of G2 in the Group A upper final. G2 will begin the playoffs from the quarter-finals, where they will face a tough matchup against Group B's third-placed team — the winner of the match between FaZe and Cloud9.

Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller and company were in cruise control for all but the entirety of the series. They handed G2 their first Inferno loss since February and stopped their 10-map winning streak on the back of an excellent performance from cadiaN.

It was an easy day in the office for Heroic

The Danish captain topped the charts and provided his team with back-to-back 1v2 clutches at a crucial point in the second half, where G2 had a chance to come back into contention.

Things went from bad to worse for Rasmus "⁠HooXi⁠" Nielsen's team after that as the series reached Ancient, a somewhat surprising pick from HEROIC, who have found success on the map lately but hadn't picked it in months.

The Danish squad steamrolled G2 on the Terrorist side, winning five more clutches in the first half alone to rub salt in the wound, including back-to-back 1v2s from Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck. They let go of only one round in the entire half and then went on to close out the map without much drama at 16-4.

"We won a lot of the clutches, but some of them were favorable, where we knew where they were or had the bomb planted," cadiaN said on the ESL broadcast after the match. "I think we played a super good game, but G2 seemed a little bit off. We played them in Katowice and that was a different beast. I think G2 didn't play up to what they're capable of."

IEM Dallas 2023Best of 3 G2Matchpage 0 2 31st May 2023 HEROIC 9Inferno 16 4Ancient 16

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Justin 'jks' Savagejks	26 - 32	-6	72.2	0.92
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipovm0NESY	31 - 35	-4	68.0	0.88
Nikola 'NiKo' KovačNiKo	30 - 37	-7	78.0	0.88
Nemanja 'huNter-' KovačhuNter-	25 - 38	-13	66.4	0.81
Rasmus 'HooXi' NielsenHooXi	14 - 38	-24	40.6	0.44

HEROIC	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Casper 'cadiaN' MøllercadiaN	38 - 17	+21	79.6	1.50
Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaardjabbi	34 - 28	+6	93.9	1.37
Martin 'stavn' Lundstavn	38 - 26	+12	87.6	1.37
Rasmus 'sjuush' Becksjuush	38 - 24	+14	81.7	1.34
René 'TeSeS' MadsenTeSeS	30 - 32	-2	75.8	1.07

Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen Age: 28 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 0.86 Maps played: 906 KPR: 0.57 DPR: 0.68 Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck Age: 24 Team: HEROIC Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 971 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.64 Cloud9 #5 Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimur 'buster' TulepovSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov Konstantin 'groove' Pikiner FaZe #3 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenHåvard 'rain' NygaardRussel 'Twistzz' Van DulkenRobin 'ropz' KoolHelvijs 'broky' Saukants Robert 'RobbaN' Dahlström Casper 'cadiaN' Møller Age: 27 Team: HEROIC Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 1621 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.63 G2 #6 Nikola 'NiKo' KovačNemanja 'huNter-' KovačJustin 'jks' SavageRasmus 'HooXi' NielsenIlya 'm0NESY' Osipov Jan 'Swani' Müller HEROIC #2 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' MadsenRasmus 'sjuush' BeckJakob 'jabbi' Nygaard Richard 'Xizt' Landström