Gambit Beat Immortals to Win PGL Major

Finally, after an incredible week of competitive Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Gambit defeated Immortals in the grand final to become the champions. The $1,000,000 tournament has surely fulfilled everyone’s expectations, yet Gambit weren’t exactly the favourites to win it. Nonetheless, Immortals put up a great fight to properly finish the event with a bang.

The selected maps were Cobblestone, Train and Inferno. Cobblestone started with an overwhelming performance form the Brazilians side of Immortals who built a 12-3 scoreline by half time as Terrosists. Gambit tried to bring it back but was harshly denied by Immortals who sealed the deal at 16-4.

Gambit desperately needed to take Train and swing the momentum in their favour. Following a dominant Terrorist side, passive strategies and quality plays; this is exactly what they did. Although Immortals was beginning to climb back into it, the Brazilians were beaten and conceded the map, due to a 16-11 score. The best of three would come to the last map.

Choosing the Counter-Terrorist side of Inferno was evidently a clever move for Gambit, who rose to a 5-0 lead instantly. The Brazilians could only scramble together four rounds to make up an 11-4 score by half time. Immortals started the second half with a much needed streak of five rounds – if they were going out fighting. Towards the end of the game, a lack of economy was noted on both sides, resulting in a few UMP-45s being used. Fantastic clutches from “HObbit” and “Zeus” post-plant finished off Immortals and won them the tournament.

This event, the PGL Major, is Gambit’s first ever major championship win and their second title of the year. Such a victory was deserved and fought for with great hunger from the team. Let’s see if they can keep this up.