HellRaisers and Virtus.pro kicked off the SL i-League Invitational #1 with victories as the former beat SK 2-0 (16-5 on Cache and 16-5 on Overpass) and the latter defeated Worst Players 2-1 (16-5 on Mirage, 17-19 on Cache, 16-13 on Cobblestone).

One of the opening matches was between Virtus.pro and Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev's new team Worst Players. Mirage was a blowout as the Poles, led by Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas's 1.81 rating, secured map with a 16-5 score.

Cache started out better for the Ukrainians who finished their T-side with a 8-7 lead. They were also able to pick up the first five rounds of their CT-half but Virtus.pro went into plow mode and came back from a 9-14 deficit to take it to overtime as the regulation ended 15-15.

Virtus.pro struggled but were able to close it out

Virtus.pro grabbed the first round of overtime and they were in front 17-16 at the end of the first half in overtime. Things turned around for Worst Players though and they were able to win the map 19-17.

The squads met on Cobblestone to decide the winner of the series and Worst Players had the same lead at halftime as they did on Cache (8-7). Although they had a better  start to the half, the Ukrainians could not retain their lead and Virtus.pro secured the map with a 16-13 score, winning the series 2-1.

SL i-League Invitational #1Best of 3 Virtus.proMatchpage 2 1 19th May 2016 Worst Players 16Mirage 5 17Cache 19 16Cobblestone 13

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskipashaBiceps	69 - 45	+24	82.1	1.36
Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasTaZ	73 - 54	+19	88.3	1.29
Paweł 'byali' Bielińskibyali	67 - 58	+9	83.5	1.17
Janusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiSnax	63 - 53	+10	72.3	1.15
Filip 'NEO' KubskiNEO	49 - 59	-10	72.1	0.93

Worst Players	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Vladyslav 'arch' Svistovarch	70 - 63	+7	85.2	1.14
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostylievs1mple	67 - 63	+4	78.7	1.12
Ilya 'fix' Golovkofix	55 - 65	-10	72.5	0.95
Igor 'crush' Shevchenkocrush	45 - 61	-16	63.5	0.80
Ivan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsAiyvaN	32 - 69	-37	52.3	0.68

The #12 team in the world, HellRaisers, faced SK who are number #19, in a best-of-three series. The maps for the match in Kiev were Cache, Overpass and Mirage.

The first map, Cache, kicked off with a dominating performance by HellRaisers as Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk dominated the match. A 13-2 CT-side assured a map victory for Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow & company and they capitalized on this advantage by taking the map 16-5.

oskar was unstoppable

The story of the second map was no different as Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný went berserk, finishing with a 29:8 score, a 123.2 ADR and a 2.21 rating. The final score on Overpass was the same as the first map as HellRaisers won it 16-5 and closed out the series 2-0.

SL i-League Invitational #1Best of 3 HellRaisersMatchpage 2 0 19th May 2016 SK 16Cache 5 16Overpass 5

HellRaisers	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastnýoskar	48 - 16	+32	99.1	1.78
Martin 'STYKO' StykSTYKO	49 - 27	+22	119.4	1.76
Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchukbondik	29 - 21	+8	76.5	1.25
Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowANGE1	32 - 31	+1	95.3	1.22
Patrik 'Zero' ŽúdelZero	26 - 20	+6	59.9	1.09

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Emil 'Magisk' ReifMagisk	23 - 38	-15	81.0	0.86
Michael 'Friis' JørgensenFriis	25 - 36	-11	54.2	0.75
Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII	25 - 37	-12	59.2	0.74
Asger 'AcilioN' LarsenAcilioN	22 - 36	-14	60.7	0.72
Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp	20 - 37	-17	59.2	0.65

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