Senzu and co. suffer second successive defeat at EPL S23 to fall closer to elimination
Senzu's Passion UA squad have fallen to the 1-2 bracket at the ongoing ESL Pro League Season 23 Stage 1 after a 1-2 loss to paiN in their swiss round 3 game for teams with a 1-1 record. Senzu and his team are now one loss away from elimination and need to win two BO3s in a row to qualify for Stage 2.
The Brazilian squad started the series with their pick of Inferno and after a back and forth opening half which saw Passion UA manage to pick up five CT rounds, it was a flat T side as paiN ran away with a 13-7 win. With paiN taking out Dust2 from the veto, Senzu and co. went to Overpass as their map pick and it was Senzu and JT seeing Passion UA take a two round lead on their T side. A strong defensive hold meant that Passion UA fought back to tie up the series with a 13-8 win on their map pick with JT and Senzu having a strong showing with a 1.31 and 1.19 rating respectively.
After fighting back on their own pick to tie up the series it was another lacklustre T side the get the decider on Mirage and Passion UA barely found anything as the Brazilians went 10-2 up. Despite a strong fightback on their CT side with Kvem stepping up, Passion UA brought it to a 9-12 score line before paiN managed to wrap it up to take the series 2-1 with a 13-9 win on Mirage which had nqz's AWP turning out to be the deciding factor with the Brazilian AWPer dropping 21 kills.
The loss has dropped Senzu and his teammates to the 1-2 bracket and they will be taking on HEROIC in their elimination game to stay alive at ESL Pro League Season 23 Stage 1.
paiNPassion UA| paiN |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Guilherme 'piriajr' Barbosa |
45 - 34 | +11 | 78.3 | 79.4% | 1.28 |
| João 'snow' Vinicius |
38 - 40 | -2 | 74.7 | 74.6% | 1.16 |
| Lucas 'nqz' Soares |
45 - 31 | +14 | 67.8 | 79.4% | 1.08 |
| Vinicius 'vsm' Moreira |
43 - 44 | -1 | 76.7 | 66.7% | 0.97 |
| Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt |
31 - 43 | -12 | 58.6 | 60.3% | 0.80 |
| Passion UA |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Azbayar 'Senzu' Munkhbold |
41 - 43 | -2 | 82.1 | 76.2% | 1.02 |
 Vladyslav 'Kvem' Korol |
44 - 40 | +4 | 69.3 | 73.0% | 0.97 |
 Santino 'try' Rigal |
37 - 36 | +1 | 66.2 | 71.4% | 0.91 |
 Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou |
38 - 43 | -5 | 65.5 | 66.7% | 0.88 |
 Nick 'nicx' Lee |
29 - 40 | -11 | 53.4 | 69.8% | 0.83 |
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