CLG win CEVO

CLG have defeated their regional rivals eLevate with a score of 2-1 to take first place the CEVO-P Season 6 finals at the MLG.tv arena in Columbus, Ohio.

Four teams spent the last three days battling it out for a share of the $11,722 prize purse in CEVO's sixth season of their professional league.

With an upscaled finals location change at the MLG.tv arena and prize-pool increase from their fifth season, the Season 6 finals were touted as a chance to determine one of North America's best teams, sans the presence of Cloud9 and Liquid at the event.

hazed & co. wouldn't be CLG without a love of close and tense games

CLG, seen by many as the favourites, managed to battle their way into the grand finals in convincing fashion.

After dismantling up-and-coming squad Nihilum in the lower bracket finals, eLevate—who are attending the event with high-powered stand-ins Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin and Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham—rose to the challenge of locking horns with CLG once again in this tournament.

CEVO Professional Season 6 LAN FinalsBest of 3 NihilumMatchpage 0 2 15th April 2015 Elevate 0Mirage 16 4Dust2 16

In the grand final, the first map was de_cache and saw eLevate grind out a win, taking the map into 30 rounds (16:14) despite a convincing opener of a T-side. All indications were that this series was going to be a close contest.

On the second map of de_dust2, the voraciously momentum-based CLG were able to close out the map at 16:12, although charismatic AWPer Peter "⁠ptr⁠" Gurney was seen having some struggles with the Big Green.

Skadoodle brought enhanced firepower to eLevate, but it wasn't enough to win a final 

The final map was de_nuke, which has been much maligned as of late and is currently enjoying its Indian summer as the map is slowly being replaced by de_train per Valve's original motivation.

As is characteristic of nuke, the series saw insanely CT-sided halves (14:1 each side) which led to an overtime. It was in overtime that Stephen "⁠reltuC⁠" Cutler and his men finally created a Terrorist-sided impetus and closed out the series, precluding the need to play a second best-of-three.

CEVO Professional Season 6 LAN FinalsBest of 6 CLGMatchpage 2 1 16th April 2015 Elevate 14Cache 16 16Dust2 12 19Nuke 17

The final results are as follows:

1. CLG - $5,861
2. eLevate - $2,930
3. Nihilum - $1,758
4. Luminosity - $1,172 

The CEVO-P Season 6 LAN finals have now come to a close, but there is much to look forward to as a significantly buffed CEVO Season 7 promises to bring European teams and a $135,000 prize-pool back to the MLG.tv arena in July.

Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Age: 21 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 145 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.61 Peter 'ptr' Gurney Age: 24 Team: Luminosity Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 33 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.62 Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Age: 25 Team: Elevate Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 159 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.61 Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler Age: 26 Team: CLG Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 49 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.66