The grand final of IEM San Jose brought two of the most favoured teams together in a European clash on North American shores: Na`Vi and TSM. With TSM recently revealed to be facing organisational issues, the Danes were seen as needing a strong result to recover from a insecure showing at DreamHack Open Cluj and all the overarching rumours.  Na`Vi's return to North America sees them win an event However, the grand final was ultimately a playground for Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács and his teammates as Na`Vi took TSM's map pick of de_dust2 from the Danes at 16-10. TSM, who are known for often vetoing de_cbble, were crushed by a solid Na`Vi defense on de_cbble, going down 1-14 at the half. Despite a small whimper of an attempt to come back into the game, TSM crumbled and Na`Vi powered ahead to win the map 16-8 and the event itself. IEM San Jose 2015Best of 3  TSM Matchpage 0 2 23rd November 2015  Natus Vincere 10Dust2 16 8Cobblestone 16
Denis 'seized' Kostinseized | 41 - 27 | +14 | - | 1.37 | Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN | 43 - 25 | +18 | - | 1.34 | Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie | 36 - 27 | +9 | - | 1.13 | Danylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoZeus | 38 - 30 | +8 | - | 1.11 | Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward | 36 - 32 | +4 | - | 1.03 |
Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x | 35 - 38 | -3 | - | 0.92 | René 'cajunb' Borgcajunb | 29 - 39 | -10 | - | 0.85 | Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice | 30 - 38 | -8 | - | 0.80 | Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan | 26 - 38 | -12 | - | 0.73 | Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh | 20 - 41 | -21 | - | 0.56 |
IEM San Jose 2015 final standings* (distribution according to Na`Vi's Arseny "ceh9" Trynozhenko): 1. Null element Na`Vi - $56,250 2. TSM - $22,500 3-4. Liquid - $11,250 3-4. G2 - $11,250 5-8. Cloud9 - $2,812.50 5-8. Luminosity - $2,812.50 5-8. Virtus.pro - $2,812.50 5-8. CLG - $2,812.50
 Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Age: 24 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 657 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.62 Arseny 'ceh9' Trynozhenko Age: 26 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.89 Maps played: 169 KPR: 0.60 DPR: 0.66 |