fnatic have porna natopped Group B by winning three games out of three possible, finishing off with a 16-13 win against TyLoo.raw.
Not much action took place in the first two matches for the teams, both having no trouble at all to secure three points against Im and wNv. Facing off in the last match of the group stage, the team to win would secure top spot and go on to face Natus Vincere in the semi-final.
As CT first on de_inferno, fnatic started by taking the initial rounds, helped by very aggressive play, which TyLoo.raw had trouble countering. The Swedes had a 7-1 lead, but TyLoo.raw managed to find the recipe to get back in the match, winning five consecutive rounds to take it to a 7-6 score. fnatic then bounced back to win one round, while the last round of the half went to TyLoo.raw and a Swedish lead with 8-7.
Now playing the Terrorists side, fnatic started out by picking up the pistol-round, followed by the fourth round, where TyLoo.raw had enough money to buy weapons. The fifth round TyLoo.raw finally managed to score a round, with Liu "Savage" Bin showing great AWP play in the B bombsite. TyLoo.raw took the following round and looked to continue, but Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg stopped the Chinese from doing so. TyLoo.raw continued to deliver great play, but with fnatic having match point secured, TyLoo.raw realized the defeat as fnatic secured a 16-13 victory.
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With first place fnatic will be paired with Natus Vincere, who finished second in Group A. TyLoo.raw will be put up against their big brother from TyLoo, who finished first in Group A.
04:00CET will feature the semi-final between TyLoo and TyLoo.raw, while the match between fnatic and Na´Vi will begin at 08:30CET and both will be best-of-three maps and will be covered by ESL TV, meaning no HLTV.
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