fnatic on top of RC EMS One Cup #3

1-3-2013 01:06

The day is done for RaidCall EMS One Spring 2013 Cup #3 with fnatic on top after winning 2-1 (16-11 de_mirage_csgo, 10-16 de_inferno_se, 16-11 de_train_se) against LDLC.com in the grand final. fnatic will be getting 100 points in the ranking and prize money worth $600.

First semi-final saw the new, this time complete fnatic lineup taking on Ricardo "fox" Pacheco's k1ck. The Danish-Swedish-Norwegian mix had a rocket start into the match, winning 16-9 in the end with 12-3 at the halftime.

LDLC.com with Morgan "B1GGY" Madour, who was standing in for Mathieu "MaT" Leber, showed a good performance against Anexis. A 9-6 lead at the halftime and a won pistol helped them to win with a comfortable 16-10 score.

The final started off on the most 1.6-like map of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, de_mirage_go. Once again a rocket start from fnatic left only three rounds for the Frenchmen going into the second half.

LDLC.com seemed to pick up then, securing the pistol round and both anti-ecos. The following gunrounds were evenly distributed between the two teams with fnatic clinching a map point at 15-9. Only two more rounds held fnatic off from winning the first map 16-11.

apEX's individual performances were not enough to take fnatic down

With the map changing to de_inferno_se, fnatic lost the knife round to begin as Terrorists once again. The Frenchmen strongly replied after losing the pistol round, with Madour and Dan "apEX" Madesclaire making the difference in three of the remaining gunrounds, making the score 11-4 before switching sides.

Switching over to Counter-Terrorists, fnatic crushed LDLC.com in the second pistol round. Only with glocks and flashbangs on the fifth round though, LDLC pushed into B bombsite to add the first round in their favor to get a momentum going for the Frenchmen, who won most of the following rounds to make the score 16-10.

The last map of the grand final seemed like a deja vu, with fnatic beginning as Counter-Terrorists this time around. The Scandinavian team won the pistol, however they ended up losing 2v1 and 4v2 situations in the remaining rounds. Madesclaire's team was leading 9-6 at the halftime.

Although the Terrorist side is statistically very unfavorable, fnatic started turning things around by winning the pistol and most of the gunrounds afterwards. LDLC.com only managed to win one round before losing the final map of de_train_se 11-16.

RaidCall EMS One Spring 2013 Cup #3Best of 3

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fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	62 - 50	+12	-	-	1.11
Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh MODDII	58 - 50	+8	-	-	1.09
Martin 'trace' Heldt trace	52 - 46	+6	-	-	1.00
Lasse 'stingeR' Midtstue stingeR	47 - 49	-2	-	-	0.90
Michael 'Friis' Jørgensen Friis	49 - 53	-4	-	-	0.89

LDLC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	69 - 58	+11	-	-	1.21
Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez Maniac	49 - 51	-2	-	-	0.95
Fabien 'atLaNtis' Deguiraud atLaNtis	42 - 50	-8	-	-	0.87
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Happy	45 - 52	-7	-	-	0.86
Morgan 'B1GGY' Madour B1GGY	42 - 57	-15	-	-	0.81

The RaidCall EMS One organizers have asked Andreas "MODDII" Fridh for a statement, which is following:

"I think the cup was really awesome. It was my first "test" as a player and ingame leader since i started to play CS:GO, besides DreamHack Winter, and it was our first time playing together as a team since we joined up with fnatic. So, a win here feels incredibly good because we basically haven't started to practice yet and we have no real "tactics" besides a "standard" tactic on three maps (train - mirage - dust2).

When I saw that we were supposed to play against LDLC.COM, I was a little bit suprised, just because it was such a strong cup with big names in it, but they were really good and I feel really happy that we could win over them after being down 6-9 on CT train."

RaidCall EMS One Cup #3 final standings:

1. fnatic - $600 (100 points)
2. LDLC.com - $200 (75 points)
3-4. Anexis - $100 (50 points)
3-4. k1ck - $100 (50 points)
5-8. LowLandLions (25 points)
5-8. VeryGames (25 points)
5-8. dotpiXels (25 points)
5-8. n!faculty (25 points)
9-16. 3DMAX (10 points)
9-16. ALTERNATE (10 points)
9-16. Wizards (10 points)
9-16. gamed!de (10 points)
9-16. Temp.no (10 points)
9-16. EYES ON U (10 points)
9-16. WaRLegenD (10 points)
17-24. ESC Gaming (5 points)
17-24. mousesports (5 points)
17-24. EYES ON U (5 points)
17-24. NOD (5 points)
17-24. MTF Gaming (5 points)
17-24. Eternity Gaming (5 points)
17-24. Epsilon (5 points)
17-24. EnRo GRIFFINS (5 points)

Sixteen teams qualify for the main round of RaidCall EMS One with spots secured for Epsilon, Ninjas in Pyjamas, n!faculty, Imaginary Gaming and fnatic according to the ranking.

LDLC.com, k1ck, 3DMAX, Anexis and ALTERNATE are likely to qualify as well with at least 60 points each, although the exact number of points to qualify remains to be determined.

The last RaidCall EMS One Spring 2013 Cup will be played in two weeks, taking place on Wednesday, March 13th and Thursday, March 14th. HLTV.org will provide GOTVs for all of the matches with the exceptions of games streamed by ESL TV.

2013-03-01 01:10

moddii igl? wow

2013-03-01 01:12

3 replies

And still almost top of the board, the next xizt?

2013-03-01 01:35

2 replies

hopefully..

2013-03-01 01:37

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Indeed, I don't like seeing fnatic not compete in the int.top5 at least :(

2013-03-01 17:13

Well thats pretty impressive

MODDII IGL? Shit just got real!

2013-03-01 01:14

I've watched the whole thing and to be honest was one of the best matches I've seen so far in a grand final...really entertaining and exciting :D

2013-03-01 01:16

lol, moddii IGL... not sure if that's going to end well. on the other side they have no real IGL in their team. I hoped this sauce guy would be an IGL... Anyway: Nice start fnatic! Good look in future tournaments.

2013-03-01 01:18

AFAIK stinger played 1.6, if you're referring him as the "sauce guy"

2013-03-01 06:38

16-11 fnatic won 3rd map or not?

no. ldcd won 2 maps of 3 but fnatic won the tournament

2013-03-01 01:20

You're right, fixed, thank you :)

2013-03-01 01:24

np :)

2013-03-01 07:41

lol apeX

2013-03-01 01:26

mottii igl sicksicksick.

2013-03-01 01:30

moddii starts to rock

2013-03-01 01:47

fnatic has a good line up now, if they stick to this one i hope they will be among the top teams, gl.

2013-03-01 01:49

apex is sick,ldlc new strong team

2013-03-01 01:50

few days ago fnatic had no chance people were saying. nice final

2013-03-01 02:00

moddii and stingeR are making the difference.

2013-03-01 03:29

I hope they don't waste the fraggin potential of Moddii :/

As the only Swede in the lineup, I am glad he is the leader.

2013-03-01 02:08

? the tactical best team of all time was danish (mTw)

2013-03-01 02:21

I mean for my pride in Swedish CS:GO players.

2013-03-01 02:23

rofl stinger HS %! so sick game

And Fanatic is BACK ! :D

2013-03-01 02:26

k1ck 100$ - its there first money earned in e-sport ever ?

2013-03-01 02:36

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Always fun to mock Portuguese teams right? Just because Portugal is further south than Poland, they must be terrible at video games. Nice trolling attempt though

2013-03-01 02:40

nonono m8. simply because its not a true and i bet there are lot of portugues which care to much (maybe like polish guys :D). anyway just for fun, nothing more ;)

2013-03-01 06:45

they win some money in portugal in lan events , so no, but nice try

2013-03-01 02:47

k1ck.com/09/images/k1ck/csgo_money_ranki.. CSGO till end of 2012

2013-03-01 02:51

in 2012, look at ESC int. events attended and K1CK, then see which team as earned more money :)

2013-03-01 05:17

Im pretty sure your beloved ESC just finished 17-24th in this exact same tournament, you should shut the hell up ;)

2013-03-01 11:36

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place of esc doesnt matter at all in this case, so it was nice to see your comment but who cares about mad swedish guy ? exactly, noone

2013-03-01 16:40

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The lack of inteligence present in that reply is rather sad, but why would i be mad having the number one team in the world miles away of you beloved team anyway? Pretty brainless arent you?

2013-03-01 18:07

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+1 mate :D

2013-03-01 18:57

+100 props

2013-03-01 18:59

you wont never be there where i am. and im not kidding. end of discussion

2013-03-01 20:00

We wont be embarassing ourselves by writing nonsense on HLTV.org like you, yes.

2013-03-02 02:51

i was trollinga and youre tryign to prove that what ive written is stupid. NO FUCKIN SHIT O.O

2013-03-02 10:36

>hurr I was only pretending Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

2013-03-03 14:54

wow nice fnatic!!!! moddii <3<3 :KK. that was gay.. :DD :KK

2013-03-01 02:45

Seriously check out his profile picture

2013-03-01 04:03

Hahahaahahahahaha

2013-03-01 07:46

well done fnatic! keep it up!

2013-03-01 03:54

wow moddii igl this guy is gonna shit on xizt soon.

2013-03-01 04:04

On a more serious note. I'm glad these EMS cups, and specifically the fact that they are being played every week. The best idea ever, if you ask me. I for one do not want to wait between LAN events to see some really nice CS(:GO) matches. I want this on a weekly basis! Thanks!

2013-03-01 04:10

cArn back -stinger _FTW

2013-03-01 04:13

was apEX really raging in that pic?

2013-03-01 04:16

I'd rather say taunting :)

2013-03-01 20:55

Wow this lineup is interesting, curious to see how it goes.

2013-03-01 04:41

fnatic will be topteam now

2013-03-01 06:13

Why does friis suck so bad now ?

2013-03-01 06:57

He did really well actually, it was just on inferno where he had like 4-20 score, but his awp was crucial on both dust2 and train.

2013-03-01 07:33

through the all tournament friis is been so good,in semi final friis play alone against k1ck,it's been so sick to watch but in final he's been a little sleepy :)

2013-03-01 08:00

Stinger 70% hs ratio new ScreaM?

2013-03-01 08:04

if RARA/crZy would play this he could have 100% hs rating with stats 1/30

2013-03-01 08:24

xDDDD

2013-03-01 21:14

lets see if they have enough juice to face nip, VG, VP etc

2013-03-01 08:44

whom did verygames lose?

2013-03-01 08:52

2013-03-01 09:09

Bad for Apex, such great player, deserves more, but i dont know why he got kicked from Verygames anyway

2013-03-01 09:21

apEX's statement: Hi all, It is with great disappointment I write this statement. Team VeryGames wanted me to be removed from the team for reasons that my manager will explain better than I. I'm really disappointed that this collaboration ends, but I can not blame anyone but myself. They tried to make me understand several times with almost no effort from me. For futher I do not know yet what to do, stop or continue, I'll see the opportunities open to me in the coming days. I want to thank Team VeryGames, the best structure for which I had the opportunity to play and also all my former teammates who made me live great times! NiaK's statement: Hello everbody, As you might doubt, a change isn't chosen in few days, and we think about it since some weeks already. During the last months, the team was lacking of a player capable of helping Ex6TenZ in his choices. Being the co-leader is very important, especially in a game schema that we would like to develop. apEX initially came in Team VeryGames for this, but we fastly noticed that he would have troubles to fully carry out this role. Dan has many individual qualities, but he must make changes in his gameplay, his temperamnent doesn't help him in this approach.I hope that this experience will help him for the future, and I thank Dan, from all the team, for what he gave us. ______ so now you know ;)

2013-03-01 12:05