fnatic to Mad Catz over WW

13-8-2013 22:59

fnatic have defeated Western Wolves 2-0 (31-28 de_inferno_se, 16-5 de_train_se) and will travel to Cologne for the grand final of Mad Catz Invitational.

The Swedes had a flying start on the supposedly harder terrorist side of de_inferno_se, as they racked up a total of eleven rounds, led by strong offensive AWPing by Jesper "jw" Wecksell.

Western Wolves matched their efforts after switching sides, and although fnatic were ahead the whole time, it was thanks to Robin "flusha" Ronnquist they made it into overtime.

The two sides would take a whopping five overtimes to determine who is the better team of the two on de_inferno_se, as they continuously matched the effort of each other.

JW earned the nickname JWP from FACEIT's casting team

Ultimately it was fnatic, whose leader Andreas "MODDII" Fridh chimed in with some important multi kill rounds in overtime, who were able to close out the map with a 31-28 score.

Nicolaj "Nico" Jensen's side went up 3-0 as terrorists on de_train_se after a pistol round win after map change, but then quickly faced a brick wall in the form of fnatic's defense.

The team donning black and orange completely shut down Western Wolves, who went on to lose twelve straight rounds as terrorists. After losing pistol in the second half, it was only a matter of time before fnatic won, which they did at 16-5.

Mad Catz InvitationalBest of 2

Western Wolves

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13th August 2013

fnatic

Inferno_se

Train_se

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	70 - 54	+16	-	-	1.23
Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg znajder	68 - 50	+18	-	-	1.19
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	56 - 53	+3	-	-	1.01
Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh MODDII	48 - 53	-5	-	-	0.91
Jonatan 'Devilwalk' Lundberg Devilwalk	41 - 44	-3	-	-	0.88

Western Wolves	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Nicolaj 'Nico' Jensen Nico	55 - 55	0	-	-	0.97
Peter 'Inzta' Kragelund Inzta	55 - 60	-5	-	-	0.93
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	54 - 62	-8	-	-	0.92
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	47 - 54	-7	-	-	0.87
Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche Pimp	41 - 52	-11	-	-	0.78

fnatic are now qualified for Mad Catz Invitational's grand final, where they will face either VeryGames or Cph Wolves in Cologne on August 20th for the 3,500€ first place prize.

kouza mad

2013-08-13 22:59

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+1 hahhaha

2013-08-13 23:46

gz, nice play!!

n1111111111111 jwdUdE flushadUdE MODDIIBABZ schneiderdUdE devilwalk.snoopdogg.tegdUdE <3

2013-08-13 23:00

Fnatic to stronk

Well played Western Wolves, unlucky in the first map tho.

2013-08-13 23:01

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+1, whoever ended up winning the first map was probably gonna win the match, WW were probably so down after all that

2013-08-14 00:15

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nah, WW just suck LOL SAUCERKIDS

2013-08-14 05:40

Heh. It is so funny when some handsome dude things he has a chance to give the fnatic team a fun night with his ass :) Soz. Just hate ass-licking people :(

2013-08-14 12:10

not really unlucky, just outplayed. And the 2nd map was WW choice and they got raped...

2013-08-14 05:42

The score suggest that they got owned but really all the rounds were close and WW pulled a lot of VG style rounds where they lost rounds when they were up in numbers.

2013-08-14 06:48

"a lot of VG style rounds" hahah lol. still happen with shox and NBK?

2013-08-14 17:05

gj nice pick Train by WW very preparing ! looks like a pub style on Train cant fck believe that were top 3-4 world

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bit.ly/NYLYYU

2013-08-13 23:11

u mad ?

2013-08-13 23:21

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Their braindead manager is mad :p

2013-08-14 00:02

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Its funny, cause i havent been their manager for over a month, and i was actually cheering for Fnatic ..

2013-08-14 00:50

Why would you cheer for fnatic :O

2013-08-14 01:38

Cause i know them IRL and they are great guys :-)

2013-08-14 07:49

No, just trying to help.

wp jw

2013-08-13 23:02

Eat your heart out Thoorin! :P

2013-08-13 23:06

Carn must be pleased

2013-08-13 23:33

Aren't they keeping a tally now? So far: Fnatic 4 WW 0 :)

2013-08-14 00:23

wp!!

hehe indeed

2013-08-13 23:24

flusha bestest player in the scene atm

2013-08-13 23:07

JWP<3

2013-08-13 23:12

Was a great first map although the second map didn't seem bad, the rounds seemed closer than the round difference shows. WP fnatic :)

2013-08-13 23:13

silly hltv, it wasn't jw who earned the nickname "JWP", it was the AWP itself -- they renamed the "a double-u p" to the "jay double-u p" because jw was just2stronk with it.

2013-08-13 23:14

debatepolitics.com/attachments/polls/671..

2013-08-13 23:22

nope, commentators referred several times to the awp as "the jwp". keep distorting facts tho.

2013-08-14 01:05

#57 yea you a r right #14 go home u drunk

2013-08-14 01:33

gz fnatic :)

2013-08-13 23:20

hs % 35 or no only sprayman cs go? omg

no vg no 50% +

2013-08-13 23:23

VG vs fnatic finals :)

Carn: "Phew, I don't have to listen to a 15 minute dissertation by thorin on wrongly picking epsilon instead of WW." Not that one online match even matters.

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Dont matter? WW is out of mad catz now, how is that not mattering? o.o

2013-08-13 23:27

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it's a small tournament and the match wasn't on lan

2013-08-13 23:34

fnatic will get crushed in the final for that reason.

2013-08-14 00:19

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Hmmm I wouldn't be too sure. They did well at dreamhack

2013-08-14 00:37

they didn't get the chance to play VG, and got crushed by NiP. imo, nip and vg are too far ahead of fnatic for them to do any real damage..

2013-08-14 01:12

I think any rational person would agree that, given the ex-eplison player's performance at DH, fnatic has a reasonable chance against VG on lan, assuming VG beats CPW.

2013-08-14 01:48

I disagree, fnatic lost to a tired vg, just back from a holiday, in two maps, vg in form is even stronger, and even stronger still on lan, if they are paired against cph, then I think it will be a very close game.

2013-08-14 02:34

Doesn't matter, fact is they will be winning some money, while WW will not.

2013-08-14 00:40

Reminding you Mad Catz is their main Sponsor, and MadCatz is the whole operation behind WW .. I think it matters.

2013-08-14 00:51

It does matter, it is part of the tournament you idiot.

Listen here "idiot." This match is nearly inconsequential in terms of carn picking the right team or not, which was the subject of much debate during the last (and previous) podcasts. He needs a team with stability and longevity; a single online match dictates nothing with this regard. I'm speaking objectively. Because I disagree with thorin and I do think he chose the right team. We won't really know if he made the best choice until much further down the road.

2013-08-14 01:00

regardless if he made the right choice in the long run it is clear in the head to head matches so far he made the better choice. Period.

2013-08-14 04:30

Exactly, so this match means nearly nothing in the long run...

2013-08-14 17:34

It is a chance at money, which is hard to come by in the current state of this game. I have no idea how you consider that nothing.

2013-08-14 20:21

Because an online win and a small tournament dictates nothing in terms of the stability and longevity of a team... how is this not a clear point to you is what I have no idea about.

2013-08-14 20:52

How you fail to realize my point as well is also something I have no idea either. I understand your point, in the long run this tournament will not dictate a teams success, but you are downplaying the importance small wins (online or on lan) have on a team in CSGO. This isn't LoL, teams do not have many opportunities to win "big" prize money (especially with NiP and VG in the mix). If you were to ask WW and Fnatic if this win was important you would get a different answer than you expect. Trust me, teams do not fight through 5 OTs if they find the match 'pointless'. A tournament with a decent prize pool with no NiP = good opportunity, online or not. This is even failing to mention that this online match is for one of two spots for a LAN final. The fact of the matter is SO FAR Fnatic have shown more success as a lineup (in their short history as a 5 together), WW so far have show no stability in terms of lineup and results since early this year(swapping Nille in and out back in then out again) and no results with Inzta. Fnatic has shown that they can compete with the best in the world on LAN (DreamHack) and now online.

2013-08-14 23:54

Nice work Fnatic, will be interesting to watch the lan games!

The day kidz took over.

n1 fnatic!

2013-08-13 23:31

carn pretty much loving life

2013-08-13 23:32

it looks like we are heading towards a skandinavian domination on CS again: nip, fnatic, ww, cph, lemondogs, and nfaculty are stronger than most of the other top teams.. im afraid that's gonna be boring for the other countries. Only VG and AD will maybe able to compete with them

2013-08-13 23:42

LDLC can still beat any of those teams, bar NiP, on any given day. But yeah other than that it's Scandi all the way.

2013-08-14 00:07

wtf so low HS% right there :P

2013-08-13 23:45

hm, this is definitely not right. Must be a bug with overtime headshots, they're probably not counted here. We'll look into fixing it asap.

2013-08-13 23:48

It's not like it matters a lot, I just randomly noticed :)

2013-08-13 23:53

Nico 55-55 Kd 0.97? really?

2013-08-14 01:36

No, not really. Read the column title above 0.97 (hint: it's not K/D)

2013-08-14 01:46

I can report that this has been fixed, HS% stats are now correctly displayed :)

2013-08-14 16:29

where's the dude claiming that WW were better than ex-Epsilon and that they deserved the spot in fnatic ? :DDDDD

2013-08-13 23:58

It's GoZaGouD, KoZaGouD. NoZaGouD or something else

2013-08-14 05:48

Kozagoud..

2013-08-14 07:29

I will not be surprised when JW & co fails at lan ;)

2013-08-14 00:01

watch DHS 2k13 , Epsilon on lan soU goUD

I've already watched it. Others are fine, this JW guy is just insane online. noob offline.

2013-08-14 00:41

jw carried epsilon at dhs...

2013-08-14 00:52

You're trolling right? Watch some matches from Copenhagen Games or Dreamhack.

2013-08-14 02:09

fragbite.se/?fileID=5652 noob offline indeed :)

2013-08-14 13:01

exactly.

2013-08-14 16:19

Oh so close for WW, it seems Fnatic are doing well with their new team :) Sweden too strong atm.

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Can you even recall a moment or a year perhaps when sweden wasn't particularly strong at CS?? Personally since i can remember freaking sweden has been dominating the Counter-Strike franchise pretty much all the time...

2013-08-14 01:15

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I know. Let's go knock those Swedes down a peg eh?

2013-08-14 01:17

;) bring it

2013-08-14 02:48

hehe :D

2013-08-14 03:34

Many swedes are 1.6. In source, there was not really dominance from sweden.

2013-08-14 10:40

There's a lot of anti source as far as I've seen ingame in sweden. Also our pioneers in CS played 1.6 so most kids followed that way.

2013-08-14 12:29

Sounds logical. Was the complete opposite for DK. Only real team we had in 1.6 was fnatic, for waht I know. Don't blame me, I am source. :D So, most went to source, cause we had a bigger community and more top teams in that game. Just like you in Swe, just the other game around.

2013-08-14 14:23

you are missing the mighty mTw brother :D

Ohh, now you mention it..! youtube.com/watch?v=UaWR6t09I3A :D

2013-08-14 19:05

hahah...better late than never :D you can just watch this video a gazillion times but u will still want to watch it again #legend

2013-08-14 19:16

moddi shit in go

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If you watched the match you would know that Moddii was the most important player in OT for fnatic... but thanks for showing your ignorance

2013-08-14 00:55

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When I refer to someone as shit I mean that their skill, as in aim and reflex, fuck even game sense in this case is total fucking shit, have you ever seen this spastic play? worst ''pro'' player thats in the scene probably.

2013-08-14 00:57

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MODDI was playing bad,today he was playing very good

2013-08-14 01:37

Haha

2013-08-14 02:07

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what? go learn some english and come and debate.

2013-08-14 02:23

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You're not even watching their games, so no need to.

2013-08-14 02:45

I watched the one versus astana dragons untill the HLTV locked up and died. I was spectating moddii all the time just because I thought ''Oh well, I'm a 1.6 player and I do well at CSGO, so I guess he should do the same.'' guess what? he didn't, he was playing horribly, he might've been a key player from another perspective but he failed a lot of easy situations so I really hope he's doing something except for fragging because that's obviously a role he isn't fit for.

2013-08-14 02:47

He's not as bad as you make him out to be. Keep watching and I'm sure you'll come to agree.

2013-08-14 02:51

so let me get this straight are u saying that you are good at csgo and moddii is not? You actually think you are better than moddii? Go to bed.

i'm saying that i am not bad at CSGO for comming from 1.6 but him on the other hand is too bad to play on a professional level at the moment and in his current state at least during de_inf on fnatic vs astana dragons learn2english

2013-08-14 06:25

You do realise, that his English is far better than yours?

2013-08-14 10:35

lol okay, because i don't feel like typing with proper english. also how the fuck would you know? you've never heard me talk/speak english.

2013-08-14 20:17

Well he is a native speaker you are a secondary is this so difficult to understand? His english is bound to be better than yours just saying... Don't be butthurt

2013-08-14 21:23

go learn french on your own and once it's as good as mine within four years of only playing videogames etc you can feel free to talk.

2013-08-14 21:25

Thanks again for proving how much of a kid you are... Your not only cocky but ignorant as hell. Stop the wannabe important act and go to bed before your mom comes to woop your ass.

2013-08-14 21:30

lol stop proving how much of a fucking baddie you are before i fix my PC and get on esea and shit on you with 200 ping scrub also this topic wasnt about my english to begin with it was about how shitty moddii has performed recently so get good and quit nutcupping professionals.

2013-08-14 21:56

static.hltv.org/images/galleries/1693-fu..

2013-08-14 13:05

I love to see fnatic back on track :')

2013-08-14 01:04

Moddii was instrumental in ot u dont know ish indiehatt

2013-08-14 01:18

Yea, I heard he was jamming on his guitar during the overtime.

2013-08-14 07:28

Saucers lost, today was a good day

2013-08-14 01:21

i think fnatic lineup has saucers

2013-08-14 01:39

fnatic lineup only 1.6 players

Sure?

2013-08-14 07:24

yes

2013-08-14 09:13

Yes, but everyone except Moddii was barely semi pros in 1.6.

2013-08-14 12:31

jw dA BesT

Pimp was busy thinking about his HLTV blogs. That's why they lost, nothing else! :D

2013-08-14 02:49

So pros should do nothing other than playing cs?

2013-08-14 05:07

lol, you owned him

2013-08-14 05:47

Only I own myself! B)

2013-08-14 12:25

So people should always talk seriously and can't joke?

2013-08-14 12:24

You call that a joke?

2013-08-14 12:49

Hahahaha, you again owned him! :D

2013-08-14 12:51

I bet u enjoyed this even more than awptimist.. hahahahah

2013-08-14 16:22

Yeah! :)

2013-08-14 12:53

Nice, <3 fnatic

2013-08-14 05:39

fnatic stronk

2013-08-14 05:43

I feel bad for Gozagoud :(

lol, true story :D

2013-08-14 16:31

+twist -devilwalk

2013-08-14 06:33

yes, the team is winning against everyone. better change a player

2013-08-14 07:03

HLTV logic..

2013-08-14 07:25

HLTV logic strikes again.

2013-08-14 07:27

Devilwalk is the perfect support player. almost all his frags where crucial. he won them minimum 2 rounds on train that would have resulted in eco`s afterwards.

2013-08-14 14:15

Bringing pride back to Fnatic.

2013-08-14 07:31

well now I wanna see fnatic versus NiP

2013-08-14 08:02

31-28 @ inferno. Damn it was long game.

2013-08-14 08:05

This CS:S pimp starts blog on HLTV.org.. Sad, I dislike noobs

2013-08-14 08:49

kozagoud,,, suck it up !!

2013-08-14 09:18

schneider !!

2013-08-14 11:15

was moddii ingame leader?

2013-08-14 12:12

worst match summary ever!! u make it sound like they just trashed them on train. luckiest 16-5 i ever seen. soo many 5v3s an entry frags wasted by WW, anyways wp Fnatic.

2013-08-14 13:48