Na`Vi over Titan to DH Summer final

The second semi-final of the final day of DreamHack Open Summer featured two teams facing off who have had a lot to prove in 2015, Na`Vi and Titan. As our colleague Tomi "⁠lurppis⁠" Kovanen highlighted in his breakdown of the team's rivalry, the series promised to be incredibly close.

de_cbble was the first map and Titan's captain Kévin "⁠Ex6TenZ⁠" Droolans unleashed his team like a smoothly-oiled machine on their T-side, with precise executes and rotates giving the French-Belgian-Swiss mix a 12-3 lead at the half.

Na`Vi attempted to mount a comeback on their own T-side and began to slowly scoop up rounds, however Titan's star player Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub shut down the map with his quintessential aggressive AWP maneuvers, giving Titan the first map with a 16-11 scoreline.

Ex6TenZ led his men to a flawless T-side on de_cbble 

The second map of the series was de_overpass and Titan at first appeared to have inclinations of running away with the series, going up 8-0 on their CT-side. However, Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko brought out his own stratbook and helped Na`Vi garner six rounds in the end, closing out the half 9-6 in Titan's favour.

Titan lost a somewhat boneheaded T pistol round, with the bomb being lost unintentionally by Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez in Bank on A site, virtually guaranteeing Na`Vi the round. The Russo-Ukrainian-Slovak team used this momentum, along with great defense, to take the second map of the series with a 16-11 score.

Edward helped clinch de_overpass for Na`Vi

The final map of the series was de_inferno and Na`Vi wasted no time retaining their second map momentum by winning the CT pistol.

Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács & co. kept up an early pressure, only to be matched later in the half by kennyS's AWPing, making the map a battle of each team's star AWPer more than anything else. Na`Vi finished their CT half up by a round, 8-7.

Na`Vi opted for aggressive T-side tactics and pulled away with the game, taking the pistol, subsequent pistol-conversion rounds, and first gun round of the second half. With the score at 13-7, Titan mustered a half-buy together in one of their final chances of the game to turn the momentum around. However, Na`Vi's take of A-site forced Titan to save.

Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev continued to pick up slowly-worked entry kills to force Titan out of bombsites, eventually giving Na`Vi matchpoint. Na`Vi calmly took the final round, picking up eight rounds in a row on their T-side, and winning the map 16-7.