Luminosity to semifinals over NiP

The second decider match of the second day of FACEIT Stage 3 taking place at DreamHack Winter was a face-off between two teams whose roads had rarely crossed before, NiP and Luminosity.

At stake for Luminosity was attempting to be the only non-European to make semifinals after Liquid and Legacy had fallen short whereas the Ninjas were attempting to salvage weeks of rumours and speculation over their worsening performance with a strong showing.

de_mirage kicked off with Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo leading his Brazilian crew to a 12-3 CT half which made the map at first seem insurmountable for NiP. In traditional fashion however, the Swedish-Finnish team also mounted a comeback on their own CT half with Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund displaying characteristic form.

Powered by Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David and the two new acquisitions of Lincoln "⁠fnx⁠" Lau and Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo, Luminosity closed out the first map 16-10.

de_cache saw Luminosity take away nine Terrorist rounds on the first half to end with a 9-6 advantage at halftime; the second half once again saw a NiP comeback happen in magical fashion and thus drove the game into overtime.

With FACEIT employing MR5, $16,000 starting cash rules, both teams prepared for an endurance test but it was ultimately the Ninjas who prevailed and took the second map with a 21-19 scoreline.

With de_cbble thus chosen as the final battleground, Luminosity proved they were the team with more zest in the best-of-three as the Brazilian team claimed a fairly comfortable 16-6 victory on the map to knock out NiP from the tournament and advance to the semifinals.

FACEIT League 2015 Stage 3 Finals at DH Winter 2015Best of 3

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Luminosity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Marcelo 'coldzera' Davidcoldzera	75 - 57	+18	-	-	1.24
Fernando 'fer' Alvarengafer	75 - 60	+15	-	-	1.20
Lincoln 'fnx' Laufnx	67 - 60	+7	-	-	1.06
Epitacio 'TACO' de MeloTACO	56 - 56	0	-	-	1.05
Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFalleN	55 - 53	+2	-	-	0.95

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Aleksi 'allu' Jalliallu	72 - 64	+8	-	-	1.17
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindbergf0rest	57 - 61	-4	-	-	0.96
Richard 'Xizt' LandströmXizt	60 - 67	-7	-	-	0.91
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundGeT_RiGhT	52 - 65	-13	-	-	0.87
Adam 'friberg' Fribergfriberg	45 - 71	-26	-	-	0.70

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