nV secure first place in group A

The start of day two of ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 Finals saw top two teams per our ranking, EnVyUs and fnatic, take on each other in a best-of-three match for first place in group A.

EnVyUs chose to go with de_cbble as the first map, and also got a 3-0 start towards the beginning before dropping a round up against a B bombsite execute. Due to losing a lot of guns in the anti-ecos, they were forced on an eco, but their superb baiting strategy in pit made up for it.

After another set of close forcebuys, EnVyUs got to 6-1 before fnatic pulled back, as they got the Frenchmen on a double eco as well after just one round. Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey's 1-on-1 clutch put his team up to 8-4, but they dropped the remainder of the half to fnatic.

A second pistol round win for EnVyUs, as well as survived anti-ecos meant a 11-7 scoreline, only for fnatic to pull back again with three in a row of their own. EnVyUs didn't drop the ball though, as they slowly crawled up to 13-10. Only Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer and his quad-kill in the following round delayed the finish of map one, as EnVyUs picked up three in a row afterwards to make it 16-11, 1-0.

fnatic's pick was de_inferno and yet again it was EnVyUs as Terrorists to get ahead early on with a 3-0, much thanks to Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer's 2-on-5 ace in the second round anti-forcebuy. fnatic got the first gunround for their trouble, but Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire's triple in a 2-on-3 put them on a bad buy.

That didn't seem to matter to a lonesome olofmeister on the B bombsite, who picked up a triple with a mag-7, which in turn put EnVyUs on a double eco. From there on up until 6-6 rounds kept going back and forth one by one, until the Frenchmen finally picked up the pace and made it 9-6 after three in a row towards the end of the first half.

In the second half it was mostly Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub with superb individual performances, starting with a 1-on-2 in the pistol round. Nothing seemed to have worked in fnatic's favor afterwards, as the French AWPer won another clutch for 13-6 and five more kills in the following two gunrounds. EnVyUs had no trouble closing things out without dropping a single round on their Counter-Terrorist side, which saw them picking up first place in group A and advance to semi-finals.

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Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS	40 - 30	+10	-	-	1.15
Vincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerHappy	38 - 33	+5	-	-	1.15
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	39 - 33	+6	-	-	1.13
Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieykioShiMa	34 - 35	-1	-	-	0.92
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	32 - 33	-1	-	-	0.91

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating1.0
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjerolofmeister	39 - 37	+2	-	-	1.11
Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ	38 - 36	+2	-	-	1.01
Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW	33 - 38	-5	-	-	0.88
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha	27 - 35	-8	-	-	0.78
Dennis 'dennis' Edmandennis	27 - 39	-12	-	-	0.75

Another all-European battle is ahead of us in Burbank, as Natus Vincere will take on Question Mark in the upper final of group B.