Na`Vi to Leipzig final over dignitas

The second DreamHack Open Leipzig semifinal was a face-off between Na`Vi and dignitas, the latter team having won the Group B decider match against dignitas to make it into the semifinals.

The first map of de_cbble saw Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye & co. do clean-up work on Na`Vi on their T-side, winning the pistolround and, even after losing the first gunround, continuing to rack up rounds to move the score to 5-1.

Na`Vi had a light defensive rally, led by Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev and Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács, but the first half was overall a story of dignitas' superior executions and site takes as the Danish-Norwegian team finished the first half up by 9-6.

Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko wanted to prove that Na`Vi could maneuver and execute on their T-side even more successfully, and he was the lynchpin himself of Na`Vi's efforts on de_cbble which slowly brought the Russian-Ukrainian-Slovak team into the lead and saw them clinch the first map 16-13.

de_train was mostly a story of Na`Vi's dominance on the first half, in addition to Kjaerbye pulling off an unbelieable Desert Eagle 4K on the tenth round, and saw Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin and teammates finish the half up 12-3.

Despite dignitas' attempts to defend on their own CT side, Na`Vi were the better team of the day and pulled off enough successful rounds to take the map 16-9 and the series 2-0, thereby making the grand finals.

DreamHack ZOWIE Open Leipzig 2016Best of 3

Natus Vincere

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23rd January 2016

Dignitas

16

Cobblestone

13

16

Train

9

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Day three of the DreamHack ZOWIE Open in Leipzig will therefore be a grand final between two teams who are seemingly always meeting each other in the group stages of event, but now it will take place in a grand final setting: Luminosity and Na`Vi.

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