NiP survive Swedish showdown

11-5-2016 21:33

NiP move on to the playoffs of the ESL Pro League Season 3 finals after defeating fellow Swedish team fnatic 16-9 on Train.

Both fnatic and Ninjas in Pyjamas managed to dismiss the North American threats marshalled against them in their Group B opening matches of the ESL Pro League Season 3 finals, defeating Cloud9 and Liquid respectively.

The two teams then moved into a best-of-one winners' match on Train, to determine the second team who would have smooth sailing into the playoffs of the $512,000 tournament after just two best-of-one games (G2 having been the first team to accomplish this feat).

Patient defense from fnatic got the ball rolling on the #3 ranked team's CT-side as they won the pistolround and survived both anti-ecos, however NiP quickly began to assert themselves early on and quickly equalised the score after winning the first gunround.

NiP continue their climb back into the elite with a best-of-one victory over fnatic

Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist began to step up for his team by picking up multiple and crucial M4A4 kills across three rounds (including on a force buy), with fnatic inching ahead to a 6-4 lead as the first half went on. However, with both Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg and Jacob "⁠pyth⁠" Mourujärvi displaying some finesse, NiP took the lead by the half's end, and finished up 8-7 after a fairly successful T-side.

A chaotic second pistolround on the A-site went NiP's way, as well as the following anti-eco round, but fnatic then bought up P250's and got a number of kills to reset NiP's economy with flusha leading the way (and then picked up an anti-eco round with NiP choosing to save).

With the score at 10-9 for NiP, Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström's men turned up the heat again and won two back-to-back CT-side rounds to extend the lead and force fnatic to buy up pistols. From here on out, NiP entered crunch mode and closed out the game against fnatic, winning 16-9.

ESL Pro League Season 3 FinalsBest of 1

fnatic

Matchpage

11th May 2016

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Train

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg f0rest	22 - 16	+6	104.8	92.0%	1.49
Adam 'friberg' Friberg friberg	23 - 13	+10	79.9	80.0%	1.37
Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi pyth	21 - 17	+4	82.5	68.0%	1.21
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	16 - 13	+3	60.9	84.0%	1.20
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund GeT_RiGhT	16 - 19	-3	79.8	76.0%	0.98

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	24 - 19	+5	118.5	72.0%	1.43
John 'wenton' Eriksson wenton	14 - 17	-3	55.7	64.0%	0.82
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	16 - 19	-3	63.9	68.0%	0.80
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	11 - 21	-10	59.3	68.0%	0.76
Dennis 'dennis' Edman dennis	13 - 22	-9	62.8	56.0%	0.69

The final match of the day at the ESL Pro League Season 3 finals is curiously a best-of-three game, and even more so is an incredibly crucial match as Luminosity and Astralis (the #1 and #4 ranked teams in the world) will fight in a Group A elimination match to see which titan goes home early.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

GGWP gz NiP

2016-05-11 21:33

20 replies

rofl so ez for THREAT's BOYS

2016-05-11 21:34

SwedenIsBetterThanRussiaAtCSGO*

17 replies

eeeee no?

16 replies

eeee yes?

15 replies

x10000000000 yes

2016-05-11 21:42

I agree with dennis, only team with russian people that is doing good is navi, and that only 2 of their players. not that many other people doing too great rn, and in general in history, swedes have been raping compared to russians

2016-05-11 22:18

13 replies

raping, that's the word !

2016-05-11 22:57

at least both have history, something that canada is lacking

2016-05-11 23:26

2 replies

Im not trying to make this a battle of the nationalities by no means. I 100%agree that Canadian cs is not good. But it's ok, I'll just get my hurt feeling checked by my free health care system

2016-05-11 23:30

1 reply

You will have to wait a couple of months to get mediocre treatment though...

2016-05-12 11:07

who cares about your opinion? You are canadian...

2016-05-12 01:07

8 replies

Pretty shit thing to say considering ur country is a shit show compared to mine

2016-05-12 03:58

7 replies

No, your country is shit and nothing else. UA > canada, noscene US puppet. That's why you can't accept the fact that you're so bad at cs, envious retard.

2016-05-13 11:13

6 replies

Didn't mean shitty at cs, I meant the status of ur country and how bad things are compared to Canada, I can definitely agree that Ukraine is better than Canada at cs, no doubt about it you gerbil fucking thunder cunt

2016-05-13 13:50

5 replies

As I said before, your country is shit and nothing else, american slave. Of course Ukraine is better at cs than canada, this is the reason why you still cry canadian stupid kid.

2016-05-14 01:44

4 replies

Thank u for repeating exactly what I said about how Ukraine is better at cs than Canada idiot. And at least I'm not Russia's bitch

2016-05-14 01:46

3 replies

Finally you understand that canada is shit, Ukraine much better, dumbass. Of course u're not russian, typical canadian skunk from colony of USA. What a retard.

2016-05-14 14:29

WTF, im only agreeing that canada is worse at CS, everything else, u can go fuck urself, canada #1. we're no colony of USA, but u are russia's slave

2016-05-14 17:10

facepalm, you are slave of USA and u accept it, canada shitty colony country without power and opinion like mine, but also at csgo, so UA>canada and you know it's true. Russia's slave? WHAT? OMFG, look at my new goverment from JewSA top1 retard 2016, Ukraine frist country who want war with russia, goverment h8 russian by $$$ as fuck, mb you don't see ur media fakes about Ukraine, just tell me one country where russia committed a coup d'etat like JewSA, brainwasher.

2016-05-14 20:00

still ez for ence :)

2016-05-11 21:49

NIP IS BACK BOIZ WHAT UP NOW SWEDES??? WHOOOO

"WHAT UP NOW SWEDES??? WHOOOO" that's what shaGuar shouted when they won vs. swedes.. quoting this here makes 0 sense, none whatsoever..

2016-05-11 22:44

I know what/when that was used. And I used it because the swedes won vs the swedes. WHAT UP NOW DECYFER?? WHOOOOOO

2016-05-11 22:50

nice good job nip

yes

Nice job NiP magic!

ez for nip

Lets go NiP

nice one guys. i like fnatic but wp nip

das

expected

wow

dfirtdt

lol

i'm failed..

2016-05-11 22:15

Shit was dank

Feels really good seing NiP getting back to form! Been to long.

ggwp

*Swedistani showdown

Gayland jelly?

2016-05-11 21:35

nah

says Germanistan and Turkistan

2016-05-12 12:35

You have no idea where I am from hint: yesterday I had the Flag of Enceland

ez ENCE top1

2016-05-12 12:36

first

expected!

EZ GODBERG

1st!

oxi

Ante geia re! Otan to egrapsa imoun prwtos! :P

2016-05-16 00:08

first?

Gg nip, very well played

VÄLFÄRD

OLOF EZ

Adam 'friberg' Friberg23-13+1079.91.42

Thank mr. friberg

lol holy crap im the first post, JEALOUS? XD

LOL!

Yeah so jealous, how do I get to #47

2016-05-11 21:39

SUCK A DICK BRUH NIP WILL WIN

sadly flusha had to play 1v9

Great game, the score dosen't reflect the match tbh.

Agreed. Without NiP's economy discipline this game could have been much closer score-wise.

2016-05-11 21:41

Really hope for a G2 vs NiP final gj NiP

The proper el classico.

I'm thinking fnatic-NiP BO3 final

2016-05-11 21:48

NiP win 16-9 and the Headline goes "NiP survive Swedish showdown" TOPKEK

Thought the same

2016-05-11 21:40

+1 lol fnatic was rekt

2016-05-11 22:46

HLTV writers are fnatic fanboys, this is nothing new...Just look at the ranking, fnatic #3 lmfao xD

2016-05-11 22:51

wow fnatic really cant play without olof :D

kek

good job nip, beating the best team in the world isn't easy.

3 PLACE XPXP

"NiP continue their climb back into the elite with a best-of-one victory" I hope that was sarcasm! :D

Yes, because NiP is already top 2 in the world

2016-05-11 22:03

let's not get ahead of ourselves

2016-05-11 23:09

expected, fnatic without olof dont exist

is are fnatic suck now?~!!?

Nice job!

2016-05-11 21:36

Magic

told you one of these Swedish team gonna win

2016-05-11 21:37

fribbe is a fckn god <3 <3

2016-05-11 21:38

friberg actually turned up for once. nice to see

survive?

ripnatic

NiP survive Swedish showdown they convincingly won, it wasn't a double OT victory or a 16-14 etc.

bingo. It should say 'NiP control match in Swedish showdown'

or something like 'NiP trump (no pun intended) fnatic in Swedish showdown'. A verb like survive insinuates that the map was close and NiP won by the skin of their teeth, whereas in reality, if you watched the game then you'd probably know that NiP looked in control the whole time.

2016-05-11 21:55

ez NiP

'survive' lol

16-9 'NiP survive'. Yeah... It should've been more like 'NiP barely survive the closest game against the all-time best cs team in the universe'. Fucking pathetic.