Astralis to ELEAGUE final over fnatic

28-1-2017 22:08

Astralis defeated fnatic 2-0 in the semi-finals at the ELEAGUE Major, advancing to the grand final (19-16 on Cache and 16-5 on Nuke).

The first semi-final at the ELEAGUE Major featured fnatic and Astralis who kicked off the series on Cache. The T-sided Swedes won the pistol round cleanly but Astralis won the force buy in the following round.

The next time fnatic were able to have a weapon round, they won it and trailed 2-3. Astralis reset the Swedish team in the following round and a quad-kill by Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen extended his team's lead to 5-2.

Astralis make it to the grand final

After fnatic caught up with Astralis and tied the game at 6-6, the Danes went on a three round streak to finish the half 9-6 ahead. Despite their successful pistol round win in the second half, Astralis lost the anti eco (10-7).

Astralis' 2vs3 buy round win extended their lead to 11-9. Astralis acquired five match points but failed to deliver and Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer defused the bomb while Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander was alive to take the match to overtime. Astralis woke up in overtime and won the map 19-16.

fnatic's Major campaign is over

The second map was Nuke and fnatic started on the CT-side. Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz got a quad-kill in the pistol round to win it and recovered things in the first weapon round by getting a triple kill in a 3vs5 situation (4-0). Astralis dominated the T-half and won the half 12-3.

Astralis won the pistol round with gla1ve's double kill and went on to win the match 16-5, eliminating fnatic and becoming the first grand-finalists.

ELEAGUE Major 2017Best of 3

Astralis

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28th January 2017

fnatic

Cache

Nuke

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	48 - 37	+11	93.3	76.8%	1.38
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	49 - 32	+17	83.7	75.0%	1.37
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	46 - 37	+9	83.5	75.0%	1.31
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	45 - 32	+13	76.3	78.6%	1.24
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	35 - 37	-2	78.9	67.9%	1.05

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	54 - 44	+10	99.5	66.1%	1.19
Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun disco doplan	31 - 42	-11	70.0	67.9%	0.86
Simon 'twist' Eliasson twist	30 - 42	-12	64.9	62.5%	0.80
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	32 - 48	-16	67.1	58.9%	0.70
Dennis 'dennis' Edman dennis	28 - 47	-19	55.5	58.9%	0.68

The next match in Atlanta will be between SK and Virtus.pro who will fight for a spot in the grand final.

good game :)

2017-01-28 22:09

4 replies

GJ astralis semifinal curse finlly broke

1 reply

broken*

2017-01-29 00:06

Grats to Astralis gg wp fnatic

2017-01-28 22:17

Grats to Astralis, finally they managed to make it to grand finals. fnatic tried their best on cache, KRIMZ had monster performance, he did all stuff needed but when your star player is not showing up at first half of game and can't hit on most important moments you lose this. Nuke was one sided and even thou Astralis doesn't play that so much seems like all maps they have defaults and played it wonderfully. Let's see what happens on grand final will we see new champion once again in USA?

2017-01-29 07:29

expected

congrats

Finally we did it! #TOTHESTARS

2017-01-28 22:10

Perfectly executed

ez4astralis kek

Nice

good bye my friend

SK vs Astralis - SK win

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Its gonna be Virtus.Pro vs Astralis.. If they meet SK they will f*** em up

2017-01-29 00:16

Bitter swede;)

2017-01-29 00:50

At last! Good game :D

Astralis top 1

rip swe cs

expected, fnatic didnt even deserved to be in top4 tbh

whats up now swedes?????

Proud to be a human now :D

lol what :D

2017-01-28 22:28

3 replies

oooh ure a proud human tooo i see xD

2017-01-28 22:53

Guess so

2017-01-28 23:14

2017-01-28 23:51

Gj!

so ez xD

So proud of the astralis guys. What an epic performace they have given us during this major. They will go all the way now

#ToTheStars

2017-01-28 23:15

NT FNATIC WAS AMAZING GAMES.. ONLY CACHE MAP. GG WP.

Fnatic didn't deserve win over Gambit. Astralis showed them puggers their place in the food chain ierarchy.

2017-01-28 22:11

grand final's name is must be sk-astralis

R.I.P fnatic Ez for Astralis

astralis will choke

2017-01-28 22:12

How those scandinavian guys reppress the emotions haha

2017-01-28 22:13

I've been at a bday Party, was Krimz that impactful as his stats says or not so? But still R.I.P KrimZ tho :-(

Krimz was godlike. And disco played really well too. Both of them had massive impact. I was so afraid that Dennis or olof will join them and wreck astralis. Twist was OK as well. Dennis and olof were the ones who didn't live up to expectations.

thank you for your impressions.

2017-01-28 22:55

GG brothers! So well deserved :) See you in the final! GO !

+1 well deserved!!!

2017-01-28 22:22

LETS FUCKING GO DEVICE IN A MAJOR FINAL

2017-01-28 22:14

gl in final!!!

2017-01-28 22:15

#ToTheStars. Well deserved. Let's go all the way boys!

after this you need to put some respect on this fnatic lineup now that krimz is back hype is back too

2017-01-28 22:20

Astralis hacked

wallhack, aimbot and spinhack... put in more

2017-01-28 22:26

They installed flusha's hacks

2017-01-31 20:03

Horrible... Gambit would put a better fight than these clowns without a single tactic. It was a shame to watch...

Let's go boys, Woo! Let's win the entire thing now

2017-01-28 22:21

olof without cheats Is equal to any random global player

wow Astralis wp

2017-01-28 22:23

Ez game

2017-01-28 22:31

Astralis vs VP hype

2017-01-28 22:36

unwanted and unexpected

2017-01-28 22:42

In:flusha Out:disco doplain

2017-01-28 22:49

ezz 2-0 krimz said?

If there were 5 krimz on fnatic it's ez 2-0

2017-01-29 05:43

disco doplan: "We can beat everyone" EleGiggle

2017-01-28 22:56

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could've gone either way if they got cache. Astralis looks strong, for once.

2017-01-28 23:19

Agree, but looking at the performance of Astralis, Cache shouldn't gone to 15-15 in the first place. KRIMZ literally hard carried them to OT. He had some vintage performance, insane guy.

2017-01-28 23:25

yes, but same thing could be said about device this tournament. wouldn't have made it out of groups without him.

2017-01-28 23:30

Yeah dev1ce is in beast mode, but they also have gla1ve, a top tier igl. While fnatic have all the aim, but very little tactical side. Still, a top 4 finish is pretty damn good, considering their current form.

2017-01-28 23:41