fnatic qualify for ECS S3 over North

26-3-2017 22:43

fnatic defeated North 3-1 (16-9 Overpass, 17-19 Cache, 16-11 Cobblestone, 19-16 Inferno) to keep their spot in ECS.

Due to losing their spot in the league after switching from dignitas to North, Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen's squad needed to qualify for ECS through the Development League and by winning the promotional match.

The Danes took the first place in the Development league, leaving teams such as Gambit and Kinguin behind them, and booked a BO5 match with fnatic to earn the promotion into ECS Season 3.

olofmeister had 20+ kills in all four maps

The series started with Overpass and a comfortable 16-9 win for fnatic, with Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer showing good form right from the start. The map North isn't that well known for, Cache, went in their favor as they took an overtime win, but they couldn't get it going on the CT side of Cobblestone and lost the third map 11-16.

With fnatic a map away from winning the match, the series moved on to Inferno where both teams had strong CT sides. North got the lead at the end, but 15-14 up, they weren't able to close out the map against a force buy—as their A-site defense failed once again.

In overtime, fnatic was able to take two Terrorist side rounds and seal the deal with a 19-16 scoreline.

ECS Season 3 EU PromotionBest of 5

North

Matchpage

26th March 2017

fnatic

Overpass

Cache

Cobblestone

Inferno

North	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
René 'cajunb' Borg cajunb	89 - 82	+7	77.1	69.1%	1.07
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	83 - 86	-3	65.8	65.9%	0.97
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	78 - 92	-14	77.7	56.9%	0.97
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	80 - 86	-6	76.9	68.3%	0.97
Philip 'aizy' Aistrup aizy	70 - 82	-12	65.6	68.3%	0.91

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer olofmeister	109 - 79	+30	90.6	70.7%	1.29
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	89 - 75	+14	75.3	68.3%	1.13
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	80 - 80	0	80.8	70.7%	1.10
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	73 - 75	-2	65.2	73.2%	1.00
Dennis 'dennis' Edman dennis	77 - 93	-16	73.3	65.9%	0.96

The following teams will compete in the European division of ECS in the upcoming season:

Astralis	Dignitas
Envy	FaZe
G2	GODSENT
MOUZ	Ninjas in Pyjamas
fnatic	EU promotion #2

The second EU promotion match will be played tomorrow at 18:00 , with Virtus.pro and Space Soldiers playing for the final spot in the league.

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

good to see them there

2017-03-26 22:43

17 replies

Olof played like a god.

14 replies

Pls let it be the start of the fnatic era just pls

2017-03-26 22:45

3 replies

but ofc

lol

2017-03-26 22:56

would be awesome if fnatic comes back and dominates the scene again :)

2017-03-27 18:01

interesting that flusha and dennis, the ones who had to put in a lot of work when olof was in his slope, are now lagging behind.. Its a shame. Olof and JW are in great shape and then the rest start sloping! if only all 5 could be on point, they would be deadly :)

2017-03-26 22:53

9 replies

They should keep the roster and change roles, making Dennis IGL and Flusha to become more of a star player instead of a support. I think that flusha could be top fragging with olof and jw if he weren't IGL.

2017-03-26 23:03

5 replies

But Dennis IGL sucks

2017-03-26 23:16

4 replies

rush b every round

2017-03-26 23:20

when dennis was igl in G2/faze they made it to the major semi. when he left G2 became shit. I remember someone in faze saying they miss dennis's igl.

2017-03-27 00:27

2 replies

he doesn't like being an igl and he tweeted that he'll never be an igl again

2017-03-27 01:37

1 reply

well this is a shame. If he isn't igl then the performance he had today was unsatisfactory

2017-03-27 01:52

You can't have 5 stars shining, not enough enemy players for everyone. As long as they have 2 guys shining, 2 guys doing fine, i'd say they are fine, no team currently has more than 2 players going hard online every map anyways.

2017-03-26 23:26

Dennis just got a baby, so not enough testosterone and sleep to perform much better. He will be back to form when the baby gets a little older and his body adjusts to the right hormonal levels again. Flusha's game didn't really take a hit, I think, he still has those mad maps when he drops 28+ like he did on cbble today. Maybe he's a little weaker overall in the fragging department, but after focusing on fragging in Godsent he's back as the IGL in fnatic, so it could take some time getting used to calling again. All in all, everything looks good going forward and fnatic are slowly warming up to dominating the scene once again, 6 straight tournament wins etc.

2017-03-27 00:14

swedes have no testosterone to begin with, so no change there

2017-03-27 21:33

2017-03-26 22:44

Too ez for ma boi olle

nice

gj fnatic: olof pls sign steamcommunity.com/profiles/765611980440..

Nice fnatic

never see that coming.

gj olof

I love you I wat t to play with you in csgo

2017-03-27 11:31

ez 4 fnatic best team in the world

ez 4 G2

LOVE U FNATIC U WILL WIN

ez for King Kajbjer

olof is back... FeelsGoodMan

vintage olof

nice one, fnatic

EZ for dignitas xD eZaF 4 FaZe

ez 100 bomb for olof

sweden taking over the scene,again.

not a good day for magisk, that guy is insane!

Nice olof and JW!

2017-03-26 22:47

deserved... fnatic #1 from now on all powet to them

E Z for fnatic

2017-03-26 22:48

jesus, 3 swedish teams.

Ez for fnatic. We loyal we friendly we from Swedistan

2017-03-26 22:49

fnatic era reborn

2017-03-26 22:50

fnatic back? :O

2017-03-26 22:52

fnatic looked like the old fnatic

they will never be the old fnatic, life doesn't work this way

2017-03-26 23:08

Finally someome who isn't retarded

2017-03-27 06:33

OLOF IS BACK

20k dollar/month cant even qual for leagues

2017-03-26 22:54

Both teams deserved a spot, unfortunate for North the way some companies deal with orgs...

2017-03-26 23:02

Which are the teams for the EU promotion #2?

2017-03-26 23:04

Virtus.Pro vs Space Soldiers

2017-03-26 23:05

ty fam

2017-03-26 23:06

Three EU mixteams and three Swedish teams. Times are changing.

Olof's performance was simply insane. Fnatic keeps relying on explosive yolo plays that won't work when their aim fails them. Can't see them consistently winning this kind of games. North is still learning how to play without rubino, and they'll have an hard time no matter how much time passes.

2017-03-26 23:21

Agreed. North still need time to develop, and I doubt fnatic could pull what they did to this new version of North to an Astralis, FaZe etc. interested to see how they'd do on LAN though

2017-03-27 08:07

A nice game to watch from time to time

2017-03-26 23:22

VP are always relegated and last places in leagues lmaooo

2017-03-26 23:32

olof ARE back

2017-03-26 23:46

oloffffff

2017-03-27 00:03

aizu clueless as usual , his is aim is good but makes so many crucial mistakes

2017-03-27 00:10

olof is back bitches <3

2017-03-27 00:12

<3 JW

2017-03-27 00:17

no navi again ?

2017-03-27 00:52

NaVi are divas, they think they should get invited to the league and not have to qualify like everyone else. And since they don't they are not in it.

2017-03-27 10:38

ez 4 no1 player of 2015

2017-03-27 02:05

Professeur this was such a good match but still u wrote such a small article when you could have easily elaborated it...

2017-03-27 05:02

Lul @ dignitas retaining their spot even with loosing 4 players. Spots should belong to roster cores and nothing else.

2017-03-27 07:43

fnatic completly destroyed north. it was only a close match result wise due to fnatic losing almost all pistols and Konfig/MSL getting random smoke kills when fnatic economy was weak. Looking good boys keep pushing it! top3 soon

2017-03-27 11:22

It was good match. fnatic is back!

2017-03-27 14:23

This shit league makes no sence. How come Botsent and NIP noobs qualify, but North leading the rankings didn't. Dignitas shit team taht haven't played a game qualify, lol what a joke. 2 french tier 2 bot teams also

2017-03-27 14:53

It's a league, bottom team/teams last season have to play to keep their spot (Fnatic and VP) the rest keeps their spot from last season. Organizations owns the spots so that is why Dignitas has one. North and SS won the development league and got to play to advance but failed. Before last season Godsent did the same but won their qualifier so they got in and they didn't end up bottom 2 so they just keep their spot, same with NIP and same with both French noob teams. Edit, not sure how mousesports doesn't bother you, they are surely the worst team in the league (not knowing how dig will perform) Edit2: north leading the rankings? You know this is ECS right? It has nothing to do with ESL!

2017-03-28 11:34