ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017North edge out fnatic in Atlanta
North have picked up their first victory at ELEAGUE Premier after moving past fnatic 16-14 on Mirage.
The second match of the day in Atlanta began with North taking their CT pistol round as Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen defused the bomb just in the nick of time after getting three kills to his name. The Danish team followed that up with three more rounds, but then they let an easy round slip from their fingers as they allowed Maikil "Golden" Selim and Jonas "Lekr0" Olofsson to overturn a 2v5 situation.
That was the start of a phenomenal run from fnatic, who took the lead after capitalising on some uncharacteristic mistakes from the Danes. North then restored parity at 6-6 by winning a 2v2 situation, with Valdemar "valde" Bjørn Vangså clutching a 1v2 in the next round after a triple-kill spraydown from MSL inside A.
North would go on to win the next two rounds, finishing the first half with nine rounds on the board, and they managed to increase their lead by taking the pistol round as Terrorists with a creative B execution. What followed was a highly-contested period as the teams traded round for round for a while, with the Danes then stringing three rounds together to hit match point.
fnatic refused to throw in the towel and tightened up their defense, bringing the game all the way to the 30th round, in which they would collapse following a great A execution from North.
  North |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating |
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| 26 - 22 | +4 | 93.2 | 76.7% | 1.30 | |
| 25 - 23 | +2 | 90.8 | 76.7% | 1.26 | |
| 22 - 23 | -1 | 73.8 | 76.7% | 1.08 | |
| 21 - 21 | 0 | 79.2 | 66.7% | 1.05 | |
| 15 - 19 | -4 | 50.9 | 80.0% | 0.83 |
 fnatic |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 - 20 | +9 | 94.0 | 80.0% | 1.47 | |
| 22 - 21 | +1 | 74.8 | 80.0% | 1.10 | |
| 24 - 22 | +2 | 84.7 | 63.3% | 1.06 | |
| 17 - 23 | -6 | 76.2 | 73.3% | 0.91 | |
| 15 - 23 | -8 | 63.5 | 70.0% | 0.84 |
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