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Titan are your Dreamhack Stockholm 2014 champions

After two days of intense games and many upsets, DH Stockholm has finally come to an end. In the finals two French teams were battling out for the title and $10,000 prize money, where Titan has came up on top by taking the series 2-0.

Schedule for Day 2:
13.15 CEST- Team LDLC vs 3DMAX - BO3 - Semi Finals
16.30 CEST- Fnatic vs Titan - BO3 - Semi Finals
20.00 CEST- Team LDLC vs Fnatic - BO3 - Grand Finals


Team LDLC vs Titan

Map One - de_mirage

The first map of the finals started at 20.00 CEST and finished almost 3 hours later. Titan stomped their way into this map on T side by rushing down A site and winning the pistol round and four more rounds which followed making it 5-0. The technical issues occurred and there was a long pause after which Team LDLC managed to win their first round and make it 5-1. However, they couldnt extend this to a streak so the first half went into Titan's favor with 12-3. At the start of second half new tech issues occurred which caused another pause after which Team LDLC managed to win only one more round before they lost this map with 16-4.

Map Two - de_cache

The second map of this series brought everything worth of one grand final duel. Team LDLC didnt fall down after losing the first map with a big score difference, on contrary they striked back making 5-0 at the T side of de_cache. Titan broke this streak with 1 round, however LDLC made it to 7-1. Titan made a bit of consolidation and took next 4 rounds in a row, but shox clutched 1vs3 situation to make it 8-5. The half time score was 9-6. The second half have seen totally diferent Titan. They won a pistol round and made a result even. After being 10-10 the score went into Titan's favor to 11-15. Team LDLC showed once again why they ended up in the grand finals making to overtime. However, overtime was completly dominated by Titan with 4-0 which was enough to win this series and championship.

Fnatic vs Titan

Map One - de_inferno

The first map of this duel started in the great fashion. Titan went on a full B site rush, and Fnatic prepared the defense with 3 players. Both teams exchanged 2 kills, but in the end Titan came on the top and won this round. The Swedes were ecoing the next two rounds, but Titan barely managed to win those with heavily loses. The first gun round for Fnatic also went into the French favor making it 0-4 and soon after 0-5. KennyS was putting an awesome show with the awp leading his team to the great lead of 1-7. Fnatic managed to break this streak for a moment by winning an eco round, however Titan was looking so strong which in the end capitalized into 9-3. It's also worth of mentioning that pronax made a nice triple kill in a next eco round with five-seven, securing that round for his team and making it 11-4 for Titan. The second half saw a totally different Fnatic. JW started hitting the shots and winning the awp battles against kennyS. 21th round saw JW making such a great ace with awp, where the last kill was no scope through the box. Titan was slowly winning the rounds where in the end they had five match points. Krimz with some sick plays with awp, hitting a few hits with no scope denied the first one, but in the end French team got away with 1-0 lead in this series.

Map Two - de_dust2

The second map was a real surprise. Titan showing the top performance, while Fnatic was not even in that game. kennyS and KQLY were playing double awp strategy on CT side and it worked out bringing 14-1 for Titan at the half time. In the end it turned out that Fnatic stopped at that one round at this map. JW made again some awesome shots with awp making ace and securing that round for Fnatic, but that was the only thing they could do. The end score was 16-1, so Titan will be fighting Team LDLC for the title.

Team LDLC vs 3DMAX

Map One - de_cache

The first map was de_cache where 3DMAX kicked off on the CT side after winning the knife round. Team LDLC led by shoxie won a pistol round and quickly made it 2-0 into their favor, however the Finish team played it perfectly in the second eco round and managed to take 3 guns off the French team so they ended up with the buy in the round three making it 2-1. The next round saw a nice play by kioshima were he pationatly saved the bomb plant and won a round after which Team LDLC just snowballed up to 8-2. 3DMAX gathered up and made a nice comeback making it 8-7 at the end of the first half. However, in the second half they moved on the less favored side of de_cache so the French team just made a pure execution finishing this map with the 16-8.

Map Two - de_dust2

3DMAX won a pistol round on T side, however Team LDLC managed to clutch eco round and to make it 2-1. Both teams were trading the rounds making the score even up to 5-5, when the French team started building their advantage which in the end transformed into 9-6 at the end of the first half. The second half saw the Finish team winning a pistol round once again, but same as in the first one they couldnt win an anti-eco round and Team LDLC just picked up on pace making it 15-7. 3DMAX showed once again that they got what it takes to be at the top of CS:GO scene, performing a nice comeback which got hyped up by a great KHRN's play where he managed to ninja defuse bomb through the smoke while the two opponent players were still alive, in the end it costed him his own life but the round went into his team's favor. The farest they could go was 12 rounds when it all fall to kioshima and natu to fight 1 on 1 at the A bomb site. The French player had bomb planted and was playing position on the A site, while natu had to run through the long. Kioshima came on the top of this duel which brought a spot in the Grand Finals for his team.

 

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