Ninjas in Pyjamas will join Titan in the grand finals of the ASUS ROG Winter tournament as they have defeated HellRaisers in their semi final match.
The second final match duel saw the the first placed team of group B, Ninjas in Pyjamas, taking on the second placed team of group A, HellRaisers. As expected HR went for a dust2 pick, while NiP decided to play on inferno, and the deciding map was randomly chosen to be cache.
de_dust2 opened with HellRaisers winning a pistol round on the T side and getting an early lead of 3-0. However, with the first full buy round for the Swedes things turned into their favour as they took the complete control of this match under their hands. HR couldn't just find the opening, and the closeest they were to regaining control was when kucher was making an early kill with the AWP through the double doors, or when Dosia was making triple kills. In the end the score was 10-5 which was more or less satistying for the Ukrainian team. The second half started well for them as they won a pistol round and reduced NiP's lead to 10-7. However, NiP just knocked them down and denied any comeback as they made 15-7 quite easily. In the end, HR could just score one more round before NiP closed this map with 16-8.
NiP are in the great shape after their semi final match
Inferno started off well for HellRaisers as they won a pistol round and got an early 3-0 lead on the CT side, however NiP quickly made it even 3-3 and it was already obvious that HR will have a hard time stopping NiP taking this map away. The rounds were going back and forth where in the end HR had a slight advantage of 8-7 but as they moved over to the T side, the result was working more for NiP. The second half didn't bring much excitement as NiP just shut down all the entrances to the bomb sites making it very hard for HR to even plant a bomb. The final score was 16-10.
The remaining schedule:
18.00 CET - Penta vs HellRaisers - Bo3 - Third place decider
21.45 CET - Titan vs Ninjas in Pyjamas - Bo3 - Grand finals
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