Fnatic have managed to take down Team EnVyUs in the semi final match and qualify for the grand finals of IOS Pantamera where they will be meeting Titan.
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The format of IOS Pantamera was set so that the first placed team of the group stage goes directly to the grand finals, while the second and third placed teams would have to go through the semi finals for the second spot in the grand finals. In this case it was a duel between Fnatic and Team EnVyUs who both collected enough points for the second and third seed of the group stage.
The initial map of this match was de_dust2 where Fnatic started on T side. The Swedes managed to win only six rounds in the first half, so EnVyUs had a slight advantage going into the second half. As the second half kicked off, Fnatic took the control of this match back into their hands making a lead of 13-11. At this point, the French team just woke up and gave a hard punch to Fnatic, as they won five consecutive rounds for 16-13 and a win on the first map.
The next map was de_cache where EnVyUs started on a less favored T side. Although it was a less favored, the French team didn't mind it much as they managed to collect a fantastic 9 rounds at the end of the first half. Fnatic was in a trouble a bit and they desperatly needed a pistol round of the second half. Unfortunately for them, EnVyUs once again won the pistol round making it quickly 12-6. However, Fnatic oiled up their machines and started rolling up to 12-10. Four consecutive rounds by Swedes were stopped and Nv scored another round for 13-10. But, the Swedes had an answer to this making it 14-13 in their favor and the French team had the last chance to stop this with the rifles and they succeed to make it 14-14 and to bring us a heart-breaking finisher. The following round brought us a 1v1 situation where pronax came out on the top of it, killing shoxie before he could defuse the bomb and securing Fnatic a first match point. Nv won the 30th round of this map and prolongued this match as it went into overtime. The French team started off the overtime with 2 quick rounds, but Fnatic managed to win the last one at their T side and to switch on to CT side with a slight advantage. In the end it turned out to be the key round as they won their CT side with 3-0 for the final score of 19-17 on this map.
The last map of this duel was played on de_nuke where the French team had that advantage to start on CT side. They started by taking a pistol round, but Fnatic quickly returned by winning the next one and the four more which followed for 5-1. At this moment Nv were looking really out of the point, but they did man up and made it to 5-6 in their favor. From this point on both teams were trading rounds for the 8-7 in the end of the first half for Fnatic. The second half showed why this is the top level of CS:GO. Two in game leaders were fighting 1 on 1, pronax against Happy with pistols only. In the end pronax came on the top of this duel clutching the pistol round and eventually crushing all the chances of the French team in this duel. Later on, Fnatic was just taking round by round, but we could see even more some thrilling moments. Happy was left alone once again, this time against olofmeister. Olof just confirmed the famous sentence that 'pros never fake', the Swedish player straight went for the defuse and the French captain didn't expect that, so the round went for Fnatic. The final score was 16-7 as Fnatic moves on to the grand finals where they are going to meet another French team, Titan.
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