So here we are, reviewing the second day at the NGL1 Finals in Berlin right befor the consolation finals in both, WCIII and CS will be played.
First, at 11 am we had 69N playing NoA on Inferno. First half, NoA managed to play some real good rounds starting with the third after losing the pistol and second. 69N got back in the game after that. Still I think the first half was better for NoA. Second half, 69N got even more under pressure, but then all of a sudden it seemed like they decided to just win the match. Still it was pretty close and good to follow. Congratz from this side to the team for their performance here so far.
After that WCIII was at stake and 4Kings had to face Fnatic. My prediction from yesterdays blog was a more or less easy win for 4K. The 4-2 was ok, but still they lost both, Tod and Grubby on the way and Creo vs. Elakeduck was a pretty close one with Duck blaming no one but himself for not taking it home in my eyes.
At 4pm it was time for the lower bracket final, SK vs Fnatic on Dust2. We started as T and won the pistol. The 2-0 lead was all we could take. After losing the third round we just could not stop Fnatic from holding us down all the time. Their positioning was way stronger than our efforts of attacking properly. The result, a clear 2-13 was more than disappointing.
The start of the second half began with a lot of lag on our side and had to be replayed. We won the pistol and started a series, though we kept on having lag here and there, but the effect wasn't critical at all. After we took the 5th round the problem with lag escalated with our players dropping of the server. The situation at that point: 7-13 in favour of Fnatic with SK having money, weapons and the momentum. Fnatic didn't have money at that point in time. A restart had to take place and surprisingly both teams started with 5k start money. Euipped in their 6th round, Fnatic managed to win this one and the match went down the drain for us. The result, a clear 7-16 and our team finishing 4th in Berlin.
Now you have to understand that I won't blame losing to Fnatic on anything, but I will say that we felt pretty much betrayed for not having the chance to get a better result. The situation after round 5 in 2nd half was in our favour and I think we could have won a couple of more rounds and who knows what could have happened. This way we totally lost the momentum we created in the 5 rounds before. I won't blame anyone for this situation, as we took the decision to start with 5k startmoney. We lost and that stands.
The guys are tryig to make the best of it and will see some movies here, do some sight seeing. I personally will follow the last matches of the day and will try to catch some emotions here and there.