Team Fnatic suffered as they were made to watch as their fate was decided by someone else. The Americans did not break under pressure and they are the dark horses of the tournament so far, beating both teams named as favourites in their group.
The match was not even very close. The Americans started off with a lead and slowly increased the gap between the teams. By the time the first half ended, EG were in the lead 10-5 and from that point on it was pretty much over.
Now Virtus.pro and Fnatic will play an additional match for who goes through from second place to play the winner of Group D (with SK Gaming and MIBR, among others). It looks like the playoffs will be very exciting from the very first round...
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EG throws Fnatic lifeline

In spite of the crowd's raptuous applause and support, Virtus.pro failed to put themselves in the Kode5 Global Final playoffs. A defeat to EG means that the Russians will play an additional match against Fnatic to go through.
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cant wait
But as smart as the organisation of SK is, they better end 2nd to have a strategically better way to the finals...
Even though EG is performing very well.
I'd like SK finish 2nd and then beat EG and onwards and meet fnatic in the grand finale..
Or does Kode5 have a double elimination bracket ? then it'd be fine with me if sk faced fnatic after the groupstage :p