SK Gaming will be kicking themselves after they blew a 7:0 lead as CTs in their game against mTw on train to end the first half 9:6 up only, then got themselves in a favourable 14:12 position near the end of the game and blew three consecutive rounds to lose 14:16.

mTw 16:14 SK Gaming (train 6:9, 10:5)

First half

Three kills from face outside took the pistol for SK and they ran the score up to 5:0 without anything eventful happening. On the 6th face won a 1v1 against a low health trace to keep the lead going and three kills from MODDII on the next ensured SK hit 7:0 unchallenged.

The 8th round gave the Danes their first round via the outside site. SK took back the next round with three kills from allen and two from RobbaN but then mTw really picked up some steam. On the 10th round Sunde pulled out an impressive four kill round, taking down two at the pop dog room and then winning a 1v1 against face later after the Swede had got height advantage on him at the outside bombtrain. zonic and trace won a 2v2 at inner in the next.

Two ecos for SK sandwiched the 13th round where two kills from ave and minet at outside kept mTw rolling. With the score now at a much more meagre 8:6 for SK the Swedes managed to take the last round.


Second half

mTw are well known to be one of the best sides at CT train when they have their game rolling and the pistol round sure enough went their way thanks to a couple from minet at outer. SK risked buying second round and were punished for it as zonic and trace took two each at inner to prevent the turnaround. On the 19th round SK got their first of the half as MODDII killed two at inner and a successful push outer got the round for SK.

After trading one back to mTw SK managed to string together three in a row to reach 13:10 overall. mTw continued to fight and claw and thye 24th was sent their way thanks to two big kills from the tower courtesy of minet. Sunde and zonic won a 2v2 in the next to make it only 13:12 to SK. Two allen kills put SK within 2 rounds of victory with 4 in total to go. The Swedes would never make it though.

A desperation buy from mTw on the 27th round saw them with two deagles but those proved effective pushed up at the inside bombtrain against SK players who were going out through smoke one by one. The next round saw trace win a 1v2, the 1v1 coming against RobbaN who took a long range fight against him while trapped under the pop dog train. Two kills from minet and Sunde cancelled out SK's inside push to give mTw a 15:14 lead, their first of the game.

On the last round ave, who had only managed 7 kills on the CT half and had struggled individually as terrorist, found himself 1v2 with about 23 seconds on the clock and no bomb planted. Killing the first SK player by peeking out to see him at the middle underside of the inside bombtrain he then noticed he had 10 seconds left to run down, waited for the SK player to pick up the bomb and then peeked out in the same spot to kill the last in the same fashion.

Both teams qualified for bracket play but mTw took the first spot and put a psychological beating on an SK team who know they let key chances slip away.

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