The European mix took on the South American 9z in a match with everything at stake.
The first map was Mirage the map pick of 9z ended with a tough T side for the South American squad as they only got three rounds after Fnatic dominated the first half of Mirage. Despite 9z getting four rounds in a row on the CT side to make it 12-7, the comeback faded out as Fnatic closes out the game 16-11. FASHR put up 29 kills in the first game to make Fnatic go up 1-0 in the intense match.
The Second map was the Fnatic map pick Nuke. 9z started out as bad as they played on Mirage coming down 0-3 against the weaker T side. dgt took things into their own hands and rolled out nine rounds in a row to make it 9-3 in favor of 9z. Despite the well-coordinated CT side, Fnatic took the last two out of three rounds to make the half 5-10. 9z played well doing the start on the T side, but the full buy rounds were too strong from Fnatic. The European mix took the last 11 out of 12 rounds to win Nuke 16-14.
Fnatic – 9z 2-0 | IEM Rio Major Challengers Stage
16-11 (Mirage) | {cflag:NL} Dion ‘FASHR’ Derksen – 1.59 Rating / 29-15 K-D / 93.6 ADR
16-14 (Nuke) | {cflag:DK} Nico ‘nicoodoz’ Tamjidi – 1.21 Rating / 24-18 K-D / 84.2 ADR
