Monte pushed to the limit by fnatic
Monte outlasted fnatic to go 2-0 in the Legends Stage as they made a comeback on Vertigo, to secure the map in Overtime.
The 2-0 game between fnatic and Monte kicked off on Vertigo with fnatic taking the pistol after starting on the CT side. A roeJ triple on the eco round saw fnatic go 2-0 up before the guns came out on both sides. kRaSnaL gave Monte their first round, clutching out a 1v2 against nicoodoz and KRIMZ. fnatic responded with four rounds in a row as roeJ, KRIMZ and nicoodoz brought the pain to Monte. Monte's second round came off the back of a DemQQ 1v1 clutch against mezii as the rifler came in with an impactful round. fnatic took two rounds immediately to respond. On the back of BOROS and DemQQ's firepower, Monte ended the first half with a 6-9 deficit.
fnatic took the second half pistol to get to double digits first. It was Woro2k who woke up in the second half that saw Monte make it a one round game at 10-11 but fnatic answered back on a force buy with upgraded pistols to keep their two round lead. DemQQ and sdy's firepower helped Monte tie up the game at 12-12. Monte took the lead but fnatic won on another low buy with upgraded pistols to tie things up. It was Monte who got to match point first but a triple kill entry from nicoodoz on the AK-47 saw fnatic take the match to round 30. It was nicoodoz who won a 1v1 against sdy in the final round of regulation to take the game to overtime.
Monte took the first round in OT but the teams ended the first half tied at 17-17. BOROS kicked off the second half of OT1 with a quad kill and Monte went on to win the match, taking the map at 19-17. BOROS ended the map with 32 kills and a 1.22 rating.
fnaticMonte| fnatic |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi |
32 - 27 | +5 | 97.3 | 77.8% | 1.31 |
| Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen |
25 - 28 | -3 | 79.2 | 72.2% | 1.06 |
 Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson |
31 - 23 | +8 | 66.8 | 72.2% | 1.04 |
 Dion 'FASHR' Derksen |
23 - 26 | -3 | 69.9 | 72.2% | 0.99 |
 William 'mezii' Merriman |
17 - 28 | -11 | 69.4 | 77.8% | 0.87 |
| Monte |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mohammad 'BOROS' Malhas |
32 - 31 | +1 | 83.6 | 75.0% | 1.22 |
 Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk |
28 - 23 | +5 | 86.3 | 80.6% | 1.20 |
| Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev |
29 - 25 | +4 | 87.2 | 77.8% | 1.15 |
| Sergiy 'DemQQ' Demchenko |
22 - 23 | -1 | 65.7 | 72.2% | 0.97 |
 Szymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek |
20 - 27 | -7 | 73.4 | 75.0% | 0.92 |
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