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All Games: Fnatic vs. MiBR play-by-play recap

By: Alex Nguyen - Published October 19, 2008 at 2:20 PM EDT - Writer Archive
Play by Play recap as I sit behind fnatic to see who advances to the grand finals to face off against SK.gaming.
fnatic vs mibr in de_inferno

fnatic wins knife round and takes T side

First Half

Round 1: Pistol round is slow for fnatic. Only forest purchased a usp looking for quick pick B. Carn smokes the CT arch from banana as we push in to get bomb down. MiBR had a three men stack in B tho as Archi is the last man standing. He kills 2, but then gets picked by cogu. Pistol round goes to mibr. (1-0 mibr)

Round 2: fnatic gambles and goes for a deag armor round (only Carn doesn't have armor because he couldn't afford it). Still a 5v5 with 1:12 on the clock. They decide to hit B again, smoke it, and fall back to mid, then slowly walk back up to B. Then rush in as ins got a TK headshot on his teammate which hurts them in the situation. At least we get bomb down as ins, forest and dsn tries to hold B with a crossfire setup at the back of site. fnatic laughs with big "wtf??" faces as mibr saved their guns in A when they had a 4v3 advantage + better guns. (Score 1-1)

Round 3: Guns for fnatic as they slowly try to pick A, after not seeing anything they fall back and walk to B. Forest gets the opening kill on BTT who was trying to peek, then sees one at sidehall who fell back to headshot deag dsn at the archway. Forest takes cogu down at side hall and fnx, but then bit with that AK dropped 2 of his own and we have a 2v1 for fnatic now. Bit will fallback to save his AK.. Bomb will go off and fnatic will take the lead (2-1 fnatic)

Round 4: mibr pushes out mid as they are forced to double save. 3v1 now for fnatic as they don't want this last guy to pick up any guns to save. It is cogu vs dsn, carn and ins. cogu picks up an AK and kills ins as they try to close in on him at B. cogu headshots dsn and Archi from spawn finally kills him. Score (3-1 fnatic).

Round 5: First gun round of the match. Carn boosts ins inside the window room. fnatic falls back mid though and forest tries to frag B. First death is Archi as he got picked from ct arch and mibr holds the B site very well. dsn finally kills bit and btt was there on the crossfire to take him down. (Score is 3-2 fnatic)


Fnatic discussing the upcoming game


Round 6: Save round for fnatic. Carn flashes up mid from alt-mid as they glock up middle. They make it clear as mibr played angles and passively at A. They get 4 kills, but forest has an m4. He kills nak at CT archway and he goes through library to make it in netted site (A). He does not have bomb with 30 seconds left tho. As he creeps towards mid to try to pick up bomb, he looked a little too late towards window and got picked. (Score 3-3 fnatic)

Round 7: fnatic pushes up middle and forest and ins gets the opening kills as they wrap around ct spawn. Carn in pit, forest picks up bomb and plants at the default spot. We now have a 4-1 and they get the round (Score 4-3 fnatic)

Round 8: fnatic tries to wrap A again on left mid as they spot no one at arch way and the netted site looks clear. Carn plants the bomb at default spot and they notice that mibr is on a save from B and pushing up mid. Touchdown throw by ins at middle and fnatic gets the round with 2 casualties. (Score 5-3 fnatic)

Round 9: fnatic splits A as nak goes crazy with 1 deags on balcony. To sum it up, fnatic gets owned on the push into A, but dsn is still alive with bomb and AK at 61 hp and 88 armor. But that information is irrelevant as cogu 1 shots him with an awp and mibr gets the round (Score 5-4 fnatic)

Round 10: Buy round for fnatic as they work slowly up alt-mid. Carn is calling out something in Swedish that I don't understand, but i heard "bomb" and "ins" and ins drops bomb at alt-mid for carn to pick up as he boosts him into window. They also boosted on red roof mid for dsn to pick. They flash and smoke up then tower lamp post at right middle to pick the pit. Nak then was spotted in site pit and we got an exchange of kills at A. Bomber gets taken down by cogu as he was trying to plant at default. 2v1 now as forest has 2hp and dsn has 11hp..doable for cogu, but...no so much, dsn stayed behind the box in pit and strafed spammed to take him down and fnatic gets the round (Score 6-4 fnatic)

Round 11: dsn gets boosted red roof again to pick middle while the rest are just flashing and nading up mid. But we're going to fall back for fnatic and walk towards B. flashes and smokes in the backsite and the site hall, fnatic moves in to plant the bomb, they have 4 kills and 5 quickly after that and fnatic gets another round (Score 7-4)

Round 12: It seems to be a basic strat for fnatic as they always go alt mid then decide if they should rush or fallback without any quick rushes into B. mibr decided to play counter at mid and it paid off as they killed 4 already. Carn is gonna be lms as btt at left mid picks him off. (Score 7-5 fnatic)

Round 13: As they work alt-mid again, Archi decides to walk all the way up at hallway without waiting. He picks cogu early inside netted and headshots nak on balcony. Archi then gives the green light for fnatic to plant A inside the site. 3v1 situation now. Bomb will go off and it is going to be 8-5 for fnatic.

Round 14: They boost ins inside window room again as Archi creeps up and spams the Hallway wall. Now all i hear from Carn is "fake" "fake" as he points to Archi to stay in Halls. cogu tho gets a one shot deag on forest at B and dsn kills him after. As he gets the kill, fnatic falls back to B. Back to dsn as he looks back towards spawn and gets dinked to 3hp. As that happens, the bomb makes it back to B and they plant and frag mibr as the Brazilian team was saving. (Score is 9-5 for fnatic)


Fnatic during the MiBR match


Round 15: Aggro play for mibr as they one deag ins and Archi towards A. forest though gets a kill in archway at B and pushes in. dsn was watching flank at banana and killed one to try to let carn creep and plant A (since he was stuck in alt-mid). He was spotted, but got the frag. Forest did get another kill in b, make that a three here as Carn tried to run to meet up with him, but he got spammed by nak from middle to T-Ramp. Now Forest has to clutch with 12hp. He bunnyhops to pick up bomb and runs back to B, but then just realized that he didn't have enough time to get the bomb down. Half is going to end 9-6 for fnatic.

Second Half: 9-6 fnatic

Round 1: fnatic plays another 5man aggro to push down middle with their usps. They fallback as dsn heard footsteps in hallway. They drop 4 including bomber and are at a 4v1 situation now as dsn gets the kill to Nak, the LMS in window. (Score: 10-6 fnatic)

Round 2: Lulz. Glock rush up mid as dsn gets owned. Forest tries to watch mid from spawn to not let them pick up that m4. He is able to drop two before he is forced to fall back to library and Archi killed the last two on pit side of A. MiBR was on a save and no bomb plants in both rounds. They should be saving the 3rd. (score 11-6 fnatic)

Round 3: dsn gets the 2 opening awp shots onto mibr as they were pushing up mid with deagles before dying. Cogu was able to pick up the awp to snipe carn down but forest got the last word. (score 12-6 fnatic)

Round 4: Archi spamming window room as he wanted to predict a boost into window room, but they don't get any frags. 1 Minute on the clock as we still have a 5v5. mibr decides to push towards A, but fnatic holds it down and prevents 3 mibr members from getting any kills. Finally cogu flanks and kills the rotators from B before he gets taken down himself as dsn quickscopes the last member of mibr. At this rate, mibr still didn't get a bomb plant (13-6 fnatic)

Round 5: Save round for mibr as they have deagles and glocks, cogu was LMS again but dsn picked him off and mibr still couldn't plant. (14-6 fnatic)

Round 6: Aggro play for fnatic out banana, middle and window as they prevent mibr from setting up. dsn is pretty good today with the awp. (15-6 fnatic)

Round 7: Carn gets a frag as forest drops 2. btt quick awped dsn at archway from mid, but Archi was spamming left mid with AK. He kills the bomber as we now have a 3v1. 20 seconds left on the clock and ins kills him to give the victory for fnatic. (16-6 fnatic)

Quote from Archi:

I asked Archi if they were now using ventrilo now because i noticed that they were all using two headsets. He replies, "Yea *karate punch move*, it is too loud here so we use vent now. Communication is the key to success", as he smiles and walks away.


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