At the end of IEM Katowice 2016, which took place from 2 to 5 March in Poland, met fnatic team and Luminosity. Viewers expect spectacular bo5-match, however, the Brazilians have not been able to win at least one card and fnatic pretty quickly finished the match with a score of 3-0.
And even despite the presence of only three out of five cards, the match was quite tense and interesting. The Swedes lost the first half with a score of 12-3, but were still able to come back into the game in the second half and to reduce everything to additional Raud, where quite easy to cope with their rivals. The final score cards 17-19 in favor of fnatic.
On the second map fnatic surprised all spectators and finished the game with a score of 16-3 without problems. Swedes played almost without mistakes and were able to use every bad move by Luminosity players in their favor.
The third card, and again lost the first half with a score of 12-3 for the five Swedish. In the second half fnatic, inexplicably, we were still able to make a comeback and again bring the card to an extra round. As on the first map, any problems at the overtime Swedes do not feel, and the match ended with the score 19-15 in favor of fnatic.
The distribution of the prize fund:
1st place: fnatic - $ 104,000
2nd place: Luminosity Gaming - $ 44,000
3-4 place: Astralis - $ 25,000
3-4 place: Na`Vi - $ 23,000
5-6 place: Tempo Storm - $ 13,000
5-6 place: Virtus.pro - $ 13,000
7-8 place: FaZe - $ 7,000
7-8 place: mousesports - $ 7,000
9-10 place: Ninjas in Pyjamas - $ 5,000
9-10 place: E-frag.net - $ 4,000
11-12 place: EnVyUs - $ 3,000
11-12 place: TheMongolz - $ 2,000