First semi-final of fnatic PLAY league 2012 took place today as we saw fnatic take down eSrael 2-1 in a close series (16-7 de_inferno, 11-16 de_train, 16-11 de_nuke) to advance to the grand final.

The series kicked off on de_inferno which was the Danes' pick. Timm "ArcadioN" Henriksen's team started strong and went up 6-1 as terrorists before fnatic could string together rounds. That turned momentum around though as fnatic led 8-7 at half.

Andreas "moddii" Fridh won a one-on-three after plant in his terrorist pistol round. Although eSrael had two-on-two and two-on-one situations that favored them in the half, they had no response to Richard "Xizt" Landström's team who won eight straight rounds.

trace proved to be in great shape once again 

Next up was fnatic's map of choice de_train where eSrael easily won the counter-terrorist pistol round and locked down the map with Martin "trace" Heldt leading the way with his AWP as the Danes won the first seven rounds. After losing four, the teams traded the remaining four and switched sides at 9-6.

fnatic won the second pistol round again with Fridh scoring another three frags and went up 3-0. eSrael switched to a higher gear then with Heldt one again leading the way with multiple multikill rounds as the Danes evened it out with a 16-11 win on de_train.

moddii secured two pistol round wins for fnatic 

Both teams were tied up at one map win each as it all came down to de_nuke. After fnatic lost a ramp room push to eSrael's stack, Heldt's triple kill secured them the coming two rounds for a 3-0 lead. Two rounds later fnatic scored their first round and then traded a few more with Fridh scoring four headshots on round nine. eSrael couldn't recover anymore during the half and fell behind 7-8 after losing two rounds where they killed all of fnatic but couldn't defuse the bomb on time.

With everything on the line in the final half of the match, eSrael won the pistol round with Morten "coloN" Johansen scoring two frags. At 8-10, Finn "karrigan" Andersen got four kills to open the half for fnatic who go on to win five straight rounds before eSrael reply, 11-13. The Danes can't unlock fnatic's defense, lose three more in a row and have to surrender 11-16.

fnatic PLAY league 2012Best of 0 eSrael.dkMatchpage 1 2 30th May 2012 fnatic 7Inferno 16 16Train 11 11Nuke 16

Match statistics:

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	-

eSrael.dk	K - D	+/-	ADR	-

Second semi-final between Anexis and SK Gaming is scheduled to take place tomorrow at 21:00 . fnatic will face the winner in the grand finals for a chance at $2,500 while the loser will meet up with eSrael to determine the third place and $500.

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