After making their way to the final through the lower-bracket, NiP won the Europe Minor over OpTic with a 2-0 scoreline (16-8 Dust2, 16-7 Nuke).

Dust2 was the map that started off the grand final of the Europe Minor, with NiP picking it unexpectedly. The opening of the map was back-and-forth, but OpTic was the team to establish dominance first, with Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen leading the way for his team as they tied six rounds together, back-to-back (7-3).

In the following round, JUGi got a double entry, but NiP found a way back in to stop the rot, eventually making a full T-side comeback to end the half 8-7 up. Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson clutched a 1v2 in the pistol to continue his team's streak, with a B site lockdown in the first buy round seeing the Ninjas get on the home stretch, 13-7. OpTic stole away the next round, but NiP struck back with a buy that consisted of three AWPs and a SCAR-20, closing out the game 16-8.

After a rocky tournament, NiP were convincing in the grand final

Despite the pistol round going OpTic's way, NiP were the better-looking side early into Nuke, taking a 6-4 Terrorist-side lead by slowly working the map and finding picks. NiP then hit the A site a couple of times in a row, Nicklas "⁠gade⁠" Gade won one of those rounds single-handedly by clutching a 1v3, but the Swedes still ended the half on the high, 9-6.

Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund had a slow first half, but he was the star of the pistol round, securing a hat-trick with the Dual Berettas as OpTic headed towards B. After cleaning up the anti-ecos, Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg and Dennis "⁠dennis⁠" Edman got doubles each to advance their lead to 12-6.

Similarly to the second half of Dust2, OpTic then won a round, but couldn't follow up on it and NiP pounced. The score was soon 14-7, OpTic went for a force buy, affording an AWP to JUGi, but NiP closed down their outside approach and finished the game 16-7.

Final standings for Europe Minor - FACEIT Major 2018: