Natus Vincere became the first team to make it to the DreamHack Winter final after beating EnVyUs, 2-0, on Overpass and Nuke.

Natus Vincere flew out of the gate taking the first pistol round of the best-of-three semifinal in large part thanks to a triple by Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev. On the terrorist side, the CIS team was dominating Overpass, their map, the whole side, closing out the half 13-2 with a highlight-worthy triple from Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev.

The second half pistol round was won by Envy, who then lost the anti-eco, but then won their own forcebuy. Slowly but surely the French-Belgian side started to rack rounds up, but two stray rounds won by Natus Vincere gave s1mple’s team the lead after the first map.

s1mple was on fire all series

Nuke started going the way of Envy on the CT side, but a triple with the AK by s1mple in the third round. Both teams then traded rounds back-and-forth for a 6-4 score after ten rounds, with none of the teams able to build a proper economy. Up 7-5, Alexandre "⁠xms⁠" Forté clutched a 1vs3 and defused the bomb to widen Envy’ lead. Eventually, the half ended 8-7 as Natus Vincere were able to close the gap.

The second pistol round went the way of Envy as xms was once again able to clutch a 1vs2. Down 9-13, a triple by s1mple with the AWP on ramp gave his team the round, which Natus Vincere were then able to follow up all the way to 13-13, when Envy took a timeout. Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer’s team was then able to win the forcebuy with a fast A play. Finally, though, it was Na`Vi, up 15-14 after trading the prior lost round, that were able to close it out as flamie aced to end the match 2-0.

DreamHack Open Winter 2017 Best of 3 Envy Matchpage 0 2 Natus Vincere 11 Overpass 16 14 Nuke 16