Immortals prevail over Cloud9 in the Northern Arena grand final (2-1; Cobblestone 16-12, Train 12-16, Overpass 16-11) and claim the $50,000 first place prize.

The match between the two finalists started with an interesting pistol round in which Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado showed he came prepared for Cloud9, as he read their drop room tactic and stopped it by stacking four of his teammates around the area.

Immortals took the first three rounds, Cloud9 replied with one, but Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles's AWP triple quickly reset the economy of the North American team at a 4-1 scoreline.

Even though they were on a very weak buy, Cloud9 managed to get back on the board by a combination of good flashbang work and Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip's headshots. From that point onwards, it was Cloud9 with the lead and the initiative in the first half.



felps was one of the crucial players on Cobblestone

Cloud9 ended the half with a solid 9-6 lead as Terrorists on Cobblestone, but a good part of their rounds came as a result of clutch plays such as the Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham and Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta one in round 12, where the two of them combined for all five kills.

autimatic had another great clutch in round 22, where he outmaneuvered João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos and utilized grenades intelligently to win a crucial 1v1 situation. In the end, all the clutches weren't enough as the trio of Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass, felps and HEN1 pushed Immortals to a 16-12 victory on their map pick.

Coming into Train it was Cloud9 to win the pistol round as Terrorist, allowing them to grab a good 4-0 lead to start the map. Immortals recovered and tied it 6-6 when HEN1 clutched an important 1v1 versus Stewie2K.

In the end, the Brazilians took six rounds in the row to end the half with a 9-6 lead as Counter-Terrorists. Coming into the second half, it was autimatic once again to clutch - this time a 1v2 situation in the pistol round.



n0thing, Skadoodle and autimatic won important 1v1's on Train

A couple of force-buy rounds followed: Immortals took the first one with a A site push, Cloud9 almost replied in the following one, killing all Immortals members on the B site but running out of time to defuse, but followed it up with another one in which Skadoodle saved his team with an ace-clutch.

Towards the end of the map, Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert and Mike "⁠shroud⁠" Grzesiek managed to win two more important 1v1 clutches to close out the second map 16-13.

Coming into Overpass Immortals had a good 3-0 start, but their momentum was stopped by a long technical pause. When the match was resumed, the third round was replayed, but this time Cloud9 managed to win it - with only default pistols.

Cloud9 used the momentum to get a six-round lead, but boltz's side managed to grab the last three rounds of the half to end it 9-6.

After the switch, the Brazilians managed to get to a 11-9 lead before Cloud9 took their first Terrorist round off the back of an unfortunate HEN1 team kill on the A site. However, Immortals kicked it into a higher gear after that and closed out the match with five straight rounds and a scoreline of 16-11.

Immortals K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1 66 - 44 +22 71.2 1.20 João 'felps' Vasconcellosfelps 62 - 60 +2 89.8 1.14 Ricardo 'boltz' Prassboltz 63 - 53 +10 87.1 1.11 Lucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLUCAS1 45 - 61 -16 71.1 0.91 Wilton 'zews' Pradozews 50 - 58 -8 62.0 0.89 Cloud9 K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Timothy 'autimatic' Taautimatic 60 - 55 +5 78.1 1.08 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamSkadoodle 54 - 50 +4 72.8 1.08 Jake 'Stewie2K' YipStewie2K 58 - 68 -10 79.5 1.03 Mike 'shroud' Grzesiekshroud 53 - 57 -4 67.2 0.98 Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbertn0thing 49 - 57 -8 68.3 0.91

In the third place decider Heroic handled Echo Fox with ease, winning the series 2-0 with dominant showings on both maps. Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridh's team first took Overpass, their map pick 16-1, and then prevailed on Echo Fox's Nuke 16-6.

Heroic will leave the tournament with $15,000 for their efforts, while Shahzeb "⁠ShahZaM⁠" Khan and co. will receive $5,000 for their fourth place finish.

Northern Arena 2016 - Toronto Best of 3 Heroic Matchpage 2 0 Echo Fox 16 Overpass 1 16 Nuke 5

Heroic K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII 41 - 17 +24 94.7 1.65 Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossandergla1ve 35 - 14 +21 101.5 1.63 Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangsåvalde 32 - 16 +16 96.2 1.47 Michael 'Friis' JørgensenFriis 32 - 13 +19 75.3 1.47 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferSnappi 31 - 19 +12 90.0 1.42 Echo Fox K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanShahZaM 20 - 33 -13 49.0 0.60 Ronnie 'ryx' Bylickiryx 17 - 34 -17 48.9 0.50 Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadirfreakazoid 15 - 34 -19 61.4 0.48 Daniel 'roca' Gustaferriroca 17 - 36 -19 55.7 0.46 Sean 'seang@res' Garesseang@res 9 - 34 -25 43.1 0.32

The final standings for the Northern Arena are as follows: