fnatic and Luminosity beat FaZe and HellRaisers, respectively, to secure their victories at the ESL Pro League S6 Finals.

FaZe and fnatic faced off on Inferno in their first matches in Group A. The CT-sided FaZe won the first two rounds of the match but fnatic hit back in the third round to trail 2-1. fnatic secured three more rounds to take the lead (4-2).

FaZe responded with double kills from Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač & Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen, giving FaZe their third round. Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács & company had a strong end to the half and won it 8-7.

fnatic won their first game

fnatic started their CT-side campaign with three round victories to lead 10-8 but NiKo showed up with a quad kill in a 2vs5 situation in the first weapon round to make it 10-9. GuardiaN clutched a 1vs2 in the following round to tie it up at 10-10.

fnatic had four match points to close out the game but a 1vs3 by karrigan, a 2vs4 by Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer & GuardiaN, and a 2vs4 by karrigan & Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard tied the game at 15-15 and took it to overtime. fnatic, unfazed, won four rounds in a row in overtime to win the match 19-15.

In the other Group A matchup, HellRaisers and Luminosity met on Cache. The Brazilian squad had a flying start on the T-side and won eleven rounds in a row. HellRaisers salvaged three rounds towards the end to trail 12-3.

HellRaisers made an admirable comeback in the second half, tying the game at 14-14. Gustavo "⁠yel⁠" Knittel won a 1vs1 against Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker in the twenty-ninth round to earn Luminosity one match point but HellRaisers won the last round to take the game to overtime. Luminosity won the game 25-23 after three overtimes.