Natus Vincere is our first finalist at CPL after beating Virtus.Pro

For this Best-of-Three we saw Virus.Pro removing de_dust2 and de_cobblestone while Natus Vincere removed de_cache and de_inferno. This means the first map will be de_overpass, which was picked by Natus Vincere, followed by Virtus.Pro's pick de_train. If we end up in a tie, both teams would battle it out on de_mirage.

Scheduled to start at 10:45, a problem with Denis "seized" Kostin's computer had first to be fixed in order to let the action begin. After the problem got solved, we saw Natus Vincere start as attacker on de_overpass after losing the knife round. Na'Vi took the first three rounds pretty easy until they got stopped by an aggressive A long play to stop Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovacs, who missed his AWP shot. Thanks to Janusz "snax" Pogorzelski's triple spray down, VP secured the round after. With an AWP triple kill Filip "Neo" Kubski also managed to secure another round and followed by another the scoreline went up to a 04:04 tie. Until the 13th round, Natus Vincere did not succeed despite trading good blows but thanks to Virtus.Pro leaving A long open, the Ukrainian team managed get back into the game for a moment, ultimately losing the first half 05:10. A simple and quick executed B rush secured the pistol for the Polish team at the beginning of the second half, followed by another bomb plant on B. Going for B site for the third time in a row, Natus Vincere was prepared this time with a stack to stop the attack. With the potential of a hard reset, GuardiaN managed to escape with his AWP keeping hopes alive in the following rounds but thanks to pretty greedy play, feeding the attackers with one kill after another, it seemed that the Ukrainians gone tilt. Turning the tide in the following rounds not only thanks to GuardiaN now hitting his shots left and right. Despite being down 05:10, Natus Vincere fought their way back into the game slowly to win 16:14 after an intense B site retake in the last round.

Virtus.Pro decided to start as attackers after the knife round, losing the pistol. Snax managed to pick up three kills before finally getting taken down by the defenders, making the Eco round much closer as Na'Vi would've liked it to be. Having dealt enough damage in the previous rounds, Virtus secured the first gun round as well as the four rounds that followed. Natus Vincere managed to steal three more round before the Polish team had won the first half on de_train with 09:06. With snax and pasza securing rounds with clutch plays it would everything but an easy task for Na'Vi to get back into the game. The Ukrainians took their time in the pistol before playing a B split via CT-base, planting the bomb with 24 seconds left on the clock. It looked grim when the retake came in but seized managed to kill the defusing defender twice. Building up the momentum, Natus Vincere took seven rounds in a row for the 13:09 until Virtus.Pro finally managed to delay the B side attack long enough to make a retake work for the first round in the second half for the Polish team. Nonetheless, Natus Vincere closed out the series 2:0 in maps after securing a 16:11 victory on de_train despite Virtus.Pro denying the victory for two rounds in a row.