SK Gaming

SK Gaming have continued their winning streak, defeating

fbgaming on both de_dust2 and de_inferno. As a result, the Swedes are now topping Group A with four wins.

fbgaming (7:8 CT, 9:1 T) on de_dust2

SK Gaming ran into difficulties in the opening rounds of their match against fbgaming, losing the first three pistol rounds to the Russians, however in the first buy round the Swedes managed to snatch a round off fbgaming after

Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund beat off

Kirill 'delm1k' Balachevcev on the A bombsite. The Russians however were not put off by this setback and managed to take four rounds in a row, bringing the score to 7:1.

Although the first half looked to be a victory for fbgaming after the first eight rounds,

Robert 'RobbaN' Dahlström saw that the Russians were playing standard Counter-Strike strats with expert precision and as a result and as a result SK's in-game leader decided to change their strategy. Robban's decision clearly payed off with SK swinging the momentum in their favor, taking the next six rounds in the row but throwing away the final round, bringing the first half score to 8:7 in favor of fbgaming.

When the roles of each team swapped however, the tides turned in SKs favor greatly. After winning the pistol round with an aggressive B push, the Swedes managed to take the first six rounds with ease. Furthermore, in the first major buy round

Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund pulled off a 4man clutch, taking out three players on the B bombsite before swinging over to the A bombsite to plant and take out the last player. On the 6th round it was

Johan 'face' Klassons turn to show off his rifle talent, grabbing a quad kill before being taken out by

Kirill 'delm1k' Balachevcev who later went on to astonishingly win a 2on1 clutch. SK, not deterred by the round loss, took the remaining rounds, bringing the second half score to 9:1 (16:9 overall).

SK Gaming 16:3

fbgaming (14:1 T, 2:2 cT) on de_inferno

After an epic start to the first match between the two sides, fbgaming ran out of steam much too early and SK to an advantage out of the fatigue. The Swedes took ten straight rounds before conceding one round. fbgaming managed to take a round to push away the chance of a whitewash, however SK took the remanding rounds, bringing the score to 14:1.

When the teams swapped sides, all SK had to do was to play safe to win the match and although they were troubled by

Kirill 'delm1k' Balachevcevs fancy deagle work, they eventually won the match with a score of 16:3 (second half score 2:2).

SK Gaming will now face off against their toughest opponents of the ICSC8 finals so far,