ENCE is the final team that have advanced into the playoff stage of the DreamHack Regional Minor Europe at DH Tours 2016 after defeating GODSENT 2-1 (16-6 on Train, 6-16 on Cache, and 16-13 on Mirage).

The two teams met earlier in the tournament in the teams' Group B opening match. There ENCE was able to defeat GODSENT in overtime 19-17, so, much was expected from this match as well.

The first map was decided to be Train and was chosen by the Swedish team. It was ENCE to strike first, however, as they ended up winning the first half on their CT side 10-5, thanks to some great play from Juho "⁠juho⁠" Lampinen. The second half also heavily favored the Finns as ENCE was able to close out the match 16-6.

naSu was a massive help to ENCE, helping them advance

The second map was, of course, ENCE's map choice which was Cache. In an interesting turn of events it was GODSENT this time that won the first half 10-5 on the Finnish team's map choice. The similarities didn't end there though as the Swedes, led by Simon "⁠twist⁠" Eliasson ended up winning ENCE's map by the exact same score as in the first map, 16-6.

On Mirage, the final map of the series, the stage was set for an amazing finish to the day. Earlier, when these two teams met on this map we saw them go into overtime in a battle that was close every step up the way.

This time around ENCE raced to a ten round lead before GODSENT was able to win their first round. It seemed like they would be able to string together many more rounds, however, GODSENT was able to scramble together four rounds before the half ended.

The second half saw the Swedish team completely turn the match around as they rallied back against the Finns to finally come within one round at 14-13 in favor of ENCE. These were the final rounds that the Finnish team allowed, however, as they were able to win the last couple and take the final map and series.

DreamHack Regional Minor Championship Europe at DH Tours 2016Best of 3 GODSENTMatchpage 1 2 14th May 2016 ENCE 6Train 16 16Cache 6 13Mirage 16

stats to come...

This was the last match of the day as we now know all of the teams that will play in the playoffs. Three playoff matches will be played tomorrow starting with the first two semi-finals followed by the upper bracket final. Tomorrow's matches will start at 12:00 when Orbit takes on HellRaisers.

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Simon 'twist' Eliasson Age: 21 Team: GODSENT Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 481 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.69 GODSENT #14 Markus 'pronax' WallstenAndreas 'znajder' LindbergSimon 'twist' EliassonMathias 'pauf' KöhlerJonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Time is adjusted to your selected timezone ENCE #32 Aleksi 'allu' JalliMiikka 'suNny' KemppiNiko 'naSu' KovanenMikko 'xartE' VälimaaJuho 'juho' Lampinen Orbit #21 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovEmiliyan 'spyleadeR' DimitrovNikolay 'nkl' KrastevViktor 'v1c7oR' DyankovNikolay 'pNshr' Paunin HellRaisers #13 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowTomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukMartin 'STYKO' StykPatrik 'Zero' Žúdel Juho 'juho' Lampinen Age: 20 Team: ENCE Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 260 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.71