{"id":26011,"date":"2022-11-20T21:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T02:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=26011"},"modified":"2022-11-20T21:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T02:06:31","slug":"fnatic-destroy-big-in-elisa-masters-espoo-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/fnatic-destroy-big-in-elisa-masters-espoo-grand-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Fnatic destroy BIG in Elisa Masters Espoo grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fnatic have destroyed BIG 2-0 in the grand final of the Elisa Masters in Espoo to win their first offline <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO betting sites\">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/a> event in over three years. <\/p>\n<p>Winning the Elisa Masters means that Fnatic have taken out the US$100,000 first-place prize, while they are the first team to gain a spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/iem-katowice\/\" title=\"IEM Katowice betting\">IEM Katowice<\/a> 2023 Play-In, starting in January next year.<\/p>\n<p>The European roster were dominant all the way through the tournament, finishing on top of Group B with a 4-1 record before winning their semi-final over Astralis 2-0. <\/p>\n<p>Fnatic, led by William \u201cmezii\u201d Merriman, continued their dominance in the grand final by taking the series 2-0 in quick fashion, winning the first map 16-4 and the second map 16-5. <\/p>\n<p>BIG were behind from the get-go in both maps as they gave up massive half-time leads, trailing 11-4 at the break on both Vertigo and Overpass.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams were missing players for the Elisa Masters, with Freddy \u201cKRIMZ\u201d Johansson for Fnatic and Florian \u201csyrsoN\u201d Rische for BIG being unable to take their place in the event. <\/p>\n<p>KRIMZ was sidelined by a hand injury, while syrsoN contracted COVID-19 days before the tournament got underway. <\/p>\n<p>Mezii was the star performer and led from the front for Fnatic on the first map, Vertigo, recording 22 kills and a huge rating of 1.83 as well as 115.2 ADR in the 16-4 win.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dion \u201cFASHR\u201d Derksen was huge for the eventual champions on the second map, Overpass, finishing with a rating of 1.64 and 101.7 ADR in the 16-5 demolition.<\/p>\n<p>The Elisa Masters champions continued their strong run of form after they finished fifth-eighth at the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/iem-rio-major\/\" title=\"IEM Rio Major betting\">IEM Rio Major<\/a> early this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fnatic have destroyed BIG 2-0 in the grand final of the Elisa Masters in Espoo to win their first offline Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event in over three years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[941,508,11,2769,109,1081],"class_list":["post-26011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-big","tag-counter-strike","tag-csgo","tag-elisa-masters-espoo","tag-fnatic","tag-iem-katowice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26011"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26028,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26011\/revisions\/26028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}