fnatic made their return to LAN with a victory as they beat Cloud9 16-10 on Inferno in Group B's first match in Leicester.

After two upsets in Group A's opening matches, fnatic and Cloud9 kicked off Group B on Inferno at the ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals.

Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip got a triple-kill for his CT-sided team and Cloud9 got the pistol round but fnatic did what fnatic does and managed to win the next round with a force buy. Cloud9 found a round victory after losing three but got reset right after as fnatic extended their lead to 4-2.

JW delivered 

Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham showed up in the eighth round with two AWP opening kills, initiating a two round streak for Cloud9. Another force buy worked for fnatic as the Swedes didn't let their oppenents tie it (6-4). Despite a 5vs3 advantage thanks to Skadoodle's kills, Cloud9 came up short in the 13th round and fnatic led 9-6 at halftime.

The Swedes stopped Cloud9's A rush in the pistol round and made it 12-6 after winning the anti-ecos. The North Americans took a timeout after the score reached to 14-7 and it worked for them as they won two rounds and forced fnatic to eco. Despite the late comeback effort, fnatic won it 16-10

ESL Pro League Season 3 FinalsBest of 1 fnaticMatchpage 16 10 11th May 2016 Cloud9 16Inferno 10

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW	20 - 15	+5	72.0	1.22
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha	21 - 16	+5	89.0	1.19
Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ	17 - 13	+4	67.3	1.12
John 'wenton' Erikssonwenton	14 - 15	-1	76.0	0.99
Dennis 'dennis' Edmandennis	13 - 17	-4	64.8	0.90

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jake 'Stewie2K' YipStewie2K	25 - 15	+10	96.3	1.47
Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamSkadoodle	18 - 16	+2	73.6	1.15
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiekshroud	15 - 18	-3	77.8	0.89
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbertn0thing	13 - 18	-5	61.3	0.78
Alec 'Slemmy' WhiteSlemmy	5 - 18	-13	32.5	0.45

The next match in Leicester will be between Ninjas in Pyjamas and Liquid and you can find the streams on the match page.

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