fnatic came on top of the Swedish rivalry over NiP on de_inferno while Natus Vincere secured their first points in Group A after beating mousesports 16-6 on de_cbble.

The Swedish matchup was on de_inferno and both teams came into it with one won match and a lost one. The game had a suprising start as Ninjas in Pyjamas secured the pistol round on the CT-side thanks to Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström's triple-kill and got the following two rounds as Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund had eight kills in these rounds.

After extending their lead to 6-0, Ninjas in Pyjamas let it slip away as fnatic woke up and picked up seven rounds in a row to take the lead.Ninjas in Pyjamas finally answered back in the fourteenth round and tied it at 7-7 when Xizt had 1v1 clutch. Their bad showing at the start didn't prevent fnatic from finishing the half in front (8-7).

JW with the match-winning smoke defuse 

Jacob "⁠pyth⁠" Mourujärvi quad-kill in the pistol round allowed his team to tie it and Ninjas in Pyjamas grabbed the subsequent two rounds (10-8). The weapon round rush into the A-site by Ninjas in Pyjamas was stopped by Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist & co. but Ninjas in Pyjamas tried it again in the next round and that time, it worked (11-9). It was tied at 12-12 when pyth clutched in a 1v1 against Freddy "⁠KRIMZ⁠" Johansson. Xizt stepped up massively in the next round, coming on top of a 1v3 situation and stopping the defuse.

When in a 2v4, fnatic retook the B-site as they were behind 13-14 thanks to flusha's quad-kill. fnatic finished off the hurting Ninjas in Pyjamas 16-14 when Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell successfully defused the bomb in a smoke, living with only 1 health-point.

IEM Katowice 2016Best of 1 fnaticMatchpage 16 14 2nd March 2016 Ninjas in Pyjamas 16Inferno 14

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ	21 - 17	+4	77.8	1.17
Dennis 'dennis' Edmandennis	24 - 22	+2	79.2	1.13
Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW	22 - 23	-1	78.9	1.12
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha	21 - 21	0	87.1	1.04
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjerolofmeister	15 - 19	-4	61.8	0.83

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvipyth	27 - 20	+7	95.3	1.48
Richard 'Xizt' LandströmXizt	23 - 19	+4	71.1	1.10
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundGeT_RiGhT	21 - 20	+1	77.8	1.03
Adam 'friberg' Fribergfriberg	17 - 21	-4	73.9	0.93
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindbergf0rest	14 - 23	-9	53.7	0.78

Just like in the other match, this one also started with a 6-0 lead as Natus Vincere's two losses urged them to win against MOUZ. The German team only ended up with three rounds at halftime as Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač and Johannes "⁠nex⁠" Maget's efforts did not suffice on the CT-side (12-3).

The second half started a little better for NiKo & company as they picked up the first three rounds but Natus Vincere had enough and reached to fifteen rounds to attain nine match points. 16-6 was the ending score of the matchup. 

IEM Katowice 2016Best of 1 MOUZMatchpage 6 16 2nd March 2016 Natus Vincere 6Cobblestone 16

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie	23 - 12	+11	121.4	1.73
Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward	22 - 14	+8	114.3	1.65
Denis 'seized' Kostinseized	18 - 10	+8	77.5	1.41
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN	10 - 9	+1	53.7	1.02
Danylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoZeus	14 - 15	-1	67.0	0.95

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Johannes 'nex' Magetnex	19 - 16	+3	83.3	1.07
Nikola 'NiKo' KovačNiKo	15 - 19	-4	81.0	0.93
Denis 'denis' Howelldenis	11 - 19	-8	67.1	0.70
Timo 'Spiidi' RichterSpiidi	9 - 16	-7	53.8	0.58
Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ	6 - 17	-11	35.2	0.45

Luminosity vs. TheMongolz and NiP vs. Natus Vincere will be our next matchups in Katowice.