FaZe take down EnVyUs on Nuke, closing out the match 16-11 after a strong Terrorist half.

After both Envy and FaZe won their force buys at the start of the match on Nuke it was Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's team that took the initial lead from the Terrorist side. 

The French team replied with a couple of rounds of their own, getting a 5-4 lead thanks to good play from Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt and Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub with the AWP. The first half was a success for FaZe after all thanks to successful lower site splits in which Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey played a pivotal role.

kio defeated his ex-teammates to get to the quarterfinals

Moving into the second half and onto the CT side with a 9-6 lead, FaZe shut down the A site push in the pistol round and closed out the anti-eco's to go to 12-6 up. 

Envy took the first gun round and went on to string together five rounds with kennyS clutching a 1v1 against Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup to make it 11-12. A series of Terrorist side rounds was stopped by a FaZe pistol-armor buy and lobby aggression that caught Envy off guard and made it 11-13.

From that point onwards the European mixture closed out the match 16-11, in great thanks to Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli who was influential on both the rifle and the AWP.

ELEAGUE Major 2017Best of 1 FaZeMatchpage 16 11 26th January 2017 Envy 16Nuke 11

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Aleksi 'allu' Jalliallu	30 - 15	+15	103.5	1.63
Håvard 'rain' Nygaardrain	18 - 16	+2	82.7	1.23
Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieykioShiMa	16 - 17	-1	88.0	1.17
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	20 - 16	+4	69.9	1.12
Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy	19 - 16	+3	67.8	1.08

Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS	28 - 15	+13	91.2	1.43
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	14 - 22	-8	63.3	0.75
Vincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerHappy	17 - 20	-3	56.1	0.74
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	12 - 24	-12	61.0	0.71
Christophe 'SIXER' XiaSIXER	9 - 23	-14	59.4	0.68

Current standings:

2W-2L
Liquid	Astralis
Liquid
3W-0L	3W-1L	3W-2L
Virtus.pro	fnatic	North
Natus Vincere	SK	FaZe
	Gambit
0W-3L	1W-3L	2W-3L
FlipSid3	OpTic	GODSENT
HellRaisers	MOUZ	Envy
	G2

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