Fnatic takes Overpass to 34-32 to beat FURIA at DreamHack Masters Malmo elimination match

Fnatic and Furia needed 66 rounds to settle things on Overpass. And the best part? That was only map one in a best-of-three series.

Fnatic and Furia would trade rounds back-and-forth, and trade highlights as well, as both teams sought to take that 1-0 series advantage by any means necessary.

Not only did Ludwig “Brollan” Brolin star in most of the highlights that came from this map, he and Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson led the way for Fnatic with 57 and 54 kills respectively.

Furia had a very good team performance, with no lone player noticeably falling behind, but Vinicius “VINI” Figueiredo and Henrique “HEN1” Teles did the heavy work, finishing with 55 and 52 frags.

With a final scoreline of 32:34 in favour of Fnatic, this map officially tied the record for the longest map to take place at a tier-one CS:GO competition.

The longest ever CS:GO match on record? That honor belongs to XENEX and exceL, who went 88 rounds in an ESL UK Premiership match in 2015. XENEX won that map on Inferno 46-42 after 2 hours and 43 minutes. They also won the series 2-0.

Fnatic joins Ninjas in Pyjamas at the Malmö Arena for the DreamHack Masters Malmö playoffs, who qualified after a much less competitive 2-0 victory against Team Vitality.