The Swedish organization finished the tournament in last place after having to use jocob as a last minute replacement. 

NIP were eliminated from Elisa Masters Espoo after disappointing losses to B8 and JANO.

The long first day at Elisa Masters Espoo ended with The MongolZ topping Group A to advance to the playoffs, while Ninjas in Pajamas were eliminated in the first elimination match by JANO.

Multiple technical pauses caused the opening two best-of-one matches and two best-of-three matches of Group A to take nearly 11 hours to complete, starting with The MongolZ's technical problems early in the match. First round of gunfight against JANO.

In the end, Garidmagnai "bLitz" Byambasuren's team finished the match 13-7 to advance to the Group A winners' match, where they then met B8 after they overcame Ninjas in Pajamas with a close score of 16-14.

This victory was a bit more special for Daniil "headtr1ck" Valitov because it was the first match on the LAN stage for B8 and he won against his old organization, but his team could not complete the task in match for the winners facing The MongolZ. The Mongolian team easily passed and won tickets to the playoff round.

"Losing to The MongolZ is not a bad thing, because they are quite strong right now," headtr1ck shared with HLTV after the match. "They have shown that in many tournaments. We should just see this as a slap to wake up."

Ninjas in Pajamas, the team that arrived at the event with Jacob "jocab" Nerheden as an emergency replacement for Max "maxster" Jansson due to an "unforeseen health situation," have suffered further as their time in Finland was cut short by the home players.

Aleksi "allu" Jalli's JANO team came back from 4-8 down to win on their Nuke map to start the series, but couldn't hold on to the advantage in overtime on the Ancient map and needed a the comeback from 0-6 down on Dust2 to complete the victory.

A recovery effort helped JANO pull the score back to 4-8 before the break, and multi-kills from Jani "Aerial" Jussila along with a 1v2 clutch from allu helped them dominate the T side, just allowing Ninjas in Pajamas to win two single rounds, giving the Finns the chance to play the Group A decider in front of their home crowd on Friday.