Astralis have picked up their second victory at the SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 finals after edging past fnatic 16-13 in a hectic game on Mirage.

Starting out on the Terrorist side, Astralis took the pistol round while losing just one player, with fnatic hitting back in the following round. After a highly-contested period, fnatic won four rounds in a row and immediately put the Danes in danger of getting blown out.

Following a tactical pause, Astralis looked much livelier and won five rounds straight thanks to a series of strong A executes, with fnatic taking the final round courtesy of a timely kill from Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist onto the bomb planter in the nick of time.

gla1ve's triple with the p250 turned the game around 

Down 7-8, fnatic won the pistol round as Terrorist without losing a single man to restore parity at 8 rounds. They followed it up with both anti-ecos and also with the first gun round despite Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz getting three kills with the AWP.

Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander then single-handedly rescued Astralis with three quick p250 kills in an eco round, which sparked a great run from the Danish lineup. fnatic would still muster the strength to get two more rounds, but Astralis regained control of proceedings and bagged three in a row en-route to a 16-13 finish.

PotM: Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen's contribution was unparalleled, getting at least one frag in all but one of the 16 rounds Astralis won and picking up 7 opening kills.

SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 FinalsBest of 1 fnaticMatchpage 13 16 6th April 2017 Astralis 13Mirage 16

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh	24 - 18	+6	92.0	1.32
Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice	22 - 14	+8	69.3	1.23
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossandergla1ve	20 - 16	+4	74.6	1.17
Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye	21 - 18	+3	75.4	1.06
Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x	14 - 16	-2	65.7	0.91

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW	20 - 19	+1	89.6	1.17
Dennis 'dennis' Edmandennis	23 - 22	+1	81.7	1.16
Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ	16 - 19	-3	66.3	0.85
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha	10 - 21	-11	47.1	0.62
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjerolofmeister	12 - 20	-8	48.1	0.62

With day three in Kiev now behind us, here is how the Swiss stage is looking at the moment:

3W-0L	2W-1L	1W-2L	0W-3L
Natus Vincere	FaZe	MVP Project	TYLOO
G2	HellRaisers	Immortals	UYA
	North	Gambit
	Ninjas in Pyjamas	CLG
	SK	Virtus.pro
	Astralis	fnatic