After three maps, NRG claimed a 2-1 win over BIG (16-4 Train, 8-16 Overpass, 16-6 Inferno) and advanced directly to the grand final of the event in Los Angeles.
The first map of the upper-bracket final of cs_summit 3 was Train, BIG's pick. However, Ethan "Ethan" Arnold's 3K on the defense saw NRG win the pistol round and take the early lead. As the score was 4-0, BIG had their best opportunity to get on the board yet as Johannes "nex" Maget found himself in a 1v1, but Jacob "FugLy" Medina clutched out the round to extend the North American team's lead.
nex did get his side their first round soon, though, clutching a 1v3, which was followed up by two more rounds going the way of BIG. (7-3) NRG then struck back, and in a key round, after Johannes "tabseN" Wodarz found three openings, Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte snuck up behind the last two BIG players and clutched the round to set his team up for a great finish to the half, 12-3. In the second pistol, Damian "daps" Steele' men split the A site through B and Popdog and claimed the round, swiftly closing out the game, 16-4.
On Overpass, NRG continued their pistol round win streak, but fumbled against a B site BIG defense that was mostly equipped with USP-S'. That gave the Germans a 3-1 start, which they slowly but surely built up to 6-2. Rounds were then traded back and forth, but NRG ended on top, and with FugLy leading in the fragging department, they managed to hustle back a solid half, finishing it 8-7 down.
BIG regained momentum early in the second half, surviving through a force-buy loss and quickly running up a 14-8 lead. They then faced a limited NRG buy, and after losing a man to an aggressive play on A from the CTs, rolled into the B site and held the afterplant to earn match point, closing it out straight after that, 16-8.
Brehze's triple with the Glock-18 started off the decider map, Inferno, with BIG bringing the score to 3-2 after triples from nex and Fatih "gob b" Dayik in rifle rounds. Things then swung back into NRG's favor after a force-buy win, and then the North American side started founding success towards both sites, running up an 8-2 lead. The half ended with more of the same, BIG snuck in just a single CT round before the half ended 12-3.
Owen "smooya" Butterfield opened up the pistol with two frags and tabseN closed it out with three in the after plant, giving BIG a lifeline in the series. Putting a stop to their comeback was a successful A hold from NRG which was followed up by Ethan clearing up top banana with the help of a single flashbang. (14-6) After that it was all done and dusted, NRG locked in Inferno 16-6 and took the series 2-1, advancing to the grand final. BIG will play the consolidation final tomorrow, with the winner of he Complexity - OpTic match.
cs_summit 3Best of 3
NRG
Matchpage 2 1 3rd November 2018 
BIG 16Train 4 8Overpass 16 16Inferno 6 | NRG | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob 'FugLy' MedinaFugLy | 62 - 33 | +29 | 91.1 | 1.48 |
| Vincent 'Brehze' CayonteBrehze | 59 - 41 | +18 | 86.7 | 1.39 |
| Ethan 'Ethan' ArnoldEthan | 45 - 39 | +6 | 90.0 | 1.37 |
 Tsvetelin 'CeRq' DimitrovCeRq | 42 - 42 | 0 | 60.0 | 1.01 |
 Damian 'daps' Steeledaps | 33 - 42 | -9 | 61.2 | 0.92 |
| BIG | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johannes 'tabseN' WodarztabseN | 55 - 46 | +9 | 91.3 | 1.24 |
| Johannes 'nex' Magetnex | 46 - 50 | -4 | 80.6 | 0.97 |
 Owen 'smooya' Butterfieldsmooya | 36 - 49 | -13 | 63.8 | 0.84 |
| Tizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschtiziaN | 34 - 51 | -17 | 59.7 | 0.78 |
| Fatih 'gob b' Dayikgob b | 26 - 45 | -19 | 41.0 | 0.66 |
OpTic #16 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferRené 'cajunb' BorgJakob 'JUGi' HansenKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeNikolaj 'niko' Kristensen 
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte 
Age: 20 Team: NRG Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 596 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.68 BIG #9 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' MagetOwen 'smooya' Butterfield 
Complexity #13 Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanRory 'dephh' JacksonPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzJaccob 'yay' WhiteakerBradley 'ANDROID' Fodor Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz 
Age: 23 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1111 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.71 Owen 'smooya' Butterfield 
Age: 19 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 293 KPR: 0.81 DPR: 0.66 Fatih 'gob b' Dayik 
Age: 31 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 0.85 Maps played: 862 KPR: 0.57 DPR: 0.67 Johannes 'nex' Maget 
Age: 26 Team: BIG Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 903 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.66 Damian 'daps' Steele 
Age: 25 Team: NRG Rating 1.0: 0.89 Maps played: 731 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.66 Jacob 'FugLy' Medina 
Age: 23 Team: NRG Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 882 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.65 NRG #7 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold 
Age: 18 Team: NRG Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 542 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.68 (责任编辑：skinhub)
