Team Finest win The Pinnacle Cup IV

The Pinnacle Cup IV concluded two days ago with the Grand Final victory of Team Finest. After defeating Eternal Fire 2-1, the Swedish-Israeli-Estonian team took home $80,000 in prize money. 

The best-of-three series saw both teams win their opponent’s map picks before deciding the battle on Dust2. 

Pinnacle Cup IV, is the fourth edition of the online CS:GO tournament organised by Relog Media, which run from April 25 to May 27. The event featured 32 teams competing for a share of the $100,000 prize pool. 

Grand final 

The first map started with a loss of Team Finest on their own pick Overpass. The Turkish Eternal Fire rolled over Finest on the CT side, closing the map 16:9 midway through the second half. 

On the second map Vertigo picked by Eternal Fire, Finest recovered from the previous loss and got quickly in the 9:6 lead on the T-side, before winning another seven consecutive rounds to even the score and push the series to the third map. 

Despite Eternal Fire starting with a strong five-round T-side lead in the first half of the decisive Dust2, Finest were able to come back one more time during this Grand Final and secure the victory with a 16-14 score on the third map. 

Finest journey in Pinnacle Cup IV

Team Finest is an international CS:GO team consisting of Swedes Rasmus “kreaz” Johansson, Simon “twist” Eliasson and Niclas “PlesseN” Plessen, Guy “anarkez” Trachtman from Israel and Kristjan “shokz” Jakobson from Estonia. 

The squad started their journey on The Pinnacle Cup IV in its earliest, Play-In stage, where they rolled over 777 Esports and Tricked Esport to advance to the following Swiss Stage. In the Swiss Stage, Finest started with two wins against ECSTATIC and Isurus, however, the team lost to Team Spirit and Apeks in the next two rounds. Being just one step from the elimination, they managed to defeat Wisła Kraków and secure their spot in the playoffs.

The team then swept through the playoffs, taking their revenge in the first match against Team Spirit and following with wins against TYLOO and Movistar Riders before landing the spot in the Grand Final.

This marks the squad’s first notable achievement since 2021, when anarkez, kreaz and shokz joined the team. PlesseN and twist joined in March 2022, with their first appearance with the team at the Pinnacle Cup III, where they finished in 13th-15th place. 

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