Natus Vincere advanced to the semi-finals at DreamHack Masters Malmö after beating TyLoo 2-0 (16-10 on Inferno and 16-5 on Mirage).

The first quarter-final at DreamHack Masters Malmö saw Natus Vincere, who finished their group in the first place, going up against TYLOO, who eliminated both Liquid and Luminosity.

The first map (Inferno) was TYLOO's pick and they started on the CT-side to win the pistol round and the anti-ecos (3-0). Natus Vincere were victorious in the fourth round and got the fifth one as Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev and Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin clutched in a 2v4 situation.

Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev had an ace in the seventh round as he clutched a 1v3 and put his team in front with a 4-3 score. Natus Vincere's seventh consecutive round forced the Chinese teams to take a timeout and they salvaged what they could as they trailed 5-10 at halftime.

GuardiaN was back with his team

TYLOO, yet again, grabbed the pistol round but lost the third round of the half to a mixed buy (11-7). YuanZhang "⁠Attacker⁠" Sheng's entry kill onto Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács gave TYLOO their eighth but the Chinese team lost the following round (12-8). Natus Vincere broke their opponent's economy and finished off the first map 16-10.

The second map kicked off phenomenally for the CIS team as they got the first six rounds on the T-side of Mirage. GuardiaN's 1v3 clutch brought Natus Vincere the sixth round and then TYLOO managed to sneak in two of their own (6-2).

Natus Vincere took complete control after this point and finished the half 13-2 ahead. flamie had 19 kills in the first half and paved the way for the victory. Na`Vi won the pistol round of the second half but lost the subsequent round as TYLOO prolonged the inevitable. The CIS team won the second map 16-5 as GuardiaN got the ace in the last round.

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016Best of 3 Natus VincereMatchpage 2 0 16th April 2016 TYLOO 16Inferno 10 16Mirage 5

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward	42 - 26	+16	96.2	1.51
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie	37 - 27	+10	90.8	1.37
Denis 'seized' Kostinseized	36 - 26	+10	80.7	1.32
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN	39 - 28	+11	68.8	1.22
Danylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoZeus	32 - 31	+1	83.7	1.17

TYLOO	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Ke 'captainMo' LiucaptainMo	35 - 38	-3	70.3	0.91
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody	31 - 36	-5	79.5	0.89
Hui 'DD' WuDD	25 - 38	-13	76.2	0.87
YuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengAttacker	27 - 37	-10	75.8	0.85
YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer	19 - 37	-18	47.2	0.63

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Denis 'seized' Kostin Age: 21 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 752 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.66 Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Age: 28 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 756 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.67 Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Age: 24 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 743 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.62 Natus Vincere #3 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsDenis 'seized' KostinEgor 'flamie' Vasilyev Luminosity #2 Lincoln 'fnx' LauGabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng Age: 19 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 130 KPR: 0.80 DPR: 0.65 Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev Age: 19 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 566 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.67 TYLOO #50 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuYuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengHaoWen 'somebody' Xu Liquid #8 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinNick 'nitr0' CannellaOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiKenneth 'koosta' Suen