Fnatic

video games have a very high skill gap at the competitive level.One team that displays this amount of skill is Fnatic. They are a Swedish star team, that was created in late 2013 after the dream hack event. They have since began to dominate the professional level, making it to the finals of three major events such as: Dreamhack Winter 2013, ESL One Cologne 2014 and ESL One Katowice 2015 placing first at both Dreamhack Winter 2013 and ESL One Katowice 2015.

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It all began in early 2013 when the team won their first major title Dreamhack Winter 2013, over the favored team ninjas in pajamas. In an almost lack luster final, the ninjas in pajamas ran a clinic on Fnatic in the first half of the match. However, Fnatic found their footing later in the second half, running the match back just barley edging out the first match, making the final score of the first match 16-14.The second match however, gave everyone a shock the team ninjas in pajamas made Fnatic look like a complete joke, completely annihilating Fnatic making the second match second match score line 16-6. Although Fnatic were battered and bruised they came with a game plan on their last match of the final. Fnatic brought the same intensity that ninjas in pajamas had brought and crushed them in a way no one expected, the score for the last match of tournement was 16-2. After many months of hard work and training Fnatic had finally taken down the legendary team that was ninjas in pajamas. Here is a video of the team celebrating after the event win. :


Skip forward two more years to 2015 were Fnatic find themselves against their swedish rivals, ninjas in pajamas who also took last years title ESL One Cologne in a crushing victory over Fnatic. This time around Fnatic came back with a better game plan, this time they came with a strategy.

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The finals of ESL One katowice greatly favored Fnatic because they were playing the best counter strike of their short yet fruitful careers, no team could stop them. But in the finals of this event their skill was greatly tested by ninjas in pajamas. The ninjas were not going to go down without a fight however the first map was almost a complete repeat of Dreamhack 2013 were Fnatic had an uphill battle beating all the odds with some amazing clutch rounds coming out of all their players, making the first match scoreline 16-14. The second match however, showed a tremendous amount of skill and strategy coming out of the swedish legends.Taking the second match off the red hot Fnatic squad after the crushing scoreline of 10-16.The third match was the most nail biting match of the whole entire event througout the last match there were many individual plays coming out of both sides.But in the end Fnatic prevailed, with a scoreline of 16-13 going on to obtain their second major title making them the first team in counter strike global offensive history to win two majors. here is a clip of the final round and the celebration of the swedish super star lineup. 
The team Fnatic displays the high skill gap at the competitive level by being consistently able to dominate teams at the highest level of play.

cited sources
Anakiatan.(2013) fnatic win DreamhackWinter 2013. Retrieved from http://www.hltv.org/news/14496-fnatic-beat-nip-to-win-katowice-major

Miraa.(2015) fnatic beat Nip to win Katowice major. Retrived from http://www.hltv.org/news/14496-fnatic-beat-nip-to-win-katowice-major