FaZe have won SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 Finals after a nail-biting final against Astralis (2-1; Mirage 14-16, Nuke 16-6, Inferno 19-17). FaZe continued with their fantastic record in pistol rounds withHåvard “rain” Nygaard and Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey combining for five kills on the T side of Mirage. The next two were split, which meant Astralis had to eco, but the Danes came on top of that one thanks to defending the B bombsite. With that, Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander’s men managed to climb to their first lead on the map at 5-4 following a defuse in a smoke when the team was at a disadvantage. FaZe then attempted a couple of splits, one to each bombsite, but only the first worked out while Astralis got to 7-5. Nevertheless, FaZe were the ones to get away with the better half, grabbing the last three rounds for a 8-7 scoreline. Yet another pistol round win saw FaZe reach 11 rounds beforeNicolai “device” Reedtz clutched 1v3 with a stolen AWP and smart play around a smoke. The rounds then kept going back and forth until it was 13-13 shortly after another forcebuy win going Astralis’ way. Nikola “NiKo” Kovač’s huge double due to a timely push from underpass saved FaZe from having to eco, but their economy was in shambles anyway once the Danish side equalized the score again at 14-14 with an A execute. Fighting only against pistols during the remaining two rounds, device & company clinched map one at 16-14. Another clean pistol at the beginning of Nuke gave FaZe a 4-0 lead early on, starting as Counter-Terrorists. gla1ve then saved a 1v3 attempt from kioShiMa on lower for Astralis’ first round, which turned into three soon after. Doubles from the Frenchman and rain stopped the short-lived streak and FaZe went on to rack up several rounds in a row withAleksi “allu” Jalli putting up a quad-kill and NiKo chiming in with three kills later on. That gave the IEM Katowice runners-up a fantastic 11-4 half. The second pistol round going their way as well with kioShiMa grabbing another big multi-kill left Astralis with all but zero room for error. FaZe took very little time to finish off map two, winning 16-6 to force the decider, Inferno.