fnatic and mousesports will go head to head after sending Nihilum and Counter Logic Gaming home after two 2-0 series.

After going down to the lower bracket at the hands of Titan, fnatic had a match-up with Nihilum's new acquisition in their sights to fight for survival in the tournament.

The match went quite expectedly, as fnatic stormed through de_cache 16-5 before closing out the series in two maps on de_inferno, where they had only little more trouble, at 16-10.

ESEA Invite Season 18 Global FinalsBest of 3 fnaticMatchpage 2 0 18th April 2015 Nihilum 16Cache 5 16Inferno 10

mousesports, on the other hand, were expected to go more evenly with arguably North America's strongest side at the moment, Counter Logic Gaming.

de_dust2 saw CLG having problems on their Counter-Terrorist side, as they went over with five rounds only. Despite James "⁠hazed⁠" Cobb's and Peter "⁠ptr⁠" Gurney's heroics in some rounds, they were 0-1 down in the series after a 12-16 scoreline mainly thanks to Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong's excellent performance.

Once again on the Counter-Terrorist side first, CLG faced even bigger trouble on de_mirage with only two rounds at halftime. mousesports had little work sending CLG home at 16-9, 2-0.

ESEA Invite Season 18 Global FinalsBest of 3 CLGMatchpage 0 2 19th April 2015 MOUZ 12Dust2 16 9Mirage 16

Next up in Dallas, Texas is an all-European upper bracket final with Titan and Virtus.pro, scheduled to begin at 03:00 .