The first day in Columbus continued with fnatic beating Splyce 16-5 on de_train to advance to the Group B winners' match against Liquid.

The second match of Group B saw the world's number one team fnatic go up against Splyce who surprisingly qualified for MLG Columbus 2016. Splyce started on the CT-side and gained a 5v3 advantage but fnatic closed out the pistol round and also picked up the following two rounds (3-0).

Thanks to David "⁠DAVEY⁠" Stafford's triple-kill with an AWP, Splyce picked up the fourth round but fnatic answered right back and put the North American team into a hard economocial situation (4-1). Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer followed up with an anti-eco ace to make it 5-1.

fnatic did not meet any resistance 

The timeout paid off for Splyce as they got their second round but it turned out it was a trivial one as fnatic just rolled over Splyce. In the 14th round, Splyce had a 5v3 advantage but even then, fnatic got the round and the half finished 13-2 with fnatic leading.

DAVEY stepped up on the pistol round of the second half and his team secured the anti-eco rounds to bring it to 13-5 but fnatic did not allow a comeback and closed it out 16-5.

MLG Columbus 2016Best of 1 fnaticMatchpage 16 5 29th March 2016 Splyce 16Train 5

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha	18 - 8	+10	93.3	1.66
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjerolofmeister	20 - 10	+10	89.9	1.62
Dennis 'dennis' Edmandennis	20 - 11	+9	94.7	1.48
Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ	16 - 9	+7	88.2	1.43
Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW	15 - 12	+3	69.6	1.15

Splyce	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
David 'DAVEY' StaffordDAVEY	19 - 16	+3	87.1	1.18
Andrew 'Professor_Chaos' HeintzProfessor_Chaos	10 - 18	-8	60.1	0.63
Arya 'arya' Hekmatarya	8 - 18	-10	50.9	0.53
Jason 'jasonR' RuchelskijasonR	5 - 18	-13	40.4	0.45
Abraham 'abE' FazliabE	8 - 19	-11	48.7	0.44

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