Astralis defeated ENCE 16-6 on Mirage to kick off DreamHack ZOWIE Open Summer 2016.

Astralis started on the T-side and won the pistol round, losing only one player. Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye's quad-kill in the second round prevented a anti-eco loss and Astralis then won the first weapon round (4-0).

Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen's entry kill in the fifth round extended the lead and Astralis went on to lead 8-0. ENCE had a 4vs2 advantage but couldn't capitalize on it as the first half disaster kept getting worse for the Finnish team. The Finns found life and grabbed six rounds after that and trailed 6-9 at halftime.

karrigan & company start with a win 

The Danes secured the second pistol round and cleaned up the anti-ecos without much trouble (12-6). In the first weapon round of the half, Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli got an entry kill with his AWP but his team failed to convert it to a round win. Astralis won the map 16-6.

DreamHack ZOWIE Open Summer 2016Best of 1 AstralisMatchpage 16 6 18th June 2016 ENCE 16Mirage 6

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	24 - 14	+10	104.6	1.68
Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye	22 - 10	+12	87.7	1.55
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh	16 - 13	+3	92.9	1.45
Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x	14 - 10	+4	75.7	1.35
Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice	16 - 11	+5	80.2	1.18

ENCE	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Miikka 'suNny' KemppisuNny	17 - 18	-1	83.3	1.05
Juho 'juho' Lampinenjuho	13 - 20	-7	71.0	0.78
Aleksi 'allu' Jalliallu	9 - 17	-8	45.1	0.65
Niko 'naSu' KovanennaSu	10 - 19	-9	53.6	0.48
Mikko 'xartE' VälimaaxartE	9 - 18	-9	49.0	0.47

The next match will be Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Epsilon whose streams can be found here.

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