Assembly Winter 2016, taking place at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre, started earlier today and the group stage is now finished. LDLC Blue and ENCE were the first teams to advance to the playoff stage.

The tournament has eight participating teams: four invited and four qualified teams. ENCE, LDLC White, RCTIC (replacing Vexed because they couldn't attend the event) and Orgless (originally invited as CSGO.one before leaving the organisation and later signing for PixelFire, even though that didn't last very long) were the four invited.

Millenium, CPH Wolves, Epiphany Bolt and LDLC Blue later qualified for the event.

The group stage draw determined that RCTIC, Orgless, CPH Wolves and LDLC Blue would play in Group A. LDLC White, ENCE, Millenium and Epiphany Bolt would face each other in Group B.

allu's first match in ENCE would be against Millenium

The opening match put CPH Wolves and LDLC Blue face to face and ended up with a win for the French team in a match where both teams showed strong T sides.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 CPH WolvesMatchpage 13 16 5th February 2016 LDLC Blue 13Overpass 16

The second match in Group A was Orgless vs. RCTIC on de_dust2. The first half was taken by Orgless with a minimal advantage and then the Finns put on a convincing performance, winning nine consecutive rounds in the second half.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 OrglessMatchpage 8 16 5th February 2016 RCTIC 8Dust2 16

LDLC Blue and RCTIC, having won their first matches, were the put up against each other on de_train. Despite taking a larger number of rounds on the second half, the Finnish could not take the map and the final score settled on 16-14 in favor of LDLC Blue.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 LDLC BlueMatchpage 16 14 5th February 2016 RCTIC 16Train 14

CPH Wolves fought their way through André "⁠BARBARR⁠" Möller's Orgless with a solid focus, winning the match with an eight round advantage.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 CPH WolvesMatchpage 16 8 5th February 2016 Orgless 16Cobblestone 8 For a chance of playing in the playoffs, RCTIC went face-to-face with CPH Wolves in a best-of-three decider. The first map played was de_dust2 where CPH Wolves took the win. The second map was taken with ease by the Danish team where they only let go of three rounds out of nineteen played.
Assembly Winter 2016Best of 3 RCTICMatchpage 0 2 5th February 2016 CPH Wolves 13Dust2 16 3Cobblestone 16

RCTIC's SAGGERTON was the Man of The Match against LDLC Blue

The inaugural match for Group B was ENCE vs. Millenium on de_dust2. Both team showed their true strength on the T side, where they won 13 and 10 rounds respectively, but the win went for Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli's ENCE with a 16-12 score.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 ENCEMatchpage 16 12 5th February 2016 Millenium 16Dust2 12

LDLC White and Epiphany Bolt's match followed. The teams played a pretty close game on de_cbble and the final result was 16-14 for the French.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 LDLC WhiteMatchpage 16 14 5th February 2016 Epiphany Bolt 16Cobblestone 14

Epiphany Bolt were next against Millenium. The Danish team managed to get a win despite Emil "⁠hiffer⁠" Ervolder only getting eight kills (all his team mates got at least more than double that) throughout the twenty eight rounds that were played.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 Epiphany BoltMatchpage 16 12 5th February 2016 Millenium 16Dust2 12

LDLC White and ENCE played Group B's winner match. The Finnish team overcame a a three round disadvantage after winning ten rounds in the second half of the map to advance to the playoffs.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 1 LDLC WhiteMatchpage 14 16 5th February 2016 ENCE 14Cobblestone 16

With a loss in the previous match, LDLC White had to win the decider match against Millenium if they still wanted to qualify for the playoff stage. Their de_dust2 game was nearly flawless and the first map's score was 16-1.

Epiphany Bolt nearly managed to snatch the second map of de_inferno but in the end Antoine "⁠to1nou⁠" Pirard & co. prevailed 16-13 and became the fourth and final team to advance to the playoffs.

Assembly Winter 2016Best of 3 LDLC WhiteMatchpage 2 0 5th February 2016 Epiphany Bolt 16Dust2 1 16Inferno 13

The playoff matches will be played tomorrow in a best-of-three format and the schedule will be the following:

13:00	LDLC Blue	vs. LDLC White
16:30	ENCE	vs. CPH Wolves
21:30	Grand final

You can follow all the action on the ROG Tournament's English stream or in Finnish through YLE.

Emil 'hiffer' Ervolder Age: 27 Team: Epiphany Bolt Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 46 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.69 Aleksi 'allu' Jalli Age: 23 Team: ENCE Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 544 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.65 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone André 'BARBARR' Möller Age: 25 Team: Orgless Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 90 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.68 Antoine 'to1nou' Pirard Age: 20 Team: LDLC White Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 132 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.67