"Casters: Anders Blume & Fifflaren"  The second match of Group C pitted the Swedish powerhouse Ninjas in Pyjamas and the French and Belgian veterans in Titan. The Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) placed fifth at the previous major, losing to VP in the quarterfinals. Titan was also at the previous major, but was upset by the Renegades in the group stage. NiP was by far the favorite to win the match. However, Titan started with a strong 8-0 lead under the leadership of Titan's captain Kevin "Ex6TenZ" Droolans and the fragging power of Edouard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux. NiP finally got a round in the 9th round, but Titan's defense stayed strong and finished with a 13-2 halftime lead. All seemed over until NiP started mounting a comeback. In the 25th round, Titan had a limited buy while Ni{ had a full buy. Ex6TenZ found Christopher "GeT RiGhT" Alesund fairly early and then the Titan leader found NiP's leader Richard "Xizt" Landström and Cédric "RpK" Guipouy took down Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg. Although Ex6tenz was taken down by Adam "friberg" Friberg, Richard "shox" Papillon took down Aleksi "allu" Jalli, essentially securing the round for Titan. NiP was able to take three more rounds, but Titan closed it out after Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom took down f0rest. f0rest lead the way for NiP with 21 kills but friberg struggled with 15 kills. Meanwhile, shox had 23 kills and three Titan players sat on 22 kills to secure the upset win. Titan went on to face VP. "Casters: HenryG & Sadokist"  Team Liquid nearly took down VP in the initial matches of the group stage while NiP was upset by Titan after being blown out in the first half of that game. Liquid started well after taking a 3-0 lead. In the first gun round, ELiGE found Xizt early into the round, but f0rest took down FugLy about 20 seconds later. f0rest then took down ELiGE but adreN was there to trade. friberg took down adreN in a duel and Hiko found allu, but friberg and GeT_RiGhT boxed in nitr0 and Hiko was left in a 1 vs 2. friberg took down Hiko on the A bombsite from middle and NiP took its first round.