It should come as no surprise to CS fans that fnatic, the team to beat thus far in 2009 has won WCG Sweden 2009 and secured themselves a spot at the WCG 2009 Global Finals in Chengdu, China.

While the final outcome was expected, the road to the finals for fnatic was anything but. Their first challenge came in the form of Team Begrip who was fresh off a roster change from earlier this week, fnatic nearly lost the first map winning in overtime. fnatic then proceeded to lose the second map 16-14 and was able to win on the third map 16-12. Needless to say, Begrip far outperformed anyone's expectations.

There was another surprise in store for fnatic, contrary to expectations it was not SK Gaming who they would meet in the finals, but team H2k (former lemondogs) who they would meet. H2k was able to defeat SK in three maps including a double overtime on dust2 for the final map.

When fnatic met up with H2k in the Grand Finals for the tournament, both teams had already locked in a spot at the WCG 2009 Grand finals so a little pressure was off for both teams. Fnatic won the first map fairly easily with a 16-9 scoreline. Keeping their momentum up fnatic beat H2k 16-8 on de_inferno to win WCG Sweden 2009.

Info from www.gotfrag.com