Kanaliiga CS Season #4 finals @ Arkade Bar, March 7, 2020

The finals of the Kanaliiga CS Season #4 were played at Helsinki’s Arkade Bar on March 7, 2020. In the finals, the winners of the Challengers and Masters series were decided from the top two of each series. The finalists of the Challengers series were Codemate Esports and Netlight Consulting. On the other hand, Elisa and Certego fought for the victory of the upper Masters series.

Planning for the finals started a couple of months before the event itself. There was an organizing team of almost twenty people, some of whom did more than 30 hours of work during the finals weekend. All employees: production, logistics, narrators and communication operate completely on a zero budget and by volunteers.

The atmosphere at Arkade Bar was on the roof when the crowd gathered to watch the finals of Kanaliiga CS Season #4.

Chicken coop

Before the final games, the winner was also decided in Kanaliiga’s own format - Kanakahaka. The Kanakahaka teams were assembled from a mix of Kanaliiga players based on the statistics of the Free-For-All Deathmatch matches.

Cell monitors.

Kukkoilijat emerged as the winner of the skirmish final, beating their opponent Kennovahdit in two maps with the scores 16-10 and 16-11.

Roosters.

Challengers

In the final of the Challengers series, Codemate Esports and Netlight Consulting played against each other.

The first map of the final was Inferno, which Codemate Esports won 16-5. In the second map, i.e. Mirage, Netlight caught wind and took the match to the third and deciding map with a score of 16-12. The last map in Overpass saw a world-class matchup, and in the end Codemate Esports was crowned the new winner of the Challengers series with a score of 16-14.

Codemate Esports captain Jussi-Tapio “kookoo35” Lamminheimo in an interview.

Masters

In the last match of the day, Masters series finalists Elisa and Certego measured each other.

Train was played first, and Elisa won with a score of 16-11. In Inferno, the second map of the finals, Certego took a close victory in overtime 19-16. This was the first map that Elisa lost all season. Dust 2 was played last, and reigning champion Elisa decisively won 16-6.

Elisa’s captain Mikko “erkki” Eriksson in an interview.

Kanaliiga thanks all the players, organizers, partners, sponsors and spectators once again for a great season and final! Big thanks and honor also to Arkade Bar, with the help of which we got top-level esports entertainment produced by volunteers and with a working spirit! Congratulations to the winners, see you in the next finals!