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NHLGamers, After a long Friday night with a lot of 1v1 action, we are able to present to you - STILL the Finnish 1v1 NHL Champion, Arttu @Artuzio Mustila! This is his second consecutive Finnish Championship. How you commentate your finals against xDoumi tonight? "We have played even games with xDoumi along the year and there was no room for mistakes tonight. However, I managed to get the job done. I played the best and most relaxed game of all year today and this came in the best possible place. " NHLGamer would like to congratulate Artuzio on a tremendous tournament and the championship! Please tune in for the FCL 6v6 Finals on Saturday at 17 CEST: https://www.twitch.tv/NHLGamer Photo: Pekka Nummela / SEUL Let's take a look back at @Artuzio's road to the championship: Group stage record: Invited straight to the finals stage Finals group stage record: 5-0-1 (#5 seed) RO16 vs @Kemppane_ 3-2 Quarterfinals vs @OsquuG 3-0 Semifinals vs @NikkeDangles2-0 Finals vs @xDoumi 2-0 The top 3 of FCL 1vs1 are: 🥇 Arttu @Artuzio Mustila 🥈 Aaro @xDoumi Ruuhinen 🥉 Niklas @NikkeDangles Tukiainen Photo: Pekka Nummela / SEUL Photo: Pekka Nummela / SEUL

NHLGamers, In 2019 it was HAVU Gaming lifting the trophy. In 2020 FILADELPHIA wrestled it from HAVU's hands. In 2021, hREDS will be trying to do the same to FILA. Will they be successful? Or will FILA manage to become the first Champion to defend their title? Can KOVA finish their underdog success story by snatching the bronze under the noses of the impressive GOONS? And how will the players be effected by finally, finally being back in a LAN enviroment the games kick off at the magnificent Game Cave in Espoo, Finland? Ladies and gentlemen, you'll have your answers tonight. Welcome to the 2021 FCL 6v6 Finals event. Here is the full schedule for the night: 17:00 CEST Broadcast starts -------- 17:20 CEST Bronze - Game 1 17:50 CEST Bronze - Game 2 18:20 CEST Bronze - Game 3 (if necessary) -------- 19:00 CEST Finals intro 19:15 CEST Finals - Game 1 10:45 CEST Finals - Game 2 20:20 CEST Finals - Game 3 20:55 CEST Finals - Game 4 (if necessary) 21:30 CEST Finals - Game 5 (if necessary) (2) hREDS vs (1) FILADELPHIA This is it. Truly your matchup of matchups between the two best teams in not just Finland, but in Europe as well at the moment. Having faced off recently in the ECL 12 Elite Finals, these two teams are intimately familiar with each other - and not a single roster change has taken place since then. While FILA likely feels their true revenge against hREDS lies in re-claiming the coveted ECL Elite trophy, defending their FCL title and becoming the first champion in FCL 6v6 history to do so (Artuzio defended his title in 1v1 just yesterday), would be as good an opportunity as any to re-establish dominance over hREDS. Don't think the hREDS side are likely to just sit back and let that happen, though. Made up exclusively of young guns hungry to continue their winning ways, hREDS will be entering this one brimming with motivation and energy to add a Finnish Championship to their ever-expanding trophy room. The last time these two teams met in competitive circumstances, hREDS seemed to catch FILA off guard with their picture-perfect trap and their well-executed pokechecks. This time, FILA will have seen that trick before and will be prepared to adjust even before first puck drop. Even so, it'll be a tough task for the multi-champs to defend their title against such a hungry pack of wolves. Prediction: 3-1 hREDS (10) KOVA Esports vs (8) GOONS The GOONS have had a strong run since their formation in the ECL 11 Pro division. Losing in the finals and securing a league promotion, they followed that up by making the playoffs right away in the über-competitive Elite division and here they are; top-4 in the FCL after having eliminated 2019 FCL Champions HAVU Gaming among others. Safe to say, GOONS will look to end NHL 21 with a bang, rather than a whimper. They'll face stiff competition from KOVA Esports though, Coming into the FCL with a revamped roster (at least on the ice), KOVA have taken down some big fish like JYP Jyväskylä and POGGERS on their way to this bronze battle. Their quick counter-attacks have been proven lethal before, will they be again versus GOONS? Most of the players in this matchup haven't tasted the LAN enviroment before so seeing how that plays out could add an extra wrinkle to this already exciting matchup. Prediction: 0-2 GOONS Tune in to www.twitch.tv/NHLGamer tonight at 17:00 CEST to find out which team will claim the medals in this exciting LAN finish to the 2021 FCL season.

NHLGamers, Only the four best Finnish players remain and tonight we will be able to watch them battle it out and crown the new champion! Will Arttu @Artuzio Mustila renew his title or will a dark horse emerge as the new champion? Here are the semifinals matchups: (1) Roope @pikkuroger Bergström vs. (11) Aaro @xDoumi Ruuhinen (5) Arttu @Artuzio Mustila vs. (10) Niklas @NikkeDangles Tukiainen We asked the defending Finnish champion Artuzio and xDoumi for their thoughts about upcoming final tournament: "I'm going to Friday's final tournament in a good mood and my goal is to take the second consecutive Finnish championship. The level of players in Finland is incredibly high, so winning on Friday will require perfect execution from me. It would be nice to have pikkuroger as the final opponent; I played the most memorable matches of my career against him in last year’s FCL quarterfinals, where I had a comeback from several goals behind and eventually went all the way to win the championship. I know pikkuroger's game has evolved since last year, so it would be great to fight in the finals and see again where we stand today." -Artuzio "It’s great to participate in the semifinals, I'm currently playing at a good level and it's nice to play for the championship after a long time. I was actually 0-2 down in my quarterfinal series against @Eki, but when we went to game 3 I started to understand better how Eki plays and I was able to turn the series around." -xDoumi Tune in for the finals on Friday! The broadcast on Friday will commence at 17:20 CEST and will feature Aki Eurola and Oskari @SibeIius Grönroos in the booth! You can find the broadcast on twitch.tv/NHLGamer. Here's the preliminary schedule for the night: 17:20 CEST Broadcast starts -------- 17:30 CEST Semifinals 1 - Game 1 17:50 CEST Semifinals 1 - Game 2 18:15 CEST Semifinals 1 - Game 3 (if necessary) -------- 18:45 CEST Semifinals 2 - Game 1 19:05 CEST Semifinals 2 - Game 2 19:30 CEST Semifinals 2 - Game 3 (if necessary) -------- 20:00 CEST Bronze game -------- 20:45 CEST Finals - Game 1 21:05 CEST Finals - Game 2 21:30 CEST Finals - Game 3 (if necessary)