November 5, 2022; San Francisco, CA, USA; Followers react through the T1 and DRX League of Legends World Championship at Chase Heart. Necessary Credit score: Kelley L. Cox-USA TODAY Sports activities Natus Vincere and Crew Vitality received their respective teams on the Intel Excessive Masters in Cologne, Germany on Tuesday, sending them straight into the playoff semifinals.
Natus Vincere defeated SAW 2-1 within the Group A higher bracket finals, whereas Vitality swept MOUZ 2-0 within the Group B finals.
After G2 and FaZe Clan completed third of their group on Tuesday, Na’Vi and Vitality will be part of SAW, MOUZ, G2 Esports and FaZe Clan within the playoffs. All different groups have been eradicated.
Sixteen groups start the double-elimination part of the $1 million Counter-Strike: International Offensive event.
The group stage runs from Saturday to Tuesday and is split into two double-elimination teams of eight gamers every. The primary place within the group advances on to the play-off semi-finals. The second-placed group within the group advances to the quarterfinals of the playoffs as a higher-seeded group, and the third-placed group advances to the quarterfinals of the playoffs as a lower-seeded group.
The only-elimination event will happen from Friday to Sunday. All event matches are best-of-three, apart from the finals, that are best-of-five. The winner qualifies for the IEM Katowice occasion and the BLAST Premier World Finals, in addition to a $400,000 prize.
SAW opened their event with a 13-9 win over Nuke on Tuesday, however NaVi defeated Inferno 13-2 on Historical and turned issues round 13-6. Ukraine’s Ihor “w0nderful” Zhdanov leads the victorious aspect with 52 kills, with a distinction of 25 between kills and deaths.
In Group B, Vitality beat Mud II 13-6 after which beat Vertigo 16-13 in extra time to defeat MOUZ. Israel’s Shahar “flameZ” Shushan had 43 kills with +12 KD, whereas Vitality teammate Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut from France had 38 kills with +13.
Within the Group A decrease bracket finals, G2 Esports swept paiN Gaming, defeating Nuke 13-6 and Mirage 13-1. Russian participant Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov killed 31 individuals and led G2 by +17.
Within the decrease bracket finals of Group B, FaZe defeated Crew Liquid 2-1. FaZe opened the event with a 13-9 win over Inferno, earlier than Liquid beat Nuke 16-13 in extra time. The final map, Mirage, additionally went by extra time, with FaZe successful 16-13. David “frozen” Slovakia’s Cernanski, amassing 66 kills on FaZe’s +15.
FaZe swept the Falcons 2-0 earlier on Tuesday, and Liquid did the identical to Complexity Gaming to advance to the decrease bracket finals.
The competitors begins on Friday with two quarter-finals:
——MOUZ vs. G2 Esports
——SAW vs. FaZe Clan
Intel Excessive Masters Cologne prize pool, together with prize cash and BLAST Premier factors
1. $400,000, 3,000 factors
2. $180,000, 2,000 factors
3-4. USD 80,000, 1,200 factors
5-6. $40,000, 500 factors
7-8. $24,000, 300 factors – paiN Gaming, Crew Liquid
9-12. $16,000, no factors – The MongolZ, Astralis, Crew Falcons, Complexity Gaming
13-16. $10,000, no factors – 9z Crew, Crew Spirit, Virtus.professional, FURIA Esports
17-20. $4,500, no factors – BIG, HEROIC, MIBR, Everlasting Fireplace
21-24. $2,500, no factors – ALTERNATE aTTaX, 3DMAX, Imperial Esports, FlyQuest
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