November 5, 2022; San Francisco, CA, USA; Followers react throughout the T1 and DRX League of Legends World Championship at Chase Middle. Obligatory Credit score: Kelley L. Cox-USA TODAY Sports activities Natus Vincere and Staff Vitality gained 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 section of the $1 million Counter-Strike: World Offensive match.
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 crew within the group advances to the quarterfinals of the playoffs as a higher-seeded crew, and the third-placed crew within the group advances to the quarterfinals of the playoffs as a lower-seeded crew.
The one-elimination match will happen from Friday to Sunday. All match 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 the match with a 13-9 victory over Nuke on Tuesday, however NaVi turned the tables on Historical, defeating Inferno 13-2 and 13-6. Ukraine’s Ihor “w0nderful” Zhdanov leads the victorious facet with 52 kills, with a distinction of 25 kills and deaths.
In Group B, Vitality defeated Mud II 13-6 after which defeated Vertigo 16-13 in extra time to finish MOUZ. Shahar “flameZ” Shushan of Israel had 43 kills with +12 KD, whereas Vitality teammate Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut of France had 38 kills with +13.
Within the decrease bracket finals of Group A, G2 Esports swept paiN Gaming, defeating Nuke 13-6 and Mirage 13-1. Russian participant Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov killed 31 folks and led G2 by +17.
Within the decrease bracket finals of Group B, FaZe defeated Staff Liquid 2-1. FaZe opened the match with a 13-9 win over Inferno, earlier than Liquid beat Nuke 16-13 in extra time. The ultimate map, Mirage, additionally required 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, Staff Liquid
9-12. $16,000, no factors – The MongolZ, Astralis, Staff Falcons, Complexity Gaming
13-16. $10,000, no factors – 9z Staff, Staff 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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