Jordan Woodruff
Everlasting Hearth and MIBR got here from behind to earn wins on Wednesday and advance to the quarterfinals of the ESL Professional League Season 20 in Saint Julian’s, Malta.
In Spherical of 12 playoff motion, Everlasting Hearth rallied previous The MongolZ 2-1, and MIBR overtook HEROIC 2-1.
The day’s different matches resulted in a pair of 2-0 sweeps, with Workforce Liquid ousting Complexity Gaming and Workforce Spirit eliminating Imperial Esports.
The group stage of the $750,000 Counter-Strike: World Offensive occasion divided 32 groups into 4 teams that competed in triple-elimination brackets, with every match best-of-three. The highest 4 groups from every group moved into the playoff bracket.
Group winners superior straight into the playoff quarterfinals. Runners-up superior to the Spherical of 12, third-place groups moved to the Spherical of 16 as excessive seeds and fourth-place groups began within the Spherical of 16 as low seeds.
The only-elimination playoff bracket options best-of-three matches till the best-of-five grand ultimate Sunday.
The winner will obtain $170,000 and can qualify for the primary ESL Professional Tour Championship of 2025.
On Wednesday, The MongolZ opened with a 16-13 time beyond regulation victory on Mirage, however Everlasting Hearth responded by capturing Anubis 13-9 and Inferno 13-11. Ismailcan “XANTARES” Dortkardes paced Everlasting Hearth’s all-Turkish roster with 65 kills and a plus-21 kill-death differential. Munkhbold “Senzu” Azbayar The MongolZ’s all-Mongolian squad with 60 kills and a plus-13 Ok-D differential.
After HEROIC claimed Mirage 13-9, MIBR gained 13-10 on Anubis and 13-5 on Nuke. Felipe “insani” Yuji led all-Brazilian MIBR with 51 kills and a plus-7 Ok-D differential. Denmark’s Rasmus “sjuush” Beck wound up with 53 kills and a plus-7 Ok-D differential for HEROIC.
Liquid acquired previous Complexity 13-2 on Nuke, 13-7 on Anubis behind 40 kills and a plus-21 Ok-D differential from Poland’s Roland “final” Tomkowiak. America’ Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski completed with 24 kills and a minus-4 Ok-D differential for Complexity.
Workforce Spirit toppled Imperial Esports 16-13 in time beyond regulation on Nuke, then 13-3 on Mud II. Two Russians, Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov and Danil “donk” Kryshkovets, every had 32 kills for Spirit. Brazil’s Lucas “decenty” Bacelar registered 30 kills for Imperial.
The quarterfinal schedule:
Thursday
Workforce Vitality vs. Everlasting Hearth
M80 vs. MIBR
Friday
G2 Esports vs. Workforce Liquid
Natus Vincere vs. Workforce Spirit
ESL Professional League Season 20 prize pool (cash, BLAST Premier factors):
1. $170,000, 2,000 factors
2. $80,000, 1,400
3-4. $45,000, 750
5-8. $32,000, 275
9-12. $23,500, no factors — The MongolZ, HEROIC, Complexity Gaming, Imperial Esports
13-16. $17,500, no factors — BIG, Virtus.professional, FaZe Clan, FURIA Esports
17-20. $12,000, no factors — Sangal Esports, 3DMAX, MOUZ, RED Canids
21-28. $7,000, no factors — Ninjas in Pyjamas, FlyQuest, 9z Workforce, Wildcard, Fnatic, Astralis, Workforce Falcons, ATOX Esports
29-32. $3,500, no factors — Lynn Imaginative and prescient Gaming, KOI, Rooster, ENCE
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