November 22, 2015; San Jose, CA, United States; Fans applaud during the World Tournament of the ESL ESL Extreme Masters counterattack at SAP Center. Natus Vincere beat Team Liquid to go to the final. Compulsory credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn images Team Vitality, GS Esports, Team Falcons, the Mongolz gaming, Natus Vincere and Aurora won their quarter -final in the senior management on Saturday while the group phase started in the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne event in Germany.
All the victories were 2-0 scales, with the exception of Natus Vincere’s 2-1 victory over Faze Clan in group B.
Friday, the group phase, which followed the completion of the game phase, consists of two double elimination groups contest the three best games. The two winners of the group will go directly to the semi-finals, the two finalists will switch to the quarter-finals as high seeds, and the two third place teams will head towards the quarter-finals as low seeds.
The playoffs, which will start on August 1, will be a single elimination. The quarter-finals and the semi-finals will take place at the best of the three before the final of the best of the five on August 3.
The winning team in the offensive tournament of $ 1 million: the world attacking tournament will receive $ 400,000 and the finalist will receive $ 180,000.
On Saturday, Team Vitality swept the astralis in group A, winning 13-11 on Nuke and 13-8 on prosecutor. William “Mezii” Merriman of the United Kingdom led the vitality of the team with 37 striking attacks and a differential of counterfeit more-6.
G2 ESPORTS swept the furia with victories on dust II (13-11) and Inferno (13-8). The Maro du Guatemala “Malbsmd” Samayoa won 33 striking attacks and one KD.
The team’s Falcons went 2-0 against Gamerlegion, Triumphing 13-11 on Nuke and 13-6 on Mirage. The Nikola Kovac “Niko” of the Falcons of Bosnia and Herzegovina led all the players with 39 striking attacks and a differential of more KD.
Mongolz opened its doors against 3DMAX with a dominant 13-2 victory over Nuke, followed by a 13-10 victory over Ancient. The All-Mongolien team was led by Sodbayar “Techno” Munkhbold with 34 striking attacks and a plus-11, and Garidmagnai “Blitz” by Byambasuren with 34 striking attacks and a more-8.
In group B, Natus Vincere abandoned the opening of 13-11 faze on ancient before rallying with victories on Mirage (13-9) and Nuke (13-5). Valers “B1T” Ukraine Vakhovskiy led all the players with 55 striking attacks and one plus-17.
Still in group B, the Aurora game swept the ninjas in pajamas in a tight battle, 13-11 on Dust II and 19-15 by train. The Tout-Turkish team was led by Ozgur “Woxic” Eker with 53 striking attacks and a differential plus 23 kd.
The group phase continues on Sunday with four games in group A:
– Vitality of the VS Esports GS team in the semi-finals at the top of the backet
– Falcons to teams against Mongolz in the semi-final of the upper border
– Australis vs Furia in the quarter -finals of the lower arms
-Gamerlegion vs 3dmax in the quarter-finals of the lower bracket
Group B matches on Sunday:
–Mouz against the Liquid team in the quarterfinals of the height
– Heroic vs Spirit as a team in the quarter -finals of the upper arms
Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Passing:
$ 400,000
$ 2. 180,000
3-4. $ 80,000
5-6. $ 40,000
7-8. $ 24,000
9-12. $ 16,000
13-16. $ 10,000
17-20. $ 4,500 – Pain Gaming, Virtus.Pro, Tyloo, Flyquest
21-24. $ 2,500 – Big, Mibr, Complexity, B8
– field level media
Amazing werk from the boys!! This is the Vitality we know and love.
I dont understand the hype honestly?? They barely made it through and everyone acting like they won the whole thing already. Group stage means nothing if you cant close it out in playoffs, we seen this before with them.
People saying they had easy group clearly didnt watch the matches lol. They played solid CS and earned it. Stop trying to diminish every achievement jeez
Yeah sure they won some matches but lets be real here – the competition in there group wasnt even that strong? Put them against FaZe or Navi in a bo3 and we’ll see how “vital” they really are lol
ZywOo carrying so hard his back must hurt lmao. Imagine being that good and still having to worry if your team shows up or not 😂 Man deserves better teammates fr
This team is so overrated its not even funny anymore. How many chances do they get before people realize there not championship material? Other teams work harder and get less credit.
For those who dont know, Vitality has been struggling with consistency issues this season. This performance at IEM Cologne group stage is significant because they managed to maintain a 70% round win rate across all maps, which is there highest since Katowice. The key factor was apEX’s calling in clutch situations.
Can’t wait for all the “Vitality era” posts after they inevitably loose in quarters again. The cycle continues, when will we learn? 😅
“Winners” is a strong word for barely surviving groups but okay. I guess participation trophys are a thing now in competitive CS?
Oh wow Team Vitality doing well in groups, what a suprise said no one ever. I’m sure this time will be diferent and they wont choke in semifinals like always 🙄
Finaly Vitality showing what they can do! Been waiting for this all year man. There performence was insane, specially ZywOo he’s just on another level completly.
The strategic adjustments they made since last tournament are really showing. Particularly the way they’re handling there economy and site executions has improved dramatically. However I do think there T-side on Ancient still needs work, lost to many anti-eco rounds there.