Nov 5, 2022; San Francisco, California, USA; Followers react throughout the League of Legends World Championships between T1 and DRX at Chase Heart. Necessary Credit score: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Pictures HEROIC rallied for a 2-1 victory over Staff Liquid on Wednesday because the play-in bracket for the Intel Excessive Masters Katowice occasion received underway in Poland.
Sixteen groups are competing within the double-elimination play-in bracket, chasing eight spots within the group stage of the $1 million Counter-Strike: International Offensive event. All play-in matches are best-of-three.
Eight groups — G2 Esports, Staff Spirit, The MongolZ, Staff Vitality, FaZe Clan, MOUZ, Natus Vincere and Staff Falcons — already are by means of to the group stage primarily based on their international standing early this month.
Group play will see the 16 groups break up into two double-elimination brackets, with all matches best-of-three. The 2 group-phase winners will advance on to the semifinals, the 2 group-phase runners-up will transfer to the quarterfinals as excessive seeds, and the 2 third-place groups will make the quarterfinals as low seeds.
The playoff shall be single elimination, with best-of-three matches for the quarterfinals and semifinals forward of a best-of-five grand remaining on Feb. 9. The champion will earn $400,000.
On Wednesday within the upper-bracket opening spherical, Staff Liquid opened with a 13-9 win on Anubis, however HEROIC got here again to say Nuke 13-11 and Mud II 13-8.
Belarus’ Andrey “tN1R” Tatarinovich and Turkey’s Yasin “xfl0ud” Koc every registered 49 kills for HEROIC. tN1R produced a team-best plus-2 kill-death differential. Poland’s Roland “final” Tomkowiak logged 48 kills and a match-high plus-12 Ok-D differential for Liquid.
The day’s different seven matches all resulted in 2-0 sweeps: Everlasting Hearth over Complexity, 3DMax over FlyQuest, MIBR over Astralis, paiN Gaming over Virtus.professional, GamerLegion over SAW, Wildcard over BIG and FURIA Esports over Imperial Feminine.
The Thursday schedule:
–Higher-bracket Spherical 2: HEROIC vs. Everlasting Hearth
–Higher-bracket Spherical 2: 3DMax vs. MIBR
–Higher-bracket Spherical 2: paiN Gaming vs. GamerLegion
–Decrease-bracket Spherical 1: FlyQuest vs. Astralis
–Decrease-bracket Spherical 1: Virtus.professional vs. SAW
–Decrease-bracket Spherical 1: BIG vs. Imperial Feminine
The final upper-bracket Spherical 2 match (Wildcard vs. FURIA Esports) and the final lower-bracket Spherical 1 match (Staff Liquid vs. Complexity) are scheduled for Friday.
Intel Excessive Masters Katowice prize pool
1. $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
21-24. $2,500
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