Astralis, 3DMAX head to EPL S19 playoffs
While G2 took down TYLOO and TheMongolz disrupted dupreeh's Falcons' debut, the other ESL Pro League Season 19 games saw two teams head to the playoffs while some went to the Last Chance Stage.
3DMAX faced fnatic in the Group A upper bracket semi-final and French team smash fnatic on their pick over Anubis 13-5 and made it a 2-0 after a 13-10 win on Ancient to book their Playoffs spot.
3DMAXfnatic| 3DMAX |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang |
36 - 17 | +19 | 94.2 | 80.5% | 1.52 |
| Pierre 'Ex3rcice' Bulinge |
33 - 15 | +18 | 80.3 | 87.8% | 1.49 |
| Filip 'Graviti' Brankovic |
36 - 25 | +11 | 93.5 | 78.0% | 1.40 |
| Thomas 'Djoko' Pavoni |
35 - 25 | +10 | 94.4 | 70.7% | 1.35 |
| Bryan 'Maka' Canda |
16 - 16 | +0 | 47.6 | 75.6% | 0.92 |
| fnatic |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurélien 'afro' Drapier |
26 - 30 | -4 | 66.1 | 58.5% | 0.88 |
 Matúš 'MATYS' Šimko |
27 - 33 | -6 | 70.4 | 58.5% | 0.86 |
 Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson |
18 - 31 | -13 | 49.3 | 53.7% | 0.72 |
 Can 'kyuubii' Ali |
18 - 32 | -14 | 45.7 | 51.2% | 0.62 |
| Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro |
9 - 30 | -21 | 39.7 | 63.4% | 0.61 |
After taking a shocking loss in their opening game, Virtus.pro with their new signing electroNic faced SAW as the teams were looking to avoid heading to the Last Chance Stage. SAW barely put up a fight on VP's pick of Overpass as Jame and co. went 13-3. SAW fought back on Vertigo but VP hung on for a 13-11 win to shut out the series 2-0. The loss dropped SAW to the Group A Last Chance Stage.
SAWVirtus.pro| SAW |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 João 'story' Vieira |
29 - 29 | +0 | 73.1 | 72.5% | 1.07 |
| Rafael 'arrozdoce' Wing |
25 - 32 | -7 | 77.5 | 67.5% | 0.95 |
| Ricardo 'roman' Oliveira |
29 - 32 | -3 | 73.7 | 67.5% | 0.91 |
| Michel 'ewjerkz' Pinto |
20 - 30 | -10 | 63.1 | 67.5% | 0.78 |
| Christopher 'MUTiRiS' Fernandes |
18 - 28 | -10 | 52.9 | 60.0% | 0.74 |
| Virtus.pro |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Petr 'fame' Bolyshev |
35 - 23 | +12 | 91.5 | 85.0% | 1.51 |
| Dzhami 'Jame' Ali |
32 - 19 | +13 | 83.5 | 82.5% | 1.34 |
| Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev |
31 - 27 | +4 | 88.0 | 77.5% | 1.30 |
| Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov |
29 - 29 | +0 | 80.5 | 77.5% | 1.16 |
| David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan |
24 - 23 | +1 | 57.4 | 70.0% | 0.98 |
FaZe faced Astralis in the other advancement game and it was Astralis starting with a 13-11 win to deny FaZe a comeback on Ancient before easing to a 13-9 win on Nuke to book their place in the Playoffs.
AstralisFaZe| Astralis |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Victor 'Staehr' Staehr |
30 - 30 | +0 | 75.2 | 82.6% | 1.20 |
| Martin 'stavn' Lund |
33 - 29 | +4 | 82.0 | 69.6% | 1.16 |
| Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard |
36 - 33 | +3 | 73.8 | 73.9% | 1.09 |
| Nicolai 'device' Reedtz |
29 - 28 | +1 | 68.3 | 73.9% | 1.06 |
| Alexander 'br0' Bro |
28 - 31 | -3 | 72.1 | 76.1% | 1.01 |
| FaZe |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David 'frozen' Čerňanský |
31 - 31 | +0 | 75.2 | 76.1% | 1.14 |
 Robin 'ropz' Kool |
35 - 30 | +5 | 86.0 | 76.1% | 1.14 |
 Helvijs 'broky' Saukants |
32 - 31 | +1 | 67.2 | 76.1% | 1.01 |
| Finn 'karrigan' Andersen |
27 - 34 | -7 | 69.2 | 67.4% | 0.97 |
 Håvard 'rain' Nygaard |
24 - 32 | -8 | 66.1 | 71.7% | 0.95 |
The final game of the day saw Eternal Fire turn around a deficit of 4-8 on Inferno the decider to reverse-sweep Imperial 2-1 to drop the Brazilians to the Group A Last Chance Stage.
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