Liquid books IEM Chengdu 2024 playoffs spot

Heroic survive for another day

The first BO3 on the opening day of IEM Chengdu 2024 had Liquid take on G2 in the Group A upper bracket semi-final with the winner set to move into the playoffs.

The action started on Liquid's pick of Ancient as cadiaN and co. went 8-4 up on their T side. A force buy win on their CT-side saw Liquid ran away with a 13-6 win to get the series underway as NAF and Twistzz topped the scoreboard with 19 and 17 kills respectively.

G2 pulled it back to a 6-6 half on Anubis after going 1-4 down before seeing off a Liquid comeback attempt to keep the series alive with a 13-10 win. The series decider, Inferno started with Liquid racing away to a 7-0 lead before clutches from m0NESY and NiKo got G2 in the half. m0NESY helped G2 secure four on their T side.

G2 once again looked like they would turn it around in the second half but Liquid held on for a 13-9 win to secure the series 2-1 and book themselves a playoffs spot at IEM Chengdu 2024.

G2
1 - 2
Liquid
All maps
G2 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov 56 - 40 +16 84.2 71.9% 1.27
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač 41 - 50 -9 71.1 64.1% 0.88
Denmark Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen 34 - 47 -13 59.7 67.2% 0.86
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković 39 - 44 -5 63.2 64.1% 0.81
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač 28 - 45 -17 61.3 68.8% 0.79
Liquid K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Canada Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken 57 - 36 +21 89.8 75.0% 1.34
Canada Keith 'NAF' Markovic 54 - 40 +14 87.0 79.7% 1.32
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis 37 - 44 -7 75.4 68.8% 1.03
Brazil Felipe 'skullz' Medeiros 40 - 42 -2 69.6 71.9% 1.02
Denmark Casper 'cadiaN' Møller 34 - 36 -2 57.2 76.6% 0.98

The Group A lower bracket game saw 9z and HEROIC face each other for survival and HEROIC stole away 9z's pick of Nuke at 13-11 before taking a comfortable 13-8 win on Mirage to 2-0 the series. The loss also meant that 9z were eliminated on the opening day itself.

9z
0 - 2
HEROIC
All maps
9z K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez 32 - 29 +3 81.3 66.7% 1.10
Franco 'dgt' Garcia 28 - 28 +0 68.3 71.1% 0.98
Matias 'HUASOPEEK' Ibañez Hernandez 28 - 32 -4 66.7 66.7% 0.87
Nicolás 'buda' Kramer 23 - 27 -4 53.8 60.0% 0.79
Maximiliano 'max' Gonzalez 22 - 35 -13 69.5 62.2% 0.77
HEROIC K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Denmark René 'TeSeS' Madsen 44 - 26 +18 99.5 71.1% 1.38
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz 31 - 27 +4 74.9 64.4% 1.09
Denmark Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck 26 - 27 -1 71.2 77.8% 1.06
Denmark Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi 25 - 27 -2 61.7 73.3% 0.88
Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski 25 - 27 -2 54.5 62.2% 0.87

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