FaZe, BetBoom book EPL S19 Playoffs spot
While M80 stunned G2 and TYLOO sent Sharks home, we had a couple of other games taking place at the ESL Pro League Season 19, with playoffs spots being confirmed and teams being eliminated as well.
SAW faced Imperial in the first elimination game of the day with SAW starting starting with a big 13-4 win on their pick of Nuke, The Brazilians put up a better fight on their pick of Inferno as the map went to overtime where SAW hung on for a 16-14 win to send Imperial home.
While Imperial headed home from Group A, we had FaZe going up against Eternal Fire in the Group A lower bracket final. Eternal Fire started with a 13-9 win on Anubis following a stellar CT half from the Turkish side but FaZe hung on for a 13-11 win on their pick of Mirage before putting up a more convincing performance on Inferno, taking a 13-8 win to reverse sweep the series and book their place in the Playoffs. while FaZe headed to the Playoffs, Eternal Fire dropped to the Group A Last Chance Stage.
The final game of the day was the Group B lower bracket final with BetBoom taking on M80. The North Americans started with strong T side on Ancient going 8-4 up which propelled them to a 13-7 win to draw first blood in the series. It looked like M80 were waltzing towards the playoffs as they started Mirage with a 5-0 lead before BetBoom's flawless CT side saw them tie up the series following a 13-6 win.
Anubis started with BetBoom putting up another big CT side, going 7-5 up. Six consecutive T rounds from M80 saw them bring themselves back in the game and take the lead at 11-10. BetBoom hung on and managed to close it out at 16-14 in overtime to book their Playoffs spot.