Eternal Fire sent home; G2 survive Falcons test

Astralis books quarter-final spot

As we reached the penultimate day of the ESL Pro League Season 19 Group A and B matches, we had a couple of teams heading home while a couple survived to fight for another day.

Virtus.pro (VP) were up against fnatic in the opening game of the day which was the Group A elimination game. VP pushed fnatic to overtime on the series opener on Vertigo to steal a 16-14 win before picking up a comfortable 13-6 win on their pick of Anubis to send fnatic home and keep themselves alive.

Virtus.pro
2 - 0
fnatic
All maps
Virtus.pro K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev 46 - 31 +15 98.3 73.5% 1.41
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali 38 - 26 +12 86.9 73.5% 1.27
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev 27 - 29 -2 65.2 73.5% 1.00
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov 34 - 37 -3 70.5 71.4% 0.99
David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan 25 - 31 -6 60.6 69.4% 0.84
fnatic K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Sweden Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson 43 - 33 +10 95.5 69.4% 1.32
Can 'kyuubii' Ali 34 - 32 +2 81.4 75.5% 1.09
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro 28 - 38 -10 67.3 69.4% 0.87
Matúš 'MATYS' Šimko 24 - 35 -11 61.4 59.2% 0.78
Aurélien 'afro' Drapier 22 - 34 -12 54.6 69.4% 0.71

G2 were battling for survival against the new-look Falcons with dupreeh and Falcons started the series with an overtime 16-13 win on Vertigo. NiKo stepped up to help G2 answer back on Anubis with a 13-3 before closing out the series with a 13-5 win on Nuke to send Snappi and co. home.

Falcons
1 - 2
G2
All maps
Falcons K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Pavle 'Maden' Bošković 46 - 45 +1 77.1 76.2% 1.11
Denmark Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen 39 - 44 -5 73.6 71.4% 1.01
Denmark Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer 42 - 44 -2 70.3 71.4% 0.95
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García 34 - 39 -5 57.5 73.0% 0.92
Denmark Emil 'Magisk' Reif 28 - 48 -20 65.2 69.8% 0.74
G2 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač 49 - 38 +11 90.6 77.8% 1.28
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov 52 - 35 +17 80.5 79.4% 1.27
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač 43 - 39 +4 76.8 74.6% 1.11
Denmark Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen 39 - 45 -6 72.3 77.8% 0.99
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković 37 - 33 +4 60.5 73.0% 0.93

Astralis and 3DMAX, both of whom had already booked their place in the Playoffs, took on each other in the Group A upper bracket final with a direct spot in the quarter-final up for grabs. The device and jabbi show saw the Danes ease to a 13-7 win on Inferno and a 13-3 win on their pick of Ancient as they secured a quarter-final place.

3DMAX
0 - 2
Astralis
All maps
3DMAX K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Filip 'Graviti' Brankovic 23 - 32 -9 74.0 63.9% 0.83
Thomas 'Djoko' Pavoni 21 - 28 -7 65.2 58.3% 0.81
Bryan 'Maka' Canda 19 - 30 -11 58.1 61.1% 0.67
Pierre 'Ex3rcice' Bulinge 17 - 29 -12 56.1 47.2% 0.58
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang 11 - 30 -19 50.4 52.8% 0.49
Astralis K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Denmark Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard 41 - 22 +19 119.9 88.9% 1.78
Denmark Nicolai 'device' Reedtz 35 - 12 +23 93.1 80.6% 1.70
Denmark Martin 'stavn' Lund 28 - 21 +7 83.7 75.0% 1.26
Denmark Victor 'Staehr' Staehr 25 - 19 +6 79.2 77.8% 1.25
Denmark Alexander 'br0' Bro 19 - 18 +1 55.5 80.6% 1.10

The final game of the day saw Eternal Fire and SAW battle it out for survival in the Group A elimination game and SAW started the series with a win on Vertigo and ran through the Turkish team on their pick of Nuke, 13-3 to send Eternal Fire home.

SAW
2 - 0
Eternal Fire
All maps
SAW K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Rafael 'arrozdoce' Wing 34 - 18 +16 101.6 78.4% 1.63
João 'story' Vieira 27 - 15 +12 68.4 91.9% 1.34
Christopher 'MUTiRiS' Fernandes 23 - 16 +7 66.4 81.1% 1.22
Ricardo 'roman' Oliveira 25 - 25 +0 78.3 75.7% 1.18
Michel 'ewjerkz' Pinto 22 - 21 +1 73.1 78.4% 1.13
Eternal Fire K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Özgür 'woxic' Eker 23 - 28 -5 76.2 62.2% 0.85
Engin 'MAJ3R' Küpeli 20 - 24 -4 61.4 67.6% 0.84
Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın 17 - 25 -8 56.1 56.8% 0.68
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş 20 - 26 -6 60.5 67.6% 0.65
Ali 'Wicadia' Haydar Yalçın 15 - 28 -13 56.9 54.1% 0.60

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