The MongolZ stun Spirit
The MongolZ started their journey in the IEM Cologne 2024 Group Stages with a stunning victory over tournament favourites Spirit, which has dropped donk and co. to the lower bracket.
The MongolZ started with a 5-2 lead on Ancient before Spirit's defence tied up the half and the second half pistol and conversion meant Spirit went 9-6. The MongolZ hit back with two low buy rounds which saw youngster mzinho power up to take the map to overtime with the Asian team closing it out at 16-13.
On Spirit's pick of Anubis, it was a sloppy showing from chopper and co. which led to The MongolZ running away with a massive 13-4 win to secure a shocking 2-0 win in the Group A upper bracket quarter-final.
The win puts The MongolZ in the upper bracket semi-final, where it will be a rematch of their Play-In stage game against SAW while Spirit will have to now battle it out through the lower bracket and first up for them will be G2.
SpiritThe MongolZ| Spirit |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets |
31 - 34 | -3 | 76.2 | 63.0% | 0.94 |
| Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov |
28 - 30 | -2 | 67.7 | 65.2% | 0.91 |
| Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev |
26 - 34 | -8 | 71.2 | 60.9% | 0.79 |
| Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov |
23 - 35 | -12 | 61.7 | 65.2% | 0.68 |
 Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia |
17 - 37 | -20 | 55.7 | 50.0% | 0.58 |
| The MongolZ |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ayush 'mzinho' Batbold |
41 - 26 | +15 | 94.3 | 80.4% | 1.42 |
| Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren |
32 - 24 | +8 | 78.7 | 82.6% | 1.24 |
| Usukhbayar '910' Banzragch |
36 - 24 | +12 | 72.9 | 78.3% | 1.23 |
| Munkhbold 'Senzu' Azbayar |
30 - 25 | +5 | 67.7 | 84.8% | 1.16 |
| Sodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold |
29 - 29 | +0 | 76.5 | 71.7% | 1.04 |
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