A trip-overtime map victory helped Mongolz defeat Eternal Fire 2-0 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event in Poland.
The second quarter final match also resulted in a 2-0 sweep, with the team that eliminated Virtus.Pro.
In the semi -finals on Saturday, Mongolz will oppose the vitality of the law, and the team will meet Natus Vincere.
Group games in $ 1 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Event contained 16 teams divided into two double elimination parties, with all matches best-by-three. The two group phase winners advanced directly to the playoffs semi -finals, the two group phase runners moved to the quarter finals as high seeds, and the two third place teams made the quarter finals as low seeds.
Playoffs are single elimination, with the best-three matches for the quarterfinals and semi-finals before a best-of-five grand final on Sunday. The master will earn $ 400,000.
On Friday, Mongolz opened with 13-7 victory over Eternal Fire on Anubis before needed Trippel OT to pull out Mirage 22-18.
Garidmagnai “Blitz” Byambasuren and Sodbayar “Techno” Munkhbold played each 49 kills for the all-Mongolic Mongolz squad. Blitz had a team high plus-21 dead difference. Ismailcan ‘Xantares’ Dortkardes led all-Turkish eternal fire with 44 kills and a plus-5 kd difference.
Team Spirit Dowed Virtus.Pro 13-2 on trains and 13-9 in ancient. Russia’s Danil “Donk” Kryshkovets published 37 kills, and Russian teammate Boris “Magixx” Vorobiev recorded a match high plus-17 KD difference. Kazakhstan Kaisar “Icy” Faiznurov noted 22 kills and a minus-4 KD difference.
Intel Extreme Masters Katowice Prize Pool:
1. $ 400,000
2. 180,000 dollars
3-4. $ 80,000
5-6. $ 40,000 – Eternal Fire, Virtus.Pro
7-8. $ 24,000 – Faze Clan, Gamerlegion
9-12. $ 16,000 – G2 Esports, 3dmax, Astralis, Team Liquid
13-16. $ 10,000 – Team Falcons, Big, Furia Esports, Mouz
17-20. $ 4500 – Wildcard, Pain Gaming, Mibr, Heroic
21-24. $ 2500 – complexity, flyquest, saw, imperialist woman
-Field level media
