November 5, 2022; San Francisco, California, USA; Fans react during the League of Legends World Championships between T1 and DRat the Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L COX-IMAGN IMAGES Heroic gathered for a 2-1 victory over Team Liquid on Wednesday when the Play-in console for the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event began in Poland.
Sixteen teams compete in the Play-in console with double elimination and chase eight seats in the $ 1 million Counter-Strike group stage: Global Offensive Tournament. All Play-in matches are the best of three.
Eight teams – G2 Esports, Team Spirit, Mongolz, Team Vitality, Faze Clan, Mouz, Natus Vincere and Team Falcons – are already at the group step based on their global position early this month.
Group games will see the 16 teams divided into two double elimination consoles, with all matches best-by-three. The two group phase winners will move on directly to the semi -finals, the two group phase runners will move to the quarter finals as high seeds, and the two third place teams will make the quarter finals into low seeds.
The playoff will be single elimination, with the best-three matches for the quarter finals and the semi-final before a best-of-five grand final on February 9. The master will earn $ 400,000.
On Wednesday in the opening round in the upper bracket, Team Liquid opened with a 13-9 victory in Anubis, but heroic came back to require Nuke 13-11 and Dust II 13-8.
Belarus’ Andrey “TN1R” Tatarinovich and Turkey’s Yasin “Xfl0ud” KOC registered each 49 kills for heroic. TN1R produced a team best plus-2 Kill-Death differential. Poland’s Roland “Ultimate” Tomkowiak logged 48 kills and a match high plus-12 KD differential for fluid.
Today’s other seven matches all resulted in 2-0 sweeps: Eternal fire over complexity, 3DMAover Flyquest, Mibr over astralis, pain games over Virtus.Pro, Gamer Legion over saw, wildcard over large and pine esports over the imperial woman.
Thursday’s schedule:
-Uppercenture round 2: Heroic vs. Eternal Fire
-Uppercenture round 2: 3DMAvs. Mibr
-Uppose console round 2: pain games versus gamerlegion
-Länger Round 1: Flyquest vs. Astralis
-Linkare round 1: virtus.Pro vs. Saw
-Länger Round 1: Big vs. Imperial female
The last match for Upper Bracket 2 (Wildcard vs. Furia esports) and the last lower-first round 1 match (Team Liquid vs. complexity) are scheduled for Friday.
Intel Extreme Masters Katowice Prize Pool
1. $ 400,000
2. 180,000 dollars
3-4. $ 80,000
5-6. $ 40,000
7-8. $ 24,000
9-12. $ 16,000
13-16. $ 10,000
17-20. $ 4500
21-24. $ 2500
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