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Heroic secure Major spot, Movistar Riders move on to playoffs at IEM

With the results of the Group B's final matches going the way of Astralis, Movistar Riders and Heroic, three teams finished the group 3-2 and tiebreaker matches decided the final placings of the group. The tiebreakers decided whether Sinners, Heroic and Movistar Riders would progress to the playoffs, play in the 9th-12th decider bracket, or be eliminated. The Spanish team came out on top with two victories and finished second in Group B, while Heroic managed to send Sinners packing in fourth place, despite the result not impacting their own

G2 defeat mousesports to clinch Major berth, IEM Fall Group A to have tiebreakers

G2, who have had a rough start to the second season of 2021 following the summer break can breathe a little bit more freely having secured a spot at the IEM Fall playoffs and a berth at the Major which will be taking place later in the month. Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković and company did so by defeating what many thought would be their main rivals going into the group stage, mousesports, in the last day of play, although it had already been Copenhagen Flames who stole the show in Group

IEM Fall EU: Who’s still in the running for a Major spot?

The IEM Fall Europe group stage is heading into the final round of matches, where it is still almost all to play for. Out of the 24 teams, three are already confirmed to play in the playoffs — NIP, Copenhagen Flames, and Astralis — while five more are out of the running entirely with fnatic, AURA, Endpoint, MAD Lions, and Sprout no longer able to place in the top three in their respective groups. A win over Fiend would nearly guarantee FaZe a Major spot Any of the other 16

NIP top Group D, qualify for PGL Major Stockholm

NIP have punched their ticket to the PGL Major with a resounding victory over fnatic as Fiend took out DBL PONEY, one of the requirements other than the Swedish team’s victory to secure a spot on Counter-Strike’s biggest stage. FaZe are now leading the rest of the pack with three wins and are close to the playoffs, but a loss to Fiend could leave them in third place behind the Bulgarians in what will be a crucial final day match for both outfits. SKADE's prospects look grim, as they sit

ENCE upset Vitality to complicate Group C

ENCE sought to blow Group C wide open as they spectacularly upset Vitality 16-8 on Mirage. This puts both teams at 3-1 in the group along with OG, and it is now very likely that we will end Group C with a three way tie for first between these teams. This case would be favourable for all three teams, as it keeps all three on track to potentially qualify for Stockholm, regardless of how the final standings between them shake out. ENCE are the team out of the three that

Astralis secure Major spot with victory over Complexity in IEM Fall’s Group B

Astralis have punched their ticket to the Major with a victory over Complexity, while Sinners, who were also 3-0 going into the fourth day of play, missed a chance at securing a berth in the playoffs and may have to fight with two more teams in the group for the coveted second place if they can't beat Astralis in the final day of play. The other two teams still in it to try and make the playoffs are Movistar Riders and Heroic if they beat Endpoint and Complexity, respectively, which

Best TFT Kled player Delicious Milk advances to Worlds finals

Representing North America during the first of two group stages at the Teamfight Tactics Reckoning World Championship, Delicious Milk advanced to the finals by hard forcing Hellion re-rolls on every game.  Heading into the Lobby A group stage at TFT Worlds today, Delicious Milk pulled a Babe Ruth move by proclaiming he would only play Kled re-roll. And the strategy paid off for the NA tactician, earning him a tie with Shircane at the top of the leaderboard after five games. Finishing with 21842 for the day, Delicious Milk will

CIS Major representatives decided as IEM Fall reaches playoffs

Just like in Group A, Group B at IEM Fall CIS didn't come to a simple conclusion. In the final round of matches, Virtus.pro and Gambit trounced forZe and Unique, respectively, and INDE IRAE squeezed past K23 to bring the three winners into a three-way tie. Virtus.pro had the most to fight for in the MR3 overtime games played on Vertigo, but it was Gambit that breezed through both matches (4-0, 4-0), to secure first place in the group and a Legends spot at the Major. In the last match,

Entropiq qualify for Major after three-way tiebreaker matches at IEM Fall CIS

The final round of matches in IEM Fall 2021 CIS Group A finished with Natus Vincere beating Spirit and Nemiga upsetting Entropiq, setting up a three-way tie for teams in 2nd-4th place of the group. As per the ruleset, tiebreaker overtime matches (MR3) between Entropiq, Nemiga, and Spirit were played to decide the final order, and the games went the distance. After all three teams were tied with one win and one loss following the first set of matches, a second round was played where Entropiq finally came out on

Team Liquid’s Impossible Battle With Astralis

CSGOPhoto courtesy of mynewsdeskTeam Liquid against Astralis is one of the most one-sided rivalries between top teams in the history of competitive Counter-Strike, spanning CS 1.6 and CS:GO. Spanning almost six years, the two teams have faced off all across the phases of tournaments and around the world, with many roster moves along the way on both sides, but the theme has been consistent and that has been Astralis winning and in total Astralis dominating.Liquid does not stand alone as the Washington Generals to Astralis' Harlem Globetrotters, though. The likes