G2 Esports, Virtus.pro and FaZe Clan won for a second straight day while FlyQuest saw its run end as the ESL Pro League Season 19 playoffs continued on Wednesday.
G2 Esports and Virtus.pro each won 2-1, beating 3DMAX and The MongolZ, respectively. FaZe Clan swept Natus Vincere but FlyQuest fell to Team Liquid 2-1. The four winners advance to Thursday’s quarterfinals.
The $750,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event began with 32 teams broken up into four groups of eight. Group-stage winners advanced to the quarterfinals; runners-up advanced to the Round of 12 as the high seeds; third-place teams advanced to the Round of 16 as the high seeds; and fourth-place teams advanced to the Round of 16 as the low seeds.
All matches are best-of-three until the grand final, which is best-of-five.
The tournament runs through Sunday. The winner earns $170,000 and qualifies for the IEM Cologne 2024 event.
G2Esports opened with a 13-10 win on Nuke but 3DMAX took Anubis 13-7. G2 pulled out the match with a 13-6 win on Inferno. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovac led G2 with 52 kills while Russia’s Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov had a plus-13 kills-to-death differential.
Virtus.pro had to pull off a reverse sweep to get past The MongolZ. After dropping Overpass 13-11, Virtus won 13-6 on Mirage and 13-11 on Ancient. Dzhami ‘Jame’ Ali and Petr ‘fame’ Bolyshev each had 51 kills to lead the all-Russian Virtus.pro squad.
FaZe had an easy go of it against Natus Vincere, winning 13-5 on Nuke and 16-14 on Mirage. Robin ‘ropz’ Kool of Estonia led FaZe with 39 kills and a plus-12 K-D. Team Liquid became the only team with a first-round bye to win its match, beating FlyQuest 13-10 on Mirage and 13-10 on Ancient, with FlyQuest winning 16-14 on Anubis in between. Latvia’s Mareks ‘YEKINDAR’ Galinskis led Liquid with 60 kills.
The four group winners open their playoffs on Thursday in the quarterfinals.
–MOUZ vs. G2 Esports
–Complexity vs. Virtus.pro
–Astralis vs. Team Liquid
–Team Vitality vs. FaZe Clan
ESL Pro League Season 19 prize pool
1. $170,000, 2,000 BLAST Premier points — TBD
2. $80,000, 1,400 points — TBD
3-4. $45,000, 750 points — TBD
5-8. $32,000, 275 points — TBD
9-12. $23,500 — 3DMAX, The MongolZ, FlyQuest, Natus Vincere
13-16. $17,500 — BIG, GamerLegion, BetBoom Team, Monte
17-20. $12,000 — SAW, M80, FURIA Esports, Ninjas in Pyjamas
21-28. $7,000 — Fnatic, Eternal Fire, Team Falcons, TYLOO, FORZE Esports, ENCE, Pera Esports, HEROIC
29-32. $3,500 — Imperial Esports, Sharks Esports, Bad News Kangaroos, BOSS
–Field Level Media
