Team Falcons and HEROIC earned the final playoff spots on Friday in Serbia in the $500,000 BetBoom Dacha Belgrade 2024 event.
Both teams advanced after 2-1 wins.
Team Falcons topped Virtus.pro in the Group A decider match, sandwiching a 13-10 win on Vertigo and a 13-8 triumph on Ancient around their opponent’s 13-5 win on Mirage.
Pavle “Maden” Boskovic of Montenegro had 48 kills and a plus-9 differential to lead Team Falcons.
In Group B, MIBR easily won the opener, 13-2 on Vertigo, but HEROIC countered with a pair of victories — 13-6 on Ancient and 13-7 on Dust II — to win the decider.
Denmark’s Rasmus “sjuush” Beck had 45 kills and a plus-17 differential to pace HEROIC.
Eight teams started in the Counter-Strike 2 tournament, with two groups of four teams battling in a double-elimination format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the single-elimination playoffs.
All matches are best-of-three until Sunday’s best-of-five grand final.
The tournament continues Saturday with two playoff semifinal matches:
–MOUZ vs. HEROIC
–Team Falcons vs. Team Spirit
BetBoom Dacha Belgrade 2024 prize pool:
1. $300,000 — TBD
2. $100,000 — TBD
3-4. $50,000 — TBD, TBD
5-6. Virtus.pro, MIBR
7-8. BetBoom Team, Aurora Gaming
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