After the second day of Sydney, we have four of the six participants in the playoffs, while a total of six teams remain in the race to advance. today, Na'Vi in Apex in group A, Lynn Vision and Grayhound in group B said goodbye to the tournament.
At the start of today's action, G2 Esports easily broke the resistance of Complexity, which we wrote about in detail in this text. Meanwhile, in the fight for survival, Cloud9 beat Lynn Vision 2-0, while Monte won against Grayhound with an identical score.
The other semi-final of Group B was much more suspenseful, and in the end ENCE was able to take a narrow victory against Fnatic on the deciding map. Fnatic first dealt a blow to their rivals on their peak map Overpass where a good defense in the second half earned them a 13-10 victory.
ENCE managed to recover from a 4-8 deficit on Anubis and with a 9-2 series on the T side leveled the overall score with a 13-10 victory, to celebrate with an identical result on Vertigo, where with a triumph in the last three rounds they managed to break away from Fnatic who followed in their footsteps.
This time, Pavle "Maden" Bošković was the most fired up ENCE player with 59 frags, 96.8 damage per round and 1.29 rating. He will have the opportunity to fight against the Kovač brothers again tomorrow for the first place in the group and a direct passage to the semi-finals. This treat for all domestic CS2 fans is on the program from 10:30 a.m. with live broadcast on Arena Esport TV and YouTube channel.
In group A, four teams fought for survival in the tournament. GamerLegion outplayed Apex 2-0 (13-8 Vertigo, 13-11 Overpass) and proved once again that they are still a very tricky team to watch out for.
Unfortunately, the match between FaZe and Na'Vi will be overshadowed by the absence of the main player of the Ukrainian team, which is why FaZe was the absolute favorite, but despite that, all praise for Na'Vi who managed to take an extremely impressive and convincing victory on Mirage and win the third the map.
The absence of Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev was too much of a blow for Na'Vi, but even without him the rest of the team showed why they are one of the best teams in the world. FaZe triumphed 13-7 on Overpass and Inferno, but Na'Vi went 13-4 on Mirage where they only dropped two runs on the T side in the first half.
Even team coach Andrey "B1ad3" Gorodenskiy, who was unplanned to use mouse and keyboard, had good moments on the second map, and when all is said and done, Na'Vi can proudly return home and prepare for the BLAST Premier Fall Finals, which awaits them for something more of a month.
Tomorrow, the final outcome of the IEM Sydney 2023 group stage awaits us, after which we will know the playoff pairs.
