Team Spirit and FaZe Clan are the first two teams to secure a place in the playoffs of the IEM Katowice 2024 CS2 tournament after triumphing in the second round of the group stage. Rebels Gaming and Apex bid farewell to the competition.
The hype around the young Russian Danilo "donk" Kryshkovets continued after the match between Team Spirit and Complexity, in which Spirit overcame the American team 2-0 (Ancient 13-3, Overpass 13-5).
Donk finished the first map with 22 frags and 128.2 damage per round with a 2.06 rating, while on the second map Boris "magixx" Vorobiev was blasted with an excellent 1.52 rating.
Team Spirit has shown great form in the tournament so far, and their biggest challenge so far will be the clash with Team FaZe for the first place in the group and a direct place in the semi-finals, when we will see how the new Spirit fares against one of the two main favorites in the tournament .
FaZe Clan defeated the pesky Eternal Fire 2-1. On the first two maps we saw overtime, FaZe took a 16-14 lead with a victory on Inferno, and Eternal Fire fought back on Anubis where they celebrated with a 16-13 score.
Nuke decided the winner, and on it FaZe made a 9-1 run at the start of the first half, and all the Turkish team could do was mitigate the defeat by winning four more rounds until the end of the third map.
In the fight for the survival of Group A, Team Falcons won Poland's Rebels Gaming 2-1 (13-9 Vertigo, 9-13 Anubis, 13-10 Nuke) and will be one of the four teams that will fight for the remaining third playoff slot in this group . Their opponent in the next round will be Complexity.
In the second part of the lower bracket of Group A, Eternal Fire and Natus Vincere will meet in what will definitely be a very exciting match considering the style of play of both teams. Na'Vi managed to avoid elimination from the tournament with a 2-1 win against Apex (13-11 Ancient, 11-13 Anubis, 13-8 Mirage).
Schedule of tomorrow's matches:
13:30 Team Vitality - Heroic
13:30 Monte - Cloud9
16:30 ENCE - G2 Esports
16:30 GamerLegion - MOUZ
19:30 Complexity - Team Falcons
19:30 Eternal Fire - Natus Vincere
