Natus Vincere is the eighth team to qualify for the playoffs of the first CS2 Major, after defeating paiN Gaming 2-0 in the final match of the main stage of the tournament. Before them today, G2 Esports and FaZe Clan confirmed their playoff tickets.
Today we received the last three teams that will participate in the finals of the first CS2 Major. We wrote about the victory of G2 in this text, and here is how the remaining two matches went.
FaZe Clan finally played as expected from the top-ranked team on the HLTV world list and won with a convincing 13-6 on the Nuke and Overpass maps against Complexity Gaming. The American team was lucky to start the tournament with two victories in the Bo1 matches, but after that they failed to transfer their good play to the Bo3 duels.
Did FaZe wake up a little too late, it's safe to say that they did, considering the fact that they entered the playoffs as the eighth seed, which will require them to beat tournament favorites Team Spirit in the quarterfinals, who have been looking like a force to be reckoned with for a long time. the best team on the planet.
Natus Vincere took advantage of playing paiN Gaming in the fifth round, a Brazilian team that was not expected to make it this far, going 13-10 on Nuke and 13-9 on Mirage.
In the playoffs, Na'Vi will play against Eternal Fire, the team that, along with Spirit and MOUZ, perhaps showed the most in the group stage, which is why there will not be a clear favorite in this match.
Home crowd favorites G2 Esports will have an extremely difficult task to beat MOUZ who look much better than them in the group stage and qualified for the quarter-finals with a 3-0 after just the second day, but we all know how powerful G2 can be when all the dice are on the line. matches, so we definitely can't write them off in this match, in which they will leave the role of favorite to the opponent.
The winners of the Spirit - FaZe derby will come out on top in another very interesting matchup between Vitality and Cloud9.
All told, this is one of the best Major playoff finishes we've ever had, and now it just remains to be seen if anyone can stop Team Spirit from continuing where they left off by winning IEM Katowice 2024, or if the era Spirit continues.
