After a full day of motion in Malta, NAVI and MOUZ have punched their tickets to the ESL Professional League Season 18 Grand Finals with victories within the semifinal spherical.
NAVI scored a 2-0 victory over Monte, but it surely was a detailed affair. Monte scored twelve rounds on Anubis and raced to a 9-6 on Mirage earlier than NAVI stormed again on the CT facet on Anubis, profitable 10 rounds to at least one to shut out the sequence.
MOUZ’s victory over ENCE was a a lot nearer affair. The perfect-of-three ended 2-1, with MOUZ needing a stellar CT half on Nuke to lastly pull by way of. MOUZ took Mirage, the primary map, 16-13, adopted by an ENCE 16-11 win on Vertigo after a stellar T half. MOUZ then thrashed ENCE on Nuke, considered one of their greatest maps.
The ultimate guarantees to be an thrilling affair: NAVI boasts a few of Counter-Strike‘s largest stars, like Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, whereas MOUZ’s in-game chief, Kamil “siuhy” Szkaradek, took his GamerLegion workforce to the grand finals of the BLAST Paris Main simply months in the past. Each groups have made nice runs within the event to date: NAVI hasn’t dropped a single map. MOUZ took an early 1-2 loss to MIBR, however since then, has solely dropped maps towards a star-studded G2 and ENCE.
NAVI and MOUZ will sq. off for the lion’s share of the $850,000 prize pool and the consideration of being the final Professional League champions within the Counter-Strike: International Offensive period. Future Professional League competitions will likely be held on the newly-released CS2. Whereas there is no such thing as a clear timeline as to precisely when the swap will likely be made for different event organizers, all future ESL competitions will be on CS2. It’s virtually time for the brand new period of the esport, and there’s potential for tomorrow’s matchup to be the final considered one of its form within the historical past of International Offensive.
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