We’ve reached the tip of the ESL Professional League S21 Group Stage, with three groups nabbing the ultimate Playoff spots of the occasion. You’ve learn the title, you already know who made it – let’s check out how all of them secured their locations within the subsequent stage, we could?
Liquid overcome spirited 3DMAX
Credit score: Luc Bouchon | ESL
Group Liquid had been in a position to decide up the primary of the remaining three Playoff berths, in what was a surprisingly aggressive sequence in opposition to 3DMAX. Even for this inconsistent Liquid roster, I figured this might be a simple 2:0, however I had underestimated the huge leaps 3DMAX have made since bringing in bodyy. The Frenchmen put up a spirited efficiency in opposition to Liquid, finally falling 2:1 and operating out of steam on the end line.
It simply all appeared to go proper by way of Liquid’s customary win circumstances. With final exhibiting up, it’s troublesome for Liquid to lose, actually. And when you might have an IGL that may put up fragging numbers like Twistzz right here, once more, they’ll be robust to beat.
Wicadia and woxic present palms Everlasting Fireplace the win over Falcons
Credit score: Helena Kristiansson | ESL
After it appeared like Falcons turned a nook by reaching the Closing of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 final month, it’s again to disappointment for the crew after they didn’t qualify for the Playoffs of ESL Professional League S21. It was an energizing win for Everlasting Fireplace in a back-and-forth sequence, giving the Turkish crew a powerful outcome to have a good time heading into the Quarter-Finals. It looks like Everlasting Fireplace have had a slight stoop of late, so to nonetheless qualify out of the ESL Professional League Group Stage remains to be a great outcome.
One factor is for positive: Everlasting Fireplace will probably be thanking their fortunate stars that that they had Wicadia and woxic right this moment. A mixture of youth and expertise, this duo completely terrorized Falcons throughout all three maps of this sequence, carrying at the same time as IGL MAJ3R struggled to search out affect of his personal. If these two play like this in opposition to everybody, who can cease Everlasting Fireplace?
G2 provide an excessive amount of for GamerLegion
Credit score: ESL
The newest iteration of the ever-evolving GamerLegion roster has made some robust strides of late, however G2 turned out to be an excessive amount of, too quickly. There’s no disgrace in that, however this actually was one-way visitors in a 2:0 sequence that solely ever had one winner written throughout it.
So, what was the distinction right here? I believe you already know – m0NESY, in fact. He performed like a person on a mission in each spherical, placing up a 48-25 scoreline to assist G2 romp to victory right here. For context, solely 46 rounds had been performed within the sequence, in order that’s greater than a kill a spherical on common all through. And simply to drill residence how large the AWP distinction was on this sequence, GamerLegion’s sl3nd managed a 13-32 scoreline throughout each maps. Not precisely successful numbers.
Now we’ve got our ESL Professional League S21 Quarter-Closing matches locked in, you possibly can see the matchups beneath:
Everlasting Fireplace vs. Group Spirit
MOUZ vs. G2
Vitality vs. Group Liquid
NAVI vs. The MongolZ
