Had not followed a match from an academy team for quite a while but do when their top tiered counter part are not playing in a current tournament or major, so see why you are mentioning about this ESEA.
You must be just getting warmed up for the next one to begin in a few days from now in Cologne.
As you had predicted it did go to the third and deciding map where Falcons force ended up winning. They now face Quazar in the upper quarter-finals to this double elimination bracket.

They have already changed it and renamed it into "1w Team". That's a good renaming and the brand is still known with their team name. I forgot about this ban by Valve about the betting sponsors and was thinking why it had became BoomBoys. Anyway, the TI qualifiers for each region is about to come for the coming weeks this month.

The winner in that matchup faces BB, while the loser is expected to meet Gaimin Gladiators in the 0-1 bracket.

Currently, it's the only match left in the first round, but round 2 should be kicking off in the next hour or so. HLTV is probably waiting for the final match before they update the entire schedule.

NaVi fell short against Pipsqueak in the lower bracket for taking the last slot for the Esports World Cup on the WEU qualifier. So, it's now done for this region and the two teams that are going to take it are LGD Gaming and Pipsqueak+4. So break it down, there are 4 slots for the EEU and two were already taken by Two Move and Poor Rangers. While for SEA, they'll start later and as for the MESWA, Nigma is waiting in the grand finals already.

Liquid will replace Parivision for Blast Slam 7 playoffs.





New bracket:

The teams who are at the bottom of the table so far, I think they should not lose the hope, they  have chances to make their place up yeah it looks hard for them to take Chicken Dinner but still not the impossible, at least they just look for kill points and if its hard then camp in the houses or play safely where the circle comes so that you may have some placement points but at the same time try to play fearlessly and with no pressure, leading to an balanced and great game.

Good for Team Liquid, it's just sad that Parivision has got these travel problems maybe another visa problem of one of theirs. I wonder if the prize of Team Liquid will be changed if they end up good on Blast and then it will be split with Parivision. Because currently in the standing, they ended with 7th-8th place with $25k.

Just finished seeing B8 blank M80 and it was a really good one to watch. Since B8 are a team who have been improving with every tournament they play in because many doubt them winning these sort of matches against decent teams but they find a way to win them.
The last map was where they showed their excel in performance taking it to double overtime just so make sure M80 didn't make any comeback and being able to move on to stage 2 of this IEM in Cologne.

Was not too familiar with the players on M80 but the post-game interview did mention about their players not having enough skill in certain points in the match. Just as an example, one of their players tossed their weapon away thinking he was getting an upgrade but had mistakenly just threw it in the line of fire for the opposing team to snipe him.
Things such as this costs teams who are playing in OT the match.
Just finished watching FlyQuest beat THUNDER dOWNUNDER and it was a no-contest on the second map taking them down 13-3.
Next up is the match you are probably wanting to see with GamerLegion vs BiG.
The other match currently being played is Tyloo up against Sharks who are tied with one map a piece.