Legacy easily beat Tyloo, which was expected. Pain also beat Astralis. It was Mibr who were the only ones eliminated.
Anyway, at least there are still two Brazilian teams. I almost forgot Furia. BIG won the first map on Ancient. The second map was Overpass.
Although BIG chose the map, B8 won the pistol round. Maybe it will go to a decider. There isn't a significant difference between the two teams. B8 isn't just a team that wins its own maps; it's also a team that can win its opponents' maps.

This is so weird considering that both of those players were the reason they were doing kinda OK recently, they even made it to EWC although the MESWA qualifiers consisted of pretty lame teams there. Something probably happened behind the scene, I wish I know what it was. Its kinda intriguing

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Anyways we got the retirement home stacks playing right now. All 5 of them are streaming, currently 0-1 down against L1GA team



Personally I think they have potential to get to the closed qualifiers but to qualify to TI, that would be another story. Qojqva is not really suited to play pos 3 imo

I believe all Stage 3 matches will be best-of-three. The first two matches we’ll be watching will be Parivision vs 9z and Mongolz vs BetBoom. I think it’s difficult to predict who will win the Parivision-9z match. If Jame and his team have had a good preparation period, they will certainly win, but 9z can also be seen as a team in good form at the moment. I don’t think Mongolz will make any mistakes and they will take the win in the first match.

I want to see how Legacy will handle stage 3, because in theory they are much tougher opponents. And that's why, as I mentioned here, I want to see how Vitality will start the matches, because that will determine whether they win this one or not. If they do well, I'll bet on them to be the champion right away.

I was watching all most of their game yesterday and one thing I can tell is that they need better pos 3. Topson need to tone down a little bit, sometimes he gets too agressive which cost the team as well. He really need to differentiate a proper tournament game and a pub game

I think the rest were pretty mid but I honestly think they got a shot on the 2nd open qualifiers. Most of the tier 2 teams are gonna make it from the 1st open quals so that leave them with all those mediocre stacks as well

Parivision suffered a heavy defeat on the first map. The first map was Overpass, selected by 9z. 9z managed to win the first map 13-1. Luchov and huasopeek were the standout players for the team.

In the other match, Mongolz also managed to secure a narrow victory on Dust2, the map selected by BetBoom, taking a 1-0 lead. On this map, 910 was the standout player for the team.

There goes my bet I had on Parivision to win. Not sure how they messed up so badly starting off like that. Only winning a single round on a map shows something is not working within the team and the blame would go to ingame leader.
Atleast I was correct on the next game between Mongolz as I thought they wouldn't have enough to get past a respectable BetBoom squad in these majors.
Currently MOUZ are beating Legacy in their match which just has the first map finish and surprisingly Vitality lost to FUT on their map.

Alot of matches happening in these later stages today including:
Falcons vs G2
FURIA vs B8
Navi vs Spirit
Aurora vs Monte

Although Parivision 9z managed to take the match to a decider map, they were unable to defeat their opponents. Luchov put in a legendary performance throughout the match and played a major part in his team’s victory. He finished the match with a 2.00 rating and managed to secure 70 kills. In Parivision, xiELO’s efforts were insufficient. To be honest, after Luchov’s performance, I didn’t think they stood a chance of winning. Even on the map 9z lost, Luchov was the standout player.

9z just had the better supporting cast whenever their best player is firing on all cylinders. Parivision still made it interesting in that final map, but when zweih is bottom fragging, it's just rough.

In today's next round, both of them should be expected to go 1-1 since 9z is facing Vitality while Parivision is lucky to get Monte in the 0-1 bracket.

Furia played well against Mouz, despite it being a 2-1 score, Mouz managed to score 7 points on the third map. So in my view, they are a very strong team and I believe they will be a top 4 team in the championship. Meanwhile, Legacy is losing to NaVi. And I think they will lose and will face FUT.