MOUZ and The MongolZ will meet in the Group A upper-bracket final after their victories Tuesday at the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Melbourne 2025 event in Australia.
Team Vitality and Team Falcons will square off in the upper-bracket final in Group B at the 16-team Counter-Strike 2 tournament.
The top three teams from each group advance to the playoffs, with group stage winners moving to the semifinals, runners-up advancing to the quarterfinals as high seeds, and third-place teams advancing the quarterfinals as the low seeds. The single-elimination playoffs begin on Friday. All matches are best-of-three until Sunday’s best-of-five grand final, with the winner earning $125,000.
In Tuesday’s Group A upper-bracket semifinals, MOUZ defeated GamerLegion with a 13-6 win on Inferno and a 16-13 win on Nuke. The MongolZ beat FaZe Clan with a 13-8 win on Dust II and a 16-13 decision on Ancient.
In Group B, Team Vitality took down Team Liquid with a 13-5 win on Mirage and a 13-8 win on Nuke. Team Falcons overcame a 13-9 loss to Natus Vincere on Inferno with a 13-11 win on Mirage and a 13-4 victory on Dust II.
In the Group A lower-bracket quarterfinals, 3DMAX eliminated BIG and Complexity knocked out paiN Gaming, both via sweeps. In Group B, FlyQuest swept Virtus.pro and MIBR sent SAW home with a 2-1 win.
Wednesday’s schedule: Group A –MOUZ vs. The MongolZ (upper-bracket final) –Faze Clan vs. 3DMAX (lower-bracket semifinal) –GamerLegion vs. Complexity (lower-bracket semifinal)
Group B –Team Vitality vs. Team Falcons (upper-bracket final) –Natus Vincere vs. FlyQuest (lower-bracket semifinal) –Team Liquid vs. MIBR (lower-bracket semifinal)
IEM Melbourne prize pool: 1. $125,000 2. $50,000 3-4. $25,000 5-6. $12,500 7-8. $7,000 9-12. $5,000 13-16. $4,000 — BIG, paiN Gaming, Virtus.pro, SAW
–Field Level Media
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