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Oct 29, 2023 6:13 pm

Virtus.pro, Monte reach playoffs at Thunderpick World Championship

Virtus.pro and Monte each won decider matches on Sunday to stay alive and make the playoffs in the Thunderpick World Championship.

Virtus.pro defeated Fnatic 2-1 in Group A, while Monte shut out SAW 2-0 in Group B play.

They joined Cloud9 and FaZe Clan, winners Saturday, as playoff participants. Fnatic and SAW were eliminated.

Meanwhile, Group C got underway Sunday as well. MOUZ defeated M80 2-0 while Team Spirit likewise swept its opponent, Complexity, 2-0.

Sixteen teams were divided into four double-elimination groups of four at the $500,000 event. The top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination bracket that concludes Nov. 5. All matches are best-of-three.

Virtus.pro led things off with a 13-2 win on Overpass before Fnatic rallied to force a third game with a 22-20 marathon victory on Inferno. VP closed out the match by winning 13-10 on Ancient.

All five of the Russian-based VP starting players finished with positive kills-to-deaths ratios, led by Petr “fame” Bolyshev at plus-20 (71 kills) and Dzhami “Jame” Ali at plus-19 (57 kills). Sweden’s Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson led fnatic with a 61-51 K-D ratio.

Portugal-based SAW pushed Monte in both games, but still fell 13-10 on Vertigo and 13-9 on Anubis for the sweep.

Four of five players finished with positive K-D ratios for Monte, with Ukraine’s Volodymyr “Woro2k” Veletniuk standing out with a plus-19 ratio (45-26). Joao “story” Vieira paced the losing side at plus-7 (40 kills).

Spirit crushed Complexity 13-3 on Anubis before wrapping up the overall win 13-10 on Nuke. Danil “donk” Kryshkovets of Russia starred with a plus-24 differential (45-21).

MOUZ took out M80 13-7 on Ancient and 13-11 on Vertigo. Hungary’s Adam “torzsi” Torzsas paced the winners with 39 kills (plus-16).

Group stage action continues Monday with four matches:
–Complexity vs. M80 (Group C elimination match)
–Team Spirit vs. MOUZ (Group C winners match)
–Heroic vs. Nouns Esports (Group D opening match)
–FURIA Esports vs. BIG (Group D opening match)

Group stage standings (W-L, point differential):
Group A
1. Cloud9, 2-0, plus-10
2. Virtus.pro, 2-1, plus-16
3. Fnatic, 1-2, minus-9 (eliminated)
4. Ninjas in Pyjamas, 0-2, minus-17 (eliminated)

Group B
1. FaZe Clan, 2-0, plus-23
2. Monte, 2-1, plus-16
3. SAW, 1-2, minus-9 (eliminated)
4. Wildcard Gaming, 0-2, minus-30 (eliminated)

Group C
T1. MOUZ, 1-0, plus-8
T1. Team Spirit, 1-0, plus-13
T3. Complexity, 0-1, minus-13
T3. M80, 0-1, minus-8

–Field Level Media

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