Stand-in jL helped Vitality beat NAVI 2-0 to succeed in the PGL Masters Bucharest playoffs, whereas NAVI now face Spirit in an elimination match. The outcomes land days earlier than the November 2 standings that set the PGL Main Singapore invitations.
jL’s first match towards NAVI since he left the group in July led to a lopsided win. NAVI’s personal Inferno decide become a rout for Vitality. On Dust2, they got here again from 3-9 down. They closed the sequence with 10 straight rounds and booked their playoff place.
jL went 13-5 with a 1.58 ranking throughout the sequence. mezii was even sharper at 19-9 with a 1.86 ranking. On the opposite aspect, NAVI’s Mihai ‘iM’ Ivan died in each spherical of the primary half on Inferno with no kill. He completed that map at 5.1 ADR.
5-game rule makes jL Vitality’s Main roster participant
Vitality named jL in August as an alternative to BLAST Open Porto and PGL Masters Bucharest. He covers mezii and apEX whereas each take paternity go away. In Bucharest, he’s standing in for apEX. As a result of Vitality should play no less than 5 video games on the occasion, the five-game rule makes jL the participant on their invited Main roster, HLTV reported. That ought to ship the Singapore Main stickers to jL relatively than apEX.
Vitality’s one defeat to this point got here towards FUT. FUT received that sequence 2-1, getting back from 4-8 down on the deciding map. That made them the primary group into the playoffs.
NAVI’s slide units up a decider towards Spirit
NAVI began 2-0 earlier than losses to BetBoom and Vitality. Spirit now stand between them and elimination. Spirit dropped into that match after a 2-1 loss to MOUZ.
MOUZ misplaced their very own Nuke decide 2-13. They then took Dust2 13-8 and Mirage 16-14. On Mirage, donk posted 12 multi-kills, a 35-20 Ok-D, 123.6 ADR and a 1.93 ranking. Spirit nonetheless misplaced the map after main 12-10. MOUZ are actually 4-1 towards Spirit for the reason that summer season break.
Aurora took the third playoff spot of the day towards Liquid. Liquid led 10-8 on the Cache decider, however Aurora received the map 13-10. Jimpphat completed with a server-high 1.28 ranking. It’s Aurora’s fourth playoff qualification in a row. That run features a second-place end at StarLadder StarSeries Fall and two third-place finishes.
G2 and 9z are already out at 0-3. G2 misplaced to NAVI, Aurora and DENDELE, with the 2-1 defeat to DENDELE approaching October 26.
The stakes transcend Bucharest’s $1.25M prize pool. The champion takes $450,000, and groups ending fifth to eighth every get $50,000. The occasion runs till October 31. It’s the final top-level LAN earlier than the Singapore invitations are locked. The outcomes will form Valve Regional Standings positions and resolve which stage groups begin the Main in.
As soon as the invitations are locked, groups face admin deadlines on November 6 and 9. The Main itself runs from November 24 to December 13.
