CSGO: Monte, Natus Vincere advance to semis at ESL Pro League 18

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Monte and Natus Vincere each recorded a sweep on Thursday to advance to the semifinals of the ESL Pro League Season 18 playoffs in Saint Julian’s, Malta.

Monte posted a 2-0 victory over Team Vitality and Natus Vincere won by the same score over Eternal Fire. The victorious teams will square off on Saturday.

The $850,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event began with 32 teams broken up into four groups of eight. Group-stage winners advanced to the quarterfinals; runners-up advanced to the Round of 12 as the high seeds; third-place teams advanced to the Round of 16 as the high seeds; and fourth-place teams advanced to the Round of 16 as the low seeds.

The group stage is triple elimination with upper, middle and lower brackets. All matches are best-of-three until the grand final, which is best-of-five.

The tournament runs through Sunday. The winner earns $200,000 and qualifies for the 2024 IEM Katowice event and the 2023 BLAST World Final.

On Thursday, Monte punched their ticket to the semifinals with a 16-11 win on Anubis and 16-14 victory on Nuke.

Sergiy “DemQQ” Demchenko of the Ukraine recorded 53 kills and a plus-21 kills-to-death differential for Monte.

Frenchman Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut paced Vitality with 46 kills and a plus-4 kills-to-death differential.

Natus Vincere dispatched Eternal Fire following their 16-7 win on Anubis and 16-10 victory on Nuke.

Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev of the Ukraine had 43 kills and a plus-14 kills-to-death differential to pace Natus Vincere.

Engin “MAJER” Kupeli had 31 kills to fuel the all-China team of Eternal Fire.

The playoffs pick up again Friday with two quarterfinal matches:
–ENCE vs. Movistar Riders
–MOUZ vs. G2 Esports

ESL Pro League Season 18 prize pool
1. $200,000, 3,000 BLAST Premier points — TBD
2. $90,000, 2,000 BLAST points — TBD
3-4. $50,000, 1,200 points — TBD
5-8. $35,000, 500 points — Eternal Fire, Team Vitality, TBD
9-12. $25,000 — Complexity Gaming, BIG, 9z Team, FaZe Clan
13-16. $20,000 — Fnatic, Astralis, Virtus.pro, FURIA Esports
17-20. $15,000 — Gamer Legion, MIBR, 5yclone, Team Liquid
21-28. $8,000 — Ninjas in Pyjamas, Grayhound Gaming, Heroic, Evil Geniuses, Imperial Esports, Apeks, Cloud9, Lynn Vision Gaming
29-32. $4,000 — ORKS, Rooster, M80, 9INE

–Field Level Media

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