Spirit eliminate NAVI from EPIC League CIS; Virtus.pro move past Entropiq
The CIS powerhouse Natus Vincere was handed an early exit from the Regional Major Ranking (RMR) tournament, placing 5-6th after a 2-0 defeat in the lower bracket.
Spirit and Virtus.pro will meet in the lower bracket final of EPIC League CIS 2021 after handing 2-0 defeats to Natus Vincere and Entropiq, respectively. The two eliminated teams have placed 5-6th and earned 1150 RMR points, while the eventual winner will claim 1600.
"Terrible performance of the whole team," Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev commented on Twitter after a tournament-eliminating series in which he was the only one to post an above-average rating for Natus Vincere. A loss to Akuma on Monday that put them in the lower bracket proved to be quite costly for the "Black and Yellow", as an uninspired performance against Spirit brings their run at the first RMR tournament of 2021 to an early end.

The two teams were neck-and-neck on Mirage for a large chunk of the map, with little to separate the two. Spirit's best performer of the tournament so far, Viktor "sdy" Orudzhev, continued his good showing in this playoff match and ended up being the difference-maker on Natus Vincere's pick with a 1.43 rating, edging out the map in his team's favor 16-12.
Natus Vincere got off to a decent start on the CT side of Dust2, 3-1, but the entries secured by sdy and Nikolay "mir" Bityukov put them on the back foot shortly. Spirit grabbed momentum and ran up a 10-5 half-time lead which was extened to 14-6 thanks to a pistol round and clean conversions. A comeback proved to be too tall of a task for Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhailov and co., who ultimately fell 16-8 on Dust2 and suffered a 2-0 defeat for the series.
The other series started well for Entropiq, who went up 5-2 on the Terrorist side of Dust2 before Virtus.pro took control of proceedings on their map pick. Dzhami "Jame" Ali, Timur "buster" Tulepov, and Mareks "YEKINDAR" Gaļinskis were leading the charge as the favorites turned things around to win the map 16-10. The momentum was carried on to Overpass where Virtus.pro got 8-2 up straight out of the gates, taking the map 16-7 to eliminate Entropiq in 5-6th place.
| K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 - 39 | +6 | 93.1 | 67.3% | 1.19 | |
| 30 - 38 | -8 | 69.1 | 82.7% | 0.99 | |
| 30 - 33 | -3 | 64.1 | 76.9% | 0.98 | |
| 26 - 40 | -14 | 60.4 | 65.4% | 0.76 | |
| 24 - 37 | -13 | 59.9 | 57.7% | 0.73 |
| K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 - 29 | +14 | 84.8 | 84.6% | 1.35 | |
| 40 - 31 | +9 | 89.6 | 75.0% | 1.31 | |
| 34 - 33 | +1 | 70.0 | 78.8% | 1.16 | |
| 34 - 27 | +7 | 68.9 | 69.2% | 1.13 | |
| 36 - 36 | 0 | 76.1 | 76.9% | 1.08 |
Entropiq |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 - 38 | -8 | 74.4 | 65.3% | 0.96 | |
| 32 - 33 | -1 | 62.9 | 63.3% | 0.94 | |
| 26 - 34 | -8 | 60.9 | 71.4% | 0.90 | |
| 29 - 38 | -9 | 69.3 | 61.2% | 0.84 | |
| 24 - 36 | -12 | 61.4 | 55.1% | 0.71 |
| K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 - 22 | +20 | 84.6 | 77.6% | 1.40 | |
| 41 - 24 | +17 | 90.8 | 79.6% | 1.36 | |
| 38 - 42 | -4 | 95.4 | 73.5% | 1.20 | |
| 30 - 28 | +2 | 61.1 | 69.4% | 0.97 | |
| 28 - 28 | 0 | 65.4 | 69.4% | 0.92 |

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