NAVI top EPL Group C; fnatic, mouz squeeze through to playoffs

31-8-2021 23:48

An unfavorable three-way tie eliminated FaZe from the tournament.

The final round of ESL Pro League Group C matches have been played out, with Natus Vincere claiming the top spot with a victory over FaZe. Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's men weren't out of playoff contention after the 2-0 loss, but the other two games didn't finish favorably for them, leading to elimination.

fnatic dispatched Evil Geniuses as was expected, which combined with Natus Vincere's victory secured Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin's men a place in the playoffs. The final spot was decided by the BIG - MOUZ game, where Christopher "⁠dexter⁠" Nong and co. claimed a 2-1 win to push on in the event.

Perfecto's clutches enabled a 2-0 win for NAVI

Ultimately, the group stage standing saw three teams tied in the 2nd-4th fourth spot with three wins each: MOUZ, fnatic, and FaZe. The international trio entered a three-way tie, where FaZe finished last of the bunch due to head-to-head map difference. Despite beating Natus Vincere, BIG placed fifth with just two wins, while Evil Geniuses mirrored the form of Bad News Bears and G2 going 0-5 in ESL Pro League.

EPL Group C: Four teams battle for two playoffs spots

Finishing first sees Natus Vincere skip the first round of playoffs, while MOUZ and fnatic will start the bracket play in the round of 12 alongside the likes of Vitality and Complexity.

ESL Pro League Season 14Best of 3

Natus Vincere

Matchpage

31st August 2021

FaZe

Inferno

Nuke

ESL Pro League Season 14Best of 3

Evil Geniuses

Matchpage

31st August 2021

fnatic

Nuke

Inferno

ESL Pro League Season 14Best of 3

BIG

Matchpage

31st August 2021

MOUZ

Nuke

Dust2

Mirage

ESL Pro League Season 14 Group C final standings:

Group C

TEAM

EZ FOR FNATIC

2021-08-31 23:49

18 replies

FaZe fans malding

12 replies

#fazedown

2021-08-31 23:54

1 reply

Godfecto with 10 1vX clutches in EPL. s1mply a god

2021-09-01 00:00

2 rounds was the difference between fnatic and faze

2021-09-01 00:59

7 replies

"The international trio entered a three-way tie, where FaZe finished last of the bunch due to head-to-head map difference." it wasnt decided with rounds

2021-09-01 01:16

5 replies

This is a bad format, if it was the double elimination format, Faze was qualified long ago

2021-09-01 01:21

4 replies

you cant compare what they did in this format to what they would do in d.e. format. They most likely wouldnt get to play Mousesports first, and they surely wouldnt meet EG in 2nd round, so no FaZe wouldnt have already qualified. Also this format is pretty good, we get to see more interesting matches. I wish we had a league where everyone played everyone like the academy league but that seems unlikely to happen.

2021-09-01 01:33

that would mean the worst teams would be in the same bracket, seeding is done better than this so no, this wouldn't have happened either way

2021-09-01 03:34

cry

2021-09-01 03:56

Cry is free

2021-09-01 11:00

no it was h2h, round difference is literally the last thing they use for tiebreakers

2021-09-01 03:33

Can't believe it lol. At least they seem to be improving!

2021-09-01 03:35

So happy clown clan didn't qualify

2021-09-01 10:40

almost lost to big

2021-08-31 23:57

3 replies

Navi lost to big, so Fnatic>Big>Navi Fnatic top 1 confirmed

2021-09-01 00:18

2 replies

But... Navi 2-0 fnatic

2021-09-01 00:52

Shhhhh we dont talk about that.

2021-09-01 01:03

YES SIR

2021-09-01 00:24

2021-08-31 23:48

Good

faze is finished

Unfortunate

Faze ((

rip faze

pretty nice group

Navi era lessgooo

Bye faze was a good run

2021-08-31 23:50

Online = Faze out :(

VAMOUZ!

2021-08-31 23:51

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2021-09-01 14:00

WTF Faze is out

wp Perfecto nice clutches

6 replies

especially 1v1 against scout in window

2021-09-01 01:38

perfect0 > zywho anyday

2021-09-01 01:39

what does it have to do with zywho? do i look like his fan?

2021-09-01 01:40

hltv.org/forums/threads/2490669/s1mple#r..

Men you snake!

2021-09-01 08:51

ClutchKing

2021-09-01 12:07

wp fnatic

2021-08-31 23:53

shitty group system

8 replies

what do you suggest hm?

a system where teams dont get eliminated with a positive 3-2 score maybe swiss system, or single elimination system

2021-08-31 23:55

Someone has to miss out

2021-08-31 23:59

They all were 3-2 so the teams with more map wins went trough just like the UCL, World Cup and all football tournaments do with goal difference. the way to break the tie its the most fair wym?

2021-09-01 00:11

there should be no ties. we have better systemes

2021-09-01 12:08

swiss has to be 16, unless they cut down to 16 teams(which would leave out a lot of good teams) or expand to 32 teams(which would be pretty huge) and have 2 swiss systems where 16 move onto playoffs(which i wouldnt be an opponent to but that's a lot of cs if we're running full bo3s swiss and 16 teams in playoffs) single elimination bad bc way too unforgiving for one loss/upset

2021-09-01 03:36

I think it is a great system since it is "fair". everyone has a go at everyone, like BIG upseting NAVI or OG showing clear dominance over everyone. and it resulted in a tense group where nothing was decided until last moment. thrilling to watch and fun to play I guess.

2021-09-01 00:08

Lol faze fans crying

2021-09-01 10:16

Get fucked BUG

EZ 4 Perfect10

xD poor faze

Well they had a bad day against fnatic and lost to number one in the world, it was a good run

I am happy for fnatic. Good JOB !

2021-09-01 00:03

Rip faze tbh it's their fault losing to fnatic like that

Unlucko FaZe

Such an amazing group! Very unfortunate for faze.

Faze robbed!

2021-09-01 00:20

Faze fault tbh

2021-09-01 05:05

if they won 2 more rounds they make playoffs comedy

2021-09-01 05:10

I've seen more than 5+ rounds faze could of won, but they choked / incompetent. Only competent teams go through my friend

2021-09-01 05:30

fnatic is not very competent neither is mouz

2021-09-01 05:33

much more than faze apparently

2021-09-01 05:43

Mouz doesnt seem to be a more competent team tbh, on the other hand, fnatic after changes does

2021-09-01 08:54

no, read the rulebook first, here: cdn.eslgaming.com/misc/media/lo/ESL%20Pr..

2021-09-01 08:19

me no read me stupid

2021-09-01 08:32

Unlucky for FaZe.

2021-09-01 00:23

Great group, wouldve liked to see FaZe in playoffs but whatever

Faze was fighting for 1st place or out of group XD What a joke

2021-09-01 00:27

It's exciting.

2021-09-01 06:41

sadge for faze but happy for mouz)

2021-09-01 00:29

12-3 on Half and losing the map for Fnatic like that way then don't wait anything to qualify olof thanks for everything rain thanks for eveyrthing leave us please

2021-09-01 00:37

Expected fro navi

2021-09-01 00:39

Perfecto clutch god

2021-09-01 00:41

faze rekt themselves on the fnatic game, serves them right. Ez mouz!

2021-09-01 00:48

Lol sad for faze. Bur it didnt make sense, faze get all head to head against mouze and big but in the end that head to head is not used anymore

2021-09-01 00:50

what are you on about? it was a 3 way between faze mouz and fnatic in the first place and losing to fnatic 2-0 cost them the spot cus h2h was tied (its map difference after h2h)

2021-09-01 05:45

read the rulebook before spitting nonsence

2021-09-01 08:07

Damn all my fav teams won<3 (i like faze too)

I would've swapped faze with mouz tbh

2021-09-01 01:14

2021-09-01 05:38

-1

whre is the 74% chance for faze?

2021-09-01 01:50

Mousesports doing well

2021-09-01 01:59

#FAZEDOWN HAHAHHAHAHHAAHAH THATS THE BEST THING COULD HAPPEN HAHAHHHA

2021-09-01 03:24

EZ4NAVI

2021-09-01 05:17

Winning against Navi and then Not winning 1 Match against one of mouz, faze and fnatic Sounds like the most BIG thing to do

2021-09-01 05:24

mannn faze i feel so bad

ASSUP fazedown

2021-09-01 06:00

Kinda joke system, if you win 1 more series you top group if you lose than you wont go trough.

2021-09-01 07:14

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Not really, faze just seemed to be doing better than mouz and fnatic when the final day of play began .. kind of an illusion .. the other two had already faced daddy navi

2021-09-01 08:52

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Its not about Faze. It looks just dumb when last game if you win you top group or if you lose you wont make to playoffs.

2021-09-01 09:28

it's fair actually... everyone plays against everyone... no luck involved, it's just that FaZe got to play against NaVi (best team in the group) in the last day... the reason they are out is because they dropped a map against mouz... mouz got second place cause they beat fnatic 2-0 and lost to faze 2-1 (they won 1 map)

2021-09-01 10:46

I would still prefer less groups and swiss system

2021-09-01 11:12

swiss is random af... #1 team and #2 team can play against each other in the first or second round, and the loser will have bad tiebreakers at the end

2021-09-01 11:16

Its more fair than counting maps and rounds, andthere are no games for nothing. There is always a stake. And here you have example of fair groups? Only EG was weak in this one rest would be in playoffs no matter were they end up. What tie breakers you mean? There are none couze after you are faced elimination every game until you go playoffs.

2021-09-01 12:09

Group stages in sports always were like that. If you watch soccer world championships, everything can happen sometimes in a group stage in the last game. That’s just how it is. Swiss is a lot more random and unfair

2021-09-01 12:17

+1 stacked groups always get close and anything can happen but it's fair... FaZe dropped a map vs mouz and that's what cost them the spot in the playoffs, they had their chance to 2-0 mouz or at least steal a map from fnatic instead of losing 2-0

2021-09-01 12:24

I dissagree

2021-09-01 13:14

there are tiebreakers in swiss too... if you have lost a game in early stages you will have bad tiebreakers... +every round you are facing a RANDOM team with the same wins as you... anyways i'm not here to explain this to you... round robin is the best format and you can cry as much as you want :D

2021-09-01 12:21

Swiss works for me and stop with this childlish bs, if you dont care dont waste your time.

2021-09-01 13:15

This group deserves 5 playoff spots

EG - Eternal Garbage LMAO

2021-09-01 09:34

+1 atleast faze deserve to go through and could be now in playoffs if they played in another group

2021-09-01 10:42

RIP BIG

2021-09-01 09:55

im just glad that Mouz qualified. already knew NaVi would do that easily so no sweating

2021-09-01 10:48

Godfecto

2021-09-01 11:13

ClutchKing Perfecto made it look very s1mple Best team in the world rn no doubt about that

2021-09-01 12:12

<3 mouz

Great job for NaVi, they are the favourites to win it imo. fnatic kind of surprised me, but I doubt they will make it deep in the playoffs. Same for mousesports tbh. This was kind of surprising group. GL to every team in the playoffs. Let's go NaVi!

2021-09-01 13:52