VP, BIG, Spirit, FaZe join Pinnacle Fall Series 1 in playoff stage

6-9-2021 14:31

All four of the invited squads were eliminated in the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 14 and will be searching for redemption against a weaker field of play.

The final four invites for the playoffs of Pinnacle Fall Series 1 have been set with BIG, FaZe, Spirit and Virtus.pro receiving direct spots into the top eight of the event. They will face off against the four teams who progress through the round-of-12.

Of the four squads, FaZe were the closest to playoffs in EPL, missing out on a spot following a three-way tiebreaker based on round differential with fnatic and MOUZ.

FaZe fell short in Pro League and need to prove themselves once more.

Despite their shock 2-0 victory against Natus Vincere, BIG were unable to make it out of the same group as FaZe in Pro League. Nicklas "⁠gade⁠" Gade's recent addition to the squad raises questions about the form of the team at the moment and whether they have had the time to integrate the Dane into the lineup fully.

Virtus.pro are the highest ranked team from the CIS region in the event and will already place ahead of Spirit Academy, K23 and 1win who were knocked out in previous stages. Despite the team's losses in Pro League, Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali continues to be the highest rated player on the team and one of the factors of success for the team.

Spirit will have to prove their worth as the lowest ranked of the invited teams if they want to prove themselves as contenders for the top 10. While the featured teams are not as strong as their Pro League group, the Russian team will have an opportunity to prove themselves against Virtus.pro from their region in addition to FaZe and BIG. Spirit struggled in Pro League, only managing a single win over G2 as Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov finished among the lowest rated players for the event.

The playoffs of the tournament have already kicked off, where Copenhagen Flames have secured their spot in the top eight with a 2-0 against 1win. Find the full playoff bracket on our event page.

The 12 playoff teams for the event are seen below:

Invited teams

Qualified teams

Looking forward to all of them getting upset

2021-09-06 14:36

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if we’re counting online, they’ve won IEM NY, when niko was announced to leave

2021-09-06 14:34

1 reply

yeah just realized i completely forgot about that

2021-09-06 14:35

EZ4FALMES

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2021-09-06 14:32

EZ4FAZE

VAMOS

GOGOVP

2021-09-06 14:33

tier3 teams invited to tier3 event make sense

6 replies

kkkk

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Me Navi, me super stronk, me getting rekt by Tier 3 team from germany. Idiot.

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oh no navi lost to underdog team once in a year !

2021-09-06 14:52

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hltv.org/matches/2348762/natus-vincere-v.. hltv.org/matches/2348986/natus-vincere-v.. hltv.org/matches/2348992/natus-vincere-v.. hltv.org/matches/2346938/natus-vincere-v.. Once in a year you say?

2021-09-06 16:05

4 times it's still very low even astralis in their prime lost more

2021-09-06 17:27

That was like 3 from one tournament. Granted, it was that super sketch RMR though. Also, not sure what you expect from haters. In 2019, Liquid were on a 22-0 Bo3 streak and people still hated on them.

2021-09-06 21:34

EZ4FAZEEEEEEEE

EZ4BIG

322

Lmao

2021-09-06 15:33

ez for mir

FaZe from once being almost major winner org to playing Pinnacle Cup with 322 teams MENS)

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Why not? Many other tier1 teams played on TEB events Also winner gets invite to LAN Sweet LAN And considering what LAN Sweet LAN is relevant unlike EPLS14,playing on Pinnacle is not bad

2021-09-06 14:48

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I don't know if you get me or not but what I mean to say is, the teams are 322, not the cup

2021-09-06 14:51

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From the list of playoffs teams only 1WIN & Galaxy Racer has possibility to be 322 teams

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+1 and cant understand this disrespect,Faze and co playing more games =more games for the fans= win win

2021-09-06 14:56

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I wouldn't want NAVI to play this kind of tournaments tbh

2021-09-06 15:22

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cause you are toxic,so is okey

2021-09-06 15:35

0/8 reported for false accusations! WTF!

2021-09-06 16:09

Of course,nobody wants to see how best team in the world atm dominates on inexperienced amateur roster

2021-09-06 16:06

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but even if FaZe struggle rn, (3-2 is not that bad wtf) they are just level above of all teams there. I'm not sure if it's really interesting to watch

2021-09-06 16:07

#42 And sometimes,t2 teams can surprise Entropiq upgraded their skill on these tournaments,and now they are half ready to compete against t1 teams

2021-09-06 16:10

ok understandable. Maybe I just judge it from my point of view because my team has been successful enough recently. The only thing I don't like is that they get 2nd round of play-offs invite, so both them and upcoming young teams won't play a lot of matches against each other, while it's #1 goal for most of them And pinnacle should change prize pool distribution then. Because small teams essentially need that money, while FaZe don't even care about that $40k

2021-09-06 16:18

T2 teams who get into ro12 will get 3000$,the ones who will win ro12 will get 4000$,and 2nd place if it's not playoffs invite will get 8000$

2021-09-06 16:24

oh, then it's fine

2021-09-06 16:23

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2021-09-06 14:37

Very ez for BIG to take the Pinacell cup except they play against NIP Fnatic Mouz Faze G2 Navi Virtus Pro Heroic ForZe OG Vitality Extra Salt Renegades Spirit Liquid Astralis Complexity Saw Skade Sinners Sprout AVEZ Detona LDLC!

Finally FaZe will participate in t2 Waited for it for entire year

2021-09-06 14:41

#17

2021-09-06 14:46

Next time write the article before the event begin.

2021-09-06 14:47

Time to spirit or faze farm some money

2021-09-06 14:49

BIG got this! no doubt

2021-09-06 14:58

How were we supposed to do fantasy team when bracket is still unknown haha

2021-09-06 15:36

Leaked by fantasy

2021-09-06 15:40

Faze lost out due to h2h map differential, not round differential

2021-09-06 15:42

T1 teams invited to t3 events,this really isn t fair,leaving no chance for the smaller teams to win

2021-09-06 15:46

lol

2021-09-06 16:01

This is trial of fire for them,very cool opportunity to test yourself against best teams and make conclusions & fix mistakes

this

ez 4 1win

2021-09-06 16:14

faze farming money

cant wait to see faze play again:)

2021-09-06 17:28

"Spirit struggled in Pro League, only managing a single win over G2 as Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov finished among the lowest rated players for the event." You mean BNB, right?

2021-09-06 18:18

WTF #4 faze lol how desperate are they for a win?

2021-09-06 19:46

Tbh they are on bootcamp so they maybe planned it for EPL play offs so they want as much practice before the RMR since they need to get play offs at least

2021-09-07 10:05

ez moners

2021-09-07 04:01

Wow, that makes it really interesting, like I can see all of those teams that are left win this event, like huge favourite will be FaZe but I could even see Dignitas pulling some upsets, it will be great to watch GoDIG GoAGO

2021-09-07 10:03