Opening matches of PGL Major Antwerp Legends Stage set

12-5-2022 21:10

Several high-octane matchups await us in the first round of the Legends Stage already.

With Liquid, Bad News Eagles, and Imperial securing wins in the final round and rounding out the Legends Stage team list, the opening matchups of the second stage of the PGL Major in Antwerp have been set.

The 16 teams in attendance were assigned seeding based on their placings in the RMR (for the teams who qualified as Legends) and the Challengers Stage, and it has turned out several highly-anticipated matchups already in round one, which is set to take place after a day off, on Saturday.

FaZe will meet their EPL S15 grand final opponents ENCE in the opener

The highlight bout of the bunch is undoubtedly the repeat of the ESL Pro League Season 15 grand final affair between FaZe and ENCE, but it is far from the only encounter between current top-10 teams we will see on the opening day of the Legends Stage.

Cloud9 (#4) vs. Outsiders (#10) and Natus Vincere (#2) up against G2 (#6) are two more examples of a very high-octane set of first-round matchups, all of which you can find below:

Saturday, May 14
12:00 HEROIC vs. Liquid
12:00 Copenhagen Flames vs. Bad News Eagles
13:15 Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Vitality
13:15 Cloud9 vs. Outsiders
14:30 FaZe vs. ENCE
14:30 FURIA vs. Spirit
15:45 Natus Vincere vs. G2
15:45 BIG vs. Imperial

EZ4LIQUID

2022-05-12 21:10

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EZ G2

2022-05-12 21:19

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poor NaVi, will get spanked by niko

2022-05-12 21:31

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Bro the last time niko "spanked" Navi was probably in 2019

2022-05-12 21:51

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so now is his time to rebounce

2022-05-12 22:08

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lmaooooooo

2022-05-12 22:22

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BIG is better, but I'm rooting for Imperial (Fallen and FNX)

2022-05-12 22:24

better not play nuke this time

2022-05-12 22:43

Was it gentle? Or did Niki go complete Kovak on him?

2022-05-12 22:41

2022-05-12 22:01

Trash seed, same as all the quals ZZZZzzzzz

2022-05-12 21:45

weird seeding, i thought best teams should play the worst no?

2022-05-12 22:34

Not all best teams qualified 3-0

2022-05-13 10:09

easiest 0-3 of my life

2022-05-12 22:42

ez 0-3 for liquid

2022-05-12 22:49

+1 Vamos

2022-05-12 23:03

liquid always get the worst first-round matchups istg

2022-05-13 03:27

Nice

Seeding bs Cph vs bne and navi vs g2

2022-05-12 21:11

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+1 wtf is this horsecrap

2022-05-12 21:18

Seeding is working as intended?

2022-05-12 21:20

Obviously they are seeding for more viewers

2022-05-12 21:21

BIG vs imperial too

2022-05-12 21:23

Ence vs Faze :D

2022-05-12 21:33

g2 go 3-0 and get navi. BNE go 3-2 and get flames. Not that flames are bad but the seeding is a joke.

2022-05-12 21:34

I know it's because of the rmr placements but the buchholz matchup system is horrible. Look at who Navi had to play at the rmr and then look at who flames played. For some teams the EU rmrs were harder than the challengers stage. They should've kept the CIS qualifier. there was no need making the EU qualifer that much bigger when the EU region is already so stacked.

2022-05-12 21:52

The seeding is perfect, Flames was placed first from EU, facing BNE, the last from the Challengers stage. What is wrong about it? Also NAVI placed last in the EU RMR, which means they would face the best team from challenger stage. If you dont understand this then I really doubt you ever watched CS before

2022-05-12 21:53

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Yes. Everything is rational here.

2022-05-12 22:21

Dont bother, ppl dont even understand how the seeding works, they just see known names and be like wooooh

2022-05-12 22:32

Still, these placement depend on the rmr seeding, I'm happy for teams like bne but they didn't play against t1 and got to the legend stage. The Better team they played was Ence and obviously lose that match.

2022-05-12 23:20

2022-05-12 23:23

2022-05-13 02:27

I know that the seeding sounds very reasonable at papers The higher seeded team get to face the lower one But I'm complaining here because of how easy or random to get a high seed or a lower one. Take for exemple team like cph who had to face sprout sinners in a best of ones and then shaky ninjas in a best of three. They got lucky and thats why they are high seeds and now they are playing against the easiest team in the legends. Take navi now a team that had to face og heroic forze and vitality to reach that stage. I m not saying they should do the seeding manually they just need to make it more balanced.

2022-05-13 15:44

and ence vs faze

2022-05-12 22:40

EZ4RENEGADES

wake up my finish friend

2022-05-12 21:13

2022-05-13 03:07

ez for BNE

2022-05-12 21:12

XDD cool joke

Wtf why their logo changed the colour?

2022-05-12 21:26

Yes dont know why

Hopefully they will play a t1 team before the major final

2022-05-13 00:10

Ence

2022-05-13 00:42

lol

Honestly they should do the seeding manually, this is garbage

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Nah dude, if they seeded manually, they'd implement their own biases

As if this isn't bias as fuck in the first place It's literally either headline match or snooze fest, 0 in-between

2022-05-12 21:27

it's literally the opposite of bias lol. It's completely random

2022-05-12 21:40

#72

2022-05-12 22:33

How is this in any way bias?

2022-05-13 12:14

This looks like 100% manually seeded

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I think it just turned out bad because the score performance at RMR and the challenger stage didn't quite match up to team rankings, and the discrepancy between RMR A and B.

NaVi - G2 Pog

EZ4G2

Faze vs ence and navi vs G2 are spicy openers

NiP vs Vitality is hype too

We will have a banger of a match every 1 and a half hour :D

Copenhagen Flames vs. Bad News Eagles ))))

ez 4 BNE

2022-05-12 21:14

Free win for Heroic Free win Vitality with goat zywoo g2 navi banger match free win for Big since germans historically dominate bra71lians

Idk about free, liquid beat heroic in a beat of 3 recently

2022-05-12 21:24

I had to change my response because I now get the 7-1 joke but BIG has not won anything

2022-05-13 02:50

Imperial have a guy with 100% winrate major...

2022-05-13 06:22

OMG NAVI VS G2 FAZE VS ENCE POG

Faze 3-0 and BNE 0-3? Or navi 3-0?

2022-05-12 21:15

Don't pick teams that will go ez through for 3-0...

Oh ok. Thanks. This was my first time doing the pickems.

put the teams with the best chances into the 7 progressing slots and put a team that can surprise into 3-0. If the team you put into 3-0 loses one game you don't get the point for that team, even if they go through 3-1, so you basically waste one point if there is an upset against NaVi or FaZe.

2022-05-12 21:46

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And you are wasting one point with that huge unlikely 3-0. Just put C9/Heroic/FaZe 3-0 and get done with it, ALL IN OR NOTHING

2022-05-13 05:47

that's just stupid and you know it. Or maybe you don't, i don't care, i will go with the best chance, you can do whatever you want.

2022-05-13 09:59

I get it, but just look all previous Majors and see the 3-0's, there's no reason to not use one candidate. Risk = reward

2022-05-13 18:56

you get the same reward with less to no risk if you put them as advancing team and you don't get fucked if they get upset in a BO1 Its not like there are more than 7 teams you can actually predict to go through right now, so you dont need the additional slot.

2022-05-13 19:05

nice very interesting matches almost all of them!

heroic,BNE,VITA,Cloud9,faze,furia,g2,IMP

2022-05-12 21:16

Bruh. 3-0 pick will be impossible.

Probably Heroic the safest :)

Maybe. Idk tbh. These pickems have been scary. I got my 5 for the challengers though.

we dont know how navi will be playing, neither faze, they always stumble on easy matches, cloud9 is a question mark, and so is heroic....

Holy shit good luck for the 3-0 pick

Yeah have no idea who gonna make it 0-3 I'll just put FURIA, ENCE OR HEROIC

mate ence is vs faze

Imperial 3-0, 0-3 NaVi

Nice one but reverse

2022-05-12 21:30

Nice matches lets go :)

FURIA vs. Spirit ROFL

GO IMPERIAL !!!!

2022-05-12 21:22

Navi vs g2 slaughterhouse

Gona be a good Match for sure

EZ4NAVI

2022-05-12 21:25

How's win? Heroic > Liquid Copenhagen Flames < Bad News Eagles NIP < Vitality Cloud9 > Outsiders FaZe > ENCE FURIA < Spirit Natus Vincere > G2 BIG < Imperial

Furia< spirit?????? Omegalulll x 1.000.00p IQ 30, 35, 40 at most hahahahahah

2022-05-12 22:13

We gone see

2022-05-12 23:28

Heroic > Liquid CPH > BNE (but i would really like to see BNE winning) NiP > Vitality C9 > Outsiders FaZe > ENCE FURIA < Spirit NaVi < G2 BiG > Imperial let's see :D

2022-05-13 01:23

Is this is going to be played on stage?

2022-05-12 21:29

No, only playoffs

Banger

C9-Outsiders bgg

2022-05-12 21:35

every match a banger

2022-05-12 21:41

Lets go eaglessss

2022-05-12 21:42

NaVi - G2 ENCE - FaZe this seeding is a joke

2022-05-12 21:43

Fire as fuck openers

2022-05-12 21:50

this is kinda insane...

2022-05-12 21:54

Na'Vi vs G2 ?????? (realistic chances for both BR's to go 1-0 btw)

2022-05-12 22:00

Finaly!!

GER - BRA :o

2022-05-12 22:04

No no no, C9 always struggle playing against CIS, I can feel upset is coming

2022-05-12 22:05

Why do u care, u are a gambit fan :p

Go FURIA and Imperial 🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️

Fallen teaching syrsoN the art of awping

2022-05-12 22:07

NaVi G2 pog

0-3 Imperial it's a obvious choice, but who for 3-0? Copenhagen Flames? Actually I'm not expecting them making it to the champions but it's much safer to pick them 3-0 instead of one of the seven teams to advance.

2022-05-12 22:09

Spirit or BNE 0-3 (I don't think Imperial will qualify, but in an elimination match I think they beat both of these teams because of the experience factor) 3-0: Furia/BIG

2022-05-12 23:22

Furia 3-0??? AHAHA Nice joke

2022-05-13 14:31

You clearly didnt watch last t1 tournament

2022-05-13 15:30

pog champ

This Major will be a nice battle to watch. I wish only Astralis and Liquid both had made it.

2022-05-12 22:10

nice seeds, wasting good matchups in random bo1s, really well done PGL

2022-05-12 22:11

So what do you expect it to be? Every team here is legend. They are all good.

2022-05-12 22:30

seeding is meant to avoid early direct matchups between top5-6 teams and between underdogs but whatever, still good games just wanted them to be in bo3s later on

2022-05-12 22:53

That will change absolutely nothing. If a team is good enough to reach playoff, they will reach.

Seedings are done based on results from the last major and the RMR's. The top 5/6 teams *from the matches that counted* have avoided each other.

2022-05-13 05:07

NiP VIT FaZe ENCE Na'Vi G2 C9 Outsiders Finally some good fkin games!

if I'm not mistaken, the winners and losers Navi-G2 and Nip-Vitality have high chanses play in the second round.. nice seeding..

G2 vs vitality would so great to see

2022-05-13 03:04

It would be the cphf/bne match if it goes as per seedings. Upsets would be required somewhere along the line to change that.

2022-05-13 05:09

No thats inaccurate. Winners gonna play highest seed(if u think teams 1-6 win. losers is obv gonna play the lowest seeded loser. So in that case likely liquid or bne… Check things up before you write.

2022-05-13 05:55

Pog FaZe - Ence

2022-05-12 22:25

Now those are some PROPER matchups! Gonna be exciting for sure!

2022-05-12 22:27

BNE to the playoff! :)

2022-05-12 22:31

What are these matchups, Faze always gets the toughest draws

2022-05-12 22:39

Its not a ”draw” Its based on results in rmr and challanger stage. Nothing random about it.

2022-05-13 05:56

BNE will gonna destroy CPH

ez bne

2022-05-12 22:50

They looked good today. They are a blast to watch. Nice to see a different meta honestly. Their team peaks are on point and their aim is getting better and better every match. I hope they have a decent run, get some money behind them and let them put even more time into the grind. Might have a new team to watch out for in T1!

2022-05-12 23:59

Honestly this is about the fairest draw I’ve seen in a while. Almost every match has equal teams on each side. These are going to be some banger matches! Looks like a good card to start betting the overs honestly. There are going to be some long ass games. Not many 2-0 and I’m willing to bet a lot of OT games.

2022-05-12 23:10

All bo1

2022-05-13 00:05

Navi is a Russian team why ucranian flag? Woke hltv?

2022-05-12 23:40

Vitality being lucky again.

2022-05-13 00:37

Better to meet hard enemy's in first round so you dodge them for the rest of the stage

2022-05-13 06:52

Nice seeding lmaooo

2022-05-13 01:03

faze vs ence navi vs g2 pog

2022-05-13 01:11

lets go faze!

why are people crying about the seeding? waah waah my favorite team isnt playing my other favorite team waah

2022-05-13 01:31

Pretty much, yeah. It's not like this just got sprung on the teams today, they all knew how it would work months ago. If they wanted easier matches they should have gone better in the RMR's.

2022-05-13 05:13

First 3 matches Right side teams & remaining of matches Left side teams will win !!!

2022-05-13 01:39

Could imperial possibly beat big?

2022-05-13 02:30

In CS anything is possible, just its gonna be a uphill battle and I think it'll require something magical out of Imperial to upset this one

2022-05-13 03:28

Normally I guess but fallen has a bad history vs big. I think regarding to that history they have 20% chance

2022-05-13 06:51

Good luck Imperial, this one is gonna be a a hard fought match

what is this stupid seedings. best teams vs best teams and worst team vs worst team. Valve just want to stir up some upsets or what

2022-05-13 05:24

trash seed and trash system in major what a shame

2022-05-13 05:57

Are every hltv-user retarded or what? The seeding is not random… Its based of results in rmr and challanger stage. This was known even before the games where played.

And the best part is the teams will not play against each other again in this stage. You can get eaiser enemy's in bo3 where skill matters more. Bo1 more luck.

2022-05-13 06:54

BIG vs Imperial boring match, can skip zzzz

2022-05-13 06:03

Fallen never won vs gobb

2022-05-13 06:50

gobb goat ngl

2022-05-14 06:33

These are some wildly unbalanced matchups

2022-05-13 12:44

This will be a good time for FaZe to show why they are the best lineup modern csgo has ever seen. Let's all see if Karrigan can continously display his ingenious knowledge of the game (and hopefully his mechanical skills aswell *doubting*). If Karrigan and Twistzz has good form, and stays consistent, FaZe will be unstoppable for many majors to come, mark my words. I am completely shocked how well they have started to function as a team and there is not a single team that is more entertaining, it's not only a biased opinion, it's also without a question a fact. And if you disagree, I cannot change your mind or say anything else other than: watch them play, yourself. /CeRzZ

2022-05-13 21:23