Vitality go 5-0 in Group A; NAVI, fnatic clinch EPL playoff spots

The three teams will battle through the playoff stage when it begins on September 27.

Group A of ESL Pro League Season 16 has concluded, with Vitality posting a flawless group-stage campaign after their 2-0 victory over Spirit, knocking the Russian-majority squad out of playoff contention in the process.

Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire and company's first-place finish in Group A allows the international side to start their playoff run straight from the quarter-finals, bypassing the first round of play all together.

ZywOo was in a league of his own in Group A with a stellar 1.45 rating over 12 maps

Natus Vincere guaranteed a place in the playoffs in spite of a three-way tie thanks to their head-to-head map difference over both Ninjas in Pyjamas and Spirit. Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser and co., on the other hand, exit the event from the group stage after a shaky 0-3 start to the tournament left them with few scenarios in which they would be able to progress.

fnatic was able to advance to the next stage of the tournament following their comfortable 2-0 victory against Endpoint in the final round. This event in Malta marked Dion "⁠FASHR⁠" Derksen's LAN debut with the black-and-orange, and the 26-year-old not disappoint, as he boasted a solid 1.09 rating across the group stage — his team's second-highest performance behind Fredrik "⁠roeJ⁠" Jørgensen (1.16).

Endpoint end their time in Malta at the bottom of Group A with a 1-4 record. Max "⁠MiGHTYMAX⁠" Heath's men had an encouraging showing despite this, notably taking a map off of Spirit before upsetting Natus Vincere in a clean 2-0 series to get their sole win on the board.

Group B of ESL Pro League Season 16 will get started on Wednesday, September 7, pitting the likes of FaZe and G2 versus BIG, Outsiders, MIBR, and FTW, with three more spots in the playoffs up for the taking.

Denmark Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen
Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
916
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.69
United Kingdom Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath
Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.90
Maps played:
1191
KPR:
0.59
DPR:
0.66
France Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
2026
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.70
Sweden Hampus 'hampus' Poser
Hampus 'hampus' Poser
Age:
23
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
1385
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.70
Netherlands Dion 'FASHR' Derksen
Dion 'FASHR' Derksen
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
751
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.68
#1
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Poland Astoner55
Nice!
2022-09-04 23:22
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Poland Beniu_
gz
2022-09-04 23:22
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Poland Astoner55
gz to Vitality? Nice!
2022-09-04 23:23
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#27
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United States Virgin Islands zj2
what a dumb system in h2h nip beat them, gj ESL ;D
2022-09-04 23:39
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Yeah why navi qualified? Is it new rules? Last time i checked team who won h2h qualified
2022-09-04 23:41
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It’s 3-way tie though, Spirit had two wins as well. Map difference then counts, which Navi won.
2022-09-04 23:45
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Yea. As a Navi fan we def didn’t deserve to make it with how bad the team looked in those losses((
2022-09-05 01:23
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#118
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Scotland B1son
It's fine we know it's just unlucky and an uncharacteristic drop in form
2022-09-06 22:08
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#34
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China RADNIKEY
Nah, it's always been this dumb
2022-09-04 23:53
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#38
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Ukraine Lud0_
Had to head would be counted here if it wasnt a 3 team tie, thats why the round diff came in, and its a normal thing.
2022-09-05 00:01
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I havent seen round diff come in to play for a long time. Next tie-breaker after h2h is map win diff
2022-09-05 00:15
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#53
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Finland osk4r99
Yea I think only Blast used to use round diff when they had that dumb bo1 round robin no OT
2022-09-05 00:44
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navi lost 2-1 won 2-0 nip lost 2-0 won 2-1 spirit 2-0 2-0. Nip just lost more maps navi 3 wins 2 loses nip 2 wins 3 loses spirit 2 wins 2 loses so navi with +1 goes thru
2022-09-05 01:09
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Ukraine Lud0_
yeah, I meant map diff, was too tired to spot my mistake, but the point is the same
2022-09-05 07:59
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It's the map difference, not round difference. Although Navi is on top in both the criterias
2022-09-05 07:10
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#83
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Ukraine Lud0_
2022-09-05 07:59
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#43
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England Triturn
3 way tie you dummy
2022-09-05 00:11
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#66
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Spain elk878
Spirit beat NiP NAVI beat Spirit Nip beat NAVI NAVI has a map difference of -1 (6-7) Spirit has a map difference of -3 (4-7) NiP also has a map difference of -3 (4-7 aswell) So NAVI first (best map difference) Spirit > NiP (Spirit won against NiP) That's how you solve this 3 team ties Also i want to know what would happen if Endpoint won Fnatic (5 teams tie) if someone knows, tell me
2022-09-05 04:42
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#73
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Netherlands Akudama
Probably same thing but with round differential added
2022-09-05 07:07
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Navi lost to fnatic and they have same map score, so probably same, excepr endpoint beat navi. Might have actually been endpoint 3rd if they went 2-0 instead of navi. Or endpoint 2nd fnatic 4th, <swapped around if 2-0 2-1
2022-09-05 07:35
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Argentina blaas
exactly, it's not a dumb system.
2022-09-05 20:17
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No brainer comment. It's a 3 way win-lose battle which resulted in tie. Navi had more map wins which is the second criteria if it's a tie.
2022-09-05 07:09
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now imagine miracle and navi win this event by barely make playoffs
2022-09-04 23:22
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They now have 4 weeks to practice. If they still suck after 4 weeks they didn't deserve to be in play offs
2022-09-04 23:24
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we shall see, but keep in mind... one pracc match after s1mple came back, while other teams might have had tenths... it's really questionable but I hope they recover
2022-09-04 23:29
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Yea me too, I hope they be more of a match later in the tournament. Else they could have given the spot better to NiP although they played really bad too for 3 maps
2022-09-04 23:37
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i mean vitality had only 6days prac xD + spinx was sick
2022-09-05 00:18
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Do you mean like Faze last time?
2022-09-04 23:53
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i think faze last time lose 2 matches and win all next matches
2022-09-04 23:53
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6 replies
I don't remember how many games they won last time but they wouldn't get out of group if VP /Outsiders won their last game.
2022-09-05 00:39
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5 replies
#74
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India Pranav3112
Atleast they beat more than 50% of the teams in their group, meanwhile navi
2022-09-05 07:07
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#77
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India Faze0089
faze went 3-2 in groups last time and qualified but navi qualified even after 2-3. What kind of system is this where a team qualifies even after losing more matches than it has won.
2022-09-05 07:21
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By ur logic only 2 teams wouldve qualified from this group?! Xd
2022-09-05 07:34
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India Faze0089
Yes sometimes a team goes 3-2 and still doesn't qualify from other groups, like faze in epl season 14, faze went 3-2 and still didn't qualify. If there are no teams that goes 3-2 and doesn't qualify they should play tie -breaker matches to determine the qualification.
2022-09-05 08:26
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Obviously imo the best thing esl can do is have 1-2 days between groups so there is time to play tie breakers
2022-09-05 09:09
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#54
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Finland osk4r99
Wasnt that exactly how faze won last EPL?
2022-09-05 00:45
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faze lose first 2 games and win all next
2022-09-05 00:45
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#85
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India Faze0089
nope faze went 3-2 not 2-3 like navi.
2022-09-05 08:28
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Woaaahhhh, they won 1 more match. Suchhhh a hugeeee differenceeee. Wtfffff.
2022-09-05 08:49
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Malaysia Appl3s
When you have only 5 matches, 1 match is significant
2022-09-05 09:50
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Thought the same #35
2022-09-05 08:49
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Tbf do you remember the last major ? Faze went to major because vitality won their game against outsiders.
2022-09-05 02:28
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#67
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Spain elk878
What? Faze qualified with a 3-1 score (W Eternal Fire W Vitality L BIG W MOUZ) in the Europe RMR A If you refer when they almost didn't qualify it was Stockholm major, they needed one of four (ence, riders, cph flames or fiend to end 8th) and they qualifyed when G2 beat Fiend (forcing cph flames or fiend getting 8th spot) by that time Outsiders still playing as Virtus Pro so you are wrong in everything
2022-09-05 04:48
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it was epl , my bad.
2022-09-05 04:50
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#69
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Spain elk878
Ye i was thinking at EPL too, so you are right anyways mate
2022-09-05 04:50
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#78
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India Faze0089
faze went 3-2 and qualified, navi are 2-3 and qualified not the same thing.
2022-09-05 07:26
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Sure, if you like to cope like that. Both struggled and they still win the event. It doesnt deserve prove anything. For a faze fan: navi are dogshit rn The epl faze saga : jet lag, ruff groups, 3-2
2022-09-05 14:23
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Bosnia and Herzegovina dc4
lucky... they are bad...
2022-09-04 23:22
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nice to see vitality playing good
2022-09-04 23:22
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NaVi barely scraping by, weird to see them have group stage troubles, hopefully recover for playoffs
2022-09-04 23:23
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NaVi played like sh*t but did just enough to qualify. Classic. Now they need rest and a lot of practice. "electronic go kill" calls from electronic will not be enough in future matches.
2022-09-04 23:24
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NaVi don’t show strategiess for major
2022-09-04 23:24
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VITALITY LALALALALALALA VITALITY
2022-09-04 23:24
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Germany Bastii2404
LALALALALALLALA VITALIIIITYYYYY
2022-09-04 23:27
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Poland Kobel_
VITALITY LALALALALALA
2022-09-05 00:27
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VITALITY LALA LALALALALA VITALITY
2022-09-05 02:49
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Czech Republic lumar
LALALALALALALA VITALITY LALALALALA VITALITY
2022-09-05 12:44
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Navi didnt deserve playoffs They look really shaky
2022-09-04 23:24
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Ukraine Lud0_
To be fair, we had 3 spots for playoffs, and only two teams in face of vita and fnatic played well enough to deserve spots there. As for that last spot, every other team that could take it have played like shit most of their matches, so be it navi, or nip, or ts, noone really did deserve this last spot.
2022-09-05 00:06
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Sweden CharlesEmilNilsson
Yeah NIP deserved it fr :>
2022-09-05 09:21
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France Guilsz_
even if nip won the h2h they don't deserve sh*t in this group they were complete garbage at the beginning it took them playing Endpoint before even winning a map
2022-09-05 10:55
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Sweden CharlesEmilNilsson
I know, but your fellow Frenchmens thought nip or spirit deserved it more.
2022-09-05 12:26
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Italy Karimk03
Ez for god zywoo and god spinx
2022-09-04 23:25
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Czech Republic PaYaB
Advancing with a 2-3 record should be illegal..
2022-09-04 23:25
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+1 let Endpoint go through instead of Na'Vi
2022-09-04 23:27
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I believe Navi are the only team to ever qualify from EPL groups with a 2-3 record, so it's already pretty rare
2022-09-05 23:54
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it's actually insane that Vitality went 5-0
2022-09-04 23:26
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France HippzZ
Especially considering that they had like 1+ week of practice
2022-09-05 00:02
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Poland sabacikk
expected from god zywoo and spinx
2022-09-04 23:26
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ez4apEX
2022-09-04 23:26
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NAvi fluke getting the spot So unfair
2022-09-04 23:26
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It’s nothing if just lose to Nip, they lost to endpoint, a big ton of shit
2022-09-04 23:31
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Bye NiP
2022-09-04 23:35
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Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
NaVi too good even without winning, what a wasted win by NIP :)
2022-09-04 23:38
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Navi actually making it here is kind of a joke ngl... They def didnt deserve it. Spirit played better and even nip would've deserved it more for bouncing back... Oh well. At leas VITALITY played well!
2022-09-04 23:39
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Nah, Spirit didn't deserve playoffs
2022-09-04 23:43
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No one between navi, spirit , endpoint and nip really deserve their last spot. They play like shit. The only two legit team are fnatic and vitality.
2022-09-05 02:31
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EZ4NAVI
2022-09-04 23:46
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THANK GOD THEY MADE IT Pls no more baiting Navi :(((
2022-09-04 23:48
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France Uexo
5-0, nice #VforVictory
2022-09-04 23:57
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as a navi fan i have to say if two teams have the same amount of points, the result of the matchup between this two teams should be the first point to look at regarding the placement in the group
2022-09-05 00:05
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Which is the case.
2022-09-05 00:11
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I think he meant that NaVi vs NIP should've been a match for qualification regardless of other scores
2022-09-05 00:19
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Poland Kobel_
Why, when there's a three way tie with Spirit. F*ck them cause they played earlier? Not very fair
2022-09-05 00:28
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imo there should be 3 games and 2 qualification games for the 2-3 place, 3-4 place
2022-09-05 01:27
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That's exactly how it is. Smh
2022-09-05 08:52
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i guess my bad, from what i understand it is a three-way-tie so a direct comparison makes no sense right?
2022-09-05 10:44
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Yes, exactly
2022-09-05 11:06
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it makes sense but it's more complicated. For instance if NIP would have won NAVI and spirit, direct comparison : NIP takes the place. But if NIP>NAVI, NAVI>Spirit, Spirit>NIP (which is the case here) we take the number of map won by each only between the three teams. as Navi won a map again NIP, they won a total of 3 maps in the 3-way confrontation. NIP and Spirit only won 2 (2 for nip facing navi, 2 for spirit facing NIP) So Navi get the spot.
2022-09-05 13:33
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EZ FOR GODWHOO 1.45 RATING POG
2022-09-05 00:17
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What happened to NaVi? Looks like they were partying the whole week after 2 victories.
2022-09-05 00:24
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#99
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Germany Constikdw
S1mple and B1t played like shit so that explains a lot I think.
2022-09-05 11:57
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#52
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China halflife2
NAVI is laughing… and partying for 2 wins only…
2022-09-05 00:43
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#59
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Hungary ShadYyBoy
VIta crazy showing!
2022-09-05 01:37
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Good job Roej I'm so proud
2022-09-05 03:33
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Good guy Xiwu saving S1mple from elimination
2022-09-05 03:40
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My boys fantic making it happen lfg
2022-09-05 04:34
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NAVI still number 1? What a joke. HLTV sucking navi orgs dick. Navi die hard fan.
2022-09-05 05:02
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if simpel continues like this, no #1 2022 for him if zywoo continues like this, easy #1 2022 for him
2022-09-05 05:36
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Ez
2022-09-05 12:28
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Ez for GOAT S1mple
2022-09-05 05:45
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No goat
2022-09-05 12:28
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Ofc no goat but GOAT
2022-09-05 12:35
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In an ideal world esl would have at least one day between groups so they have time to play tie breakers instead of counting round diff
2022-09-05 07:39
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+1 only the one who truly deserve advances
2022-09-05 09:24
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+1
2022-09-05 12:09
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vitrashlity
2022-09-05 10:55
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France Guilsz_
flair
2022-09-05 10:59
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yes
2022-09-05 11:34
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#100
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Brazil 0mega_
PLay tie-breaker matches u cowards
2022-09-05 12:02
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Zywoo #1 again with a good team. Faze #1 Vitality #2 And they are the 2nd best team in the world. Good times for GodWoo and Vitality
2022-09-05 12:28
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wtf was that interview with s0mple after winning the match by NIP ?!?! I got used to situation where casters never say a bad word about s0mple no matter what low performance and lack of skill he represents, but srsly is this whole tournament fixed or what? After last matchfixing NAVI v Endpoint I have like zero trust in EPL as well as NAVI as an organisation.
2022-09-05 13:55
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#111
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Finland E5KH
Let's go Vitality!
2022-09-05 14:28
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Poland Broken_BS
Vita could've threw last game to out navi, props to them tho for keeping The top2 team in The game and not being cowards VforVictory
2022-09-06 08:12
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#115
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Hungary BadChuKun
NaVi fans are coping rn for S1mple 100%
2022-09-06 08:21
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WP vita & fantic nt nip, Spirit, Endpoint average n0vi L
2022-09-06 10:25
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misuta was the problem
2022-09-06 10:41
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