MOUZ and Astralis up to 2-0 in EU RMR Closed Qualifiers as Spirit survive Entropiq scare

Entropiq were 11-8 up against Spirit, just two rounds away from sending donk and company to the 0-2 elimination pool.

The favorites enjoyed a largely stress-free day as the EU RMR closed qualifiers kicked off in a best-of-one Swiss stage. Natus Vincere, Cloud9, and Virtus.pro in bracket A, and Astralis in B, comfortably won both BO1s to put themselves one win away from the RMRs.

Group B's highest seed, MOUZ, had an unfortunate draw in the form of HEROIC for their 1-0 game, and under pressure they needed to put together a seven-round T side streak at 8-12 down before they could enter the 2-0 pool themselves.

Other teams to go undefeated on day one were BetBoom in A, as well as AMKAL (the former core of 1win) and Eternal Fire in Group B.

Date	Matches
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Europe RMR Closed Qualifier A
18/01/2024	Cloud9 Finished 13:10 3DMAX	Match
18/01/2024	BIG Finished 9:13 BetBoom	Match
18/01/2024	OG Finished 13:10 JANO	Match

The attention-grabber on day one was instead Spirit, who stumbled against KOI in Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov's debut and seemed destined for the 0-2 elimination pool against Entropiq when they were 8-11 down on the T side of Mirage.

At that point, Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov rallied his troops and after an A execute and some successful defaults Spirit clawed their way back into the match before victory awaited in overtime. sh1ro, too, stepped up with a 1vs2 in overtime while Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets maintained his usual standards with 94.6 ADR.

Date	Matches
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Europe RMR Closed Qualifier B
18/01/2024	MOUZ Finished 16:12 HEROIC	Match
18/01/2024	Astralis Finished 13:6 Preasy	Match
18/01/2024	AMKAL Finished 13:10 KOI	Match
18/01/2024	Spirit Finished 16:14 Entropiq	Match

Day two will bring MOUZ head-to-head with Eternal Fire for an RMR spot, with Astralis vs AMKAL deciding the other 3-0 team in the B bracket.

Cloud9 take on Vladislav "⁠nafany⁠" Gorshkov's BetBoom side for the same prize in Group A, with another heavyweight clash in the form of Virtus.pro against Natus Vincere rounding out the first four RMR invites from the qualifiers.

The full schedule for day two is as follows:

Date	Matches
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Europe RMR Closed Qualifier B
19/01/2024	sYnck 16:00 ex-ThunderFlash	Match
19/01/2024	PERA 16:00 IKLA	Match
19/01/2024	Preasy 16:00 Spirit	Match
19/01/2024	KOI 16:00 HEROIC	Match
19/01/2024	AMKAL 17:00 Astralis	Match
19/01/2024	Eternal Fire 17:00 MOUZ	Match
19/01/2024	Aurora 20:00 FORZE	Match
19/01/2024	EYEBALLERS 20:00 Entropiq	Match

Date	Matches
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Europe RMR Closed Qualifier A
19/01/2024	SAW 16:00 Zero Tenacity	Match
19/01/2024	BIG 16:00 fnatic	Match
19/01/2024	3DMAX 16:00 OG	Match
19/01/2024	9 Pandas 16:00 ECSTATIC	Match
19/01/2024	Natus Vincere 17:00 Virtus.pro	Match
19/01/2024	Cloud9 17:00 BetBoom	Match
19/01/2024	Permitta 20:00 JANO	Match
19/01/2024	SINNERS 20:00 Nexus	Match