Eternal Fire, fnatic, TYLOO eliminated at EPL

Amidst the eliminations, Astralis also secured a direct spot in the quarter-finals after besting 3DMAX.

Day five of ESL Pro League Season 19 has drawn to a close, with a slew of teams bowing out from the competition in Malta after a cutthroat day of play. Among the day's casualties are Eternal Fire, TYLOO, fnatic, exiting at the hands of SAW, M80, and Virtus.pro, respectively.

The day was not entirely filled with eliminations, however, as Astralis are now looking forward to a direct spot in EPL's quarter-finals after taking down 3DMAX in convincing fashion.

These results have set up two rematches in Group A and B's Last Chance Stage, with Virtus.pro and SAW set to tussle in the Group A 4th place decider, while G2 and M80 meet again in the last match of Group B's lower-bracket.

Date	Matches
ESL Pro League Season 19
28/04/2024	Virtus.pro 16:30 SAW	Match
28/04/2024	G2 19:30 M80	Match

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G2 survive elimination match against Falcons

Virtus.pro's match against fnatic featured one of the closest maps of the aforementioned elimination matches, as the two sides engaged in a bitter game of tug of war on fnatic's pick of Vertigo. In the end, Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov and his new teammates emerged victorious on their opponent's pick after forcing overtime.

fnatic were able to keep things close on the T-side of Anubis, but once Virtus.pro secured their place on the offense the game was wrapped up shortly thereafter, with Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali's troops storming ahead to a 2-0 win.

The next two elimination matches would prove to be fairly straightforward. The first of these was M80's meeting against TYLOO, where the North American side were blown out to start on TYLOO's pick of Inferno, unable to recover as the Chinese side closed it out 13-7.

Despite the poor start to the series, M80 quickly rebounded in the remaining two maps of the series, allowing TYLOO to procure just four rounds across Ancient and Overpass thanks to stellar work from Mario "⁠malbsMd⁠" Samayoa and Michael "⁠Swisher⁠" Schmid.

Shortly thereafter, SAW's series against Eternal Fire kicked off, with the former side charging ahead on the Turkish squad's pick of Vertigo. Although Eternal Fire briefly retorted on the T-side, SAW's 9-3 lead from the first half proved to be too much to overcome. Nuke went even better for the Portuguese side, as Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes's men sent Eternal Fire packing with a 13-3 scoreline.

The only non-elimination match of the day, between Astralis and 3DMAX for a spot in the quarter-finals, proved to be just as simple as the most of the rest of the day's games.

Although the French side showed some signs of life on their pick of Inferno, Astralis were large and in charge throughout the series, stealing away Inferno with a 13-7 scoreline before mopping things up with a 13-3 win on their pick of Ancient.