MIBR stun Spirit to secure playoffs spot in Malta

5-9-2024 16:53

The Brazilians came back from a 2-13 battering on the opening map to win the series in overtime on map three.

MIBR have secured a place in the playoffs at ESL Pro League following a 2-1 victory over Spirit in the Group B upper bracket semi-finals.

Heading into the series fresh off breaking their losing streak against 9z, the Brazilians looked outmatched at first as Spirit won their opponents' Ancient pick 13-2, but the tide quickly turned. MIBR entered the second map with a 6-0 start on the CT side to secure a comfortable equalizer, and it came down to a nail-biter on Anubis.

There, MIBR secured victory in overtime despite Spirit making a comeback from 8-12 and Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets still looking in red-hot form off the back of his record-breaking performance against Wildcard on the previous day.

donk breaks CS2 kill record against Wildcard

MIBR can rest easy now knowing they have secured their place in the playoffs already, but they still have one more group match ahead of them. They'll play against the winner of 3DMAX vs. G2 on Sunday for a direct berth to the quarter-finals.

Spirit have dropped to the lower bracket, where the Russian side will go up against a The MongolZ side that has just secured a landslide win against KOI, on Friday at 13:30 .

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MIBR	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Felipe 'insani' Yuji insani	52 - 44	+3.02%	90.3	71.9%	1.25
Raphael 'exit' Lacerda exit	45 - 41	+0.65%	86.5	79.7%	1.23
Rafael 'saffee' Costa saffee	48 - 44	+0.39%	66.3	76.6%	1.03
Breno 'brnz4n' Poletto brnz4n	31 - 44	+0.34%	59.1	75.0%	0.92
André 'drop' Abreu drop	33 - 48	-4.01%	58.5	67.2%	0.85

Spirit	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets donk	65 - 46	+2.13%	106.0	71.9%	1.42
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov sh1ro	53 - 39	+3.33%	78.6	76.6%	1.21
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev magixx	35 - 42	-2.62%	65.1	79.7%	0.97
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov chopper	34 - 43	-1.05%	59.1	62.5%	0.87
Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia zont1x	32 - 41	-2.47%	57.3	73.4%	0.85

the best wins

2024-09-05 16:54

3 replies

lets fucking goooooooooo

2024-09-05 17:18

ITS THE BEST LAW

2024-09-05 20:30

better wins, not the best

2024-09-05 23:00

nice run my boys

2024-09-05 16:55

expected reverse sweep

1 reply

not even gaben expected this lil bro 😭🙏

2024-09-05 20:49

Insani God mode

2024-09-05 16:56

Wp Brazil!

chopper can't even call when he basically has a 5v3 every round

donk has to drop 80 frags each game to carry spirit

Nice one! What a Match!

gotta apply winning moment clip in such articles

Info about Lucaozy joining made everyone wake up and play the game of their life? Haha

2024-09-05 16:57

5 replies

I think that was the case lol (who knows Fúria do the same haha)

2024-09-05 17:06

New management strategy: consistently threatening of recruiting new players haha

2024-09-05 18:27

I think the 2-13 woke them up instead

2024-09-05 17:08

2 replies

LMAOOO just realized. MIBR just said wait... NOo lemme uhhh just try again ok?

2024-09-05 18:11

maybe KOI tried the same today

2024-09-05 20:50

omg

ez for Insani

Legendary (in small circles) CEMEN_BAKIN incoming very soon, i hope. It's pain to watch magixx and zont1x plays.

vp will add it spirit 0 chance on reshuffle

2024-09-05 17:09

4 replies

Bakin rejected c9 and many other teams invites. He have contract with Spirit, playing with his friend donk together on faceit sometimes, organization holding him for main lineup. Where is vp in this formula? Nobody even thinks about vp.

2024-09-05 17:16

spirit won't change anything, this is a young team and they win tournaments he should go to vp, this is a great chance

2024-09-05 17:27

BB Serbia was their last success with current lineup. With such gameplays Mongols will bury them alive. Even donk with 30 kills can't help.

2024-09-05 17:35

ez for spirit :)))

2024-09-06 16:27

expected

2024-09-05 16:58

Donk is suffering what s1mple suffered with Edward seized flamie Impossible to carry teammates that if you dont drop 70 frags you cant win

2024-09-05 17:02

6 replies

Edward and Zeus* seized and flamie actually played pretty good back in the time

Imo zeus and s1mple were just incompatible as players, otherwise he wouldnt have won a major with gambit

2024-09-05 20:56

Yes he won a major with gambit... but scenes like this were very common: youtube.com/watch?v=yQF0vMbbu0Q my man, I watched NaVi games and seized and flamie were playing super well. specially flamie. even tho Zeus won a major with Gambit, he as washed aff to be very honest.

2024-09-06 19:47

Yes. Plus everyone knew it was a "clash" between players 1.6 and CS:GO. (Old/New generation) Navi didn't force Edward and Zeus go out of respect for what they have achieved with the org when the scene was smaller.

2024-09-06 10:07

scene was always big -> because onliners werent a factor 6-7 y. ago, you got a think that scene was small.

2024-09-06 14:44

dude, I play CS since the version 1.3. 1) Scene wasn't always big. Look now the amount of money/investment is being done. 2) I didn't say that the scene was small, I said smaller. Comparing the time when Edward and Zeus peak in 1.6 with the time they were playing with s1mple. 3) Agree when you said that onliners weren't a factor 6-7 years ago and now it is, just show how much is still growing. So 6-7 years ago still smaller than today

2024-09-06 15:22

Spirit is such a weird team

2024-09-05 17:05

I think chopper + hally duo is officialy braindead, there is no future for TS with these two in combination Called it earlier at matchpage - hltv.org/matches/2375370/mibr-vs-spirit-.. These exhibition picks are unacceptable, especially in tournament competition like ESL Pro League .. Sorry to HLTV.org for offensive language, there was no good term to explain this 🙂