UNPAID, Nemiga make RES Champions playoffs

The duo joins Sangal and fnatic in the last four.

Day three of RES Regional Champions 2024 ended with UNPAID and Nemiga securing the final playoff spots on offer after their respective wins against PARIVISION and Fluxo.

The duo now joins Sangal and fnatic in the top-four stage. Both semi-finals and the grand final will be played on Saturday, with the playoff bracket looking as follows:

Date	Matches
RES Regional Champions 2024
19/10/2024	fnatic 12:00 Nemiga	Match
19/10/2024	Sangal 15:00 UNPAID	Match
19/10/2024	Nemiga 20:15 UNPAID	Match

The first match of the day was played between Nemiga and Fluxo, where Ivan "⁠zweih⁠" Gogin powered the majority-Russian squad to an opening win on Mirage. Fluxo then answered with a 13-10 win on Ancient but couldn't complete the reverse sweep on Inferno.

The Brazilians suffered an overtime loss that condemned them to a group-stage exit in Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan's first LAN event since leaving FURIA, while the win moves Nemiga to a semi-final against fnatic.

The second decider match was contested between PARIVISION and UNPAID. Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović's troops drew first blood on Mirage with a 16-14 win before finishing the job on Anubis, where they prevailed 13-10.

The UNPAID squad that recently cut ties with BLEED due to delayed payment of salaries, bootcamp expenses, player buyouts, and prize money, has qualified for the semi-final despite participating with a temporary roster, and will now face Sangal.

On the other side of the server, PARIVISION will be disappointed with a group-stage loss. The Russian squad is yet to make the playoffs of a LAN event after previously suffering an early exit at Skyesports Championship 2024, and losses to fnatic and UNPAID are far from ideal preparation ahead of their Perfect World Shanghai Major RMR campaign.