{"id":37623,"date":"2024-08-13T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=37623"},"modified":"2024-08-13T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T04:01:27","slug":"vitality-mouz-advance-to-iem-cologne-2024-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/vitality-mouz-advance-to-iem-cologne-2024-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitality &#038; MOUZ advance to IEM Cologne 2024 playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/iem-cologne\/\" title=\"IEM Cologne betting guide\">IEM Cologne 2024<\/a> group stage featured six matches, with four more teams eliminated and another two advancing to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Team Vitality and MOUZ locked in their playoff spots for the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike 2 betting guide\">Counter-Strike 2<\/a> tournament with wins over FaZe Clan and Complexity in their respective upper bracket semi-finals in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Vitality and FaZe played out a hard-fought three-map series, with the former taking the series 2-1 (8-13, 16-12, 13-9), even though their star player, Mathieu &#8220;ZywOo&#8221; Herbaut, had little influence on the clash.<\/p>\n<p>FaZe picked Inferno for the first map, and with strong performances from key players like Robin &#8220;ropz&#8221; Kool and H\u00e5vard &#8220;rain&#8221; Nygaard, they took an early lead in the series with a 13-8 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Although Vitality was forced into overtime on their map pick of Dust2, Shahar &#8220;flameZ&#8221; Shushan stepped up and carried the world number four to a 16-12 win, forcing a decider on Anubis.<\/p>\n<p>The squads couldn&#8217;t be separated at halftime, locked at 6-6, before heading into the final half of the match.<\/p>\n<p>However, Vitality, led by flameZ again, would win seven of the final 10 rounds on their terrorist side to close out the map and series, 13-9.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s a reverse sweep from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamVitality?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamVitality<\/a> to best <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaZeClan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FaZeClan<\/a> and secure themselves a spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> Cologne Playoffs<\/p>\n<p>8-13 Inferno<br \/>16-12 Dust 2<br \/>13-9 Anubis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZveNmSxktV\">pic.twitter.com\/ZveNmSxktV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Intel\u00ae Extreme Masters (@IEM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IEM\/status\/1823045280385950162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the bracket, MOUZ took care of Complexity 2-0 (13-9, 13-11), with Jimi &#8220;Jimpphat&#8221; Salo, Ludvig &#8220;Brollan&#8221; Brolin, and \u00c1d\u00e1m &#8220;torzsi&#8221; Torzs\u00e1s dominating for the world number three.<\/p>\n<p>Torzsi, who led the way on Vertigo, recorded a server-high rating (1.39) and kills (19) to power MOUZ to a 13-9 win on Complexity&#8217;s map pick.<\/p>\n<p>MOUZ picked Nuke, and even though it was much closer than the opening map, Brollan (1.54 rating) and Jimpphat (1.47 rating) led the way in a hard-fought 13-11 victory.<\/p>\n<p>MOUZ will face Vitality in the Group B upper bracket final, with the winner locking in a semi-final spot and the loser having to settle for a quarter-final berth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s a not so simple 2-0 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mousesports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mousesports<\/a> as they close out the series vs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComplexityCS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ComplexityCS<\/a> after a bit of back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>13-9 Vertigo<br \/>13-11 Nuke <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3pdL1WsgGc\">pic.twitter.com\/3pdL1WsgGc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Intel\u00ae Extreme Masters (@IEM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IEM\/status\/1823041465896898629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, FURIA and Virtus.pro were eliminated from the IEM Cologne after suffering their second defeat of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>FURIA&#8217;s second straight 0-2 loss, this time against Team Liquid, ended their disappointing campaign in Cologne, while VP was knocked out by Falcons in a back-and-forth three-map series.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, The Mongolz and Astralis had their runs ended by paiN Gaming and G2 Esports, respectively, in the lower bracket of Group A.<\/p>\n<p>G2 continued their IEM Cologne resurgence with a 2-1 (13-1, 13-10, 13-3) victory, where the world number four dominated their Danish opponents on two of the three maps.<\/p>\n<p>The Mongolz suffered a similar fate to their upper bracket loss on Sunday, as they claimed the opening map before losing the next two, going down 1-2 (13-16, 13-10, 13-8) against paiN.<\/p>\n<p>The final day of the group stage will take place on Wednesday, with the final two teams locking in their spots to compete in the LANXESS Arena.<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday&#8217;s IEM Cologne fixtures<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li>Falcons ($2.75) vs FaZe Clan ($1.40) @ 1:30pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>Team Liquid ($1.44) vs Complexity ($2.62) @ 1:30pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>G2 Esports ($1.16) vs paiN Gaming ($4.50) @ 3:45pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>Natus Vincere ($1.20) vs SAW ($4.33) @ 3:45pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>MOUZ ($2.00) vs Team Vitality ($1.72) @ 6:45pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>Winner of FaZe Clan\/Falcons vs Winner of Complexity\/Team Liquid @ 6:45pm CEST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Vitality and MOUZ claimed victory in their respective upper bracket semi-finals to secure a playoff berth at IEM Cologne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[152,1532,3111,3190,127,654,103,1679,1815,285,128,215,3678,322],"class_list":["post-37623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-astralis","tag-complexity","tag-counter-strike-2","tag-falcons","tag-faze-clan","tag-furia","tag-g2-esports","tag-iem-cologne","tag-mouz","tag-pain-gaming","tag-team-liquid","tag-team-vitality","tag-the-mongolz","tag-virtus-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37623"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37634,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37623\/revisions\/37634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}