After four days of group stage matches, IEM Katowice 2021 is set to move onto the single elimination phase of the tournament.
Friday, Feb 26 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Round of 12 (best of 5)
Saturday, Feb 27 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Round of 8 (best of 5)
Sunday, Feb 28 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Semifinals (best of 5) and grand finals (best of 7)
Group D, the final group of the RO24, saw the reigning, two-time IEM Katowice champion Rogue take place with a 4-1 record, only dropping a series (or even a map) to the group's second place player in PartinG. Stats clinched the third and final ticket out of the group, with Cure, RagnaroK, and Neeb being eliminated.
On February 26 2021 04:32 Fango wrote: What's the best potential finals here? Dark vs PartinG, Maru vs Serral? Dark vs Serral?
From a match quality perspective TY vs Reynor or TY vs Dark imo. We've had Dark vs Serral recently and it was pretty bad. Though the single most important element to get a good finals is probably that Rogue isn't part of it--I don't think any of his premier finals were worth watching.
I really like this format's playoff format, where first place gets a bye and the other players go into the wildcard spot. I hate the 2 lives thing since it seems to not always favor the player in the winner spot that much since they have fewer lives.
Kind of unfortunate bracket from a foreign point of view. One "teamkill", one against Maru and one against Stats. Ouch. I'm especially sad to see Clem vs Serral already. Wish they were split.
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