Team Vitality knocked out Team Spirit in three straight maps to win the big final in the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event in Poland on Sunday.
Vitality demanded the top price of $ 460,000, which was revised upwards from $ 400,000 over the weekend. Spirit received $ 216,000 as a runner.
Vitality rolled to 13-6 and 13-5 wins on Dust II and Nuke to start the big final and then led 11-4 on Mirage before hung on for the clinical victory 13-11.
Mathieu “Zywoo” Herbaut in France led the winners with 67 kills and a plus-38 Kill-Death difference. Russia’s Danil “Donk” Kryshkovets published 40 kills, but no one in Spirit Squad had a plus KD differential.
Group games in $ 1 million Counter-Strike: The Global Offensive event contained 16 teams that were divided into two double elimination consoles, with all matches best-by-three. The two group phase winners advanced directly to the playoffs semi -finals; The two group phase runners moved to the quarter finals as high seeds; And the two third place teams made the quarter finals as low seeds.
The playoffs were single elimination, with the best-three matches for the quarter finals and the semi-finals. Sunday’s big final was the only use of a best-of-five format in the competition.
Intel Extreme Masters Katowice Prize Pool:
1. $ 460,000 – Team Vitality
2. $ 216,000 – Team Spirit
3-4. $ 108,000 – Mongolz, born to win
5-6. $ 61,000 – Eternal Fire, Virtus.Pro
7-8. $ 38,000 – FAZE CLAN, Gamerlegion
9-12. $ 23,000 – G2 Esports, 3DMAX, Astralis, Team Liquid
13-16. $ 10,000 – Team Falcons, Big, Furia Esports, Mouz
17-20. $ 4500 – Wildcard, Pain Gaming, Mibr, Heroic
21-24. $ 2500 – complexity, flyquest, saw, imperialist woman
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