ViCi, TeamOne lose in the survival battle

The Evil Geniuses and Sprout are to keep up the momentum against Mousesports and Spirit respectively after sending their last opponents home in the IEM cologne's lower bracket. ViCi who had a no-win journey in the tournament faced Evil Geniuses to add up to the disappointment after Complexity and waved goodbye to the cologne. The North American squad for dominant on the Chinese throughout scoring 16-5 and 16-7 wins.

On the other hand, there was definite trailing with TeamOne and Sprout. While TeamOne started off with high spirits on Dust2 could not keep up the 12-8 lead against the Sprout’s Fritz "⁠slaxz-⁠" Dietrich who was a stunner pacing to map 3. Sprout was unstoppable with perfect defense and crushed the Brazilians to save face in the home tournament, now ready to fight Spirit on Wednesday.