{"id":37586,"date":"2024-08-12T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=37586"},"modified":"2024-08-12T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T04:00:06","slug":"team-spirit-eliminated-from-iem-cologne-in-last-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/team-spirit-eliminated-from-iem-cologne-in-last-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Spirit eliminated from IEM Cologne in last place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Spirit was seeking to become the fourth team in <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike betting guide\">Counter-Strike<\/a> history to claim both IEM Katowice and IEM Cologne in the same year; however, their campaign has been swiftly ended by G2 Esports.<\/p>\n<p>The world number two entered IEM Cologne 2024 as the $3.50 favourite with <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a>, but after falling to The Mongolz in the opening round, Spirit were faced with a daunting task against G2 in the lower bracket to remain in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>G2, who were also upset by a play-in stage qualifier, had their <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/iem-cologne\/\" title=\"IEM Cologne\">IEM Cologne<\/a> title defence dealt an early blow after suffering a 0-2 loss against SAW.<\/p>\n<p>The do-or-die series began on Spirit&#8217;s map pick of Nuke, and it was Nemanja &#8216;huNter-&#8216; Kova\u010d who started off hot for G2, recording five kills in the first two rounds to set the tone.<\/p>\n<p>The Kova\u010d cousins, Nikola &#8216;NiKo&#8217; Kova\u010d and huNter-, dominated for G2 in the first half, propelling the squad to a 9-3 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Three first-half rounds would be the only round wins that Spirit claimed, as G2 quickly wrapped up the map 13-3.<\/p>\n<p>Only Danil &#8216;donk&#8217; Kryshkovets cracked double-digit kills (10), while Myroslav &#8216;zont1x&#8217; Plakhotia struggled with four kills and 37.9 ADR on Nuke.<\/p>\n<p>Following a lacklustre performance on their map, Spirit was tasked with playing G2&#8217;s pick of Mirage.<\/p>\n<p>However, G2 started Mirage with four straight rounds on the terrorist side before Spirit won their first, thanks to three kills from zont1x.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Spirit, G2 continued their dominance and finished the half with a massive 11-1 lead before closing out the series with a 13-1 demolition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G2CSGO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@G2CSGO<\/a> absolutely DOMINATE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Team__Spirit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Team__Spirit<\/a> in the lower bracket of Group A, eliminating the Katowice champions in the process!<\/p>\n<p>13-3 Nuke<br \/>13-1 Mirage <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fo5lFZABef\">pic.twitter.com\/Fo5lFZABef<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1822698907433873560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spirit has been sent packing from IEM Cologne following an embarrassing performance, which saw them win just four rounds in the clash with G2.<\/p>\n<p>9z Team joined Spirit in last place after they were eliminated from Cologne by paiN Gaming in a back-and-forth three-map series, with paiN completing the reverse sweep after losing the first map.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Natus Vincere (NaVi) and SAW secured their spots in the LANXESS Arena following their victories in the Group A upper bracket semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>NaVi proved too strong for Astralis and took the series 2-0 (13-4, 13-7).<\/p>\n<p>SAW was pushed to their limits against The Mongolz, as they played all three maps and eventually claimed the series 2-1 (13-16, 13-7, 13-10).<\/p>\n<p>The IEM Cologne group stage will continue on Monday, with two elimination matches scheduled to kick off the day.<\/p>\n<h3>Monday&#8217;s IEM Cologne group stage fixtures<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li>Team Liquid ($1.40) vs FURIA ($2.75) @ 1:30pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>Virtus.pro ($1.66) vs Falcons ($2.10) @ 1:30pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>Complexity ($3.00) vs MOUZ ($1.36) @ 3:45pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>FaZe Clan ($2.37) vs Team Vitality ($1.53) @ 3:45pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>Astralis ($2.37) vs G2 ($1.53) @ 6:45pm CEST<\/li>\n<li>The Mongolz ($1.53) vs paiN Gaming ($2.37) @ 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 Spirit and 9z Team were eliminated from IEM Cologne 2024 after they suffered their second loss of the group stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":32948,"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":[1306,152,3111,103,1679,132,285,1333,434,3678],"class_list":["post-37586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9z-team","tag-astralis","tag-counter-strike-2","tag-g2-esports","tag-iem-cologne","tag-natus-vincere","tag-pain-gaming","tag-saw","tag-team-spirit","tag-the-mongolz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586"}],"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=37586"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37612,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586\/revisions\/37612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}