A pool of 16 teams at Stake Pulse Beat II has been whittled down to eight after the conclusion of a GSL group stage that was topped by Astralis, HEROIC, 100 Thieves, and JiJieHao.
Sangal, BBL, fnatic, and Betclic secured the final quarter-final spots as their group runner-ups, while Virtus.pro and FOKUS were among the names to falter and miss out.
A 1.67-rated series from Gytis "ryu" Glušauskas helped Astralis recover from an opening overtime map loss to Sangal before Victor "Staehr" Staehr took over to sweep FOKUS and make playoffs. Sangal then recovered from a map down and a 4-8 deficit to edge past FOKUS in the Group A decider.
HEROIC romped through Group B with ease, while Virtus.pro's recent charge up the VRS and morale took a hit after crushing 0-13 and 5-13 losses to BBL. The Danes then dominated Johnny Speeds in the decider match to advance, while Group C saw 100 Thieves beat EAC and Phantom, the latter of whom lost in a rematch to fnatic in the decider.
JiJieHao and Betclic advanced from Group D, with the Poles scraping past Eternal Fire for the final playoff spot.
The quarter-finals at the Sweden LAN will kick off on Friday at 09:00 . The schedule and matchups can be found below, while the bracket can be viewed in full on our tournament page.
Johnny Speeds
William 'draken' Sundin
Hampus 'hampus' Poser
Leo 'Svedjehed' Svedjehed
Oliwer 'bsover' Ekbäck
Elias 'Rack' Karttunen
Gytis 'ryu' GlušauskasPast 3 months
Sangal
Adam 'adamS' Marian
Bartosz 'bnox' Niebisz
Luka 'puuha' Eklund
Selman 'R4DYX' Ozan
Yeray 'Joey' Serrano Pérez
Jimmy 'Jumpy' Berndtsson
Astralis
Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen
Love 'phzy' Smidebrant
Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard
Victor 'Staehr' Staehr
Gytis 'ryu' Glušauskas
Filip 'NEO' Kubski
BBL
Oliver 'IceBerg' Berg
Jason 'salazar' Salazar
Jamie 'leakz' Bugge West Jensen
Jonas 'Boye' Boye Østergaard
Nicky 'NickyB' Bruhn
Kenni 'wezx' Holmberg
HEROIC
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin
Linus 'nilo' Bergman
Tim 'susp' Ångström
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Christoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard
Joonas 'doto' Forss
fnatic
Rodion 'fEAR' Smyk
Dmytro 'jambo' Semera
Nikita 'jackasmo' Skyba
Artem 'cairne' Mushynskyi
Volodymyr 'mazay' Iorhachov
Miks 'Independent' Siliņš
Phantom
Thomas 'TMB' Bundsbæk
Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi
Kamil 'KEi' Pietkun
Kacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz
Jan 'cej0t' Dyl
Victor 'Staehr' StaehrPast 3 months
Eternal Fire
Gareth 'MisteM' Ries
Iulian 'regali' Harjău
Caner 'soulfly' Kesici
Vladyslav 'Kvem' Korol
Samet 'jottAAA' Köklü
Sezgin 'Fabre' Kalaycı
Betclic
Patryk 'Demho' Tomaszewski
Wojciech 'Prism' Zięba
Mateusz 'ex1st' Witman
Roland 'ultimate' Tomkowiak
Konrad 'Qlocuu' Klocek
Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek
100 Thieves
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Jack 'Gizmy' von Spreckelsen
William 'sirah' Kjærsgaard
Alex 'poiii' Nyholm Sundgren
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
EAC
Frederik 'Fessor' Sørensen
Mikkel 'n1Xen' Borlund
Andreas 'anber' Brandt
Simon 'sSen' Solnæs Iversen
Tobias 'bekker' Bekker
Simon 'redeye' Niebe
Virtus.pro
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov
Vladimir 'b1st' Krasikov
Dias 'F0R3VER' Kutubay
Aleksandr 'AquaRS' Kovalev
Vadim 'tO0RO' Arkov
Dmitriy 'ProbLeM' Martinov
JiJieHao
Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi
Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci
Bebu 'Bibu' Aadil
Aleksandar 'CacaNito' Kjulukoski
Osama '0SAMAS' Orabi
Torbjørn 'mithR' Nyborg
FOKUS
Erik 'ztr' Gustafsson
Matias 'Banjo' Kivistö
Paavo 'podi' Heiskanen
Jacob 'jocab' Nerheden
Mateo 'Matheos' Prišlin
Ricardo 'JTR' Júnior