The second day of Stake Ranked Episode 3 concluded with the new-look HEROIC barely staving off Phantom in a tight series to set up an upper bracket final battle against Ninjas in Pyjamas, who eased past Gentle Mates in a two-map series earlier in the day.
paiN were the highest-ranked team in attendance but had suffered a loss to Phantom in their opener, and the Brazilian team's woes continued as they were sent packing from the event by 3DMAX in the lower bracket.
The early exit adds to a troubled run of form for paiN, coming on the heels of a loss to Sharks in the BLAST Open Porto South America qualifier.
The French squad got the job done thanks to a stellar performance by AWPer-turned-rifler Jeremy "Kursy" Gast, who posted a 1.94 rating to lead his team to a dominant victory.
BC Game Masters Championship Season 2 champions Wildcard also had their tournament run come to an early end, finding themselves unable to carry the form they had two months ago into the Spanish event with 0-2 losses to Gentle Mates in their opener and K27 in the lower bracket.
The schedule and matchups for the penultimate day of the event looks as follows:
K27
Timur 'clax' Sabirov
Daniil 'X5G7V' Maryshev
Aleksey 'xeedo' Mikulich
Danila 'kashl1d' Dronov
Daniil 'qw1nk1' Kabilov
Gregory 'balblna' Oleinick
Gentle Mates
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano
Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell
David 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo
Angel 'repk3ys' Gracia Navarro
Jeremy 'Kursy' Gast
HEROIC
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin
Linus 'nilo' Bergman
Tim 'susp' Ångström
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Christoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard
Joonas 'doto' Forss
Wildcard
Nemanja 'nEMANHA' Đukić
Miłosz 'mhL' Knasiak
Danny 'Cxzi' Strzelczyk
Ethan 'reck' Serrano
Jadan 'HexT' Postma
Łukasz 'splawik' Jahns
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Martin 'stavn' Lund
Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Roman 'n0te' Hamze
Kacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Sharks
Victor 'gafolo' Andrade
João 'koala' Pfeffer
Máximo 'maxxkor' Cortina
Daniel 'rdnzao' Monteiro
Danilo 'doc' Barros
Hélder 'coachi' Sancho
paiN
Vinicius 'vsm' Moreira
Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt
Guilherme 'piriajr' Barbosa
Rafael 'saffee' Costa
João 'snow' Vinicius
Henrique 'rikz' Waku
Phantom
Thomas 'TMB' Bundsbæk
Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi
Kamil 'KEi' Pietkun
Kacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz
Jan 'cej0t' Dyl
Dawid 'lunAtic' Cieślak
3DMAX
Bryan 'Maka' Canda
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier
Jeremy 'Kursy' Gast
Filip 'Graviti' Brankovic
Damien 'wasiNk' Dufour