The group stage of ESL Pro League Season 24 has come to a close, with eight teams making it through to the playoffs in the Spodek Arena. The playoff bracket has now been drawn, and there are some tantalizing matchups on the horizon.
Falcons taking in Spirit is the most eye-catching game on the horizon, with the two sides having met in the semi finals of IEM Cologne Major earlier this year, when Falcons came out on top on their way to the trophy.
The two sides have already played one rematch, in the BLAST Open Porto semi-finals, and Spirit garnered some measure of revenge in that instance with a 2-0 victory.
Aurora will feel they were dealt the kindest playoff draw, earning a bout with 1win that will see Damjan "kyxsan" Stoilkovski and his troops enter the match as favorites. Vitality too will feel they have been dealt a favorable matchup, drawing PARIVISION, whilst FURIA are left to face off against MOUZ.
One side of the bracket seems far tougher than the other, with both of the significant underdogs of the playoffs, PARIVISION and 1win, being drawn into the top half of the bracket.
The full schedule for the quater-finals is as follows:
Vitality
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan
William 'mezii' Merriman
Rémy 'XTQZZZ' Quoniam
1win
Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov
Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov
Andrey 'BELCHONOKK' Yasinskiy
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev
Artem 'ArtFr0st' Kharitonov
Konstantin 'groove' Pikiner
Spirit
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev
Andrey 'tN1R' Tatarinovich
Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia
Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets
Sergey 'hally' Shavaev
Aurora
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş
Özgür 'woxic' Eker
Jimi 'Jimpphat' Salo
Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski
Ali 'Wicadia' Haydar Yalçın
Ashley 'ash' Battye
FURIA
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Danil 'molodoy' Golubenko
Sid 'sidde' Macedo
MOUZ
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Oldřich 'PR' Nový
Adrian 'xelex' Vincze
Dennis 'sycrone' Nielsen
PARIVISION
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali
Vladislav 'xiELO' Lysov
Ivan 'zweih' Gogin
Dastan 'dastan' Akbayev
Damjan 'kyxsan' StoilkovskiPast 3 months
Falcons
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
René 'TeSeS' Madsen
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov
Maksim 'kyousuke' Lukin
Danny 'zonic' Sørensen