Renegades and Vitality reach Group-A upper bracket finals of StarSeries & i-League S8
Cover Image Courtesy: Team Vitality | Thumbnail Image Courtesy: Yura
The first day of
StarSeries & i-League Season 8
taking place in Belek, Turkey offering a total prize pool of
$500,000
came to an end with
Renegades
and
Vitality
reaching the Winner’s Final of Group - A.
The sixteen participating teams, twelve direct invites followed by four teams qualifying through their regional qualifier, have been split into two groups of eight teams each. Both these groups will be following a best-of-three, double-elimination format with the top four teams from each group qualifying for the playoffs.
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Group - A
The tournament kicked off with the first group playing a total of six matches which witnessed Vitality defeat Invictus Gaming and North on its way to the winners final, followed by Renegades defeating MIBR and Fnatic to join the French squad.
Four teams that dropped down to the lower bracket after losing their very first match are Imperial e-Sports, MIBR, Invictus Gaming, and mousesports. The four teams will be playing the eliminator tomorrow on 23
rd
October.
Best Moments Of The Day
The 9000 IQ play from Joakim ‘jkaem’ Myrbostad.
The series of tweets from chrisJ, woxic, and karrigan after going down to the lower bracket.
Fernando ‘fer’ Alvarenga with a brilliant triple on Mirage.
Flusha with this hilarious 2v1 ace clutch.
Shox with the walk in the park quad-kill on an eco round.
That is all the action that went down on day one, stay tuned as the second day of the event starts today with Group - B playing out its matches, as we witness the two more teams reach the winner’s final.
Match | Time |
EG vs 5Power | 10:00 Istanbul Time | 12:30 IST |
NiP vs FURIA | 10:00 Istanbul Time | 12:30 IST |
Avangar vs Heroic | 13:30 Istanbul Time | 16:00 IST |
Na'Vi vs G2 Esports | 13:30 Istanbul Time | 16:00 IST |
Semifinal - 1 | 17:00 Istanbul Time | 19:30 IST |
Semifinal - 2 | 20:30 Istanbul Time | 23:00 IST |