G2 Esports and Team Vitality swept their way into the finals of the 2024 Intel Extreme Masters Dallas event on Saturday.
G2 beat 9z Team 2-0 to advance, while Vitality topped Team Spirit 2-0.
Sixteen teams competed in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament’s double-elimination group stage. The teams were split into a pair of eight-team groups, with the winner of each group advancing to the playoff semifinals. The group runners-up advanced to the quarterfinals as the high seeds, while the third-place finishers faced them as the low seeds.
All matches in the single-elimination playoff bracket are best-of-three, and the grand final is scheduled for Sunday.
The winner of the tournament will receive $100,000, 1,400 BLAST Premier points and a spot in the 2024 IEM Cologne event in Germany, scheduled for Aug. 7-18.
On Saturday, G2 pulled out a 13-11 win over 9z on Inferno, then clinched a spot in the final with a 13-8 victory on Dust II. Nikola “NiKo” Kovac of Bosnia and Herzegovina posted a match-high 40 kills on a plus-15 kills-to-deaths differential for G2.
Vitaly rolled to a 13-6 win over Spirit on Dust II, then had a tougher time on Mirage, but won 13-11 to secure the victory. Frenchman Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut led the way for Vitality, with 44 kills on a plus-20.
The tournament concludes Sunday with the finals:
–G2 Esports vs. Team Vitality
IEM Dallas 2024 prize pool:
1. $100,000, 1,400 BLAST Premier points, qualification to IEM Cologne 2024
2. $42,000, 1,000 BLAST Premier points
3-4. $20,000, 600 BLAST Premier points – 9z Team, Team Spirit
5-6. $10,000, 400 BLAST Premier points — FaZe Clan, HEROIC
7-8. $6,000, 300 BLAST Premier points — Team Liquid, BIG
9-12. $5,000 — Virtus.pro, Natus Vincere, Team Falcons, MOUZ
13-16. $4,000 — FlyQuest, M80, Monte, Complexity Gaming
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