Ninja in Pyjamas and B8 eliminated from Beyond Epic: EU & CIS

Beyond Epic: Europe & CIS had its group stage come to an
end today with the teams clambering for a spot in the playoffs and trying to
avoid either elimination or the lower bracket.

Team Secret played two separate series today at Beyond Epic
and after their loss to Team Nigma yesterday, there was a small glimmer of hope
for B8 and OG, who had to battle the squad today. B8 were up first and would
require nothing less than a 2-0 victory if they wanted to avoid elimination
from the event. Unfortunately for Danil ‘Dendi’ Ishutin’s squad, going up
against his ex-teammate Clement ‘Puppey’ Ivanov was a tall-task and a quick 2-0
victory for Secret came through.

Secret would then have a bigger task of facing OG, who were
still finding their footing with their new roster in recent times. While we got
the pleasure of seeing a Techies from Johan ‘n0tail’ Sundstein, there was
nothing OG could do to withstand Secret’s lineup in either game. With another
2-0 victory, their fourth in the group stages, Secret would claim the number one
seed spot in Group A, pushing Team Nigma into the second-place position. For
OG, the loss does not push them out of Beyond Epic as they remain within the
top four and will progress into the lower bracket of playoffs where they will
face Virtus.pro in an elimination series tomorrow.

Ninjas in Pyjamas were also in the hot seat today as they
would need a perfect 2-0 series against VP if they wanted to remain in the
event. Unfortunately, after losing the first game, that hope was out the window
but that didn’t stop the team from giving the series everything they had.
Taking the next two games gave NiP a fantastic 2-1 victory to close out the group
stages but they would miss out on the top four by 0.1 of a point, leaving them
eliminated.

Tomorrow we will see the lower bracket of playoffs kick off
with two teams being eliminated from Beyond Epic: EU & CIS. The matchups
are: Vikin.gg versus Alliance and VP versus OG.

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