The second day of ELEAGUE playoffs has concluded with victories of mousesports and Virtus.pro over Astralis and NiP respectively.
| Semi-Finalist | Eliminated |
|---|---|
 mousesports |  Astralis |
 Virtus.pro |  NiP |
Astralis vs mousesports 2:13, 0:3 (2:16); 8:7, 4:9 (12:16)
Winner: mousesports
Maps: de_Mirage, de_Dust 2
MVP: 
Nikola “NiKo” Kova?
The second map was mousesports’ choice Dust 2. This time around, the Danes were the better side on the early rounds as they were leading 8-4 at the end of the 12th round. But all of the remaining three rounds of the first half went mousesports’ way. Astralis needed to stand solid against mousesports pushes as they were going to play as the CT side and before Nikola "NiKo" Kova?’s monstrous plays they were doing just fine. When the score was 11-7 in favour of Astralis, mousesports struck back and won 9 out of 10 rounds to close out the series 2-0 and advance to the semi-finals.
Day two of the quarter-final action started with the matchup between Astralis and mousesports. Astralis had the chance to pick the opening map which was going to be Mirage. The underdogs mousesports started the match without mercy and all of a sudden it was 7-0 in favour of Kova?’s team. Astralis called an early timeout at that point but their timeout wasn’t enough for them to grab consecutive rounds. The Danish side managed to win only one round more for the remainder of the map and got crushed by mousesports with a 2-16 score line on Mirage.
Virtus.pro vs NiP 9:6, 7:2 (16:8); 6:9, 10:0 (16:9)
Winner: Virtus.pro
Maps: de_Dust 2, de_Cobblestone
MVP: Filip “NEO” Kubski
The fourth quarter-final match of ELEAGUE playoffs was between two giants, Virtus.pro and NiP. Although this clash of the giants was expected to be a close series, Virtus.pro controlled the match thanks to their magnificent second half performances on both maps. The first map, Dust 2, started with Polish domination as Virtus.pro were leading 5-0 after first five rounds. After a succesful NiP retake on the sixth round, neither team managed to win three back-to-back rounds for a while as a result of great rounds by Filip "NEO" Kubski and Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund. NiP had to gear up their play in order to finish the half with an acceptable score and so they did by winning 4 rounds against VP’s 1 during the last five rounds. The halftime score was 9-6 in favour of Virtus.pro. A strong showing on the T side of Dust 2 could had won them the map but Virtus.pro’s defence was incredible on both sites and in the end, it was the Polish team who grabbed the map with a convincing 8-round lead.
The next map was VP’s choice Cobblestone but NiP started way better than them, making it 6-1 after seven rounds. Virtus.pro’s efforts on the remainder of the first half weren’t enough to catch the Swedes and they went to the halftime 3 rounds behind. The second half was completely opposite though. Virtus.pro’s performance as Terrorist on Cobblestone was one of the best the fans saw in recent months. On the other hand, NiP were unable to hold onto the bombsites and never managed to win a round. Thanks to the 10-0 second half result, VP beat NiP 16-9 on Cobblestone and advanced to the ELEAGUE semi-finals.
Frontpage photo courtesy of ELEAGUE.
