MOUZ and Cloud9 ready for Copenhagen

Day 2 of the EU Group B RMR tournament in Romania ended with several big upsets. Vitality’s defeat to Cloud9 came unexpectedly as Vitality had been firing on all cylinders in the first two matches of the tournament. But against Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov and Cloud9, Vitality suddenly looked shaky at times just like we saw at the BLAST Premier Spring Groups and at IEM Katowice. The last map of Anubis was especially rough for Vitality, who only won one CT round during the second half.

Another big upset happened a few hours later. MOUZ managed to silence both Spirit and Danil "donk" Kryshkovets. The Russian wonderkid has (unsurprisingly) not been able to live up to the insane performances at IEM Katowice, and had a tough time dealing with MOUZ on both Vertigo and Mirage. Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek led the MOUZ roster both by calling and fragging and secured the qualification for the PGL Copenhagen Major in style winning 13-10, 13-11.

On the other end of the spectrum, two teams would leave the EU RMR Group B with three straight defeats. First up it was Guild Eagles against Nexus. Both teams won their map pick before settling the score on Ancient. Here the entire Guild Eagles team came together to finish off the Romanians from Nexus, who gave a good fight in the end.

The last match of the day featured the record-holder of most attended Majors in history and most won Majors in history. Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen and Preasy were tasked with beating the Hungarians from PERA to stay alive in the tournament. Once again both teams won their own map picks to force the match into a third decider map. On Nuke Preasy broke PERA after a superb start leading 11-0 before PERA finally won a round. Preasy won the match 13-1 and thereby kept the dream of representing their country on home soil in Copenhagen alive for at least one day longer.

Today’s results:

Apeks – Monte 13-5
ECSTATIC – OG 13-11
Astralis – Heroic 7-13
GamerLegion – ENCE 14-16
Vitality – Cloud9 1-2
Guild Eagles – Nexus 2-1
Spirit – MOUZ 0-2
PERA – Preasy 1-2

Tomorrow’s matches: (CET)

12.00: Monte – Astralis
12.00: Apeks – ECSTATIC
15.00: Team Vitality - ENCE
15.00: OG – GamerLegion
19.00: Team Spirit – Heroic
19.00: Guild Eagles – Preasy