Esea mdl global challenge reaches playoffs, virtus.pro eliminated

After two days of action in Dallas, Texas, four teams are left standing at the ESEA MDL S29 Global Challenge LAN: Grayhound, 3DMAX, Kinguin and Singularity.

The eight-team tournament with a $50,000 prize pool, which takes places following to the ESL Pro League Relegation tournament, kicked off on Friday with the opening matches.

3DMAX, a team that earned a slot in ESL Pro League this week, was the first one to advance to the playoffs in Texas with BO1 wins over Vireo.pro and Kinguin. Joining the Frenchmen in the playoffs after day one were the Australian representatives Grayhound, who took down Swole Patrol and Singularity.


3DMAX are no pushovers at their last event with Lucky and JaCkz
Day two featured four BO3s; Vireo.pro and Virtus.pro won their respective elimination matches, over Swole Patrol and cantwinalan, but both fell in the decider matches with 2-0 scorelines.

Kinguin overcame Vireo.pro afer a strongly contested Dust2, while Singularity eliminated Virtus.pro, the only top 30 team at the tournament, with a convincing performance on Dust2 and Mirage.

With that, the schedule and the matchups for the playoffs are as follows:

18:00 Australia Grayhound vs. Poland Kinguin (BO3)
21:30 France 3DMAX vs. United States Singularity (BO3)
01:30 Grand Final (BO3)