Astralis dominate IEM Global Challenge 2020: Final placements & recap IEM\u2019s Global Challenge has come and gone, with Astralis emerging as victors and claiming the lion\u2019s share of $500,000. Here\u2019s how the event unfolded. Astralis cruise to a 3-0 Grand Final win over Team Liquid \u2014 Inferno (16-11), Overpass (16-11), Dust 2 (16-10) – Device dominated for The Danes with a 1.26 rating across 13 maps – Twistzz confirms Liquid departure after Grand Final loss – IEM Global Challenge 2020: Final placements Astralis walked away with $200,000 and 3,000 BLAST Points \u2014 overtaking Team Vitality (9,300) at the top of the BLAST Circuit with 9,363 points. IEM Global Challenge 2020: Results & recap Results & recaps Day 1 \u2014 Tuesday, December 15 BIG upset Vitality, Astralis & Na\u2019Vi cruise through Better late than never! Plenty wrote off BIG heading into IEM Global Challenge, seeing them as nothing more than Chaos\u2019 replacement, but the Germans came to play. Despite Vitality\u2019s convincing win on their map pick of Inferno (16-7), a 19-17 win on Vertigo and 16-13 win on Nuke was enough to edge past the world number ones. It was business as usual for Astralis and Na\u2019Vi, who swept their way past Complexity and Na\u2019Vi to put them one step closer to the Playoffs. Day 2 \u2014 Wednesday, December 16 BIG clinch Playoff berth, Vitality & Liquid win big The day started off with cool, calm, and collected performance from Team Liquid, who wrestled a 2-0 victory vs Heroic \u2014 16-11 on Inferno and 16-14 on Nuke. Vitality made up for their shock day one loss with a dismantling of Complexity, taking Nuke 16-9 before dominating Dust2 16-3. The tournament\u2019s first Playoff clincher match went the way of BIG, who etched out a key overtime victory on Vertigo (22-19), before making a comeback on Dust 2 to take the map 16-10. Day 3 \u2014 Thursday, December 17 FURIA finish strong against Heroic; s1mple shines vs Liquid The Brazilian\u2019s weathered the storm against Heroic. While the Danish side managed to keep the first two games highly competitive (sending Nuke into triple overtime), FURIA took the Group B decider match with an emphatic performance on Vertigo 16-4 \u2014 sending Heroic packing in 7th-8th place. Navi advanced to the Playoffs with a swift 2-0 win over Team Liquid. After the matchup, s1mple said it felt good to beat the Americans, since they had their number in 2019. While it was teammate Perfecto who clutched up time and again on map one, s1mple closed out the series with his dominant AWP performance on Nuke. Day 4 \u2014 Friday, December 18 Liquid & Astralis secure Playoff spot Astralis took down the top dogs of Team Vitality to secure their Playoff spot. Even though Misutaaa was strong out of the gate, The Danes shrugged off the one map loss, taking the series 2-1. FURIA went in against Team Liquid as hot favorites. Competing for the fourth and final Playoff spot, Jonathan \u2018EliGE\u2019 Jablonowski and the rest of Liquid stepped up to secure semi-final matchup against an on-form BIG lineup. Day 5 \u2014 Saturday, December 19 Astralis & Liquid shrug off Europe\u2019s finest Semi-final Saturday got off to a rocking start with Na\u2019Vi taking on Astralis. Even though s1mple and co. put up a fight, taking Nuke (16-9), it wasn\u2019t enough to overcome the Danish powerhouse, who punched their ticket to the Final with a win on Inferno (16-13) and Train (16-11). Team Liquid brushed aside BIG in two. Despite Jake \u2018Stewie2k\u2019 Yip\u2019s mid-series mouse issues, Liquid looked unstoppable as EliGE clocked off with a 113.6 ADR and 61 frags. Day 6 \u2014 Sunday, December 20 Astralis end 2020 on a high, with a Twistzz Russel \u2018Twistzz\u2019 Van Dulken stepped up after a rocky road to the Grand Final. But despite the Canadian\u2019s best efforts, Astralis proved too strong. 16-11 wins on Inferno and Overpass led to a Dust 2 brawl. Liquid just weren\u2019t able to keep up with Astralis\u2019 dynamic duo in Device & Dupreeh, bowing out in 2nd place after losing 16-10. IEM Global Challenge 2020: Teams & players Teams were divided into two groups. The top two from each group qualified to Saturday\u2019s semi-finals. Notably, Complexity played with Otto \u2018ottoNd\u2019 Sihvo as a stand-in, following Valentin \u2018poizon\u2019 Vasilev\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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