Jordan Woodruff
Xtreme Gaming and Cloud9 earned prime seeds at The Worldwide by profitable their respective seeding deciders on Friday in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Xtreme Gaming swept Talon Esports 2-0 and Cloud9 did the identical to 1w Crew to earn the A1 and B1 seeds within the playoff bracket. They’re going to be joined by Crew Liquid, who beat BetBoom Crew 2-1, and Aurora, who outlasted Crew Zero 2-1, within the upper-bracket quarterfinals.
Liquid will face Xtreme and Aurora will play Cloud9 within the higher bracket. First, 4 extra seeding deciders are scheduled for Saturday.
Sixteen groups entered the seeding deciders following the group stage earlier this week. They had been damaged into eight decider matches to find out their beginning place within the double-elimination playoff bracket.
The winners will start the principle occasion within the higher bracket, and the shedding sides will begin out within the decrease bracket. All matches are best-of-three till the grand last, which is best-of-five.
The champions will earn 45 p.c of the prize pool, which started with a base of $1.6 million and can improve based mostly on gross sales inside the recreation.
On Friday, Xtreme took down Talon in 35 minutes on crimson and 51 1/2 minutes on inexperienced. Zhao “XinQ” Zixing of China averaged a 9.0-2.5-14.5 kills-deaths-assists ratio over the 2 maps for Xtreme.
Cloud9 defeated 1w Crew in 39 minutes and 37 minutes, each on inexperienced. Volodymyr “Noone-” Minenko of Ukraine put up a ten.0-1.0-12.0 common Okay-D-A for Cloud9.
Crew Liquid sandwiched wins of 48 minutes and 43 minutes on crimson round a 23-minute loss on inexperienced to BetBoom. The do-or-die third map noticed Sweden’s Michael “miCKe” Vu submit 14 kills, seven assists and no deaths.
Aurora beat Crew Zero in 41 minutes on inexperienced, fell in 48 minutes on crimson and got here again to earn a 62-minute victory on inexperienced. Worawit “Q” Mekchai of Thailand put up an 11-5-22 Okay-D-A ratio on the third map to information Aurora.
4 seeding deciders stay on Saturday:
–Crew Falcons vs. beastcoast
–Tundra Esports vs. HEROIC
–Crew Spirit vs. nouns
–Gaimin Gladiators vs. G2 x iG
The Worldwide 2024 prize pool
1. $1,099,940 (45 p.c)
2. $342,208 (14 p.c)
3. $219,948 (9 p.c)
4. $146,632 (6 p.c)
5-6. $85,552 (3.5 p.c)
7-8. $61,080 (2.5 p.c)
9-12. $48,844 (2 p.c)
13-16. $36,708 (1.5 p.c)
–Discipline Stage Media