Only four teams remain in the ESL Barcelona Invitational, as Vexed and EnVyUs have been ousted from the competition and Astralis took the first hit at the hands of G2.

In the second half of the day fnatic threw Astralis and Envy into the ring. The two fought on de_mirage for control over the future match-ups, as well as another life.

The Frenchmen began on the Terrorist side and took a solid eight rounds on the offence, but Astralis's response was too much to handle, as the Danes powered to a nearly perfect T side of their own, only conceding a single round throughout the half.

ESL Barcelona CS:GO Invitational presented by Mobile World Congress Best of 1 Envy Matchpage 9 16 Astralis 9 Mirage 16

Envy K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS 18 - 17 +1 65.6 1.01 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK- 14 - 17 -3 86.2 0.99 Vincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerHappy 16 - 17 -1 70.7 0.97 Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX 11 - 20 -9 61.6 0.74 Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieykioShiMa 10 - 20 -10 46.5 0.69 Astralis K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice 25 - 11 +14 101.0 1.68 Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh 24 - 15 +9 105.6 1.64 René 'cajunb' Borgcajunb 17 - 16 +1 70.6 1.03 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x 15 - 13 +2 69.3 1.02 Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan 10 - 14 -4 61.4 0.98

As expected from the Danish coalition, Dignitas were chosen as the next contender alongside Vexed, whom Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen's squad beat yesterday quite confidently 16-7 on de_mirage.

That time it was even more one-sided, as it came down to Dignitas's home map, de_cbble. For the first time in the tournament it was not Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye leading the way but the other young gun, Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke, who also had a quick spraydown ace during their 12-3 CT side.

ESL Barcelona CS:GO Invitational presented by Mobile World Congress Best of 1 Dignitas Matchpage 16 5 Vexed 16 Cobblestone 5

Dignitas K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Kristian 'k0nfig' Wieneckek0nfig 26 - 14 +12 121.0 1.78 Jesper 'TENZKI' PlougmannTENZKI 20 - 13 +7 117.1 1.62 Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelRUBINO 19 - 9 +10 82.1 1.40 Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenMSL 17 - 13 +4 73.7 1.09 Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye 11 - 10 +1 65.3 1.05 Vexed K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiFurlan 19 - 18 +1 89.2 1.23 Dominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiGruBy 16 - 19 -3 76.0 0.96 Karol 'rallen' Rodowiczrallen 8 - 17 -9 45.3 0.60 Karol 'repo' Cybulskirepo 10 - 20 -10 59.4 0.53 Bartosz 'Hyper' WolnyHyper 6 - 19 -13 53.8 0.39

Astralis and G2 were up next, once again on de_dust2, where the two already met early on during the first day, and it came down to the last round in the first overtime.

The French-Belgian lineup started off the better that time around, winning 6-0 before Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen and company replied with two on the back of René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg's clutch round.

It didn't seem to kickstart the Danes however, as G2 stormed to a 12-3 halftime score as CT. It didn't end as quickly as expected though, as Astralis came back to 13-13 before dropping the ball at the end.

ESL Barcelona CS:GO Invitational presented by Mobile World Congress Best of 1 Astralis Matchpage 13 16 G2 13 Dust2 16

Astralis K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh 24 - 22 +2 89.5 1.17 Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice 20 - 22 -2 74.0 0.95 Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan 20 - 21 -1 65.8 0.92 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x 9 - 22 -13 55.9 0.66 René 'cajunb' Borgcajunb 12 - 26 -14 54.8 0.60 G2 K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Richard 'shox' Papillonshox 31 - 18 +13 125.2 1.57 Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' DroolansEx6TenZ 21 - 16 +5 73.4 1.19 Adil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomScreaM 21 - 16 +5 78.2 1.19 Edouard 'SmithZz' DubourdeauxSmithZz 23 - 18 +5 83.9 1.17 Cédric 'RpK' GuipouyRpK 17 - 17 0 63.2 1.05

G2 decided to go rogue from that point on, as they pitted alliance members Envy and fnatic up against each other to end the day on a slow, mourning note.

The Frenchmen didn't stand a chance in a match they needed to win to survive, only Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire stepped up to the plate on de_train, as EnVyUs quickly started drowning before fnatic put a stop to the suffering at 16-7.

ESL Barcelona CS:GO Invitational presented by Mobile World Congress Best of 1 fnatic Matchpage 16 7 Envy 16 Train 7

fnatic K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha 22 - 10 +12 99.0 1.63 Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ 18 - 11 +7 94.1 1.48 Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjerolofmeister 20 - 13 +7 93.3 1.48 Dennis 'dennis' Edmandennis 19 - 12 +7 69.1 1.31 Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW 14 - 16 -2 70.2 1.00 Envy K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX 20 - 17 +3 110.5 1.31 Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS 15 - 19 -4 63.0 0.76 Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieykioShiMa 11 - 18 -7 56.2 0.62 Vincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerHappy 9 - 19 -10 51.8 0.46 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK- 6 - 20 -14 41.0 0.36

With day two coming to an end, we are down to only half of the teams standing, with all four of them at two lives left:

Team Matches Lives Astralis 4 2 fnatic 5 2 G2 4 2 Dignitas 4 2 5. Envy - €5,500 5 0 6. Vexed - €3,500 4 0 7. gBots - €1,500 3 0 8. x6tence - €500 3 0

One of the Danish teams will go down to only one after the first match tomorrow, as the two will face each other for the first time in the tournament.