The last round of matches in Group B has been played, with the results placing Liquid in the playoffs over Natus Vincere and OpTic.

The early phase of the OpTic - Natus Vincere game was a back-and-forth affair, but OpTic took over the momentum when Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas started rolling with the AWP. It was 8-3 for the North American side shortly after, and a solid 9-6 halftime score in the end.

The second half was all about OpTic as the North American side rolled over Natus Vincere, with the CIS team's economy situation helping out Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik and co. make the score 16-8.

ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals Best of 1 OpTic Matchpage 16 8 Natus Vincere 16 Cobblestone 8

OpTic K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellasmixwell 31 - 10 +21 125.2 2.06 Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF 21 - 12 +9 86.3 1.47 Tarik 'tarik' Celiktarik 20 - 15 +5 91.8 1.36 William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH 13 - 11 +2 52.7 1.02 Jason 'jasonR' RuchelskijasonR 11 - 18 -7 71.4 0.91 Natus Vincere K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN 20 - 19 +1 82.2 1.12 Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie 17 - 18 -1 64.3 1.02 Denis 'seized' Kostinseized 10 - 20 -10 62.0 0.60 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward 9 - 19 -10 53.6 0.60 Aleksandr 's1mple' Kostylievs1mple 10 - 20 -10 52.5 0.59

Liquid were quick to establish a lead in their game against North, winning the second round force buy as Terrorists on Cobblestone and getting a 6-1 lead off the back of it. A last second defuse from Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup got North back in the game, but Liquid managed to secure the last round of the half to take 8-7 lead before switching to CT.

Liquid managed to secure a playoff spot in the last round of matches, thanks in part to OpTic beating Na`Vi

Rounds were traded back and forth at the start of the second half, but it was Liquid to take the momentum and close out the map 16-10 to secure the third place in group B and a spot in the playoffs tomorrow.

ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals Best of 1 Liquid Matchpage 16 10 North 16 Cobblestone 10

Liquid K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Russel 'Twistzz' Van DulkenTwistzz 26 - 19 +7 105.4 1.50 Josh 'jdm64' Marzanojdm64 24 - 16 +8 87.0 1.34 Jonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEliGE 19 - 18 +1 93.5 1.26 Nick 'nitr0' Cannellanitr0 14 - 17 -3 53.3 0.87 Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw 9 - 18 -9 39.9 0.65 North K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy 22 - 17 +5 99.2 1.37 Kristian 'k0nfig' Wieneckek0nfig 21 - 17 +4 84.5 1.28 Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenMSL 16 - 22 -6 77.0 0.96 René 'cajunb' Borgcajunb 16 - 17 -1 51.1 0.78 Emil 'Magisk' ReifMagisk 13 - 19 -6 51.2 0.71

In the last game, NRG faced mousesports, with little on the line as NRG was already eliminated and mousesports secured playoffs. The North American side picked up the first two rounds as CTs on Mirage, but mousesports replied shortly and went on a six round-winning streak.

The first half went from bad to worse for NRG when their single round win was followed up with mousesports winning a round of their own, resetting the economy of the North Americans.

After an 11-4 Terrorist side on Mirage, mousesports didn't have too hard of time closing out the game, making it 16-10 in the end.

ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals Best of 1 NRG Matchpage 10 16 mousesports 10 Mirage 16

mousesports K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Christian 'loWel' Garcia AntoranloWel 20 - 15 +5 79.4 1.29 Robin 'ropz' Koolropz 19 - 20 -1 97.4 1.27 Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastnýoskar 21 - 19 +2 85.5 1.12 Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ 18 - 21 -3 71.0 1.05 Denis 'denis' Howelldenis 18 - 18 0 66.6 1.03 NRG K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Vincent 'Brehze' CayonteBrehze 23 - 18 +5 99.3 1.32 Jacob 'FugLy' MedinaFugLy 19 - 20 -1 93.4 1.16 Peter 'ptr' Gurneyptr 17 - 20 -3 73.2 0.94 Derrick 'LILMAN' BoyneLILMAN 18 - 21 -3 68.5 0.91 Damian 'daps' Steeledaps 15 - 17 -2 61.0 0.79

With these results, we have the final standings for group B: