FURIA, Aristocracy advance to Games Clash Masters semi

FURIA and Aristocracy have secured the final spots in the last-four stage of the Games Clash Masters after finishing in second place in their respective groups.

The Brazilian team, who had been sent to the lower bracket by home side Illuminar after letting a 13-8 lead slip, repeated their good performance from the opening clash against BIG as they beat the German side 2-0 to move on to the single-eliminaton bracket, with Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato currently sitting amongst the tournament's top performers with a 1.31 rating.

Paweł "⁠dycha⁠" Dycha was the hero as Aristocracy bounced back from their opening defeat to Sprout to finish second in the group following victories over CIS duo Syman and DreamEaters. The 22-year-old, who was the last player to join the team, is currently joint-top for rating (1.42) in Gdynia after running rampant in the series against the Russian side (1.81 rating, +32 KDD and 117 ADR).

KSCERATO was in fine form during the first day of the tournament

The single-elimination playoffs will begin with an interesting clash between FURIA and the new Sprout line-up, with Denis "⁠denis⁠" Howell having seemingly rediscovered his best form since leaving BIG and returning to a rifler role. After that intercontinental series, things will really heat up as Illuminar and Aristocracy will face off in a Polish derby in front of a crowd at the Gdynia Arena.

Below you can find the schedule for Saturday's action:

12:30 Sprout vs. FURIA
16:00 Illuminar vs. Aristocracy

Paweł 'dycha' Dycha Age: 22 Team: Aristocracy Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 129 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.69 DreamEaters #18 Semyon 'kinqie' LisitsynSvyatoslav 'svyat' DovbakhVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoAnton 'speed4k' TitovIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy FURIA #13 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior Denis 'denis' Howell Age: 25 Team: Sprout Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 1237 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.72 BIG #22 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' MagetIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşOwen 'smooya' Butterfield Aristocracy #41 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasJacek 'MINISE' JeziakKarol 'rallen' RodowiczMikołaj 'mouz' KarolewskiPaweł 'dycha' Dycha Syman #24 Maksim 't0rick' ZaikinRamazan 'Ramz1kBO$$' BashizovSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovNicolas 'Keoz' DgusIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Sprout #33 Florian 'syrsoN' RischeTimo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' HowellNils 'k1to' GruhneJosef 'faveN' Baumann Illuminar #69 Paweł 'innocent' MocekPaweł 'reatz' JańczakOskar 'oskarish' StenborowskiMichał 'mono' GabszewiczDaniel 'STOMP' Płomiński Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Age: 20 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 419 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.56