ENCE vs NAVI: will the current champion make it to the Major finals?
/The final semi-final of PGL Major Antwerp 2022 will take place tonight, in which the teams ENCE and NaVi will meet. It is unlikely that the teams need an introduction, since they have come a long way. And if ENCE, taking the third place in the world ranking, is still an outsider on paper, then NAVI is now showing far from the most confident CS.
ENCE suffered only one defeat in the Major (in BO1 against Copenhagen Flames). However, in the quarter-finals, sAw's team took a confident revenge on the Danes, knocking them out with a score of 2:0. In turn, NAVI has not yet lost in this championship, although the team managed to give away both NIP and Heroic on the map.
Note that within the framework of the current season, the teams managed to hold one meeting - at Intel Extreme Masters XVI - Katowice, the victory went to NAVI (2:1).
As for this confrontation, we certainly will not see Inferno and Vertigo. But do not forget that in its current form, ENCE is able to play on any of the remaining five maps, which will force NAVI to make every effort to reach the grand final.
You can find a detailed analysis of this meeting in our video.
Latest ENCE results:
- Victory over FaZe Clan with a score of 16:8.
- Lost to Copenhagen Flames with a score of 8:16.
- Victory over the Outsiders with a score of 16:8.
- Victory over Heroic with a score of 2:1.
- 2-0 victory over Copenhagen Flames.
Latest NAVI results:
- Victory over forZe with a score of 2:0.
- Victory over G2 with a score of 19:17.
- Victory over BIG with a score of 16:8.
- Victory over NIP with a score of 2:1.
- Victory over Heroic with a score of 2:1.
Matches history: PGL Major Antwerp 2022
PGL Major Antwerp 2022 takes place from 9 to 22 May at the Antwerps Sportpaleis in Belgium. During the championship, 24 teams from Europe, the CIS, Asia, Oceania, North and South America are fighting for a prize pool of $1,000,000, ranking points in the EPT and BLAST Premier tables, as well as one ticket to BLAST Premier: World Final 2022.
Intermediate results of PGL Major Antwerp 2022
- 1st place: TBD.
- 2nd place: TBD.
- 3rd-4th place: TBD.
- 5th-8th place: Ninjas in Pajamas, Copenhagen Flames, Heroic and FURIA — $35,000 + 700 EPT points + 375 BLAST Premier points.
- 9th-11th place: Team Vitality, Imperial Esports and G2 Esports - $8,750 + 330 EPT points.
- 12th-14th place: BIG, Outsiders and Cloud9 - $8,750 + 200 EPT points.
- 15-16th place: Team Liquid and Bad News Eagles - $8,750 + 105 EPT points.
- 17th-19th place: Astralis, MIBR and forZe + 60 EPT points.
- 20th-22nd place: IHC Esports, Complexity Gaming and Eternal Fire + 20 EPT points.
- 23rd-24th place: Renegades and 9z.