FaZe Clan became the champion of PGL Major Antwerp 2022
/The PGL Major Antwerp 2022 has come to an end. At the Antwerps Sportpaleis championship in Belgium from May 9 to May 22, 24 teams from Europe, the CIS, Asia, Oceania, North and South America fought for a prize pool of $1,000,000, rating points in the tables EPT and BLAST Premier, as well as one ticket to BLAST Premier: World Final 2022. The winner of the tournament was the FaZe Clan team, which beat NAVI 2:0 in the grand final (Inferno - 19:16, Nuke - 16:10).
The tournament for the future winner began with a defeat from the ENCE team on the Mirage map (8:16). However, FaZe Clan managed to return to the game further, defeating Bad News Eagles (16:4), Cloud9 (16:8) and Copenhagen Flames (2:1), thus making it to the playoffs. Here, RobbaN's wards dealt with Ninjas in Pajamas (2:1) and Team Spirit (2:0), getting a chance to win their first major in history.
The decisive match of PGL Major Antwerp 2022 started on the Inferno map, which became the choice of FaZe Clan. But if at the start the “hosts” looked intimidating, then closer to the change of sides, and after and in the second half, NAVI owned the initiative. And yet, FaZe Clan managed to ride their luck to move the map to overtime, and then take the lead in the series — 19:16. Everything was decided on the Nuke map, which started again with the dominance of RobbaN's wards. And again, NAVI managed to return to the game, as it seemed, having revived the intrigue. However, in the very end, FaZe Clan managed to snatch the initiative in order to win the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 — 16:10.
Results of PGL Major Antwerp 2022
- 1st place: FaZe Clan - $500,000 + 1,800 EPT points + 4,000 BLAST Premier points + slot to BLAST Premier: World Final 2022.
- 2nd place: NAVI — $150,000 + 1,400 EPT points + 2,000 BLAST Premier points.
- 3rd-4th place: Team Spirit and ENCE — $70,000 + 1,100 EPT points + 1,250 BLAST Premier points.
- 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.