FURIA Esports leave IEM Cologne 2022

FURIA loses to Team Liquid with a score of 2:0 (Ancient 16:14: Mirage 19:17).

Team Liquid vs FURIA Esports

1. Liquid removed Nuke
2. FURIA removed Dust2
3. Liquid picked Ancient
4. FURIA picked Mirage
5. Liquid removed Overpass
6. FURIA removed Inferno
7. Vertigo was left over

1) There was a very tight fight on the Ancient map. Team Liquid briskly started for the attack, while FURIA Esports managed to join only at the end of the first half. As a result, the first half was lost by the defense side. Despite this, Team Liquid also experienced problems in the first half for the SWAT side. When the Brazilian team was close to the map point, Liquid managed to take the final streak of four rounds and win their chosen map with a very close score, it took the teams all 30 rounds to determine the winner. Team Liquid 16:14 FURIA Esports.

2) The second opposition map was even tighter than Ancient. On Mirage, the teams needed extra rounds to find the strongest. The map started with a confident defense against Team Liquid, and they had enough confidence for 11 rounds in defense. The Brazilians from FURIA Esports needed no worse defense if they wanted to reach the decisive third map. And they were able to demonstrate this protection. First, we reached the score of 11:11, in very tight rounds, and then made several critical mistakes, which brought Team Liquid to the match point. But the Brazilians managed to reach a series of additional rounds, in which they failed to beat Team Liquid with a replacement in the form of YEKINDAR. Team Liquid 19:17 FURIA Esports.

Team Liquid are in the playoffs of IEM Cologne 2022, and their first opponent will be the very charged Spaniards from Movistar Riders.

FURIA Esports leaves IEM Colonge 2022 in 7th-8th place, earning $24,000 + 300 BLAST Premier points.

IEM Cologne 2022 takes place from 5 to 17 July in Germany at the Hyatt Regency Cologne and LANXESS arena venues. As part of the championship, 24 teams from Europe, the CIS, Oceania, China, North and South America are fighting for a prize pool of $1,000,000, as well as rating points in the BLAST Premier table.

Interim results of IEM Cologne 2022

• 1st place: $400,000 + 3,200 BLAST Premier points
• 2nd place: $180,000 + 1,600 BLAST Premier points
• 3rd-4th place: $80,000 + 1,000 BLAST Premier points
• 5th-6th place: $40,000 + 300 BLAST Premier points
• 7th-8th place: Ninjas in Pajamas and FURIA Esports $24,000 + 300 BLAST Premier points
• 9th-12th place: Team Vitality, Team Spirit, Cloud9 and G2 Esports — $16,000
• 13th-16th place: Heroic, Outsiders, Team Liquid and ENCE — $10,000
• 17th-20th place: Sprout, TYLOO, Imperial Esports and BIG - $4,500
• 21st-24th place: paiN Gaming, Complexity Gaming, MIBR and ORDER — $2,500