On April 9, the second stage of selection in the championship ESL Pro League Pro ended lang="DE">Season 11 Europe. The leading position was taken by the team fnatic, which will eventually go directly to the grand final. Swedish players managed to achieve this thanks to their victory over Natus Vincere.
Meanwhile, Astralis managed to win several victories after an unsuccessful start. By the end of the stage, Astralis, mousesports and Natus Vincere came up with the same number of defeats and victories and, therefore, the same number of points in the standings. Therefore, to determine the leader, the points scored on individual maps were used. NAVI, which performed the least successfully, ended up in fourth place and left the tournament, while mousesports and Astralis will continue to participate in the competition. Also, FAZE and OG did not make it through the group selection, and were able to win only one victory each.
Team captain NAVI Alexander «s1mple» Kostylev called his last performance at the tournament “shameful.” Daniel "Zeus" Teslenko did not agree with such a harsh assessment. In his opinion, the team fought with dignity and looked like the favorite of the competition until the last match. One way or another, NAVI still remains at the top of the HLTV rating.
Now Astralis and mousesports will have to play an elimination match, which will take place on Saturday evening. The winner of this game will face fnatic in the grand final on Sunday.
