A representative from Mongolia will face Vitality "giants" in the semi -finals.

The Mongolz won the right to the semi-finals of IEM Melbourne after a 2-1 victory over Liquid, and will confront the Vitality champion candidate to compete for tickets to the final.

The quarterfinals took place at Rod Laver Arena on Anubis Map, Liquid's choice. Although The Mongolz was played in front of the T-Bide side (often easier to play to reduce stage pressure), Liquid still shows superiority. Despite playing CT-Side at the beginning of the game, they controlled the game and took the lead 9-3. After that, they only need a little more time to finish the map with a score of 13-5.

On Ancient, the script is reversed. Liquid has a fairly good First Half with 5 rounds of T-Bide, but The Mongolz still leads thanks to Spray through Smoke to lower three extremely important networks of Minkhbold "⁠senzu⁠" Azbayar in the last round. To Half Hai, the Mongolian players completely ruled and closed the map with a score of 13-6.

Inferno, Map decided, it was really the main dish of the match - where both teams were constantly struggling and many rounded to the end extremely tense.

Liquid opened the point first, but then The Mongolz rising strongly with the shine of Usukhbayar "⁠910⁠" Banzragch, who expressed excellent AWP in CT-side, helping the team to lead 7-3. However, Liquid narrowed the difference to 7-5 thanks to the spectacular 2vs5 clutch phase of Siuhy and Ultimate in the last round.

Half Two takes place full of suffocation. Twistzz almost successfully implemented 1VS3 in Bombite B, but was blocked, helping The Mongolz rise to 11-7. Shortly thereafter, Twistz again Quad Kill with Famas, then Clutch 1VS3 was very beautiful to refuse Match Point - making the whole player explode because of excitement.

However, the brightest star in this match is 910, the person with extremely stable and explosive form, especially the end of Inferno with 30 kill and lowered the last 3 players of Liquid in the last round to close the match with a score of 13-10.