The main squad of Virtus.pro's Russians continued to decline with only one victory in the last 8 matches.

Heroic defeated Virtus.pro with a score of 2-0 (Overpass 13-8, Mirage 13-10), thereby gaining the right to go on the second round of IEM Cologne and Denis's "⁠electronic⁠" Sharipov from the tournament.

Overpass is the first battlefield, where Heroic makes the most of the advantage of the defense (CT) to take the lead 8-4. Although Virtus.pro won in Round Pistol and rekindled the group of hope, their defense of zone B proved to be loose, creating conditions for Heroic to gradually reach victory.

In the last round, Linus "Nilo" Bergman shines with 6 networks in 2 consecutive rounds, helping Heroic reach the map point and end the map right at the first opportunity.

Sang Mirage, Virtus.pro started a dream with the advantage of 6-1, but Andrey "TN1R" Tatarinovich cut off their winning string with an extremely important Triple Kill. As a result, Heroic kept 4 rounds before exchanging sides and continued to shorten the gap with the second Round Pistol victory.

Taking momentum from the victory of Pistol, Heroic continued to overwhelm in the second half of the map when TN1R completely dominated the match and even had a beautiful ACE phase. He ended the map with 27 networks, contributed greatly to help Heroic win 13-10 and officially named in the second round.

Heroic admires failure on Overpass

In the confrontation between the two teams who chose Overpass at the first day of Iem Cologne, Heroic corrected the mistake after the defeat against Ninjas in Pyjamas. The duo Nilo and Gleb "GR1KS" Gazin keeps the A -play area, helping them get 8 rounds on the defense side, while the effective attacks B attacks become a bright spot in their attack tactics.

Virtus.pro - The team is expected to "revive" thanks to this map of the cabinet - causing disappointment. The defense of zone B is "Perfecto" Zalutskiy and Petr "fame" Bolyshev continued to penetrate, causing VP to lose the game.

Virtus.pro continues to be in crisis

Virtus.pro has closed the spring season with a defeat at Blast.tv Austin Major when eliminated with a achievement of 2-3, although they won 2 matches before. That result made the team decide to replace Timur "Fl4mus" marev with Perfecto, but the situation still did not improve.

In 5 matches with Perfecto, Virtus.pro only won exactly 1 match (2-0 against Typo) and has now been eliminated twice in a row. Although Perfecto personally holds an average rating of 1.00 - the second highest in the team - the current results show that Virtus.pro is really disoriented.