Aurora and Natus Vincere have continued their journey at the winning branch of IEM Cologne 2025 after convincing victories against Ninjas in Pyjamas and Faze. Both teams show strong performance in the decisive map and win the right to the semi -finals of the tournament.

Aurora vs. Ninjas in pyjamas

At the first map Dust2, Aurora kept a slight advantage in most of the time and won with a score of 13:11. The second map, Train, took place much more dramatic: After a draw at the official play, the two teams dragged each other into a series of side gun battles, where Aurora won the 19:15.

Throughout the series, Aurora showed the cohesion and bravery in key situations. The MVP of the match is özgür "Woxic" Eker with 53 defeated networks, 30 times lying down, ADR 93 and rating 7.6.

Natus Vincere vs. Faze

FaZe started with a 13:11 victory on Ancient map, where they defended firmly and successfully came back. However, FaZe then lost on the Mirage map chosen by Navi himself with a score of 9:13 after a second half exploded from Navi. On the map of the Nuke decision, Navi is completely overwhelming - winning 7: 5 when attacking and closing the match perfectly on the defensive side with a final score of 13: 5.

Navi's brightest star in the match is Valeriy "B1T" Vakhovskiy with 55 defeated networks, 38 times lying down and Adr 86.

Both teams will continue to play to win tickets to the playoff round. Navi will meet the winning team in the Mouz vs. Liquid, and Aurora will confront the team to win in Spirit vs. Heroic. Meanwhile, Faze and Nip fell to the losing branch and will face the loss of Mouz/Liquid and Spirit/Heroic respectively.