The Polish team pushed Astralis to the verge of being eliminated.

Apogee is only one way away from the playoffs

Apogee defeated Astralis with a score of 2-0 (Mirage 13-8, Ancient 13-9), continuing the wonderful journey at PGL Bucharest. The Polish team started the tournament with a defeat against Furia, but later won in a row against The Mongolz and Astralis, thereby only a ticket to the playoffs round exactly one more victory.

Meanwhile, this failure brought Astralis to the edge of the area of ​​once again eliminated from the group stage after a lifeless performance against the "weak" from Poland.

The series began on Apogee's map map, Mirage, where they rolled Astralis with a score of 12-3 in the first half. Despite having a little difficulty in ending the map when Astralis began to regain his form at T-Bide, Casper's army "⁠cadian⁠" Mests only removed a total of 8 rounds.

Astralis is even worse on the Ancient map. They took eight rounds to get the first score after only a total of 5 defeated networks in the first seven rounds, and ended the first half with the score 3-9.
Losing the second Round Pistol is the "casket lid" for Astralis, when they defeat the defeat 9-13 and fall to the 1-2 branch in the Swiss format.

Apogee launched the impressive Tier-One stage

The fact that Apogee won the right to attend PGL Bucharest was a surprise, but what they showed at Romania proved that they absolutely deserve to participate in the Tier-One playground.

Two victories for 2-0 in a row against The Mongolz and Astralis brought them close to the playoffs, with Milan "⁠hypex⁠" Polowiec (Rating 1.15) and young talent Jakub "⁠jcobbb⁠" Pietruszewski (Rating 1.14) led the Polish team.

Astralis shows an alarming performance before MRQ

A lot of talks around Astralis missed the last four Major, and with the current performance before the MRQ, the fifth risk of consecutive consecutive was completely eliminated.

Although not officially eliminated from the tournament in Romania, the warning signals are increasingly pronounced, despite the optimistic view of Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz after the defeat against 3Dmax on Monday.

"We are 1-1 in Swiss Stage, probably still fine," he shared with HLTV. "Some other teams here may feel worse."

However, after the second defeat in the Swiss round, Astralis is now forced to win if he wants to win the Playoffs.