eXtatus overtake SoaR to make GC Semi Finals
David "frozen" Čerňanský kicked off Train with a pistol round win against SoaR. eXtatus lost rounds two and three, but kept in the lead for most of the half. Jack "xCeeD" Holiman and Michael "Grim" Wince put in many good rounds for the American side, while Richard "queztone" Strnátko and Martin "MonttY" Melišek put in most of the work on the Czech/Slovakian team. Near the end of the half, Logan "Voltage" Long got huge quadruple and triple kills, to lead SoaR to an 8-7 lead before the side switch.
MonttY kept his form up on the Counter-Terrorist side, with triple kills in the pistol and third round. eXtatus took the first gun round as well, and set up a very strong defense across the map. SoaR won the sixth round of the half, but the NA side were reset immediately despite the efforts of Grim and Voltage. Domination by MonttY conitnued, and eXtatus eventually closed out the map from a 1v1 between frozen and Ryan "Snakes" Amann 16-9.
This win sees eXtatus advance from Group B in the first seed, and will face the second team from Group A in the semi finals. SoaR moves to the Group B decider match and will face the winner of the elimination matchtaking place later today.