We continue with the final qualifying match in the winners' stage in the groups.
Team Heretics and T1 are battling for a playoff spot; whoever wins between the two will move on undefeated.
Team Heretics and T1 have never faced each other before, and this would be their first time facing one another on an international stage.
So heading into map one, Team Heretics would get to choose.
Team Heretics chose Lotus.
On Lotus, they had a record of 5-4 and a win rate of 56 per cent, and for T1, they have a record of 7-8 and a win rate of 47 per cent.
In the first half, T1 would start on attack and take the very first round, before Team Heretics went on a 6-round win streak on defence.
Now at 6-1, T1 would try to stop the momentum by winning three rounds.
Unfortunately, Team Heretics would win two rounds in between that time, bringing the first half to 8-4.
RieNs would be leading in the half with 11 kills, 7 deaths and 3 assists.
Going into the second half, both teams would switch sides.
It wouldn’t start well for T1 as Team Heretics attempted to continue to expand their lead.
Heretics won the first two rounds in the second half and later would go on a 4-1 round win streak, bringing it to 12-5 rounds.
Now at match point, Heretics would attempt to ice out T1 and secure a map one victory, but T1 would attempt a big comeback, winning the next 5 rounds in a row, bringing the match to 12-10.
Team Heretics would take a timeout to regroup and see what they could do to win map one, and with one round to go to win map one, they would attempt to fight for picks.
They would drop the spike in the attackers' spawn before the round started, and they let T1 come to them.
Both teams would fight in Heretics' spawn area, T1 would try to rush them, but both T1 iZu and Meteor would get taken out by Team Heretics Wo0t.
T1’s Dh and BuZz would take out both MiniBoo and benjyfishy, making it a 3-on-3 battle.
Team heretics would get pushed into the sites and leave the spike in their spawn, leading to T1 moving into the attackers' spawn and having control of the spike.
Heretics’ Boo would use his ultimate to teleport and grab the spike, but as he returned, he would be in the open and get killed by BuZz, who then would get traded by RieNs.
T1 Stax would peek the corner and take out Wo0t and make it a two-on-one situation with RieNs all by himself.
He would grab the spike and run through A site and rotate all the way to C site and plant.
T1 would go through the B site door into the entrance of C site, where Stax would peek and get clipped, and DH would try to follow up and trade, but RieNs would dodge the shots and get a one-tap headshot, icing out the map and taking the win.
RieNs clutched up and would take map MVP with 23 kills, 14 deaths and 9 assists.
Going into map two T1 this time would have the map pick.
T1 would choose Sunset.
T1 had a 6-1 record on Sunset with an 86 per cent win rate, which gave them the advantage as Heretics would have a 3-1 record with just a 75 per cent win rate.
In the first half, T1 would start on the attack and Team Heretics would be on the defence.
They would have an even match in the first half, as it ended with a 6-6 tie with RieNs leading with 11 kills, 5 deaths and an assist going into the second half.
The second half would start, and both teams would switch sides, with T1 already winning the first two rounds in the half.
Later, Heretics would go on a 5-round win streak, but T1 would take the next three rounds after.
Now tied at 11-11, T1 looked to push the series to a map three, but Team Heretics would win two rounds in a row to secure another win and sweep T1 to the losers' bracket of the group stage.
RieNs would take home map MVP with 19 kills, 16 deaths, 5 assists and would take Match MVP with a total of 42 kills, 30 deaths and 14 assists.
Team Heretics, NRG, FNATIC and Paper Rex would all move on into the playoffs as the undefeated kings of the group stage, and now we will see the first few eliminations of the tournament in the losers' bracket of the group stage.