Despite securing a TI invite, Team Liquid showed no mercy as they swept through Evil Geniuses at ESL One Berlin Major. 

The day started and ended with elimination series for Evil Geniuses. They were able to eliminate OG earlier in the day 2:0 and were headed off for a head-to-head against Team Liquid, who had already secured their TI direct invite. 

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At The International 11, Team Liquid and Thunder Awaken delivered one of the most amazing series of the event. Three players from that TA roster are now on EG and this meeting had all the hope and promise of being hype. 

Team LiquidvsEvil Geniuses 2:0

The first match of the series saw Evil Geniuses' taking an iffy draft that seemed to bite them in the end. Although they shut down Michał "Nisha" Jankowski's ember early on, Team Liquid was still able to get the good team fights to catch up. Eventually, Nisha's damage was able to scale and without an answer to Alchemist, TL was able to easily overpower Evil Geniuses for the first game victory. 

Evil Geniuses' lineup was much more balanced in the second game. Once again though Team Liquid grabbed Ember Spirit for Nisha and he didn't disappoint. And neither did Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg on Beastmaster, with another flawless performance. Together, with on-point plays by Samuel "Boxi" Svahn gave Team Liquid yet another win. 

Evil Geniuses go home with a 4th place finish, $50,000, and 350 DPC points. 

Team Liquid will continue along the lower brackets to face 9Pandas in the lower bracket finals. 

The last day of the playoffs begins tomorrow, May 7th at 12:00 CEST 

ESL One Berlin Major Format

Playoffs

  • Double-elimination bracket
  • All matches except Grand Final are Bo3
  • Grand Final is Bo5

ESL One Berlin Major Broadcasts

  • Primary Stream
    • English
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
  • Secondary Stream
    • English
  • Tertiary Stream
    • English

ESL One Stockholm Major Prize Pool and DPC points 

The points distribution and prize pool for ESL One Berlin Major will be split between the top eight finishers as follows:

1st place: $200,000 & 500 DPC points
2nd place: $100,000 & 450 DPC points
3rd place: $75,000 & 400 DPC points     
4th place: $50,000 & 350 DPC points  Evil Geniuses
5th/6th place: $25,000 & 300 DPC points  Tundra Esports/ OG
7th/8th place: $12,500 & 200 DPC points Team Aster/ Talon Esports