NRG Esports NRG Esports North America Rank #4 FiNESSE Pujan Mehta s0m Sam Oh Verno Andrew Maust mada Adam Pampuch Ethan Ethan Arnold continue their lower bracket dreams with victory in a three map series over Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #23 paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski kamyk Maks Rychlewski nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak . The top seed from EMEA came into the match hoping to redeem themselves after a crushing loss to Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses North America Rank #20 Derrek Derrek Ha NaturE Nicholas Garrison supamen Phat Le icy Jacob Lange yay Jaccob Whiteaker , while NRG come off the back of a strong win against a struggling DRX DRX Korea Rank #4 Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) .

The first map, NRG's pick of Haven, will certainly be a haunting memory for Liquid in the future. A strong first half from Liquid left NRG down 8-4 at halftime. A second pistol win for Liquid and a stellar performance from nAts pushed Liquid into a 12-7 lead, determined to take their opponent's pick.

NRG gradually climbed back into the map, winning five straight in regulation to force overtime. A rare top fragging showing from NRG in-game leader FiNESSE powered an NRG map win as the NA roster took seven rounds in a row to close out their map pick 14-12.

Liquid's pick of Ascent quickly served to even the scoreline in the series as another strong first half, this time on the defence, left NRG on the backfoot 7-5. However, Liquid would not choke away a strong lead again as the Europeans swiftly closed out their map pick 13-8.

The decider of Split became the most dominant map in the series as NRG put on an absolute show in dismantling Team Liquid. Liquid has continued to play a single duelist comp on the map and their insistence on playing an older style was easily handled by the NRG squad.

After a dominant first half from NRG to lead 8-4 at halftime, Liquid failed to take more than a single round on their offence. NRG took a relatively easy 13-5 victory to close out the series against Liquid 2-1.

NRG has made the top four in Tokyo and will play the winner of Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #6 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov and EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) on Wednesday, June 21.

Team Liquid has been eliminated from Tokyo in the top six.

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