Deadspin | Team Falcons, Team Vitality breeze to ultimate at IEM Melbourne

Team Falcons and Team Vitality each and every recorded a 2-0 sweep on Saturday to advance to the grand ultimate within the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Melbourne 2025 match in Australia.

Falcons dispatched MOUZ after posting a 13-3 win on Dust II and 13-6 victory on Nuke.

North Macedonia’s Damjan “kyxsan” Stoilkovski and Nikola “NiKo” Kovac of Bosnia and Herzegovina paced Falcons with 31 kills.

Team Vitality, in flip, eradicated The MongolZ after securing convincing 13-3 triumphs on each Mirage and Nuke.

Frenchman Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut notched 38 kills to guide Vitality.

The most sensible 3 groups from each and every team complicated to the single-elimination playoffs, which started Friday. All suits are best-of-three till Sunday’s best-of-five grand ultimate, with the winner incomes $125,000.

IEM Melbourne prize pool:

1. $125,000

2. $50,000

3-4. $25,000 — MOUZ, The MongolZ

5-6. $12,500 — GamerLegion, Team Liquid

7-8. $7,000 – FaZe Clan, Natus Vincere

9-12. $5,000 — 3DMAX, Complexity, FlyQuest, MIBR

13-16. $4,000 — BIG, paiN Gaming, Virtus.professional, SAW

–Field Level Media