G2 eliminated Astralis from the Esports World Cup with a 2-1 win in the Round of 16, dropping the opening map before taking the next two, HLTV reports. The result carries G2 into the quarter-finals of the $2,000,000 event in Paris, against the winner of FURIA and Aurora.
The series opened on Astralis' pick of Ancient, where they raced to a 6-0 lead. A double P250 opening on Boost gave G2 a route back into the map on the defence, and they won five rounds in a row before conceding the last of the half, which left Astralis 7-5 ahead at the break. Astralis did not deflate afterwards, taking six of seven rounds on the CT side to close the map out 13-6 and go 1-0 up in the series.
G2's own pick of Dust2 went the other way. G2 built a large early lead and were not broken until the ninth round, when Gytis “ryu” Glušauskas landed a triple kill on the B site. Astralis won two more rounds on the trot, but G2 still took the half 9-3, pushed the lead out to 11-3, and had enough leeway to absorb a scattering of round losses before closing on the defence 13-6 to level the series.
Inferno was the map left over in the veto, and the decider proved much tighter early. G2 lost the pistol round but won the following forcebuy on the way to a 4-1 lead, and held a 7-5 advantage at the half. Guy “NertZ” Iluz then produced three separate triple kills: one in the second pistol round, one with G2 up 10-6, and a third spamming through the smoke on Banana to end the series 13-7.
That gave G2 a 13-7 decider on the back of NertZ's three multi-kill rounds, with HLTV also crediting Nemanja “huNter-” Kovač for breaking Astralis open across the series. The defeat ends Astralis' run in the single-elimination playoff bracket, while G2 move on to the last eight of the Paris event.
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