Aurora take the final spot in playoffs over The MongolZ

Aurora held firm to eliminate The MongolZ and sneak into playoffs at the end of the day in Astana.

It was a total team performance with every member having their own big moments, while The MongolZ were relying quite heavily on mzinho - most notably on the second pistol round of Overpass, where he decapitated four but fell victim to woxic's 1v2 and still didn't win the round.

mzinho dropped a 30-bomb on Overpass in regulation on a lost map, which is absolutely unthinkable in MR12, and really did not deserve to lose this map, this series or go out of the tournament.

Aurora have had a really solid year, and this is another playoff performance when they had threatened to disappear from the top tiers at the end of last year.

G2 absolutely annihilated Monte in one of the fastest games you'll ever see.

The Israeli duo combined for 66 kills in just 32 rounds to sink Monte in as one-sided a game as you'll see in a long time. Not a single Monte player managed 20 kills, while only SunPayus ended on fewer than that for G2.

Poor AZUWU finished the series on just five kills. It was that kind of game.

Honestly, there's nothing else to say.

magic found their way into playoffs thanks to a stellar performance from MaSvAl to overpower Gentle Mates and earn their big event playoffs debut.

Inferno went all the way to OT, which is often where the smaller teams can crumble under the pressure against more experienced teams, but the firepower won out in the end. mo0N had a quiet game, but his two clutches proved extremely important in the end, and should be remembered when magic walk out onto the stage.