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ESL Pro League Season 18: Group B Highlights

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Publish Date: 08/09/2023

Fact checked by: James Leeland

ESL Pro League

As we read this article, the teams in Group B of ESL Pro League Season 18 are fighting for a spot in the Playoffs. Here, we’ll see a brief overview of what has happened in this stage so far and what’s to come.

Upper Bracket Standouts

Opening Round

The Opening Round was quite a thrill as out of the four games, two were secured on the second map. These were the games:

Heroic vs. Rooster (2x0)
Big vs. Monte (2x1)
MIBR vs. MOUZ (2x1)
ENCE vs. Evil Geniuses (2x0)

The winning teams moved on to the Upper Semi-Finals and the losers fell to the Lower Round 1.

Upper Semi-Finals

The two games here were also very exciting, with BIG x Heroic reaching 48 rounds on Ancient – map that ended in a 25x23 in favor of BIG, followed by a 16x13 on Inferno. As for ENCE x MIBR, the game was very close, with 2 OTs in the first maps (Vertigo and Anubis) and a thrilling decider on Ancient.

Lower Bracket Clashes

Lower Round 1

Here, MOUZ secured their chance of getting to the Playoffs by winning against Evil Geniuses, while Monte did the same against Rooster. The two losers will now play each other to decide the 8th place in the group.

Lower Semi-Finals:

The two matches of this stage will happen today 08/09/2023. Monte vs. MIBR will go down at 14:00 GMT, and Heroic vs. MOUZ is set to happen at 17:30 GMT.

Upcoming and Predictions

Monte vs. MIBR

If you’ve been watching Monte’s rise, you might have noticed that they like to win against the Brazilians that they encounter. Despite that, MIBR and Monte are yet to face each other for the first time, and MIBR is showing some good work inside ESL’s servers.And here’s a handy comparison between the best-rated players of each team:

Stat Type	Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk	MIBRsaffeeRafael 'saffee' Costa
RATING 2.0	1.15	1.14
KILLS PER ROUND	0.75	0.75
DEATHS PER ROUND	0.64	0.59
KAST	71.2%	71.7%
IMPACT	1.18	1.11
AVERAGE DAMAGE PER ROUND	79.1	74.7

Heroic vs. MOUZ

This is a match that no one expected to see in the Lower Semi-Finals, and it’s not the first time they face each other like with MIBR vs. Monte. Heroic and MOUZ have played 9 maps against each other, with Heroic winning five and MOUZ four. Despite the lead, that can’t be considered a motive to put our stake on Heroic. Here’s an overview of the head-to-heads between the two:

Head-to-Head: Heroic vs MOUZ
Heroic	MOUZ
Wins: 5	Wins: 4
Overtimes: 0
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Ancient: 14	Ancient: 16
Overpass: 16	Overpass: 9
Vertigo: 8	Vertigo: 16
Overpass: 16	Overpass: 10
Mirage: 16	Mirage: 6
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Inferno: 16	Inferno: 14
Nuke: 16	Nuke: 12
ESL Pro League Season 16
Dust2: 9	Dust2: 16
Mirage: 14	Mirage: 16