Nemiga continued their Cinderella run at PGL Masters Bucharest — knocking out Vitality 2-0 in the semi-final on October 30 to reach the grand final.
Scoreline
- Cache: Nemiga 13-8 Vitality
- Dust2: Nemiga 13-11 Vitality
Series lead
Nikita "robo" Dushin led the series. Individual series K-D and Rating 3.0 for both teams were not loaded in time for publication.
Ranking impact
The semi-final win moves Nemiga into the global top-10 VRS ranking. Vitality enter the event at #2.
Nemiga's Bucharest run — the storybook
- Groups: upset Legacy; 2-0 over DENDELE; survived the lower bracket
- QF: eliminated FUT (the group-stage 3-0 team with SunPayus 1.33)
- SF: 2-0 Vitality
- Final: vs FURIA on October 31
Context: the event of upsets
Nemiga's run is the headline of a tournament stuffed with them: BETBOOM (#9) upset Spirit (#1) in Day 1, FUT (dark horse) went 3-0 through groups, Spirit crashed out in the lower bracket, and now a sub-top-15 team is in the grand final.
Source: HLTV.org — /news/45861/nemiga-stun-vitality-2-0-to-reach-pgl-masters-bucharest-final
