The most-watched name of the entire EWC LCQ is out. 100 Thieves beat BC.Game 2-1 in the round of 16 on August 9, ending Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev's Paris run at the final hurdle before the main event.
Series map-by-map
- Inferno: BC.Game 16-13 100 Thieves
- Nuke: 100 Thieves 16-12 BC.Game
- Anubis: 100 Thieves 13-11 BC.Game
s1mple did his job
s1mple closed the series at 1.34 rating, 64-44 K-D, 87.5 ADR — the top stat line of the match. The issue wasn't the AWPer; it was cohesion. Coach Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas summed it up bluntly: "We need to remember s1mple and electronic are coming from a different sort of CS."
100 Thieves came in ready
Jack "Gizmy" von Spreckelsen posted a 1.23 series rating and had led all playoff qualifiers with a 1.44 rating across the entire LCQ. The starting five — Nicolai "device" Reedtz, Håvard "rain" Nygaard, Gizmy, William "sirah" Kjærsgaard, Alex "poiii" Nyholm Sundgren — advanced to face 1win in the qualification decider (see next story).
What it means
BC.Game's project — built around getting s1mple, electroNic and Magisk back to top-level LAN — bows out in the round of 16 despite dominant individual production. The line-up returns to the drawing board with the roster core intact but the calendar increasingly unforgiving.
