B8 successfully completed ESL Challenger Katowice 2024, passing through the closed qualification and defeating 3DMAX in the final. Also for B8, this will mark the third LAN tournament for the team in the organization's CS history.

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Qualification Details

B8 confidently advanced to the qualification finals via the top grid, where they were able to defeat OG 2-1 in the first round after coming back from a 16-14 score on the first map. In the semifinals of the top grid, they defeated SAW by beating Nuke, becoming the second team to win this map against them in the last 2 months. Prior to that, only Vitality had won at IEM Cologne 2024,

In the final against 3DMAX, the team made a strong showing on the first and third maps, winning them 13-10. But lost on the second, Dust 2, the opponent's choice, with a score of 16-14.

Qualification statistics

The best qualification player from B8 is Danyyl “headtr1ck” Valitov, who is ranked second in the player rankings. Where the first belongs to Bryan “Maka” Canda, but for him the tournament is not over yet. Headtr1ck's rating for 8 cards is 6.7, which is very confident in such an important qualification.

Player comments

Very easy, you can't tell from the game, but ran over bo....

npl

Went to Katowice According to the game against the French it wasn't hard. We gave away a lot of majority, disgusting post play on dust 2.

maddened, team coach

Qualified for ESL Challenger Katowice 2024, beat some pretty decent teams on our way, gg

headtr1ck

Showed some good CS, but got derailed at some points, but still very proud of my guys and my day today.

cptkurtka023

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B8 Tournament Schedule

After making it to ESL Challenger Katowice 2024 B8 will play 3 LAN tournaments this year. They will be Elisa Masters Espoo 2024, ESL Challenger Katowice 2024 and Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Europe RMR. In case of winning ESL Challenger Katowice 2024 and Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Europe RMR, the team will get a place at ESL Pro League Season 21 and a place at Shanghai Major, which will allow them to enter the tier 1 tier, because now they are very much a tier 2 team.