Credit: Cameron Clark, York Daily Record, York Daily Record via Imagn Content Services, LLC
9z Team defeated Evil Geniuses and paiN Gaming on Friday to finish sixth at the PGL Major Antwerp: American regional ranking event in Bucharest, Romania.
9z Team claimed the final berth from the 16-team qualifier for next month’s $1 million PGL Major Antwerp. They joined FURIA Esports, MIBR, Imperial Esports, Complexity Gaming and Team Liquid.
9z Team beat Evil Geniuses 2-1 in the eighth-place match. After a 16-11 win on Nuke and a 16-12 loss on Inferno, 9z Team rallied from a 12-7 deficit to win 16-14 on Overpass. Franco “dgt” Garcia of Uruguay and Argentina’s Luca “Luken” Nadotti each had 75 kills, while Luken led 9z Team with a plus-32 kills-deaths differential.
In the sixth-place match, 9z Team swept paiN Gaming 16-11 on Mirage and 19-17 in overtime on Dust II. Uruguay’s Maximiliano “max” Gonzalez tallied a team-high 49 kills and Luken posted a plus-16 differential.
PGL Major Antwerp: American RMR final results and prize pool
1. $25,000, Legend status — FURIA Esports
2. $12,500, Challenger status — MIBR
3. $7,500, Challenger status — Imperial Esports
4. $5,000, Contender status — Complexity Gaming
5. No prize money, Contender status — Team Liquid
6. No prize money, Contender status — 9z Team
7. No prize money — paiN Gaming
8. No prize money — Evil Geniuses
9-11. No prize money — Sao Caetano Esports, Case Esports, Party Astronauts
12-14. No prize money — 00 Nation, Team oNe eSports, Isurus
15-16. No prize money — Bad News Bears, Leviatan
–Field Level Media