LOUD sends Global Esports home to reach playoffs

VCT Americas is proper back.

With a 2-0 showing, LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #1 lukxo Lucca Travaioli DaviH David Cruz Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia erde Roberto Lobos tkzin Enzo Zimiani loan added another patch of green to its record, sending Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #3 PatMen Patrick Mendoza UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov xavi8k Xavier Juan Autumn Kale Dunne home to make it four Americas teams in the top eight.

The series was played out on GE's Split and LOUD's Sunset. LOUD won Split 13-8 and Sunset 13-9. On both maps, extended runs by the South American squad saw the team run away with the result. An eight-round streak to end Split and a seven-round streak to start Sunset were paramount to the team closing out the win on both maps.

In-game leader Roberto " erde " Lobos was the driving force in the series, finishing with series-high marks with 46 kills and a 1.56 rating.

The series began on GE's pick of Split, which was noteworthy on its own. LOUD had banned the map nine times through Americas Stage 2 , but elected to ban Ascent instead. LOUD rolled out a comp similar to what it had run previously, switching out Astra for Omen and placing lukxo on Yoru. The teams had mirror comps on Split, with GE moving UdoTan moving off of Raze and onto Neon.

Early on, it looked like GE had things figured out. The team looked sharp on its attack side, with PatMen particularly hard to stop in that half. He paced all players in the half with 14 kills and just seven deaths, leading GE to a 7-5 halftime lead. Things seemed on schedule for GE, with the team claiming the second-half pistol to threaten a clean win of its map pick. However, an eco round lost to four Classics and one Bandit derailed any momentum that GE had.