To avoid further scheduling delays, three extraordinary Stage 1: EMEA Challengers match days have been introduced between Wednesday, March 16 and Friday, March 18.
Week 5 of VCT EMEA combined Week 3's postponed games with Week 5's previously-scheduled games. This resulted in an EMEA super week with 10 matches across three days.
FNATIC
FNATIC
Europe
Rank #2
Sayonara
Ștefan Mîtcu
stand-in
Boaster
Jake Howlett
kaajak
Kajetan Haremski
Chronicle
Timofey Khromov
Alfajer
Emir Ali Beder
,
G2 Esports
G2 Esports
Inactive
and
Guild Esports
Guild Esports
Inactive
took full advantage of these games, each one moving to the playoffs stage.
For Week 6 of EMEA VCT and the foreseeable future,
Gambit Esports
Gambit Esports
Inactive
Redgar
Igor Vlasov
Chronicle
Timofey Khromov
d3ffo
Nikita Sudakov
sheydos
Bogdan Naumov
nAts
Ayaz Akhmetshin
' players will compete under
M3 Champions
M3 Champions
Inactive
Jady
Yaroslav Nikolaev
purp0
Semyon Borchev
Chronicle
Timofey Khromov
Redgar
Igor Vlasov
, a name adopted as a compromise to allow their players to compete. M3 Champions' last official was played on February 18, and they'll reenter the server on March 16, playing two more matches in the two subsequent days.
The upcoming four Group A games will define every team's placement within their group. Currently,
BIG
BIG
Inactive
are the only team incapable of reaching the playoffs but are still fighting for their maintenance. To avoid relegation, BIG must win against M3 Champions, who must, in turn, lose all of their three matches.
Guild's game against Fnatic will define the Group B playoffs seeds. A Guild win awards them the first seed, followed by Fnatic and G2 in second and third, respectively. Fnatic will hold first place if they win, placing G2 in second and Guild in third due to the tiebreaker rules.
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