The Americas Stage 1 Group Stage has concluded, with NRG NRG North America Rank #4 s0m Sam Oh brawk Brock Somerhalder mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold beating LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #15 tex Ian Botsch Okeanos Anthony Nguyen Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena C0M Corbin Lee out for the final playoff spot. KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #1 keznit Angelo Mori Mazino Roberto Rivas adverso Benjamín Poblete Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro and G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #1 jawgemo Alexander Mor trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio JonahP Jonah Pulice leaf Nathan Orf also secured the top seed from their respective groups with wins this week.

The final week of matches went as follows:

The most important match of the week came from the final match between NRG and Leviatan. Both sat at one win in Group Omega, with a spot in playoffs at stake for the winner. Going into the match, Leviatan were heavily favored, having nearly defeated G2 a week prior, while NRG were held to a combined 18 rounds across their past two matches. However, when the time came to perform, it was NRG that clutched up and took their spot in playoffs, defeating Leviatan 2-0. mada was the undisputed match MVP, and has been a rock for NRG all year, despite their ups and downs. NRG now have a chance to go to Masters Toronto, though they'll have to make their run through the lower bracket.

mada on Reyna hits different.

For the rest of the teams already in playoffs, at stake this week was seeding. The top seed from each group only has to win one match to qualify for Toronto, making these final games vitally important.

The first team to clinch first seed was G2 with their win over Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #10 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang to end the group stage 5-0. While Cloud9 failed to get the win, they proved that they were no slouches. Dominating G2 on Haven and pushing them to the brink on Pearl, the match could've easily gone their way. For G2, it was Trent that had the most impactful moments on Pearl, helping G2 clutch out the map.

In Group Alpha, Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #2 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid found an easy win over 2Game Esports 2Game Esports Brazil Rank #7 gobera Vitor Gobo lz Luiz Reche spike Rodrigo Lombardi silentzz Caio Morita to put them in contention for first seed. However, it was KRU that would come out on top of the group with their win over 100 Thieves, bouncing back from the stomp they received from Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses North America Rank #7 Derrek Derrek Ha NaturE Nicholas Garrison supamen Phat Le icy Jacob Lange yay Jaccob Whiteaker a week prior. In a close two map affair, KRU was crucially able to limit the impact of Cryocells , who stands as the highest rated player of the group stage. The two teams were locked in a neck and neck bout throughout both maps, but critical mistakes from 100 Thieves let KRU run away with victory.

An tragic way to lose the map for 100 Thieves

Playing for nothing but dignity and a championship point, Evil Geniuses vs. LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #5 pANcada Bryan Luna cauanzin Cauan Pereira produced an unexpected banger. All three maps went the full distance, with pANcada putting up nuclear numbers on the first two maps to almost break the kill record. In the end, it was EG that found the win, leaving LOUD with a winless Stage 1, despite going toe-to-toe with every team in their group.

Playoffs will begin next week with the following matches:

Upper Round 1 (April 24):

Lower Round 1 (April 25):

Upper Semifinals (April 26):

Lower Round 2 (April 27):